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It's getting harder and harder to stay motivated these days. The bureaucracy of school and the irrelevance of the content are slowly becoming a heavier burden. It seems everyone is a little disenchanted with how this "higher education" is turning out, and I just keep telling myself things will turn around, change will come, and I'll be stupid for ever having doubted the system. My good friend Ryan is in the same boat as me. |
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Education empowers the weak, and weakens the educated. |
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Today, I saw a guy on the subway eating Triskets right from the box. That's weird. |
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't ask is a fool forever. |
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The other day I was walking to the subway station, and I saw some kids walking towards me. As they came into focus, I saw that one of them had a " I know it was childish, and I know I'm not stupid because of what it says on some kid's t-shirt... |
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Bread + Ketchup + Cheese + Bologna = Pizza! |
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Another church... too bad some jerk stuck his head in the shot. This is in the park where I walk Jebas (College & Jarvis). |
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Is it just me, or are things getting way too small these days? Yesterday, I had to carry a bulky, broken, ugly CD player that was held together with duct tape. Today I finally got an iPod shuffle, and this thing is small enough for me to swallow (It'd hurt a bit due to sharp corners). Tomorrow I'll probably have a cracker sized doodad to play my mp3s. Phones, computers, all the conveniences of modern life are shrinking at an alarming rate. Are we just abusing technology? We'll be sorry when things are so small that they'll slip between the cracks in the floorboards, or blow away when you sneeze. |
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Good, Fast, Cheap... pick two |
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 .. I went to the AGO today to see the Catherine the Great exhibition, and I was pleasantly surprised to see this life sized diorama of Van Gogh's room at Arles, with skewed perspective intact. We weren't supposed to take pictures. I did. |
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. - Vincent van Gogh |
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 Here's November's Busted-up-barn. Not as Busted-up as previous months... This one actually looks pretty nice. |
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman. - Jean Michel Basquiat |
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There once was a guy, who thought he could fly, he jumped up real high, but by the by, he impaled his eye, which is why, the jump made him die. |
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I drew myself without looking, then put cut paper down. (Sorry about the quality of the photo.) |
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman. - Jean Michel Basquiat |
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When i was a lad, my parents used to take me and my friend Katie to The Science Center. It was free on friday nights, so we'd get there and run straight for the "Science Arcade". There were science games, dizzy houses, static balls, and weird instruments that you could play with. For the best things there were lineups, and I was never the type to stand around, so I never got to play things like the robot arm that you controlled with a joystick. Later on in life, on a nostalgic visit to the science center I was determined to play with the robot arm. However, there was a little kid playing with it. I wasn't about to let a kid get in my way, so I politely waited behind him. For 5 minutes this kid didn't move, and I almost gave up waiting - a fitting irony. The kid eventually moved, and after 20 years, I finally got to play with the robot arm. |
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There are lots of really nice churches near my place, and I'd love to get some good pictures of all of them. This one is right across the road from where I wait for the streetcar. People complain about the city so often, as do I, and it's easy to forget to look for the good parts. |
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People are always pointing out how almost everything I make has green in it. Yeah, I like green... Get over it! I mean, It's not like I ONLY use green, and so what if I did? I'm tired of censoring myself. I'm tired of getting down on all fours and saying "oh, sure... I'll put in some red". It's my art and I'll colour it however I want, and if you have a problem with that, you can just go cry yourself to sleep and wet the bed for all I care. In fact, I hope you do! Um... I kinda lost it for a minute there. I didn't mean the whole bed wetting thing... I'm just a little sensitive about my green. |
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Bacon bacon bacon! Bacon bacon bacon! Bacon bacon bacon! ...bacon. |
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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are interested in lengthening life than improving it. |
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Today, I stopped to read a random plaque on the wall at Downsview subway station. It told me that the walls of the station are patterned with a motif that represents the number pi. The number of tiles in each color block represent 1 digit of pi. The pattern covers the walls of the entire station, and never repeats. |
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My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind - Marc Changall |
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A poster for one of my favorite plays:  |
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I ate these chicken wings today... OHMYGOSH they were SO spicy! My belly is still warm from the spice. |
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| Hey! Have you signed my message board yet? If not, sign it here. |
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I cut Jebas' hair yesterday. It was my first time cutting a dog's hair by myself, and I think it turned out pretty good. He hated every minute of the cutting. I wonder if I should become one of those obnoxious dog owners who put human clothes on their dogs and dress him up for Halloween. He'd make a great hobo. |
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Have you ever noticed...Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? |
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My family asked me to make them some pumpkin designs for them to print out. I thought these would make some funny looking jack-o-lanterns. my favorite-> |
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Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. - Andy Warhol |
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I think that dogs are way smarter than they are letting on. Last night my dog Jebas said "Materialism is a misguided path, because a person's true life is not made up of the things he owns", and I was like "word". |
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I got a new phone this week. This thing has more features than you can shake a stick at. It has a screen, and buttons, and you can talk to people with it. It's also got a camera, and as you all know, cameras are great for taking pictures. This is the back of some |
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Look at the cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? - M. C. Escher |
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I was on the crowded streetcar, and this guy's hand was right infront of my face on the poll, and I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be funny if I just licked his hand?". I didn't, but....Wouldn't it? |
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~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY NES! ~ That's right, the Nintendo entertainment system turns 20 today. I was 3 years old when it came out, and I got one when I was about 6. I spent SO MANY HOURS with one of those controllers in my hand. Tonight, I play Mario. You should too. |
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Speaking of video games, I've got to tell you about this: My brother had the idea to play the most ridiculously loud game of Tetris. He has his TV hooked up to a nice loud stereo system, and the sound of the Tetris music shook the very foundations of the house. Whenever a "tetris" was coming up, you'd have to cover your ears in fear of the noise. The neighbors must've been like "Oh, those Jolicoeur boys are at it again". If you can get your hand on some old video game systems, I'd recommend playing they WAY louder than they were ever meant to be played. It's funny. |
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" shirt on. I realized that I was about to pass him on the "stupid" side, so I crossed over to the other side of the sidewalk. 
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