June, 2009 Archives

Strategically positioned outhouse at Cape Spear light ensured prompt and efficient waste disposal. What it might have been like to actually use it in the middle of winter with winds howling at 200 km/h I’ll leave to your imagination. I will also leave to your imagination what it was like to live here in the mid 1800s with your spouse, an assistant and 11 children (which is a actually the size of one of the light keeper’s families) for the long six winter months that the occupants were cut off from the rest of the world. I shiver at the thought.

Quipsologies is my new favourite web stop. Thanks to them, here are a few of cool and amusing links: Berni Valenta with his 100 cardboards, cleverly designed stardust.tv and There, I fixed it, which ranks right up there with Urban Prankster as your most likely morning laugh… Enjoy.

Croatian word of the day: zahod toilet

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Cape Spear, Newfoundland.

Croatian word of the day: rt cape

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This is another portrait I made for work. (There is actually quite a bit of photography I do for work and I have no idea why I don’t post more of it here.) Jonathan Green is a young print maker and a graduate of Memorial’s fine arts program at Corner Brook campus. I interviewed him for the university’s paper and one of his etchings is on the cover of the next issue of alumni magazine which I am just about to send to printers.

Tomorrow, I am leaving for a short weekend trip to Fogo and Change Islands. I expect a lot of photos…

Croatian word of the day: gravura etching

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