unionofpainters / show-UP!

from last night's storm

2011-04-11T22:46:00.001-03:00

hey nato, how about a no fly zone for gaza?

2011-04-07T17:59:00.001-03:00

meltdown times

2011-04-03T21:50:00.002-03:00

a nor'isle

2011-04-01T02:35:00.003-03:00

meanwhile in canada the war parties refuse
to even hear from a representative of close
to a million voters last time around.
how hard would it be to have proportional
representation? weighted votes in parliament
to match seat count to proportion of the
popular vote, with a provision to seat mps
from party lists for those who reach a certain
threshold of the popular vote, but don't make
it first past the post in any particular riding.
elite rule: it's war on democracy all the time.
you can't seriously think they'll be helping
anyone in libya but themselves.

the tropic of eyeland

2011-03-28T22:49:00.003-03:00

a range life

2011-03-22T03:22:00.003-03:00

super(bad)moon rising

without comment

2011-03-18T22:48:00.009-03:00

the future is medieval

2011-03-15T04:20:00.002-03:00

the outlet

2011-03-05T23:52:00.002-04:00

heat and serve

2011-03-02T12:22:00.001-04:00

the remains of the daylight

2011-02-19T21:14:00.001-04:00

heat and serve

low pressure sodium

2011-02-17T02:39:00.001-04:00

dripping cold

2011-02-14T21:16:00.001-04:00

happy halloween!

2011-02-14T18:26:00.002-04:00

next cold day

2011-02-13T15:29:00.001-04:00

last cold day

2011-02-12T01:09:00.001-04:00

tahrir! tahrir!

2011-02-10T22:18:00.010-04:00

rock the world! arab youth
make sure the new boss ain't like the old boss

(or better still, keep on running things without any bosses at all)

http://www.juancole.com/2011/02/wael-ghonim-vs-barack-obama-change-we-can-believe-in-yes-we-can.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd02082011.html

painting died again

2011-02-07T21:36:00.001-04:00

spot the difference

2011-02-06T13:33:00.001-04:00

mountain language

2011-01-31T01:03:00.007-04:00

rock the casbah! arab youth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBuMuzhvYeA&feature=player_embedded

the rebirth of cold

2011-01-21T01:21:00.001-04:00

little current under snow

2011-01-20T01:05:00.002-04:00

and construction

frozen sharpie love

2011-01-20T00:58:00.001-04:00

the slow squall

2010-12-07T19:02:00.003-04:00

http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd12072010.html

let it leak!

2010-12-05T21:18:00.004-04:00

a repaint,
a long view,
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn12032010.html
a trickle to a flood,
http://213.251.145.96/
and a torrent:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5723136/WikiLeaks_insurance

landscapes without snow

2010-11-29T22:09:00.001-04:00

land of wind

2010-11-24T23:31:00.001-04:00

november heat wave

2010-11-15T22:21:00.001-04:00

to remember is to end all war

2010-11-15T00:25:00.003-04:00

So the curtain fell, over that
tortured country of unmarked
graves and unburied fragments of
men: Murder and massacre: The
innocent slaughtered for the
guilty: The poor man for the
sake of the rich: The man of no
authority made the victim of the
man who had gathered importance
and wished to keep it.

—David Starret, 9th Royal Irish
Rifles, Irish Peace Park, Messines

painted, repainted, unpainted

2010-11-10T23:49:00.001-04:00

the down escalator november

2010-11-04T20:46:00.001-03:00

last four feet

2010-10-31T15:05:00.001-03:00

six foot paintings

2010-10-30T12:49:00.001-03:00

number 1 and number 2

the rule of lawlessness

2010-10-29T21:25:00.007-03:00

happy halloween. scary times indeed. omar khadr killed an american soldier on a battlefield where neither of them should have been. that's what he says -- under torture and otherwise. if that's true, then that's war -- it's a crime. and bush and blair and obama (not to mention cheerleaders -- and very likely much worse -- harper, mckay, ignatieff and co.), the crime bosses: when do they face arrest and trial? the hypocrisy is breathtaking, a new normal for the natoland torture state consensus. same as it's been all the empire long. but can any system withstand such delusional disconnection from reality, such complete moral rot? i think not. the future is medieval -- if we're lucky, that is.

