tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79814610702684945742024-02-18T23:31:27.222-08:00Rave On StudioAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.comBlogger469125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-71335780891695853272017-09-29T13:10:00.001-07:002017-09-29T13:10:06.120-07:00The Other Voice: Jenn Ashton, Artist & Author<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fM8sFtC1d8E" width="480"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-43102057785833688272016-07-31T14:41:00.000-07:002016-07-31T14:41:19.999-07:00What does Pokemon and augmented reality mean for artists? <br />
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Just wrote a <a href="http://jenniferashton.ca/WP/2016/07/augmented-reality-arts-pokemon-challenge/" target="_blank">quickie little article here</a> based on the Pokemon phenomenon.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-62865497712128880092016-06-27T13:30:00.000-07:002016-06-27T13:30:25.300-07:00I wrote you a story - "Compassion and the Pebble"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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*When I began searching for a photo to go with my little tale I realized that so many people have written about pebbles in shoes lol - but I'll post this anyway. My version;-)</div>
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So let’s say you have a pebble in your shoe.</div>
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It’s really painful at first, but soon your foot goes kind of numb and you forget about it.</div>
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Suddenly somebody runs up to you and yells “OUCH!! I’ve got a pebble in my shoe and the pain is so horrible I can barely breathe!”</div>
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At that moment your foot remembers and you are in so much pain, having forgotten about the pebble in your own shoe, and you remember when you got it, how terrible it was, you have empathy for your friend with the new pebble and your foot begins to throb from all the time it’s been stepping on the pebble.</div>
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It’s unbearable but after a while your foot gets use to the pebble again and kind of goes numb and you do the best you can.</div>
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Until the next time you see somebody else in agony over a pebble and it happens all over again.</div>
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So this is what happens when you have some great sadness, grief or pain inside of yourself that you haven’t quite worked out yet, or come to terms with. You just put it away somewhere inside you and forget about it. </div>
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But when something happens like a war or tragedy, maybe close to you or maybe even very far away, it touches on that sore spot inside of you and gives it a shake and wakes it up and you live it all over again.</div>
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This is one of the reasons that we have more trolls, more negativity and hate errupting during times of change or emotional hardship. Sometimes people in great pain lash out.</div>
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I want to give you some advice to end this and say, if you have a pebble in your shoe, stop, take it out, bring it into the daylight, examine it, smile at it and put it on your favourite bookshelf where you can visit it any time. Then you can remember the pain it caused you, and smile and feel grateful that the worst of the pain has stopped, and even though your foot remembers, it can also wiggle around in your shoe, pain free most of the time.</div>
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And the next time somebody yells “OUCH!”, you can say “Oh, I remember that, yes it’s terrible!”, but this time you can have compassion for your friend and maybe show them what you did with your pebble. </div>
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Please comment and share!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-65796250558003887692016-04-22T10:40:00.000-07:002016-04-22T10:40:03.490-07:00From Grade 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey kids - 6 page spread in the Spring (vol1) issue of @embossmag! Grab a copy here!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-16658877970289371472015-11-01T17:54:00.000-08:002015-11-01T17:54:05.970-08:00Remembering<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So it's November and tis the season to remember. I remembered something yesterday, something I can't believe I got so far away from.<br />
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Two nights ago I had a rather chilling dream, where I was in a basement, and I moved a blanket that was covering a table and there in a little basket under the table was our old cat. I was shocked and horrified that I had forgotten our cat! She was thin and emaciated and so glad to see me. Right away I rushed and made her milk and eggs and she was so happy, she bounded up the stairs and seemed to be her old self, with no hard feelings.<br />
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It was easy for me to read that dream, although I have been living my painting, and living my yoga, I have not actually been doing yoga for months, nor have I been attending my Sangha every week, and no chant or meditation has enveloped me for quite some time (read months and months).<br />
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I have been using the excuse that our schedule has changed so my Monday Sangha meeting is difficult to make, that life is so hectic with odd deadlines and new learning curves that I have no time for yoga and it all came to a head with that dream.<br />
