Visual Artist · Vancouver, BC
I’ve been using handheld power tools and doing a lot of manual sanding in the studio over the past two weeks. Consequently, that flabby part on the underside of my upper arms hurts like hell. Apparently those flappy bits are muscle. 
To anyone out there who doesn’t consider making art to be real work – sometimes it’s all about backbreaking labour.
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I am mid-way through reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. It seems the main factor separating someone who is average and someone who is über-successful is 10,000 hours of practice (plus a bunch of other factors, among them being in the right place and the right time to use your exceptional skills to great advantage).
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I seem to be having problems getting blog posts written consistently – more an effect of being tired after long days than of not having much to say. Plenty has happened since my last post.
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Attended a wonderfully informative professional development lecture on international residencies tonight at the Burnaby Art Gallery.
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Just saw Jayson McDonald’s Giant Invisible Robot at the Vancouver Fringe Festival.
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The equation: band practice on Friday night plus my first public performance as part of the Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra on Saturday night plus extreme inertia throughout all of Sunday equals blog neglect. Apologies for the break in posting.
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