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How to Install Wordpress at Your Domain Name

Welcome back, I always enjoy your presence here. There’s lots of stuff on the internet, so I’m pleased to see you back! I appreciate you :D

I spent two days on the phone with Godaddy, trying to figure out how to what to do with this stuff Wordpress said I needed for this so-called “easy [...]

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Inka Essenhigh
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Artist Profile: Inka Essenhigh’s Distortion

Inka Essenhigh “just does what looks good” – something that must be intuitive, born from experience, with such odd subject matter.  Born in Pennsylvania, working in New York- Inka Essenhigh graduated in the early nineties and became known for oil and enamel.  She is developing a rich world of surreal characters and rich imagery.
A trait [...]

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Laura Owens' Untitled 2002
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Laura Owens: Painting, and the Space Unpainted

“I am not interested in making people uncomfortable, but at the same time I don’t have an interest in paintings that are truly passive. The best paintings are ones that require an active, discerning viewer.”
Laura Owens

Her paintings are quite large; taking up huge walls, creating landscape with oil, watercolour, and/or acrylic, she leaves parts of [...]

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Process: Babies are Cute

I did a huge load of studies for the Babies are Cute diptych. Inspired by Anne Geddes and a Flutterbye Calendar, a creative block and a good friend, these comical and unsettling babies were a lot of fun to draw. The most exciting part was how, by doing these studies, I got to know what [...]

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Yay! Art Show: Katanaville in the DTES

Are you in Vancouver, BC? Yes? YOU LUCKY GOOSE
I am one of the artists showing here and I am GIVING STUFF AWAY: Art & books, throughout the day.
HOLLA LOCAL ART LOVERS!!!
Nehemiah Vancity & More Than Gold Creative & Performing Arts have joined forces to bring the Down Town East Side Community and YOU [...]

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The Olympic Meme: Pedobear Mascot FAIL

The Pedobear is known for being an inappropriate presence near children. It is now a member of the Olympic Mascot team, nominated by Michael Barrick and supported by Polish newspaper.  ”
The irony is that I was basically pointing out how easy a mistake like this would be. Sometimes when you’re right, you’re right.” -Barrick
This meme [...]

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How to Surf the Web vr. 2: Techniques & Critiques

Taking a stroll through my Google Reader. Have you subscribed to Katanaville via RSS?
From I’m Painting As Fast as I Can Chris Beck tests what tape is awesome when used to mask a painting and then reviews five flavours of Daniel Smith watercolors.
Sandy Maudlin’s Art Journey takes on the challenge of a twenty minute painting, [...]

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Combining Art & Activism: Interview with Becci Gindin-Clarke

Becci is one of those people that takes action with things that she feels strongly about- everything from animal rights protests to educational colouring books. These are the kinds of things that most of us (sometimes me) think, “I’m glad someone’s doing something,” before brushing it off. Becci takes that action.
You really know how to [...]

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Intensity: Indigo talks Art

Indigo talks about her art “The act of creating keeps me sane, and the work is always coming from a personal place, even if it that isn’t immediately apparent in the content of a particular piece.”

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Open Source Artwork: How to Get Over Your Fear of Digi-Theft

I just came from an art class discussing social media. I was shocked. These are third and forth year students at Emily Carr University and their view of the Internet and social media is that the Internet is out to get them, plagiarize, misrepresentation and predators.
Fear of digi-theft (as @dpringle phrased it) is not unfounded, [...]

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