The Epic Journey of Sean Aiken

Sean Aiken, the bloke who worked a different job every week for a year will be at the Inlet Theatre this Wednesday April 16 to talk about what it was like to work 52 different jobs in a year. Word on the street is that he might show some videos and such. I'm a huge fan of his project and can't wait to see what he's got to say. Not sure if he's going to bring that drum set, but I'm sure you can email him and put in a special request.
What I did each week for a year...
http://www.oneweekjob.com/
Sean is now working on a documentary of his experience. Check out the radio broadcast:
http://www.oneweekjobmovie.com/interview-on-freshfm-in-london-ontario/

Don't miss Kyle MacDonald!

Kyle MacDonald captured the world's attention when he set out to trade a single red paper-clip for a house. Fourteen trades and countless stories later, he succeeded. His remarkable journey illustrates the importance of having a vision, building relationships and thinking bigger.
Keynote Speaker Soho Business Conference
Wednesday Oct 15, 9:30am - 4:30 pm at the Fairmont Hotel Georgia Str Vancouver
http://www.soho.ca/sohosme/overview/featured_keynote_van.asp
How I sold a red paper clip and acquired a house...
http://www.oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

There are doers and then there are tellers. I guess I'm a little of both.

Seventh Heaven Hair Gallery and Bio Salon ~ Hair Spa for Healthy Hair! Hair by Day, Art by Night


Chloe Colourist Extraordinaire! ~ Make Canada's west coast your next holiday destination. Visit Seventh Heaven Bio Salon, now in a loft with a view. Without the use of harmful ammonia or peroxides, our essential-oil botanicals balance the natural P.H. of your hair and scalp. For rich luminous healthy hair colour that will "turn heads," or more information, call 778 292-0687

Styling; Precision cuts; Non-ammonia Colour; Essential-oil Botanicals for Healthy Scalp and Hair in a relaxing setting overlooking scenic Crescent Beach.

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Let your creativity show...


Beauty, It's An Inside Job

"What's a bio salon? Think biosphere. Then think clean air salon ~ non-ammonia, non-aerosol, no chemical perms or relaxers.

Nature botanicals from Ireland, France and North Vancouver, to replenish natural oils and balance the gentle acid P.H. of your hair and scalp. Coconut enzymes developers, and essential-oil plant extracts that are water-distilled to be as live and potent as when they were picked, to restore your chemically processed hair to it's natural luster.

Revolutionizing the hair experience, it is with great satisfaction that we can now deliver all this without the traditional side effects of burning scalp, noxious odors, and long term health risks.

LET THE TRANSFORMATION BEGIN..." ~ Owner Operator Chloe Scarf


Hair by Day, Art by Night... ~ Art exclusive to Seventh Heaven


Fine Art by Lucan Charchuk Art Commissions
Sculpture by Dale Ramsey Beyond Form
Viewing by appointment

~ Contact Seventh Heaven for Upcoming Art Salons !!!

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An After Dinner Affair February 14, 2008 ~ Erotica Show, Art & Custom Furniture Exhibit

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Nouveau Noél Art & Beauty Salon November 23, 2008 ~ Art Exhibit and Sale to December 23, 2008

The Waterlillies ~ A Meditative Masterpiece
The Waterlillies is more than an exquisite and universally appealing traditional masterwork.

The significance of this work of art is more than simply a snapshot of nature in that waterlillies allude to the unseen of dark waters, the beauty of life, and the light that supports us. The gift of the lotus flower, whose unseen roots are transformed from the subterranean murk of the unknown to the beauty of light in a quiet pond floating as if in air, becomes very spiritual in nature.

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Print series on Canvas based on Traditional Oils on Hardboard, 16" x 16 " by Lucan Charchuk, exclusive to Seventh Heaven Hair Gallery. For inquiries and acquisitions, please contact Seventh Heaven.

Art Commissions by Lucan Charchuk

Commission a beautiful painting of any subject style or size in traditional oil on canvas for that certain someone for that special occasion. Beautiful expressions to enhance any environs. Artist will work from a photo to create an exact replica of the subject you choose. (*prices vary according to size and complexity of subject).

All painting commissions take appox. 8-12 weeks.
Lucan Charchuk has been painting for over 15 years. He has a BFA and has traveled throughout Europe after doing his foundation studies with Alberta College of Art and is well versed in poetry myth and symbol.


