"The button"

When we were the press of a button away from total nuclear annihilation, this, ten floors down in a Ukraine silo, was one of the actual buttons. One guy had the key to the button cabinet and the other sat by the phone awaiting orders to press it. Each bomb was 50 times the capacity of the Hiroshima bomb, and there were very many ready to go.

The wonders of a coat of paint

 LEGO Bridge by MEGX

School Year Book Pictures

Debbie Harry

Demi Moore

Dolly Parton

Eminem

Jennifer Lopez

Kurt Cobain

Steve Jobs

New House Preview

House on Sunshine Coast near completion. These show the Alucabond cladding by KPS, which is near perfect.

Below the surface

Old news, I guess, but the Easter Island heads have bodies! I just never knew. Surprisingly no one dug a hole to find out until recently.

Now to oil painting

30" x 48"

Beautiful table

For a chapel by Braga, Cerejeira Fontes Architects, Portugal.

1951 Alfa

My favourite Dinky Toy, in the flesh:

The 1951 Alfa Romeo Tipo 159 Alfetta

Today's:

My few rules: very few strokes, no messing with it, done in about 20 seconds with watery paint, one size brush and a palette knife, allow for the chance flow of paint, and only two colours.

Back to painting

One watercolour every morning is a sane way to start the day

How can this possibly be?

'Cancer' is excluded for compensation in the now passed Zadroga Health and Compensation Act for 9 11 responders. So many deaths were obviously attributable to their exposure during those months of selfless toil. Diabolical.

Thinking outside the box

Jurgen Maher H's Seville market cover is the largest wooden structure n the world.

LA Bridge and Franz Kline

Remarkable painterly abstract image of the bridge being torn down during Carmageddon.

Riot love

At least two people from Vancouver can score on the road.

Yugoslavian War Memorials

Tsunami mayhem

Containers flowing inland.

Double take

Relaxed handrail requirements? It's a 'sculpture' unfortunately.

Saving one's home

The flooding Mississippi has evoked some serious sandbanking

Structural Fail

From our breakfast table

Sometimes Vancouver can be beautiful

Electric Fail

Keltie, RIP

Getting good at lifting modular buildings

This is part of an apartment building in Vancouver.

The ferry home

There were a hundred dolphins alongside the ferry.

Old tube TV as it shuts down

Excellent photographs by Stephan Tillmans.

Underwater sculptures

I'll find the sculptor's name soon.

Bill and Hilary. Who'd have guessed?