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Why Canadians Should Participate in the SOPA/PIPA Protest
Read the full Article Here on Michael Geist’s Website

Tuesday January 17, 2012
Some of the Internet’s leading websites, including Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, and BoingBoing, will go dark tomorrow to protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The U.S. bills have generated massive public protest over proposed provisions that could cause enormous harm to the Internet and freedom of speech. My blog will join the protest by going dark tomorrow. While there is little that Canadians can do to influence U.S. legislation, there are many reasons why I think it is important for Canadians to participate.

Second, Canadian businesses and websites could easily find themselves targeted by SOPA. The bill grants the U.S. “in rem” jurisdiction over any website that does not have a domestic jurisdictional connection. For those sites, the U.S. grants jurisdiction over the property of the site and opens the door to court orders requiring Internet providers to block the site and Internet search engines to stop linking to it. Should a Canadian website owner wish to challenge the court order, U.S. law asserts itself in another way, since in order for an owner to file a challenge (described as a “counter notification”), the owner must first consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts.

Knowledge acquired from observation is a treasure; shared for the greater good, is wisdom

New Video featuring the music of Classical Composer John McIntre

On June 12th I have the honour of being the event photogrpher for the Georgian Bay Grannies’ “Stride to Turn the Tide” Fund raising walk.  this event is an initiative of the Stephen Lewis Foundation to build solidarity, raise awareness,and mobilize support in Canada for Africa’s grandmothers.

Since the launch, some 240 groups of Canadian grandmothers have taken up
the call to action. To date, the campaign has raised more than $10
million for African grandmothers and the children in their care. SLF has
directed these funds to community-level organizations in 15 sub-Saharan
African countries that provide grandmothers with much needed support,
such as food, housing grants, school fees for their grandchildren and
grief counselling.”

http://www.grandmotherscampaign.org/campaign.html

 

My Mother is involved in the walk as well and I encourage  my faithful readers to visit the website to read more about this, and consider registering for the walk, and helping in raising funds for this inspiring initiative.  Visit their Grandmothers to Grandmothers page here for more information and to donate directly to My Mother’s efforts for the walk visit her online donation page here

 

Well I am pleased to relaunch www.artmyth.ca tonight, my new site where you can shop for My images as 5 x 7 Greeting Cards.  It is a shopping enabled site with a wishlist and a few other features to make navigation simple.  I will be uploading new cards weekly – so drop by to www.artmyth.ca sign up and keep an eye on updates.  The site is a customization of the ktools photo store – which seems to be working ok so far.

using the new Slideshow Pro Director Word PRess Plugin to show off some of my Stock Photographry  more of my work can be licensed from my www.canstockphoto.com portfolio  click here to use my referral link http://www.canstockphoto.com/search.php?mem=741&r=741 

Just about complete two new paintings, old subjects revisited.   Here is an image of Duncan Crevice revisited, I am very anxious ot get back up to Duncan Caves this spring with the new camera gear to study again.

Hopefully, I will have these canvases complete early in the new year

Willisville Jack Pine 28″ X 22″ oil on canvas  this work is unframed.  Framing in a simple shadow box can be arranged (now that Dad and I have the shop back in working order)

Ill post an image of the completed painting when it is done.  Im working on the details of the tree trunk to get the beam of light that is peaking over the top of the cliff to hit the roots.

Although unconfirmed I am convinced this is one of the ‘old growth’ cedar trees that have survived along parts of the Niagara Escaprment for over 300 years.

   

Over $30,000 in sales of original local art works to the Canadian Standards Group global headquarters 

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Recently I read about www.Artanywhere.comin the Globe and Mail and posted a blog about how interesting the mission of co-founder Julian Harber was.  I joined, and submitted two works to a call to artists and was very pleased to hear my works were accepted in their corporate show. 

Today the news got even better with the announcement that two of my works have been purchased by the CSA Group and are included in their corporate collection. 

I can say now that www.artanywhere.com has my full support and encouragement!  the entire process was well managed utilizing the web for submissions, and email for communications. – A rather impressive example of utilizing the web in new ways for traditional endeavours. 

If you are an artist in Canada  I highly recommend you visit www.artanywhere.com and sign up to receive their calls to artists.  I hope to see corporations, and individuals embrace this ground breaking approach to Art representation and distribution.

Over the past month I have been re-working this painting I did in 2006, Duncan Crevice Twin Trunks.  It is a large oil on canvas done in my heavily textured style.  It is 4 feet by 5 feet, 122 cm x 153 cm on a nice hand made stretcher about 2 inches thick with wrap around canvas that is painted, framing isn’t necessary.

As with many of my paintings the composition invites you in to contemplate the detail and explore the nooks and crevices of mossy covered rocks and roots.  I am fascinated by the symbiotic relationships of these crevice environments, and this painitng pays homage to that symbiosis.

As a large canvas it dominates a small room, it has been in my studio for several years now and has always provided a fresh look in different light.  The tree canopy is stylized, and so too are parts of the foreground, this plays to your imagination as you ponder the canvas, in a sense it acts as a portal leading you into subterranean mysteries beneath the rocks.

You can click on the image for a larger view, and if you are interested in making a purchase enquiry I can send you a high resolution image that details the texture to give you a much better representation of the painting.  I have priced the painting at $2750.00 cad.

All the best

Kerry

I am excited to announce the launch of  Artmyth Photo Cards!  A growing collection of my  images and illustrations available as 5 x 7 folded greeting cards.  Available online for convenient ordering here http://artmyth.kerrygarvey.ca/photocards .

The collection ranges from the quirky to the sublime and are blank inside for your  personalized message. Order individually to create your own personal collection.