...and Haiti's had a 6.1 aftershock. what the bloody hell is UP with this year? we've had more earthquakes in a week than we can shake a stick at [3 in South America, one in the US and one in the Southern Caribbean]. thankfully no tsunami warning for back home, but the attitude of my countrymen regarding the PM's decision to grant temporary residency to already detained Haitian nationals for the next 6 months is deplorable. they've said that they think by doing this they've giving the country away, ignoring immigration laws, yadda yadda yadda... same old Bahamian bullSHIT.
the ONLY criticism i agree with is that the PM should've acted with the Opposition instead of shunting them as always. everyone else from the US downwards has at least had the decency to contact/consult with the Opposition party regarding decisions. so this blatantly political move is pretty poor in my books.
...but again... for FUCKS SAKE people. have a damn heart.
....anyway, back to art matters.
i've managed to record some sound bits for my 3rd [...well, technically 2nd] assignment for DIVA 200. after consulting with julie about my feelings of isolation regarding my time here, she liked my idea of recording things that were 'similar' to back home, but not entirely- to highlight my feelings of displacement. for instance, the seagulls here are massive and their calls are foreign to me, used to the variety of seagulls frequenting the beaches of back home.
actually, now that i think about it, i must really be a bird person, because i was happiest watching the ducks and geese on granville island [which i hope to go back and get some extra sound clips from!] and the seagulls on the pier, than anywhere else in vancouver. of course, i use the term 'happiest' relatively. i like it here a lot, and i'm not necessarily homesick... just feeling out-of-place.
my ILUS 200 project was received well and i'll be posting the results of that today. but i wish that this second project was easier to deal with! we have to create a creature by combining animal/plant/human features, and paint a poster for kids, advertising this 'fantasy-land' where this creature resides. just one tiny problem.. I SUCK AT THAT!
most of my imagining has nothing to do with creature-creation WHATSOEVER. so this is really tough. not to mention my interests as a child were not really normal for girls back then. probably not even by today's standards, unless you have an... interesting mind.
the first VLOG will be posted on Facebook by the end of this week, as well as on another website [not photobucket, because they constantly fuck with my video to no end], now that i have content to talk about. sort of.
and finally, some blog links!
http://glistenhive.wordpress.com --> the *gisten)HIVE blog, which will be up really soon! don't miss your chance to contribute your animal tales to be included in the installation! you can send them as tweets to @mal22 or @glisten_HIVE- or, if you don't have Twitter, let me know so that I can give you my email for you to send them to me.
http://nicobethel.net/blogword --> a Bahamian writer/cultural art enthusiast i've had the honour of working with for the Shakespeare in Paradise Theatre Festival we had in the Bahamas in October. i go to her blog for her insight and views about what's happening in the Bahamas and the Caribbean- it's definitely worth the read. that way you have more than one islander source ;)
http://theartdepartment.org & http://www.conceptart.org --> if you are an illustrator/concept art lover and seriously want to venture into this line of work, i STRONGLY advise you check these guys out! trust me- you will not regret it.
alright, i am off to research/comment of my classmates blogs. Ja ne.
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Where you're mistaken, Lindsay, is to suggest that the PM HAS a heart to give. You may have noticed in your short time in this country that Harper has an empty cavity where normally a heart would belong.
on a more scientific note: It was explained that Haiti's coast IS a fault line. That's why there are aftershocks occurring in the same area. What's interesting about the seismic scale is that every unit is an increase in physical magnitude by a factor of 10!
whoops, sorry julie- that comment was referring to MY prime minister in the bahamas and again on the heartlessness of the bahamian people. but HAHA i did notice a certain sense of apathy mr harper has though!
i only learned a day after that haiti is literally on top of a fault line- which does indeed explain the frequency of the earthquakes. it's still very weird though- as a general rule, the caribbean doesn't get earthquakes, only hurricanes. so ANY country getting one would be news for us- especially haiti since their infrastructure and their living standards are scraping the bottom of the barrel :/
I realized after I commented, that you were probably referring to your home countries PM. But how odd that both your and ours have commonalities in their personas. ; )
to use a bahamian phrase, they both seem quite biggity [full of themselves]. seems to be a common trait of Prime Ministers :P
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