How to make it in the Art business

December 23, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Cewl

The art gallery business is first of all a business, art is to the art dealer as groceries are to the grocer. Art is the product sold and the dealers goal is to make a profit. The dealers job is to manipulate the media, curators and collectors to achieve that goal. The greater the skill at this manipulation, the greater the ability to make a profit. An artists life is the antithesis of this. The artists life is about self expression, beauty, psychological exploration, the enhancement of the human experience. To live as an artist requires self sacrifice, thus the being of the artist is in conflict with the dealers materialist, profit seeking mentality. This is important to bear in mind.

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Pacific Domes

December 18, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Eco

Ideal family dwelling, guest house, workshop, or yoga studio. Architecturally engineered steel frame handles heavy snow and hurricane winds.
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The power of the world always works in circles, the sky is round, and I have heard the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down in a circle, the moon does the same. And both always come back to where they were. The life of man is a circle from childhood to childhood. And so it is in everything where power moves.

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The Mushroom House

December 18, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Eco

The Mushroom House, located in Whistler, Canada was first devised in the late 1970s. Zube, the artist/creator, has spent 22 years developing, creating and re-creating this haven and work of art.
The Mushroom House is now fully grown. We invite you in, to explore and to enjoy. Take your time.
The interior design is based on the anatomy of a tree. All aspects of the d�cor reflect this motif, from the womblike hues of the Jacuzzi room in the 'roots' to the vivid leaf greens on the walls in the 'canopy'.
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Pictures of old Motorhomes

December 16, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Cewl

Nothing sexier than an old motorhome....
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Linux SmartPhone

December 16, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Sci-Tech

A Chinese company based in Shanghai named "E28" has quietly been selling Linux-based smartphones in China since August, and today launched its Linux device in Hong Kong. The company also claims to be in talks with US and European companies to bring the device to those regions, according to one source.
Japan, where cellular provider NTT DoCoMo recently adopted Linux for its 3G phones, represents another possible market for the E28 phone.
E28's E2800 smart phone sells for about $600, and targets business users, offering PDA functions, touch-screen, handwriting recognition, a camera, and memory expansion to 512MB through an SD memory card.
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Fruitcakes not welcome on Canadian flights

December 12, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Weird

Holiday travellers are being advised to forget the fruitcake as carry-on luggage if they want to avoid delays when boarding planes over the holiday season.
The head of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority said Tuesday about 500,000 prohibited items have been intercepted at Canada's 89 airports during the past six months.
Jacques Duchesneau said the public still isn't aware of what is allowed on board.
He said a lot of scissors and Swiss Army knives are still being confiscated along with toy guns, ice skates and flammable liquids in aerosol cans.
Duchesneau noted even fruitcakes will be X-rayed because they're dense and could hide a weapon.

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Shanghai to harass illegal advertisers

December 12, 2003 D. H. McKee
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China's largest city plans to hound people sticking up illegal flyers with new software that repeatedly calls numbers placed on the ads, an official newspaper reported Friday.
The computer phone harassment is the latest tactic in the battle to curb unsightly ads that festoon walls, lampposts, phone booths and virtually every other public surface in the city.
Numbers will be called every two hours over the first two days with a message ordering the person whose phone it is to appear to pay a fine and remove the ads, the Shanghai Daily said.

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Meth smuggled in greeting card

December 12, 2003 D. H. McKee
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A woman soaked paper with methamphetamine, fashioned it to look like a greeting card and sent it to a federal jail inmate who then cut it into pieces for sale to other inmates, investigators said.
Kristina Landry, 23, of Everett, was arrested at her home, where authorities found a small amount of methamphetamine, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court.

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Sinus Headache

December 11, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Personal

Got one of those lousy sinus colds yesterday. Feels like I’ve got my head caught between the thighs of some...

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Canada may cut aid to Iraq in response to the U.S. snub

December 11, 2003 D. H. McKee
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Can-con

U.S. President George W. Bush is grateful for help in the war on terrorism and is "working" to include Canada in lucrative rebuilding projects in Iraq, he said in a farewell phone call to retiring Prime Minister Jean Chr�tien.
"He thanked me for what we're doing in Afghanistan and for the offer of money in the reconstruction of Iraq," Chr�tien told a news conference today.
"As for the news in the newspapers stating that Canada would be excluded from economic activities in Iraq, the president assured me that this was not the case, and that he would be taking action," Chr�tien said in French.
"And so I thanked him.
"We are still good friends."
The United States announced this week that countries which did not support the U.S.-led war in Iraq last spring, including Canada, would not be allowed to bid on reconstruction contracts worth $18 billion.
But Chr�tien said Bush called today and "he was telling me basically not to worry."

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