Blogger, Artist, Social Media, Web Designer, Photographer- I blog about nouns-people, places and things, even when it's negative I try to put a positive spin on it. @tinawinterlikfb https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com
Friday, December 24, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
The Great Canadian Polar Bear Adventure!!
Really enjoying our Christmas Videos. We just moved and all our things have been in storage for over 2 years. So it's been quite the week unpacking and trying to get ready for Christmas.
The really cool part is I have all these videos that I collected when Angel was little, I also have lots of shows where I took out the commercials. So this is such a treat to watch these programs.
We are watching one, called the "The Great Canadian Polar Bear Adventure" and you know what I realized. I'm a Polar Bear. Polar Bear moms have to do it all on there own. They mate and then that's it, they have to have those babies and take care of them, feed them, teach them raise them, protect them. And the usually only have one. So that's me.
I'm just a Big White Polar Bear up in Canada...taking care of my little cub.
The really cool part is I have all these videos that I collected when Angel was little, I also have lots of shows where I took out the commercials. So this is such a treat to watch these programs.
We are watching one, called the "The Great Canadian Polar Bear Adventure" and you know what I realized. I'm a Polar Bear. Polar Bear moms have to do it all on there own. They mate and then that's it, they have to have those babies and take care of them, feed them, teach them raise them, protect them. And the usually only have one. So that's me.
I'm just a Big White Polar Bear up in Canada...taking care of my little cub.
Air Canada YVR Flash Mob 2010
This is so cool! Merry Christmas Everyone...Santa Claus is coming to town!! in just 5 days, 4 sleeps!! Happy and Safe Travelling everyone.
Way to go to the Umbrella Arts Club Dancers and the band Abandon Paris!!
I suggested on my facebook page a while ago that the Salvation Army should stage little Flashmobs like that where the people stand outside stores and collect money while singing. I think people would like that and maybe give a little more.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Santa VS. The Snowman!
We're watching this right now. One of our favorites. All of our stuff has been in storage for over 2 years, and we just moved and got it all out and well we are busy getting settled. We have tons of old videos and so we are really enjoying watching them.
Some of my favorites are It's a Wonderful Life, The Snow Queen, The Little Drummer Boy, Charlie Brown Christmas, Scrooge...and so many more.
Plan to get the tree up Saturday Night, still have unpacking to do. So I apologize if I haven't been updating this. Wishing you the very best and Season's Greetings!
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Simon & Garfunkel - Sound Of Silence
SOUND OF SILENCE
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools," said I, "you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Very Interesting Video, gives one a lot to think about.
Wow, the video about Leonard Da Vinci is so interesting. I have read about him in college in my art history courses and saw his exhibit when it was in Victoria, B.C. but what I loved about this is the re-enactment of his childhood, that he was just playing, experimenting in the countryside.
This is such a strong argument for homeschooling/unschooling.
Other points I liked were that if you have the will and drive to learn that you can and will at any stage of the game.
I love the part, and this is not the way to word it, but the fact that he was an "bastard" child...what a horrible nasty word, illegitimate but it sort of has the same connotations today as so many people look down on single moms/dads, and place some sort of blame. And that as a child, it is beyond their control, they had nothing to do with this.
And don't think that people don't use this word, as I have had that word thrown at my child, so I know first hand it is.
What I mean is that he overcame this stigma and produced such incredible and beautiful art as well as some many other amazing things.
Anyways when I get a chance I will watch the rest of the 9 episodes. I hope you will to.
**Update just noticed that this got a lot of views this week but the actual video wasn't there. I looked really hard for the video I watched and I believe it was this one.
This is such a strong argument for homeschooling/unschooling.
Other points I liked were that if you have the will and drive to learn that you can and will at any stage of the game.
I love the part, and this is not the way to word it, but the fact that he was an "bastard" child...what a horrible nasty word, illegitimate but it sort of has the same connotations today as so many people look down on single moms/dads, and place some sort of blame. And that as a child, it is beyond their control, they had nothing to do with this.
And don't think that people don't use this word, as I have had that word thrown at my child, so I know first hand it is.
What I mean is that he overcame this stigma and produced such incredible and beautiful art as well as some many other amazing things.
Anyways when I get a chance I will watch the rest of the 9 episodes. I hope you will to.
**Update just noticed that this got a lot of views this week but the actual video wasn't there. I looked really hard for the video I watched and I believe it was this one.
Leonardo da Vinci
This is very educational and interesting, but graphic to, so not for young children. It's from the History Channel!
What Boomers Are Leaving to the "Screwed Generation"
This was on Yahoo this morning, and it paints a pretty scary picture.
