Back on the Bike!
I am back in the saddle. I am very excited t be back on the bike. This was actually my fifth ride. My goal was to be back on the bike by September and dammit I was. It takes more than a bus to stop...
View ArticleTop movies
I started making a list of the top movies for me personally. It’s difficult because there are so many movies I love and movies that were important at certain times in my life. Here is the first...
View ArticleStrong
I am in love with this song right now. Strong by London Grammar. To me it is reminiscent of Florence and the Machine.
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We were here Directed by David Weissman, this is the only documentary on my list. We Were Here chronicles the emergence of HIV and AIDS in San Francisco in the 80s. What makes this documentary so...
View ArticleBudapest ~ George Ezra
My house in Budapest My, my hidden treasure chest Golden grand piano My beautiful Castillo You Ooh, you Ooh, I’d leave it all My acres of a land That I’ve achieved It may be hard for you to Stop and...
View ArticleFIFA 2016 – Still no decent career mode
Every year I get all excited when there is a new FIFA video game out. I love playing FIFA 2015 and I especially love the career mode. I keep hoping that AE will add some sort of character development...
View ArticleWitch Doctor
A critique on the pseudo health sciences? Great video though. De Staat – Witch Doctor (Official Video) from STUDIO SMACK on Vimeo. Oh little sicky, seems to be the pain? Got all these herbs don’t mean...
View ArticleSt.John’s Black
I have started making my own glazes. I found a great recipe called St. John’s black. Nepheline Syenite – 25 Alberta Slip/Albany – 75 Cobalt Carbonate – 5% But I wanted something more dense, so I...
View ArticleThanks Matt!
As I continue in my creation of my own glazes I look to other potters as a source of information. Matt Fiske’s Blog was one of the first sites I hooked into and in short order I read every post. I...
View ArticleLessons from pottery
I am learning some very important life lessons since I started throwing pots. The most obvious to me is patience. Patience is everything in pottery. First in throwing. If you try to rush a piece and...
View ArticleMore pottery samples
So I worked on another set of sample tiles. This time it was bronze, called Lamp’s Bronze. The recipe is pretty straightforward with nice results but I am having troubles with changing it. The base...
View ArticleThe French Canadian
Have you ever had a London fog? It’s a drink at Starbucks which is English Breakfast tea, steamed milk and vanilla syrup. At Balzac’s they offer a Parisian mist, which is essentially the same thing...
View ArticleMa’agalim
I came across this charming animation video on reddit which /u/xChipsus translated. Ma’agalim – Jane Bordeaux from Uri Lotan on Vimeo. Nights turn into days Days turn into years And among them I was...
View ArticleFavorite U2 Songs
I have been a U2 fan since 1988. My parents took my sister and I to the UK and the rental car we had had a CD player. Nicole and I pooled some money and bought “The Joshua Tree” and listened to it...
View ArticleTop art films
So I wanted to list my top art films, that is films about art, not art films like David Lynch’s Eraserhead. I can’t really put these in any particular order but I thought I would describe why I like...
View ArticleCunk on Shakespeare
Philomena Cunk is the funniest thing I have come across since Red Dwarf. Just watch her take on Shakespeare!
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