Wall With Window

“Wall With Window”

Street Art 1

Who’s Reading What?

I was looking at this site’s statistics this morning.  I  wasn’t surprised to see that coverage of Lucian Freud over the last year has drawn most views — by many thousands:  he is a popular and controversial painter.

What did surprise me, though, was how popular the Les Sapeurs du Congo post has been.   They are a truly fascinating social phenomenon.

Other posts that appear in the top half dozen include my image of “54 Stories of Old Ireland” (no idea where this is coming from), and the post on a pizza machine!

Na Pali Coast

Fleet In Fog

Wave 2

New Store

After experimenting with Etsy as a store for my artworks, I have decided to move on. I have selected RedBubble, and my store is here.

The great advantage of RedBubble is that they allow me to offer a significantly wider range of products, from postcards to posters, at a range of prices. They take care of the printing and the shipping.

Please give the store a look. I have quite a few items already posted and I am preparing a lot more.

Back From Travel

Just back from almost a month in Europe.   We cruised from Spain to Italy and France, before driving around England (and a bit of Wales).  I’ll have more to say about all that in the next few days.

I’ll also be posting some of the images I collected during the trip — the first ten or so can already be found at http://www.pbase.com/jak_king/europe_2009.

As we sailed into Naples early one morning, we were offered this gift of sunrise at Mount Vesuvius:

The Business of Art

There has been a recent change in the blogroll (over on the right —>).  I have added a “Jak’s Store To Buy Prints” link which goes to my brand new shop at http://jakking.etsy.com.

I have a few photographs and art prints there right now, and I’ll add more as I can.  If I can work out the shipping, I’ll also put up some paintings.

Hope you enjoy them!

Family At The Beach

“Family At The Beach” (2009).  Steveston BC.

Abandoned, Puerto Vallerta 2008

Keep Me Warm In the Snow Series: Pirates!

This was the evening view from our hotel room in Puerto Vallarta last week.  I’d post a view from our house right now, but it is just too depressing.

Both of us have been suffering badly from colds since we got back — flat on our back suffering — and making this image is therapy, a step away from reality.

Keep Me Warm In The Snow Series: Hotel Rosita

Cans

The View Through

Vancouver has a number of hearts.  The Sun Yat Sen Gardens in Chinatown is one of my favourites.

54 Stories of Old Ireland

“54 Stories of Old Ireland” (2003-2008), TIFF, 20″ x 16″

Click on the image for a better view.

Polar Inertia

I just about never recommend other sites directly.  I usually just post links and if you like what you see, you look around.  However, Polar Inertia: Journal of Nomadic and Popular Culture may pass you by and I wanted to make a special call out to it.

It is a journal of images, often of distressed urban sites.  This season’s offerings include a series on tangled utility wires in Bangkok, fascinating shelters built by homeless in Tokyo, and Soviet-era bus stops in the Soviet Union.

This is a magazine that covers material I don’t find elsewhere.  Well worth a look.

Treeline I

Philadelphia I

Larger version available here.

The View From The Train

Taken from the Whistler Mountaineer, traveling south from Whistler to Vancouver.  This is a little north of Brackendale.