Helen Benninger is a quilter and clothier of fabrulous proportions – no two words about it. Now ye Editor has a softspot for the art and symmetry of quiltmaking. Its as if one had to attempt to organize and hold in array all the possible hue curves and cusps of the caring heart. There is …
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Heather Munro has a rogue’s gallery of childhood criminals – perverse big bugeyed, furry critters ready to to do mayhem like likable minions in any Despicable Me fable. It is as if one saw in quadruplicate the demons of kids dreams in full technicolor. As if “slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe …
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As a printmaker, Todd Munro seems a bit obsessive about an obsessive subject – cars: Todd Munro has an asymmetrical obsession with cars. There is a touch of wonder, a bit of whimsy and also the heated hues of antagonism. It is a divergent response with wire-wrapped, driverless cars that float and glide like fish …
Describing Lucilla as a mixed media artist is being only true to current artistic syntax and form; not her art. Lucilla manipulates old family photos in ways that are like dreamscape novels as they are sewn into your consciousness. As a photographer who uses Photoshop and other plugins to add impact to some images, ye …
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Free seminar at Cobourg ON Library Tuesday November 23 2010 at 6:00PM on: Build your own Blog/Gallery/Website for Free or Nearly so. This will be an active workshop where participants who want will be guided in building their own free [or nearly so] Website. Three major options will be covered: 1)Absolutely Free using …
The picture above tells almost the whole story of the Toronto KiteFest this last month in Toronto. It was a gray day for kite flying. Cool and overcast with spits of rain. But even worse the winds were nowhere to be found as indicated by the wind sacks and kite flaps for most of the …
The Royal Winter Fair opens this day in Toronto with Dog Show, all sorts of Horse Shows and competitions, plus extras like magic displays and culinary exhibits. It is an Ontario Tradition plus the natural end to the farm season – and brings participants from across the province as well as from the City of …
FIFA and the World Cup can learn two important lessons from Ice Hockey. First, the football/soccer needs a second referee on field. The game has gotten to fast with long passing putting the current lone referee in no position to make a good call – witness what swarming TV coverage showed viewers time after time …
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The first and most important tip from Ice Hockey is that officiating must be up to snuff. No refereeing “uncertainty principle” will add to the charm of the game. Players quickly learn that referee deception is easy and thus the proliferation of shoves, pulls on pants and shirt, out and out wrestling on corner+free …
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The World Cup has had wonderously good TV coverage from a technical point of view. Often one shot on goal is shown from 3 or 4 points of camera angles. And the broad overhead shots of the field provide a great overview of the field of play. And who cannot be amazed at the net …
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[tab name=’start’] This is a story about the new forbidden fruit – picture taking at public events. After the Cobourg Highland Festival was washed out with a downpour, your PhotoFinishes editor wearing a PhotoFinishes cap and trying to rescue the day went down to the Cobourg Beach to catch the storm clouds over Lake Ontario. …
My niece, Alicia Surveyer, has been working with some very interesting design motifs – silhouettes, shadows and reflection. There is a touch of avuncular bias but also a broader view of an artist taking the Group of Seven, especially Lawren Harris’ later works, into a new direction. These elements can be seen in recent …
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