Imaginary Thomas and the No Such Things

Sep

2
2009

Feelin': gentlemanly

My good friend,

I trust you are well as is your new lodgings.

I am writing you to recount a most curious event that took place this morn. For today was like most other days in which I ride the light rail with all the vagabonds and harletts but with one slight difference. For you see, soon after I de-trained at my terminus station, I began to make my way to the lower level where I could hop aboard a second light rail headed in a perpendicular direction. (What high technology, these days! Two trains in a station! If I hadn’t seen it myself, I’d think the statement quite mad!) Mere second before I had reached the descending staircase my arm was grasped from behind. Thinking it was a collegue I turned my head round to see what was the matter. The arm in question did not belong to a collegue at all but a member of the hoboist movement! A scruffy fellow I’d stretch to call ’gentleman’ whose air smelt of tobbacco and a long evening. When our eyes met, I assumed he would beg for coin and be on his way, but not this fellow. He proceeded to make a gesture of his index and middle finger to point to his eyes as if to draw my attention to his watchful eyes. I say, I was quite stunned! So stunned in fact that the only response I could give this miscreant was a blank stare, a slight bobbing nod and an almost inaudible "yeah". With that he lessed his grip on my person and I continued on dazed at the events that had just transpired.

It is my opinion that a lesser man would wish for something better to pass his lips in such a situation, but I believe you would agree that my reaction was spot on.

Wind in your sails, my friend.
Thomas

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Aug

30
2009

Up to dates.

Feelin': groggy

Hello,

How are you? I am fine.

I fixed the work page so the secondary images can be clicked on now. I know,this is huge news. CNN is following this story around the clock.

Also: A new robot.

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Aug

30
2009

Big Brother

The robot with the painfully Orwellian name.

Made from parts graciously donated to my by a fellow Toronto photographer/artist.

Buy this item!

Tags:Art Clockwork Robots

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Aug

30
2009

Art Barns Toronto

Did some picture taking on a visit to the Toronto Art Barns. Really nice place.

Photography still isn’t my think but I’m getting used to the new DSLR

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Aug

30
2009

The great beyond

First papercraft in a while.

When some people think of "The great beyond" they think of heaven. I think of space.

This item is sold.

Tags:Art Cute Space

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About me

I am an artist for lack of a better word. I hate the term "artist" because it conjures up the vision of a holier-than-thou hipster type who makes up profound meanings for a blue canvas. Post modernism is rarely art. I’m not really an artsy person either. My wife studied art history and I enjoy things like that. I mostly subscribe to the "I may not know art, but I know what I like" philosophy.

I prefer terms like "Tinkerer", "Creator", "Maker" and "Builder". Constructive terms.

I like to make new things out of junk, bits, pieces and various miscellania. I recently decided this compulsion to build complex compilations of simple parts has roots in my childhood obsession with LEGO. My father made me a LEGO table from an old door and steel brackets that sat in our basement. I think I spent more time seated at that table bushing aside an ocean of coloured bricks searching for the specific one I needed than most people spent outside in their childhood.