Launching the imagination!
Okay; something about the readings: As I worked through the read ins I thought about what is imagination? More importantly what is imagination mean in art?

For me I put into a perspective that I could relate to.  To me it means not only pleasing people; but giving a visual that stimulates thought and understanding.  To illustrate what I mean; Consider the artist Tom Lea. Lea was an American artist during the Second World War and the periods before and after. Lived in the southwestern US. So much of his work dealt with that focal point. But during the war he is said to have painted his way through the war.

A recent showing of his work featuring his most know work: "Th thousand yard stare". Painted it based on an actual event in the Pacific theatre. It resonates with me in that I understand and feel it.

 This is called "The Price". The Marine depicted landed and without ever seeing the enemy was caught in a fatal explosion. He staggered back to the beach in shock and died.

Lea also did other work. He called the portrait of his wife Sarah; his favorite work.  It is easy to see the love he felt in it

Learned a few things about web pages today. Have a question about them. Why would webpages only have a single page?  It seems like more of a journal or personal site.

Today's picture:

Not a great picture; went to an on-line auction and bought a single lot. Eight figures and one cannon. The figure on the far right is a Polish Lancer circa 1805.  Will try and redo this picture and perhaps  split the group into two groups.

Technology; isn't it great?
Having been accused of being technology challenged I thought that Bill Maudlin could help me explain it a bit better.

meanwhile having fun; i will continue on with my project.

In the lab today to work on my website; need some help.
My question is do I write the accompanying narratives for each page of the website and then pull them and paste them into the webpages?


Rejected photos:

Cutting one picture because I feel it is too stark/obvious and would pose a visual overstatement.

it is an incredible visual but too much of a statement.

Project update:

This is an update on my final project which I am so looking forward to!

What I've done to date is finish my research, find photos, and now am pushing them into photoshop. The next step Monday afternoon in the lab with Emily's help is to build the website using dreamweaver. This weekend at home I will see what I can find on line to understand dreamweaver.

My concept for my product is a development (land) company called "Every Minute" which is selling land at Pripyat in the Ukraine. The colour scheme of the site will be magenta and yellow.

I found a public listed (NYSE) development company and using open source materials ground some of their annual statements from the 1980s. Using those a guide for what their themes and messages of the period looked like.

Thought about using a picture of W.C.Fields as the "founder" but that might be a bit much

The final moments!

Thought that having only one final out of the four classes I am taking this semester would be great.

Wrong! That pushes the work load to a shorter time span. I have three major end of course activities now due at the same time/date. Oh well; just got to drive on.
I am fortunate in that two of the projects are using the same research criteria/focus/area.

Meanwhile for today's picture:

Okay I lied a bit. The first is the exterior wall of a mosque at Jalabad in eastern Afghanistan, the second of sunset from our compound (am big on celestial stuff), and the third from Kandahar. The officer is LCol Saijan holding the Vancouver Police Department flag at the Canadian memorial to the fallen. He is now a member of parliament and the Canadian Minister of Defence. And yes he is a Sikh.

Managed to set up my webspace today. Now to develop a plan for projects. Did some research but haven't figured out my proposal for a product.

What I have found is that the 80s seems to be the bridge between the past and the present. It is almost as if the Reagan era (referring to the President) is the connection. The culminating event would have been the end of the Cold War.

Meanwhile I do have a job offer with a local company developing training for their clients at Hanford. so yesterday I went to the Career Development Center's workshop/seminar on  salary to try and figure out what salary/benefits package I should ask for. It wasn't much help so I've got some research to do.

Knowing that pictures are encouraged I brought the camera to the lab and picked two pictures from a trip last month to Camp Murray (HDQS WA Army National Guard). The event was an open house at their museum celebrating the 160th anniversary of the State's National Guard. The first picture is something from my unit; the terrain relief map of our piece of heaven (Afghanistan) and the second is a late production model of a Sherman tank from the 1944-45 era. The green things in the back are what they tell me are trees.

The first December Bog!

Picking up the pace!

Thanksgiving break is over; had my elbow surgery Tuesday. The drugs would good but my mind was befuddled. Couldn't use my hand so when I could i read. Got bored or was over striving so read the textbook too.

Therefore the next few blog entries will focus on the textbook as a narrative; with pictures from whatever strikes my fancy