Wednesday, November 11, 2009
I have started to use Evernote everyday for keeping track of ideas. Although it’s not as nice to write or draw in as my Moleskine notebook, I am loving the extended functionality it provides. I was walking the dog on Saturday morning, thinking about a project redesign and was able to record an audio note directly into my Evernote notebook app on the iphone. Freeing me from trying to remember my ideas until I got back to the car where my faithful Moleskine was. The seamless syncing from phone to desktop to web is great. I still love my Moleskine notebook for sketching my ideas down. Now I just take a pic and add it to my Evernote notebook.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
I had a lovely little mini-vacation with the family up at a friends school house. A weekend in the country has allowed me to recharge the creative batteries. Now I have lots of new ideas all i need to do now is find some time to explore them.
Here is a link to the gallery on Flickr.
Monday, September 21, 2009
It all started with a photo of Gerrard street early one morning while I was walking the dog. When I got into work I started playing around with photoshop and decided to paint the image. It’s been a while since I had done this type of work so it was a nice refresher. Once I was happy with the image I sent it to my father, who has been oil painting in France for the last couple of years. He gave me some great feedback and decided to paint the image from the painting I sent him. This was a neat exercise, we will probably do more in the future..
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
I just finished working on a couple of different stories, soon to be available on ConnectABILITY.ca [Marcella and Me & Macella and Music]. I had a great time exploring a couple of different illustration styles. Now that I spend about an hour a day reading to Poppy it’s hard not to be inspired by all of the great illustrators out there. Now I can apply my inspiration to ConnectABILITY, kids with special needs and their parents.
Wow, it’s been a while since I wrote something here. Today I went to a show at the ROM with Poppy and Alisa, called House Paint. An awesome show of urban art based on tent city. A place I used to drive by weekly on my way to Cherry beach for a walk with the dog. We didn’t stay long as Poppy could hear the calling of the dinosaurs two floors below us.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Last week I launched the 2008/2009 version of Matjash’s website. We changed every photograph and added a bunch of new galleries and revised the text to reflect what he has been upto over the last year. Go have a look and check out his latest work.
Not many posts over the summer.. I have been busy with a few site updates and a lot of work for ConnectABILITY. We have been working at launching regional pages and adding some youth content to the site. As well as re-engineering the site access so that everyone and anyone can access the information without a password. Now you will only be prompted for a password on the private and personal areas to the site. A much needed change, but as usual it has taken a little longer than planned. Testing is nearly finished so you will soon be able to see all of our hard work.
Poppy, Alisa and I took the bikes over to Toronto Island last weekend for Fathers Day. We had great time, Poppy loved the bike seat. She was so tired on the way home she had a short nap while I was riding. I wish we got a photo of that, she was very cute. Here is a link to Poppy’s Flickr site where you will find some great snap shots of the day.
Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember
A really great exhibition of historical objects of disabled people living in Canada. Wonderfully curated and presented in neat portable looking presentation cases. Hopefully this means the show will travel to other public places across the province/country. It really shows how our thinking has changed over the years.
Alisa and I have been working on creating a site to showcase her beading work for children. This is something she started just after Poppy was born and it has been growing steadily for nearly a year now. There are only a couple of pages now but we hope to add to it as her business grows. Have a look and send her an email if you would like to find out how you can get one of her cool hand made beaded accessories.
www.poppysmum.com