Lucan brings to his work the classic structure of form of nature and the human anatomy, all the while retaining a sense of freedom, colour and expression. Some of his prints and drawings can be viewed by appointment at Seventh Heaven Hair Gallery and Bio Salon.

“Let the beauty you see be what you do.” ~ Rumi


Right-click to open page in new window:
http://www.crescentbeach.bc.ca/seventh_heaven/index.html
http://www.crescentbeach.bc.ca/Art_Gallery/Lucan_Charchuk/Lucan/index.html
http://www.crescentbeach.bc.ca/Art_Gallery/Dale_Ramsey/index.html
or email: seventhheaven@telus.net

Let your creativity show...


Larger Than Life Drawing Group ~ Symbiotica
The group show running at the White Rock Arts Council at Windsor Square, 90-1959 152 Street in South Surrey BC from July 3 to 31, 2008 took on a transformational subject in the theme of "symbiosis."

Each of the 20 artists represented displayed their personal visions of what symbiosis personifies to them individually and as a collective. The group has been meeting weekly in the south Surrey area to draw from a live model for over 15 years. The insights gained into our human condition are both intimate and contemplative. Here are some examples of the art that was on display :

Iambic Symbiotic ~ Conceptual Work by Lucan Charchuk July, 2008

Speaking for the artist's process and the co-creative nature of the group Lucan Charchuk's conceptual piece titled "iambic symbiotic" portrays an empty picture frame except for the representation of a business card with a picture of one of his art commissions floated in the center of the glass. Only visible to the viewer upon treating this like a three dimensional piece, does one understand the back of the card to contain a second business card design used to co-promote the Seventh Heaven Hair Gallery and Bio Salon which houses works by two resident local artists Dale Ramsey and himself, Lucan Charchuk. The message on the card invites the viewer to "envision" an image of their own with which to fill the empty frame in the form of a future commission. Accompanying the framed assemblage, is a poem by the same title:

Iambic Symbiotic ~ A Short Synopsis

Date:	2008-04-22 12:28
Subject:	Tall Friends In High Places ~ Ridge Walker Pete
Security:	Public
Mood:	high
Music:	seeing things, zero 7

Ridge Walker Pete ~ Exploring the Grandeur of Nature in Beautiful British Columbia

This is one of my favourite blogs, hardly on the radar, but well worth the search. . .

"A Short Hike In The Coast Mountains" with Ridgewalkerpete
Right-click to open video in new window:
http://www.youtube.com/v/8qTIpUv_j0k&hl=pl

Right-click to open page in new window:
Ridgewalkerpete blog page
http://ridgewalkerpete.blogspot.com/

Capilano Suspension Bridge ~ North Vancouver, BC


The Capilano Suspension Bridge is Vancouver’s oldest tourist attraction, having been built in 1889. Standing on a shaky bridge 226 feet above the canyon floor, attached only by small cables, still delivers the same thrills that it did over a century ago. 135 meters (443 feet) long, a footbridge made of long cedar plank and steel cable is suspended across the gorge, while below the bridge is the Capilano River, where visitors can sometimes see kayakers or salmon in the waters below.

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Capilano Suspension Bridge
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/canada/capilano-suspension-bridge.php

And another little vertigo. . .

Forget the Capilano suspension bridge, here's El Chorro at El Camino del ray!
Originally built in 1901, this walkway now serves as an aproach to makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro.

Right-click to open page in new window:
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562

Carla Bley ~ Healing Power

Right-click link to open video in new page:
http://www.youtube.com/v/DQakKOo0gKg

From the album "Fleur Carnivore" by Carla Bley

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http://www.amazon.com/Fleur-Carnivore/dp/B000XWKO74/ref=pd_sim_dmusic_img_3

Pink Panther like you've never heard it before!

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http://www.youtube.com/v/ysRPkOu5CRM

Ultimate Pink

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http://pink-panther-series.blogspot.com/2007/11/pink-panther-theme.html

Don Cherry ~ Brown Rice

Never in the life did I think I'd ever come across this chant again, gone the way of Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, or Sun Ra... but nope! Here it is in glorious sound! Take a listen;
Right-click link to open video in new window:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls1ddrT7HPc


Don Cherry Brown Rice Track Listings:
1. Brown Rice
2. Malkauns
3. Chenrezig
4. Degi-Degi
Hey, Malkauns! Check out Chenrezig and Degi-Degi !

and then I searched again and found "Thembi" by Pharoah Sanders . . .

