My elegant and my nerdy side....

Okay, call me sappy, but I find that this song speaks to my view on life. It symbolizes the greatness of everyday, the wonders of nature, and the rewards of love. Plus, Sarah is Canadian...

YouTube - Sarah McLachlan-Ordinary Miracle

This next link shows just how we can laugh just for the sake of laughing....that is all life is about - our ability to laugh at ourselves. I believe this man lives by this....enjoy....fast forward the clip until the mike is put in front of the middle man.....
Laugh with the REAL people

These two clips are as far apart on the creative scale....put a Mozart concert or a Shakespearian play and even further, add me at my attempt at belly dancing and all of the options are as polarized as they can be... but, yet, they are all performing arts. - even my belly dancing!

To perform in front of an audience takes skill, may it be a ballet dancer or a stand up comedian or even a teacher. To engage an audience and to keep it stimulated is a skill. It takes an extremely creative mind to do this. To capture an audience when one has a venue like a play or music is less challenging in my mind, compared to a teacher who has to be creative in capturing his or her audience ( the class of 20 kids) when the only venue is fractions or reading maps, or spelling etc. I believe teaching in itself is a performing art, and one that requires creativity, skill, intelligence, patience, flexibility and tenacity to keep going to find better ideas and methods to better help the youth of tomorrow!

I am expanding my fine arts exposure - I am learning about impressionism as I sit here. I had no idea about the different techniques they used and how they were considered radical because they painted outside and not indoors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

Despite the people pictures that seem to dominate the genre, I have to say I still love the natural aspect shown in each. I have included some of Renoir and Monet pictures. I recognize that these are classic pictures, but upon seeing them for the first time, they are still striking.

Julian Beever's pavement drawings

Here is another way to decorate our cities..... amazing, just with chalk!

Julian Beever's pavement drawings

OH, and I know I promised no more murals but I cannot forget the mastermind of mural illusion....Eric Grohe

Eric Grohe Murals and Design and to see some before and after pictures Eric Grohe Murals of The Society for Art of Imagination

The Heritage Murals of Downtown Vernon - Alice Parke Diaries

My Dad lives in Vernon and it is pretty neat to see these in the hot summer days. This was a big project that was undertaken to revitalize and provide uniqueness to the city's downtown core. They chose a heritage theme to celebrate its history through the arts - preserves and enhances both disciplines.

The Heritage Murals of Downtown Vernon - Alice Parke Diaries

I promise this is my last link to murals....I hope....

Murals across Canada - SACanada Forums

This is how Canadian cities are decorated! There are many more Canadian murals but this is just a sampling.

Murals across Canada - SACanada Forums

Okay, so I did not know what a huge topic this was....decorating our cities - world wide. At one point in my life, I wanted to be a city planner....could you wonder what the viewscape of Prince George would be looking like if I was.....every building would be covered!!

Murals Around The World

I would tell you that there would be more than just the Bear sculptures around town!
There is a sculpture park in Kansas City. It is 17 acres in size and it houses 4 HUGE badminton birds - take a look. Here is something our PG planners could look at - maybe Mr. PG could get a badminton racket?
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | Interactive Sculpture Park

Please do not get me wrong....this is exactly what we should have in Prince George, more arts and more accessible to people. I love this idea of a sculpture park. What a great way to engage in conversation and make people take a different perspective of things. When I looked at the orange steel sculpture I could not see its artistic value. However upon reading is description it is metal from the Golden Gate Bridge and it celebrates industrialism (should one really do that?) and the form of it represents multiculturalism. I never would have interpreted it as that, so it was a learning experience....as all life is....

Moscow Metro - Bee Flowers

Who thought you could be a part of art when taking the subway? Maybe our North American city planners can take some cultural tips from Moscow.....

Moscow Metro - Bee Flowers