october

2010-10-03T21:11:00.001-03:00

first
second
and third

above little current

2010-09-28T13:46:00.003-03:00

my canada includes meat cove

2010-09-25T22:02:00.002-03:00

it's a shoreline

2010-09-24T21:44:00.002-03:00

leading to meat cove

summer now spent

2010-09-21T23:16:00.005-03:00

out with a bang,
a day-long thunderstorm
kiss good-bye

sunday painter, monday version

2010-09-21T00:01:00.005-03:00

news from the farm

2010-09-18T14:30:00.001-03:00

pics of the pickings

neighbours and neighbourhood

2010-09-12T18:10:00.002-03:00

map of the universe

2010-09-11T01:03:00.001-03:00

meat cove sector

see to see

2010-09-09T22:31:00.001-03:00

the working condition

2010-09-09T01:18:00.001-03:00

the colour of water

2010-09-08T18:11:00.001-03:00

wave function

2010-09-04T21:05:00.002-03:00

another dispatch from an inland see

cold front approach

2010-09-03T19:58:00.001-03:00

summer begins its exit to the fall

2010-09-02T22:58:00.003-03:00

and wishing tony blair would exit to the hague...
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-blair-should-take-responsibility-for-iraq-but-he-wont-he-cant-2069231.html

from mountain meadows

2010-08-28T00:30:00.002-03:00

news from the island

2010-08-23T22:19:00.004-03:00

and it ain't good:
http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2010-08-23/article-1692878/Meat-Cove-road-will-take-week-to-repair/1

as for this island:
a painting of the sunset from mclean's mountain

north channel drive

2010-08-22T22:14:00.001-03:00

more oil on glass

little current, population 1 501

2010-08-16T23:11:00.005-03:00

i've moved into a painting.
now residing on a dusty street in a northern town,
overlooking a century of buildings
to the north channel and a 10 000 year old view,
pinching myself to death.
'look on my good fortune ye mighty and despair'...
or something like that.

first two paintings:
view from mclean's mountain
ruins at little current
(both oil on glass)

last post from the laundromat

2010-07-28T10:27:00.002-03:00

goodbye buanderie frontenac
it's been hot and cold
with ants and drunks
and neighbours across the drywall
fighting, fucking and otherwise living --
i wish i could take you with me

american standard
(overflowing)

american standard, overflowing

2010-07-14T13:49:00.003-03:00

speaking of which, here's a good summary of what was lost again in toronto and what i'll take to get it back:

http://marcopolis.posterous.com/on-the-right-to-peaceful-protest-some-video-f

also see:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/07/guest-post-the-g20-plan-for-prosperity-%E2%80%93-rubber-bullets-and-shredded-social-safety-net.html

painting is a cubist version of a toilet, overflowing, and in progress

cup and saucer

2010-07-13T22:28:00.001-03:00

colour like water

2010-07-13T22:19:00.001-03:00

to the eyeland by boat

to the valley of the beaver via the island of the spirit

2010-06-22T13:05:00.002-03:00

after the paint rush

fake landscape

2010-06-18T04:24:00.001-03:00

real painting

a few good ones

2010-06-16T17:39:00.006-03:00

here's a good one -- hundreds of the overinflated mostly male egos largely responsible for marching humanity to the gates of world war three are barricading themselves in untario at the end of the month, imposing all the local temporary martial law that $1 billion can buy to further the corporate-natoland-torture-state-consensus to which most of them already adhere.
but don't ask them to protect women's health, stop the wars (or at least not start any new ones) or put another tax on banks -- and whatever you do, don't mention israeli state terrorism. it wouldn't be fit.
and come the end of june, after they've drained the fake lake and made their solemn excuses for the skulls cracked by the forces of order on the streets of toronto, will we finally have a law against murder or a maximum wage? not bloody likely, just more corporate/state domination as the liberal and professional classes get back to the business of imposing elite rule and managing the death of the planet. sweetness and light.

