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My name is Valerie. I am currently a grad student in Communication Studies (interested in art institutions and the internet) who thrives in a realm of yummy smells, instant and speedy wifi, and the artists, designers and thinkers who make everything worthwhile. Welcome to my website.

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Posts from January 2008

Gah! Redesign woes

Okay, as you can tell I’m having issues with fiddling with my blog’s design. Abandoning the idea of switching to a different template completely, at this point I am just experimenting with different colours. This would be easy if things were just all one colour but the template incorporates .gif images that I [...]


Potential blog redesign?

I’ve spent the past few days looking at possible Wordpress templates for a much needed redesign.  While my current design is certainly fine, my site (in case you haven’t noticed) has been very slow and heavy lately.  So I have already contacted Dreamhost in case it’s on their end, but am also going to experiment [...]


Perception Test: Mysterious Workings of the Brain

Found via Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy.
Before you watch the 20 second long video, pay attention to these instructions quoted from the original post by Alec Couros:
1) The video lasts only about 20 seconds.
2) It is CRITICAL that you focus completely for the twenty seconds to get an accurate result.
3) The objective is to [...]


Understanding Art for Geeks: Insulting or Ingenious?

Enjoying the flickr photoset Understanding Art for Geeks by paulthewineguy. He takes canonical works of art and annotates them with images and text that “geeks” can more easily relate to. Really hard to pick out a few favourites; I highly recommend taking a look at the whole set.

Triptych of The Garden of Earthly Delights [...]


A Word on Managing Delicious Vegan Cookbook Overload with Vegan Blogs

It’s funny how I now that I have so many cookbooks, one of the ways I decide what recipes to make is by reading other vegan food blogs where people post pictures and stories about their cookbook creations. Sometimes having books full of endless delicious recipes can be overwhelming; I depend on the amazing [...]


Choice Words: Selected Quotations from Tumblr

I’ve been using the t-log, as I like to call it (because Tumblelog sounds even more ridiculous) for only two months, and yet have used it to capture the best of many of the provocative finds (art, video, links, quotes) that I come across nearly daily on my paths across the web. I thought [...]


Building Better Habits Using Web Tools

Now that I’ve learned to love cooking (and it seems to have replaced television for me, happily), I need to deal with my issues of eating in an unhealthy way. I occasionally overeat, eat when I’m in emotionally unstable states, and often eat with distractions such as books or the internet. It [...]


Vegetarian Snack/Energy/Granola Bar Roundtable Review

Last night I sat around two tables at a local fair trade coffee shop, Bridgehead, sampling different types of bars (raw, snack, energy, granola, dessert) for a review for National Capital Vegetarian Association (NCVA) newsletter. With great company and delicious experimentation, it was so much fun! I discovered that I don’t really intend [...]


When does art cross the line?

Warning: Content in this post will be disturbing.
I consider myself open minded, especially when it comes to appreciating art. I am very particular over which artists I love, but have respect for art of all kinds. While many people in Ottawa scoff at the National Gallery of Canada’s purchase of Barnett Newman’s [...]


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