Lonsdale Block Party

So the other day Ann asked me of I wanted to Paint on a big canvas for a charity thing on Saturday. I said sure, not really knowing what it was, then at the staff meeting Ann said that i was a features Graffiti Artist at the RDS (Skate Shop) Block party. OH really :B

My Painting will be sold at a charity Auction. There will be a website I'll link to as soon as I get that information. I hope it sells :D
It was done on a 46" x 60" Canvas, using only Plutonium spray paint.
I have NEVER used spray paint before LOL! I'm so surprised and quite pleased with how well I did, considering... you know... I love to experiment :D

My left hand is terribly sore. TERRIBLY! I have a big bruise on the base of my index finger from trying to smash the caps on the ground to open them (as per the instructions on the can, where they expect you to pop the tops by slapping the top on the can, but it takes several whacks on concrete!) and my index finger is bruised from the actual pushing of the caps to spray! Holy heck. I think it will be pretty sore tomorrow too. I was painting for around 6 hours with only minimal breaks. I'm surprised I didn't get heat stroke. I was in direct sun the whole time.

anyways, hope you like it!
I got a 25$ gift card to opus for my painting so I'm going to get some Pro markers and some letraset paper since we have discontinued all the Letraset stuff at the store, I have to grab what I can :(

new game, and stuff

Turned out Mytoons took a nose dive so my favourite place to upload animations is gone. Found out because someone reported that the Trailor for Conflagration was a broken link on our site.
so I re-uploaded it to Aniboom. Aniboom is good and fast but not as cozy as mytoons. I'll miss them :( And No I have no intention of Uploading it to dA. The uploader is too slow, and without a loading bar or any other indication of uploading besides a swirly dot, I dont even know if its working and most times its NOT. I loved dAFilm. I wish they'd work on it more and get it up to snuff.

SO, i got a new router! Some of you knew i had problems with my router just dropping the internet anytime it wanted, and I'd have to go unplug it, replug it back in and wait each time. It made skype conversations irritating, and uploading was brutal! I'd have to shove everything on a flash drive and take it to kittys computer and upload it there. I'd also almost never have it connect automatically when i started my laptop. I'd have to go fiddle with the router to get it to work the first time.
The new router is faster than my old one, and its connecting automatically, its password protected so people cant steal it from me, and so far, no problems. Installation was a BITCH though. but it worked :)

Not sure what I'm going to do today. I know i have a PILE of stock photos to upload to my stock account, and to enter in LDDs contest, i should really do that or I'll miss the deadline.Some of my Alberta photos and some more from the aquarium.

and i should take the opportunity to work on conflagration some but my tablet pen lost its rubber grip due to the ravages of time and now it makes my hand bleed if i use it too long :|

Got resident Evil 4, Wii version yesterday, and some more cradled panels to paint on. I've also been using Oil pastels to draw little thumbnails for future paintings. its been fun, but I don't like pastels much, they just seem to be useful for creating the look for my thumbs.

well, I need food.

Road trip with Daddy Day 7&8

Well we are back home! Yesterday we were so exhausted we didn't get a hotel until 1am so I didnt Blog.



We started out early in the morning to head for Vernon, and FINALLY we saw all the animals we were wanting too! A group of big horns standing in the middle of the highway, a few deer on the sides of the highway, and a young bear standing on the side of the road with an ambulance. He looked like he'd been hit. poor thing.

We went to Frank slide, which was AMAZING! My photos don't do it justice! its a simply MASSIVE rock slide! Amazing history! We also hit on some Cemeteries around Frank and HillCrest, where the huge mining disaster was. There are simply awesome graveyards! Prairie Dogs are burrowing through the graves. HAHA!

From Road trip with Daddy Day 7&8

In the HillCrest Cemetery I had been walking around taking pictures (I got some GREAT ONES! Please look) I had been stepping on the Liner lids (the concrete tops) of some of them to squish into some areas for photos and then I went to step up on one and WUMP! it dented in as a I stepped on it - It was PLASTIC! Scared the SHIT OUT OF ME!!

I love the wooden Crosses!

From Road trip with Daddy Day 7&8

Canada takes a lot of tourism bad rap because people say the country isn't old enough to have a huge amount of interesting history to Explore - that's SO wrong! There is SO much! Frank Slide, HillCrest Mine, Drumheller Dinosaur bone beds, and all that awesome stuff! that was all just what we saw in a WEEK! Most of that in one day even! There is an amazing amount of stuff in BC and Alberta that we discovered.

Did you know that the Most complete T-rex Skull Comes from Crowsnest Pass? HA! its true! Called black beauty because the minerals made the fossil all black.

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So amazing!! I took so many photos...

We made it to Vernon and when we pulled up there was a deer in Temples front yard! HAHA! We stayed and chatted a while, Then we headed off. I guess we chatted longer than we thought, and soon realized that we were not going to make it far that night. we grabbed some burger king and tried to find a motel, but they were all either full, seedy or no one was there :B
The Motel was the worst of all of them, but we didnt sleep long and we headed home to Vancouver! we saw one deer today!

Well, I wish it wasnt over, but it is, and i'm back to work tomorrow.

Heres the map.

more...

and here is the last load of Photos.
(as of posting this, Picasa is still syncing pictures, there should be over 300 photos in this album)

There is a total of 2025 photos in my albums :p
Enjoy!

