Mayday. Mayday. The call went out too late.
The dirigible set down on a gray and yellow horizon under distress. Personnel managed to tie her down on this unfamiliar firmament to keep the winds from dragging her ragged over the lunar surface. Otherwise the crew remained grounded. They huddled to their soup bowls in makeshift bunkers beneath the snapping silk of the folded and bound sails.
Ensign Garfield was assigned to mount the signal kite. It would alert the search teams to their location.
The wind was steady and abundant on this treeless plain. The yellow and blue box took to immediate flight. Its wings juttering alone in the pale sky. The crew turned their faces upward. Eyes locked dumbly to the path of the kite as it cut the shape of the wind into the empty space above.
Silent but for the wind.
I feel something shifting in my view of the hidden, the mysterious the unknown. Other points of interest in the hidden is that of dream activity, the place that ghosts have in our society and lives insofar that “ghost” represents those aspects of the previously living manifesting in understandable patterns in a posthumous setting. In…
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Yesterday I finally received the cute little micro controller unit commonly known as an Arduino. I had read about these little controller boards and realized that this was how someone like myself could realize art ideas and project concepts that would otherwise seem to have too high a learning curve, technically speaking, to execute. New…
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A post from on the road, the rail, the sky. We returned from one of the outside arms of the Montreal spiral, late Monday morning – and stumbled upon what I suspect is normally an unknown layer of society, operating deep in the warm bosom of the city’s underground. Entering through the outer-rim Metro station…
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I am going to build a kite to use as an aerial platform for my light painting. A light brush for the sky—my aim is to highlight the shape of the wind through a series of long-exposure photographs. First I will require a plan, acquire the materials and construct this kite. There are some plans…
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The concept of topographies which are hidden from view or knowledge of consciousness – through any variety of ways and means (permutations and combinations) has been occupying my thoughts for the last year and a half. I will have to post my in-progress art manifesto at some point here – but just now I’ve started…
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Greetings friends, you will notice that this site is changing – starting with the name, which will no longer be ChickenDance but rather Aint John. The domain name is also changing and after February 8, 2012 – the chickendance.ca URL will be replaced with aintjohn.ca for good. As well, there will be a focal change….
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I have a thing for exposing photographic images at night. If you have a look back through some of my work I have posted on my Flickr site – you will see evidence to support my claim. I have committed this act again recently. On Christmas Eve, actually. It was bitterly cold, but the flames,…
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This is a recipe for something truly repulsive and non edible – created in the spirit of silliness by my son and I. We actually made this (sort of) and it was truly gross. Ingredients: 1 cup of grass 1 whole cup of slugs (real, imaginary or zombie) 2 rocks – crab-rocks if available (don’t…
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Life is a chronic condition. You can pretend to ignore it. Run away from it. Hide. Sooner or later you realize that it is still there and that you’d better deal with it. If you want your life to be good you have to look after it, put it back together when it falls apart,…
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