Early morning off the dock at Jean and George’s cabin…  a very beautiful morning.

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I am showing some of my paintings in a joint art exhibit with TollyOskar at the IBM Ottawa Lab Employee Gallery beginning April 26th. Once it is installed, I will post some pictures…

So far, the list of paintings/sketches includes:

Shelley Lambert’s List:
Gaspe Fisherman, 1999, acrylic
Roman Boy, 2004, acrylic and oil
5 Stones Portrait, 2000, acrylic
Race Rocks Driftwood, 1999, acrylic
Triangle Trees, 1999, acrylic
Kandinsky Train, 2003, acrylic
Red Wagon, 1995, charcoal

TollyOskar’s List:
Flag of the Ocean Floor, 1996, acrylic, found objects
Red, 2002, acrylic
Exclamation #1 (It’s So Hard), 2004, acrylic
Exclamation #2 (Give It To Me Straight), 2004, acrylic
Directions, 2002, acrylic, oil, oil pastel

Colour by numbers is a 72 meters high light installation at Telefonplan in Stockholm. “A tower stands at Telefonplan. Austere, slim and dark; rising towards the sky like an exclamation mark. A tower is an archetypical creator of place: it breaks in and becomes an event in a continuous landscape. This characteristic is emphasized by the illuminated windows of this particular tower - but the patterns and colours also vary constantly. The tower speaks in a sign language composed of light. But what is the tower at Telefonplan saying, and who gives the architectonic form meaning?”. On the website under live video you can see a live video image of the tower and also read instructions for how to control the light installation over the phone.

Okay, these folks have a lot of spare time on their hands, and also, they have a tiny tray of fast food on their hands as well… takes portion control to a whole new level. What is even crazier, is that they cut the burger in half and shared it between them after the photo shoot was over.

Loca is grass-roots, pervasive surveillance. A person walking through the city centre hears a beep on their phone and glances at the screen. Instead of an SMS alert they see a message reading: We are currently experiencing difficulties monitoring your position: please wave you network device in the air.

Loca is an exercise in everyday surveillance, tracking digital objects in physical space. What happens when it is easy for everyone to track everyone, when surveillance can be affected by consumer level technology within peer-to-peer networks without being routed through a central point?

Cool or creepy? I guess since it is under the guise of ‘art’ it may mean to be both… What next? A strap-on?

So for those who must have a tattoo, but don’t want to actually see them in natural light, there is an option… it is called a black light tattoo.

Tattoo artist Richie, who lives and works in Colorado, has been offering UV blacklight reactive ink to his clients for most of his 4-year career. “Three and a half years ago, I was asked by a friend about the UV ink,” Richie says. “So I did a little research and got a sample of the ink and all the paperwork explaining how it was made and how safe it is. After trying a small sample on myself, I began to use the ink.”

Let me just add one more thing… tattoos are stupid… black light tattoos are even more stupid…

A fibre-glass cow titled “Time for Seduction,” and dressed by French lingerie designer Chantal Thomass.

The herd of fibreglass bovines will be spread through the centre of the capital from Thursday, including along some famous landmarks, such as the Champs-Elysees, the Garnier Opera and in the chic Saint-Germain district.

Among them is a sculpture of a cow with a helmet cycling along with a milk-cart, a blue cow lying down with a baby angel nestled on its back, and a cow draped in Christian Lacroix chintz at the underground entry to the Louvre.

Via Yahoo.