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So yesterday I said my intention out loud; 'I miss yoga, I really want to do that new class!'(303), and today I have just finished class 303. (*And for Melissa, it was everything I loved Mantra's and pigeons and everything I don't love Utkata Konasana and Utkata Konasana (Can I say that twice please?;-p).<br />
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And now I am putting my intention in writing because as much as painting fills me to overflowing, I needed that little reminder that I have to keep the container in good nick! No hard feelings, let's just go back upstairs to the light.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-88496094765965788812015-10-20T19:25:00.001-07:002015-10-20T19:25:11.068-07:00TRANCEOLOGY on sale NOW!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TRANCEOLOGY is available in the UK right now! Few more hours it will be world wide on iTunes and hit me if you'd like an autographed copy - I still have 4 left!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-80801384805567254702015-10-19T15:09:00.003-07:002015-10-19T15:17:34.173-07:00It's been ages I know!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Things have been going crazy around here since I began painting in February! I am hoping that things will calm down soon - but in the mean time, head over to my new website and check it out, or come and hang at a show!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-79244217800640061082015-07-26T21:31:00.000-07:002015-07-26T21:31:32.960-07:00Let's make Mondays more fun!<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; widows: 1;"><br /></span>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Let's do something fun, for me, for you and for charity!!! I'll try this for a month and see if it flies... Yay! (And please share around if you like!)</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-48907298555360069542015-07-01T10:22:00.000-07:002015-07-01T11:08:42.144-07:00Thoughts on Canada Day and Moss (2015)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today as many people are posting pictures of the flag, and are off to block parties, parades, fireworks venues and other 'stat holiday' activities, a lesson I received decades ago comes back to me.<br />
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In my elementary school here in North Vancouver (Blueridge rah!), we were fortunate enough to be able to attend '<a href="http://www.sd44.ca/ProgramsServices/OutdoorSchool/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Outdoor School</a>' every year. Outdoor School was a few days away with your classmates in a remote, forested location, where you learned about orienteering, forest safety, edible plant identification and the like.<br />
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One year, in probably grade 5, we had a counsellor named 'Sky' (yep, it was the 70's you're right!). Sky took us hiking one day and I recall him squatting down and pointing to some moss. 'This moss', he said' has been here for many years, it takes so long to grow, you have to be very gentle with it. If you disturb it, say you're sorry and try to put it back.'.<br />
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Lots of the boys in the class laughed, but for some reason, I knew it was the right thing to do. And still to this day, I will blurt that out; 'Be careful of the moss, do you know how long that takes to grow? Say you're sorry!'<br />
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Anyway, here on Canada Day morning. when many people are thinking about our culture and freedoms, I am thinking about how fortunate we are to have this bit of land, and how I wish we could all say 'Sorry', and do our best to keep it healthy and not take it for granted.<br />
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Happy Canada Day.<br />
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(OfNote: I also learned what happens when your counsellor comes into the cabin at night after your classmates have played 'Princess and the Pea' and stacked their mattresses 10 high with you perched on top.)<br />
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Take a tour of Vancouver in the 70's here:<br />
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Hey kids, so I took a painting class and all heck broke loose, it was my creative tipping point - come and check out my work!<br />
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<a href="http://jenniferashton.ca/WP">http://jenniferashton.ca/WP</a><br />
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Please share everywhere!!!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-62335611877485532072015-03-12T22:18:00.000-07:002015-03-13T13:44:19.713-07:00Things I've learned on the Internet so far in 2015.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-60144297013508905842015-02-10T15:49:00.001-08:002017-02-14T10:00:00.648-08:00A Valentine for Sylvie Murrow <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">It’s almost ‘that’ day. That day where we’re ‘suppose’ to make a
show of affection to someone we love. Don’t get me wrong, I AM of the grand
gesture sort, but I do it every day, so when Valentine’s Day comes around every
February I just shrug and watch the parade go by and sales on all red,
pink and heart shaped thingamabobs – skyrocket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">I firmly believe that romance should be left in books, and it
should even have it’s own genre and warning: ‘Romantic Fantasy – Beware’, like
