Kris Knight

A not very good at all photograph (too lazy to change lenses, line up the lines, light properly) of a remarkably rendered water colour: "Sad Eyes" by Kris Knight.

You can see more of his work at his website krisknight.com in the "archive" section, which takes you to his flicker account.

This is a small painting in size; magnificently huge in result.

Autumn and Winter (or the dead enjoy the splendor of fall)

Toronto Necropolis cemetery

Autumn Morning

Rosedale Valley, Toronto

A little crisper in higher res, but I'm too cheap to pay for hosting files that large here :)

But, of course, post burial resurrection has gotta be muddy

Daniel Barkley's "Lazarus"

Big in size (35x50 inches), acrylic on canvas, 2001. Until very recently owned by someone else, who is moving and just doesn't have space for many of his larger works. I can't believe this painting now lives with me and resides right now hung behind my office chair.

It remains in tight running for the best painting Mr. Barkley has done to date, and that's saying a lot as the guy has some talent...

Photographed in a dark room with my computer monitor providing illumination. I cranked the ISO as one is able to do on the D3 and shot it handheld.

Bail Out

For some context around the link I'm blogging here, all I can say about the US government's move to "bail out" banks and other financial institutions to the tune of several hundreds of billions of dollars (all the while the rhetoric claiming it's to protect the little guy, or in the parlance of Idiot Pallin, Joe Sixpack) is that if you've got several hundreds of billions to spend put it in a big bag and if the greed brings down the money lenders and their casino, er, stock exchanges, use all that cash to feed your people until the rich get back on their feet.

$700 billion. For banks. Almost enough to make a fellow a libertarian. Or really, quite enough to make US libertarians socialists...