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New Zealand

The following photo essay was done by Tom Blachford, and it's a lovely look at the land of the kiwis.

The last time I laid eyes on New Zealand was in the 'Lord of the Rings' pictures which were shot there, and I didn't realize how much I had missed looking at the place. The landscape of New Zealand is just different enough from everywhere else that it seems otherworldly, and yet remains somehow familiar. The photographer skillfully manipulates his composition to present that landscape in tidy boxes; his neat and contained frames contrast beautifully with the magnificence of that which is contained within them.

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Tagged Kiwis Landscape Mountains New Zealand Photography Photos Pictures Tom Blachford

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Role Playing Days

These are scans from a recently rediscovered treasure trove.

Back in my highschool days, when I was too old to play with toys and too bashful to play with girls, this is how my time was spent. The mark of youth and dorkery is all over them.

My brother and I reviewed these the other night over dozens of beers and millions of fond memories. The depths to which we all took this collective fantasy making was profound.

As one of two artists amongst the players, it was my job to draw everyone's 'guy', so they could come to life in the shared consciousness. Most of them were sketched in pencil, then inked, then wrist-damagingly coloured-in using pencil crayon, of all things.

Sure, maybe indulging in this sort of nerd-fare slowed my growth as a social being to some extent, but the creativity poured into shaping this silly game somehow shaped me back.

I really believe that whatever small creative ability I may have was nurtured during this, more than any other, period; by playing these games, imagining these tales, drawing these characters, and the collective building of this shared story.

Here's a sampling.

Tagged Art Drawing Pictures Role Playing Teenagers

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Saturn's Moons and Ice Volcanoes

Just some cool new Cassini photos I found online. Pasted below is the original text from the article, found here if you're interested.

"While we humans carry on with our daily lives down here on Earth, perhaps stuck in traffic or reading blogs, or just enjoying a Springtime stroll, a school-bus-sized spacecraft called Cassini continues to gather data and images for us - 1.4 billion kilometers (870 million miles) away. Over the past months, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has made several close flybys of Saturn's moons, caught the Sun's reflection glinting off a lake on Titan, and has brought us even more tantalizing images of ongoing cryovolcanism on Enceladus. Collected here are a handful of recent images from the Saturnian system."

Tagged Cassini Moon Nasa Pictures Saturn Science Space Volcanoes

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Rouge Park - Hike #2

Today I did the southern trail, stretching from the Glen Rouge trailhead (at Hwy 2 and Altona) up to Twin Rivers, and then back again. It was a gorgeous day and a great walk. The Rouge rocks.

I won't wax poetic again about the Rouge and it's beauty, because I've already done so. I'll just let my crappy iPhone pics do the talking.

(upon reflection I was really tree-centric today, huh?)