the painter the wrestler

2010-06-13T19:59:00.001-03:00

a recent match
ends in a draw

ongoing

2010-06-10T17:23:00.001-03:00

paint like from a can

2010-06-09T14:15:00.001-03:00

poured on a board with a brush

somewhere down north

2010-06-08T20:21:00.002-03:00

edits and works in progress

2010-06-08T12:52:00.001-03:00

skies above, fields below

2010-06-07T17:32:00.001-03:00

and happy b-day to me

from the belly of the laundromat

2010-06-06T15:14:00.001-03:00

et cetera

2010-06-05T17:04:00.007-03:00

manitoulin island
kimbercote farm

required reading: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06042010.html

painted and repainted

2010-06-04T13:21:00.001-03:00

more paintings from kimbercote farm

2010-06-03T12:33:00.001-03:00

toronto and montreal

2010-05-18T21:57:00.001-03:00

blah blah blah with paint

2010-05-17T16:19:00.001-03:00

re re repaints

2010-05-17T16:16:00.001-03:00

rain painting, toronto painting

2010-05-16T16:10:00.002-03:00

last of the gatineau flower trees

2010-05-15T14:34:00.003-03:00

let the rabble rouse:
http://www.counterpunch.org/wilkinson05142010.html

slick like oil, dirty like water

2010-05-15T14:30:00.001-03:00

heading north takes you back in time

2010-05-14T13:28:00.001-03:00

as summer approaches from the south

montreal seen from the laundromat

2010-05-11T14:29:00.001-03:00

from the discard bin

2010-05-10T20:21:00.002-03:00

montreal panel repaints

last gasp before the collapse

2010-05-07T10:30:00.001-03:00

flower trees and thumbscrews

2010-05-06T12:50:00.012-03:00

as the details of torture and abuse (sorry, "enhanced interrogation") trickle out, the canadian government's membership in the natoland torture state consensus becomes harder for even the most shameless apologists to deny. saving canadian lives is the latest justification. lives that are at risk because they are doing things to piss people off half way around the planet. like imposing a brutal military occupation in support of vicious and corrupt local narco elites. the world is run by murderers and theives, most of whom wear suits and ties to hide the blood on their hands and the loot in their pockets. these are war crimes. how much longer do we underwrite them with our silence and obedience?

from the night desk

2010-04-27T13:05:00.001-03:00

to the night light

2010-04-27T13:03:00.001-03:00

four and twenty paintings

2010-04-20T23:18:00.001-03:00

now exhale

more from same

2010-04-20T15:32:00.001-03:00

more from where wolfe island is

2010-04-20T15:28:00.001-03:00

paintings from where wolfe island is

2010-04-20T15:22:00.001-03:00

escarpmental

2010-04-11T22:36:00.002-03:00

more paintings from kimbercote farm

land of april

2010-04-10T14:43:00.001-03:00

lac blue sea

zoom out -- zoom in

2010-03-31T14:57:00.001-03:00

paintings from kimbercote farm

liquin makes my head spin

2010-03-15T13:19:00.001-03:00

toronto seen from hull

2010-03-14T16:05:00.001-03:00

oil is water

2010-03-13T14:08:00.001-04:00

"lousy smarch weather"

2010-03-12T13:39:00.002-04:00

the wages of sin is painting

2010-03-11T22:27:00.002-04:00

blue painting

more work some progress

2010-03-09T13:43:00.001-04:00

toronto
toronto
trees
toronto

progress in works

2010-03-08T14:50:00.005-04:00

happy international women's day -- progress in civilization

-lachine rapids
-meat cove brook
-ontario gov't building
-western beaches

repaint / works in progress

2010-03-07T21:09:00.001-04:00

hull
montreal
toronto

repaints / works in progress

2010-03-06T14:42:00.001-04:00

outdoor painting / outdoor painter

2010-03-06T14:36:00.001-04:00

another fake landscape
andra paints the scene