Right-click link to open video in new window:
http://www.youtube.com/v/ZgBVWx_1TKs

and "Village of the Pharoahs" !

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GMm83n59iY

~ and OMG! Muhal Richard Abrams. . .

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http://www.youtube.com/v/g1NOKoEXk9U

. . . the best of which is still "Brown Rice". If you like "Brown Rice" you might check out :

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Pharoah Sanders album, "With a Heartbeat". . . Pharoah Sanders "Karma"
Right-click link to open page in new window:
http://www.amazon.com/Heartbeat-Pharoah-Sanders/dp/B00008V5UE

:)

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The Leading Guy ~ Click arrow to play song


Micah P Hinson ~ "He Moved On. . ."
Right-click links to open pages in new window:
Micah P. Hinson – The Leading Guy

Date:	2007-11-02 03:55
Subject:	Premiata Forneria Marconi
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy
Music:	un giudice

Wow! ~ Dig this, dude!

Un Giudice ~ It's PFM!

Amazingly full of life in Modena
Right-click to open video in new window:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGyuhhl63co

Love the accordian swing!

A Cut From The Past

Live From Italy, 1972 ~ Premiata Forneria Marconi PFM
Right-click to open video in new window:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-F5_Vx0Vmk

Some of the most awesome music I've ever heard...!!!

This is Awesome!

Dove ... Quando
Right-click to open video in new window:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3tZsWHcJo
...and the album cover artwork has always been kick-ass!

Storio di un Minuto

BMG Ariola (ND 74059) Italy 1972
Flavio Premoli, keyboards, vocals; Giorgio Piazza, bass, vocals; Franz di Cioccio, drums, keyboards, vocals; Mauro Pagani, flute, violin, vocals; Franco Mussida, guitars, vocals
Tracklist:
1. Introduzione — 1:10
2. Impressioni di Settembre — 5:44
3. E' Festa — 4:52
4. Dove... Quando... (Parte I) — 4:08
5. Dove... Quando... (Parte II) — 6:00
6. La Carrozza di Hans — 6:46
7. Grazie Davvero — 5:52
total time 34:34

Everybody should own this!
Right-click to open page in new window:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000072VP/nightstrykerevie

PFM have always been a great prog rock band (classically trained) to rival the likes of Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull or Emerson Lake and Palmer. The pioneer of Italian Progressive Rock, PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI is one of the leaders of the 70s prog movement. PFM developed a style of melodic and instrumental richness, which is uniquely Italian while maintaining links with the rest of the prog world. Lyrical, romantic, delicate music played with finnesse. Their sumptuous compositions and arrangements are sometimes compared with early King Crimson, yet unlike any other in their class. Listen to the sailing skies of fall in Impressions of September...
Impressioni di Settembre

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5WwrgC1qZk
La Carrozza di Hans
Follow Marconi through the rush hour clash of a trip on the autoban in Hans' car...

Right-click to open video on new window:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4qtITloLqY
More About PFM
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http://www.pfmpfm.it/

A Lady in a Green Wood Stood Confronting in Hersself With Age...

From the 2004 movie... King Arthur

Song For A Winter's Night ~ by Gordon Lighfoot sung by Sarah MacLaughlin
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbgfXp5M02M

"Finally a Gordon Lightfoot song I can stand to listen to and a face in him that romanticizes the real troubador in knightly fashion of a Lancelot. Sure lightfoot wrote it, but it only has essence when brought to the heights of chivalry in valiant King Arthur fashion. Lightfoot was a knight of sorts, a Don Quixote chasing words, the depths of which remain unseen... until a woman's touch can bring it's spirit out of dreams into reality to the screen to soothe a lonely soul..." ~ Luke 10:11-07

Date:	2007-10-05 15:09
Subject:	I Beheld its Painting...
Security:	Public
Mood:	anxious
Music:	Hotel Costes, Buddha Bar

A soul stood before me black as coal
My eyes blind with rain
The cold mass of mountains loomed
gathered like scars in the soul of life, writhing in pain.
They had the sweep of the sea;
Crescendo-ing, reaching deep into new heights,
But they had never fathomed me,
the méme of time,
The soft hills had never battled with
the cross-currents of life,
They had never fought some
hungry hearts on charging surf
pouring in torrents, wind-tossed,
The soul had done this...
I beheld its work.

Date:	2007-05-20 14:30
Subject:	Para el valiente en el fondo ~ for the valiant at heart
Security:	Public
Mood:	hopeful
Music:	Olvidate, Pancho and Sal

Song for Ja,
Dance the dance of life!

