This Summer! For all you art lovers...

Summer Visual Arts Intensive
Instructional Workshops * * * Independent Exploration
A Summer Intensive for Youth, Ages 15-18, Who Are Passionate About Visual Arts.

Gain high school credit in a collaborative, dynamic, hands-on, and professional studio environment.

Instructional Workshops are co-lead by experienced & dedicated mentors/professional artists and will cover: drawing, street art, art history, sketchbook & portfolio development, found sculpture, collaborative art making, printmaking, and gallery visits.

Independent Exploration - Studio time will be provided and supported within Oxygen Art Centre, a professional non-profit, artist run centre. Time will be structured around independent studio work (students will be guided and supported as they create a personal body of work), group & individual critique, and a student art exhibition.

Location : SelfDesign High & Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson BC

Fees: $90 (includes shared material costs- students are encouraged to bring their own materials, as well)

To Register : Visit our web site at www.selfdesignhigh.org or call 250-354-1310
Questions/ Inquiries : info@selfdesignhigh.org

Printed 2009-2010 Yearbook

Send your creative self portraits / photos to yumintiative@gmail.com by Thursday, June 10th, 2010 if you want your photos included in our printed 2009-2010 Yearbook.

This is your Lassssttttt chance! You won't want to miss this opportunity! It's going to be a collectors item one day.....honestly

No Impact Man : A Film Review

The documentary No Impact Man follows the environmentally epic, year-long journey of Colin Beavan, his wife Machelle Conlin, their year-old little daughter and their dog as they try to live a life of zero negative, net impact. These means no transport (that isn't self-propelled), no takeout food, no electricity, no factory made cleaners, no imported food, no new anything and no toilet paper for a whole year.

Colin Beavan started the Year of No Impact with the modest hope that his families efforts might change something. He was planning to write a book about the experience, but he had no idea that his radical experiment would cause such a stir.

No Impact Man was directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein and filmed in New York City, New York, U.S.A. in 2009. The documentary was released late 2009 early 2010.

The idea for a filmed bloomed when Machelle was having dinner with some of her friends who happened to be well connected in the movie biz. They had heard of the launching of the idea of the No Impact Man book and thought it would be powerful as a documentary.

I think it is a very good documentary to have out there, regarding the environment. Colin Beavan said that the journey was a philosophical one, not a scientific one. It's refreshing. In the history of documentaries advocating for the environment first philosophy was used, but [some] people ignored it. Science was then tried out. It swayed more people, freaked out some, confused others, was still ignored (by some). No Impact Man is bringing us full circle and I think more people than ever are waking up.

I give No Impact Man 4 ½ stars. It was a pretty effective documentary, but it was a documentary. That half star is for entertainment, it was entertaining but I had to pay attention, I couldn't get distracted or snack on popcorn (ohmygoodness, where does my popcorn come from? Ah!...at least it's not microwaved...)

review written by that human
official website

f-f-f-fang and her pencil

stencil and a scribble for Street Art, 2009-10.
created by fang.

Yummy Goes Thirsty

Braving the desert of Osoyoos, B.C. with that human + fang + the nerd herd*

*a.k.a. the Environmental Science 12 class of Nelson, B.C.'s L.V. Rogers Secondary school

Yummy the Uni [corn]

Welcome to YUMMY ADVENTURES!!!!

My name is Yummy and I am unicorn who believes strongly in extensive, socially awkward* globe trotting (get it? trotting? har-dee-har-har).

I'm partially colour blind, I can only see white and pink.

My goal - to unite all of you, to enhance appreciation of what you might take for granted, to travel and meet every SelfDesign High learner across the province and the globe.

I am constantly on the move. Stay tuned as I blog about my adventures!

* Socially awkward in that you might get some funny looks carrying me around and being my photographer. Remember = different is cool.

Yummy Goes to Ottawa

"How Yummy had a sophisticated luncheon with Peter Morton and Isaac Tigrett"

and/or

"How Yummy had deep fried yam at the Hard Rock Cafe"

Where : the Hard Rock Cafe in the neighborhood of Ottawa's funky outdoor markets.


When: a sunny Sunday afternoon, in late April.


What: Yummy's first time eating out in public.


Who: Hangin' with that human and friends

Why: Encounters with Canada Environmental Conference

the Game

Lets play the game.

I pulled you in sucked all your life,
your worth,
threw you back to the hungry pack.
Blew consciousness into your bewildered mind.

Lets play the game again.

Come, you give me fantasy perfection
I’ll lap at your love, toy with
the emotions of your pinkie finger.
It’s not you I want, don’t you know that?

The hidden treasure of the game
the brutally crashing ending is not
You:
embryonic and thirsting
Not them:
desiring my imperfections,
Hardly.
It’s me:
with the darkness in my mouth
the frantic hunt in my eyes
the dead retributions in my limbs.

Now shall we play?
For you are blind
and I am willing
to steal the heart that’s willingly given me
to sew it to my sleeve, drag it to the depths of the dive.

Lets throw our bodies to the masses
let them devour the innocence
the fleshy parts of our mortality.
We shall emerge, gasping,
crying to Eve
for a snack.
Biting into the crisp skin I will look up
and realize
you are not the one I dreamed.

We have both been fooled. Lets
castrate the snake and blame
Adam, but,
in unreality,
It was all a game.

So, shall we play

again.

The particular arrangement
of English symbols you have just read were imagined by
that human
the picture was ripped
from cyberspace
(a.k.a. Google Images)