From Road trip with Daddy Day 7&8

Road trip with Daddy Day 6

Today was a little less eventful than most days this week but thats okay. daddy needed the break from driving and I ended up being rather sick so it worked out.
We (daddy, jeri, me and aunt sid) all went to the Temple Hill Cemetery in Raymond where daddy lived as a kid. I took several photos of graves from my pioneer family.

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i'll add captions with who these people are in the photos as soon as I get a reminder :p some of them i cant read because the sprinkler make them too low contrast.

Any named Weaver, or Jones in these pictures are my family - the original pioneers of canada :)

we also spent some time in Raymond itself and photographed several of the houses that daddy or some of the people from the cemetery photos lived in. Very neat. I love hearing the stories of daddy's adventures, like filling the bathtub with frogs, and jumping off roofs using a bed sheet as a parachute.

my favourite is falling down the well though :p
they were playing house, and daddy lept on top of a covered well saying "this is my bed!" and fell through the top of the well which ended up only being burlap covering it, and he was stuck in the well. Aunt sid Pulled him out and cried all the way home.

Cute <3

Kinda sick today. feel much better now. puked enough. BLEG!

sleepy. Early day tomorrow. Heading to Vernon in the morning, then home by Sunday afternoon.

not many pictures but enjoy them :D

road trip day 4 & 5

Haven't blogged in a couple days, but the photos are up
Day 4:
we went to dinosaur national park. first thing we did was flush out a cute rabbit! got some good pictures of him and the hoodoos.
We were a bit early so we had to wait for the little museum to open but that was cute and fun too :)

we went through vauxhall on the way to lethbridge, avoiding Brooks this time because brooks fails.
there were very large fiber glass potatoes in vauxhall.
about 25 kms from Taber we finally saw the antelope we'd been waiting for but it was only one and by the time i saw him he was behind a fence. LAME.
no pictures.
we got to Lethbridge and saw a house daddy lived in, his old school and other fun things.
we played down by a river, and then went to aunt Sid's house and then Cousin stephanies.
Good times.

Day 5:
we went to smitty's for breakfast then went to Magrath to see a little cemetary that might have held family graves, but didnt. there were prairie dogs all dipping in and out of holes in the graveyard. i pictured them nesting in the skulls.

we moved on to waterford park. a big national park. we went into a little village and right in someones front yard was a big horn sheep with huge curly horns sleeping in someones yard. OH on the way to the park a red fox with the puffiest tail ran in front of the van and bounded in the field! very cute!

we went up to Head smashed in Buffalo Jump too! We saw where the natives ran bison off the cliffs to hunt the huge herds. Very neat. the little museum in there is pretty neat too.

we drove around and saw a grizzly bear, a couple deer, and then we went to a bison paddock and there were many bison! i was really happy with all the photos I took.
On the way back we stopped at Fort McLeod and did a little walk through of the old fort. it was awesome!

Then we headed back to aunt Sid's and we talked with her for a while and had dinner.

Now its Day 6, but I'll try to do a real blog for day 6 later :B

PS: There is something we've been getting frequently - prairie paralysis. Its from driving more than 5 minutes through prairie. It is such boring landscape that your head just bobs and you fall asleep. Its scary!
Soon after Prairie Paralysis, if you are unfortunate enough, you get.... Prairie Madness. Symptoms include Hallucinations, and seeing wildlife where some should be but aren't.

Scary business!

Check the 2 days worth of photos!

Day 4 Photos
Day 5 Photos

Heres the map!
Head Smashed in Wasn't on the map :<

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Road trip with Daddy Day 3

Day 3.
The royal Tyrell museum was as big a thrill today as it was yesterday :)
i took a pile more photos of course.
After the Museum we stopped by Fossil World, a mini museum and at first it was a simple little museum with trinkets. One full size trex skull, and a femur from a sauropod, and a huge life sized trex sculpture, until you walk in its line of sight, and realize its animatronic! LOL! I'll upload the videos later :)

We were on our way to Dinosaur provincial Park but it closes at 4pm so we decided to take it easy today here in Brooks. They had a cute museum, and some little attractions.

We tried to get a motel, but they all needed credit cards to get rooms, which sucks. we ended up at a Ramada. we aren't into this ramada shit, we like motels. they're cheaper and more spacious.

Oh well, we're here for now.
Here are the photos :)

Alberta road trip day 3

Road trip with Daddy Day 2

Well day 2 has been a delight. We started off at 5:30am. I got up and got ready and we met daddy outside and we were off to denny's. Kitty and I had french toast.

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The drive was awesome! we went from Revelstoke along to Golden and into Banff all the way to Drumheller.

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We had a tough time getting some animal sightings but like day 1, we had an animal attempt suicide under the van. this time a chipmunk. but he lived... I think :B

The trees were very cute and round, I did a few sketches.
There was alot of dirty snow still on the ground, our ears were popping again going over the rockies, In the rocky mountain Trench.

We stopped and had to clean off the windows because of the bug splatter obscuring the view HAHA!

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the bumper still looks like this, only worse in most places. the bee is tragic.

We saw one herd of deer, and one solo deer. of course our photos suck. we saw one pronghorn as well, but it was a head in the grass. we are not 100%
i might have also seen a bear running in the distance :B

We made it to drumheller after tons of plains and prairie and hoodoo's. the museum was awesome :D we got 2 day passes so we are going back again tomorrow, then heading to dinosaur national park.

well, here it is so far!
Check out my photos!
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