...the rain came again yesterday and today. Camp Alex Festival is pretty much rained out. Chloe is supposed to sing tonight at a fund-raiser for ja pace, who was in the vancouver lifestyle magazine and is now in Italy getting a lifesaving bone marrow transplant...

don't forget to return after you view the following links:
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=5450378d-f14b-44b5-b389-30cb0a3f1253

http://japace.blogspot.com/



her parents are really fighting hard to help her

life is so fragile,

http://japace.info/jalifestyles2.html

Song for Ja,
Olvidate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng3TQBTEx9I

Ja and Artur


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9avcb0XZYVE

“Day nine, Ja's fever still there. She is  receiving what she needs, like platelets, antibiotics and other medications to  preventing complications. From the doctor and nurses, everything looks ok, the fever is part of the post-transplant, almost inevitable because all this new things in the body.”

http://www.panchoandsal.net/jaa.htm

Date:	2007-05-20 13:39
Subject:	Ojos que no ven, corazon que no siente
Security:	Public
Mood:	melancholy
Music:	Ojos que no ven, pancho and sal

Ojos que no ven, corazon que no siente ~
Eyes, what they do not see, the heart does not feel...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cyl2HJulww

Mujer ~ Woman



Art is Woman; What is a man? Man is nothing... luke 5:20-07

don't forget to return after you view the following links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOyawiLKDp8

http://www.panchoandsal.com



De La Mano

Spur of the moment, bird in hand,
walking the world, hand in hand
two wings without separating
one heart without doubt
one heart with wings ~ luke 5:20-07


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAGNswiiWtE

The pain in Spain stays mainly in the brain

Date:	2007-03-16 12:16
Subject:	MAGA BO [U.S. VIA BRAZIL]
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy
Music:	ravenna witch narcotic

Premier for Cameo

Open your eyes!
Gather up your old school drinking buddies,
then take a walk on Saturday evening on Granville
from Davies to Robson; What do you see?
These are your supporters. These are the pawnbrokers
who voted you in to the office of Premier
of this fair province; Then go down Robson
past the Vancouver Art Gallery, VAG-ely familar?
See that there is more culture resting on its public stairs
than has ever in its history hung on its walls.
Upon viewing the exhibit, you may proceed to the lobby
of the Fairmont Hotel and pick up your free copy
of the "Financial Times"

It's lessez faire on drunken leaders!



Have a happy St. Patrick's there, you old goof ball!
bravo!

MAGA BO [U.S. VIA BRAZIL]


Right-click link to open song file in new window:
http://www.blentcast.com/Blentcast_v1_Maga_Bo.mp3
Right-click link to open pag in new window:
Fat Planet Music Maga Bo
http://www.fatplanet.com.au/blog/2007/05/10/maga-bo-us-via-brazil/

Date:	2006-12-14 14:26
Subject:	When there is weather...
Security:	Public
Mood:	gloomy
Music:	hung up with summer, big star

Well then - there is the weather,
the 'aging' process of the sea,
the wanton sunlight's subtle changes
and ions of energy!
Absinthe of the absent guru... soma...somtimes...
sleep, change in the dominion of money
and actually, i don't want to be married
i just want to be merry!
A hairdresser is just a hair away from a perfect cut
A nurse is like the mother we never had, butt
since you're drawing to conclusions
I recite my mid-life crisis
man-aging process in inequity
'They' have stolen sunlight from all the ancient places,
placed it here before the gods they worship
Adam's daughters, who cradle civilizations
in the lapse of Christianity
the Father Son and Holy Spirit
together with the cherubim in heaven with the seraphim
Oh, dear angels, "Try and save us!"
We are gathered in eternity
like kindling and wood to the fire
totally consumed

poem by luke 12:14-06

i like this one, see attached
waiting at the end of the pier for the weather to appear
http://www.crescentbeach.bc.ca/Art_Gallery/Lucan_Charchuk/gallery/index.html

Date:	2006-12-09 03:32
Subject:	Click to view Spit
Security:	Public
Mood:	moody
Music:	none

Blackie's Pit, click to view Spit:

http://www.crescentbeach.bc.ca/Art_Gallery/Lucan_Charchuk/Lucan/index.html

A Flock of Seagulls

Date:	2006-12-09 03:03
Subject:	Miracles
Security:	Public
Mood:	happy
Music:	none

it's a good little car
small things are magical
from nothing, a miracle!