on cigarette labels, so there are no expectations or mixed signals out here in
the real world.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Curmudgeon? Nah. Realist? Yeppers and I know when it all
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">I was in grade 2 and my mom in a mad dash, had to run out and
buy a book of Valentines, because we were meant to give one to every kid in our
class. I spent hours at the kitchen table that night, tearing out each
Valentine from it’s little perforated bed, writing in fat pencil the names of
my classmates and then nearly-origami-folding every one for the greatest
secrecy into it's little gluey envelope. The next day they would be deposited
into a paper bag – not unlike an airsickness bag now that I think about it –
which was decorated and taped to the front of each of our desks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">I recall sitting through the day watching all the 8 year olds
try to sneakily put their cards into those bags. I didn’t understand the
ritual, but at the end of the day it seemed that we were to eat red frosted
cake, and open our brimming paper bags to receive all of the red-hearted love
that our classmates had bestowed. But what really happened was a lesson in
math.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">22 kids in the class and only 17 kids with that magic number of
cards – a sigh of relief if you had 22 – I did. Then all at once, one girl was
crying. I recall the teacher was saying something about that we were suppose to
give cards to ‘everyone’. One other girl, who nobody liked, called Sylvie
Murrow, just sat quietly. She smiled thinly, I could only see a few small
corners sticking out from under her small hands and I know she didn’t have 22,
probably not even close, but by grade two she was already use to this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">I never knew why nobody liked Sylvie Murrow, I thought she was a
nice girl. People laughed at her blue ‘cat’ glasses, they laughed because she
lived right next door to the school. They even made fun of her at her birthday
party, where there were a gaggle of girls who all sat beside each other on the
couch, stating in whispers that they were only there because their mother’s
‘made’ them go. We went to see the movie The Cactus Flower – it was way over
our heads, but Sylvie Murrow sat glued to the screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">Now I understand, she was just different, and probably already
had a respect for Goldie Hawn and Ingrid Bergman that would take me a few more
years to cultivate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">I never thought it was right, or fair and I was never part of
the bullying, but I never tried to stop it either. I guess I had my own demons
to deal with, so I, in my awkward state sat with my pile of Valentines on the
desk in front of me, just being relieved that I had the right number.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">I’ve tried to look Sylvie Murrow up over the years as
social media has grown; I have never found her. But I want to give her a
Valentine this year, with all my heart, to try and make up for those lonely elementary
school years and to start a new tradition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">If we have to have a Valentine’s Day, what about giving one to
somebody other than your main squeeze – what about give a card to someone
entirely different.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">From me to you, and from you to……..<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-54994031959797637132015-02-07T11:09:00.001-08:002015-02-07T11:09:38.274-08:00Why I don't go to funerals.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why I probably won't come to your funeral.</span></span></h2>
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I don't believe you are dead.</div>
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Dead is a word we made up to cover the range of emotions we feel when you are gone.</div>
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You, gone from your recognizable self, from your form that walks and talks and crawls and breathes, the one we are most comfortable with.</div>
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But I still see you in the clouds and in the rain, and in my memory, and sometimes you are still so vivid and alive to me that I forget you are not here in your old-self-costume. The body that disguised you.</div>
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So you are a part of me now.</div>
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And I am not dead.</div>
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So instead, I'll celebrate inside of me, with you, every day.</div>
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I will miss your voice, it's sad that it's gone from my ears, but I probably won't come to your funeral, because you are not dead.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06257203751977659044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981461070268494574.post-28530853686940745402014-11-20T18:42:00.000-08:002014-11-20T18:42:35.685-08:00Hey kids, I wrote a book!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yessindeedy I did! You can grab it <a href="http://www.jennashton.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!!!<br />
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Super happy to hear feedback!<br />
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Please spread the word! I think anybody of any age would like this book, it's written to be read aloud!! The littles this has been tested with loved it!<br />
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