I don't like to consider myself a boomer, I was born in the last year of the boomers and I have never reaped the things that those born early have. Yet then I have not bought into the materialism of that generation. After working labour jobs for 11 years and then returning to college I saw how messed up the world was and for a while I didn't even really wan to participate, but then the baby bug hit and well now I have a child and I worry, "What will her future be?" It's scary. Today on yahoo is a very interesting article and I suggest you read it as it affects us all. I have included on important paragraph in relation to housing...a crisis I am facing right now...as a single mom, we can barely rent, let alone even think of owning a home (unless we win a lottery)
Anyways have a read..
http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/what-the-baby-boomers-are-leaving-the--screwed-generation-.html
A capital idea. But what happens when millions of boomers all start selling off their homes to the far smaller and less wealthy generations working their way up the food chain? The baby boom generation who “have driven up housing demand and prices for three decades” could have the opposite effect once their mass sell-off commences, Dowell Myers, a University of Southern California demographer, wrote in a 2008 examination of the “generational housing bubble.” Crunching the numbers state by state, he concluded that the current subprime-inspired meltdown may well pale in comparison to what lies ahead: lots and lots of sellers, far fewer buyers, and a two-decade long slump. “Whereas the major housing problem was once affordability, it could now be homeowners’ dashed expectations after lifelong investment in home equity.” The study won a prize from the American Planning Association. Follow the link above to read the rest of this article.
I don't like to consider myself a boomer, I was born in the last year of the boomers and I have never reaped the things that those born early have. Yet then I have not bought into the materialism of that generation. After working labour jobs for 11 years and then returning to college I saw how messed up the world was and for a while I didn't even really wan to participate, but then the baby bug hit and well now I have a child and I worry, "What will her future be?" It's scary. Today on yahoo is a very interesting article and I suggest you read it as it affects us all. I have included on important paragraph in relation to housing...a crisis I am facing right now...as a single mom, we can barely rent, let alone even think of owning a home (unless we win a lottery)
Anyways have a read..
http://beta.ca.news.yahoo.com/what-the-baby-boomers-are-leaving-the--screwed-generation-.html
A capital idea. But what happens when millions of boomers all start selling off their homes to the far smaller and less wealthy generations working their way up the food chain? The baby boom generation who “have driven up housing demand and prices for three decades” could have the opposite effect once their mass sell-off commences, Dowell Myers, a University of Southern California demographer, wrote in a 2008 examination of the “generational housing bubble.” Crunching the numbers state by state, he concluded that the current subprime-inspired meltdown may well pale in comparison to what lies ahead: lots and lots of sellers, far fewer buyers, and a two-decade long slump. “Whereas the major housing problem was once affordability, it could now be homeowners’ dashed expectations after lifelong investment in home equity.” The study won a prize from the American Planning Association. Follow the link above to read the rest of this article.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
FOLI "RHYTHM" THERE IS NO MOVEMENT WITHOUT RHYTHM, ORIGINAL VERSION
This is absolutely a Fabulous Video, documenting the incredible work that goes into drum making and the beautiful Rythmn in Rich Africa Culture. It is 10 minutes but really a wonderful video I hope you will watch and share!
Monday, November 29, 2010
RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
An excellent video, explained VISUALLY, so that you can really understand it! Please Watch It! Please Share it! Maybe we can make the world a better place!
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Eastside Culture Crawl- Last Day- Check It Out!!
This is from Ross, we were in Rebecca Coleman's Social Media Class. He and his wife and business partner Sarolta Dobi also attended Langara's Photography Program about 5 years before me. If you have a chance to go, you should, I hope to go next year!
To wander the open studios in the Eastside Culture Crawl.
http://tinyurl.com/3x7zld5
http://tinyurl.com/32yzt95
http://tinyurl.com/22umzn2
http://tinyurl.com/2dvcnsm
Drop by a studio if you get a chance today!
Thanks,
Ross Den Otter
To wander the open studios in the Eastside Culture Crawl.
http://tinyurl.com/3x7zld5
http://tinyurl.com/32yzt95
http://tinyurl.com/22umzn2
http://tinyurl.com/2dvcnsm
Drop by a studio if you get a chance today!
Thanks,
Ross Den Otter
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Tina Winterlik - Art Show-Bean Around the World!
Please Visit Bean Around the World in Kitsilano(on Cornwall / Walnut St.)
Art Work on Display by Artist Tina Winterlik
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http://tinawinterlik.blogspot.com
Paintingathon http://paintingathon.blogspot.com
Friday, November 26, 2010
Help Covenant House- Save The Future!!
The other day I got something in the mail, well my friend did, because we ourselves are actually sharing and do not have our own place. Something we pray will change very soon.
Life is like that, you have a plan, but things just don't follow it, things don't fall into place...you take 2 steps forward, and then someone or something pulls the rug out from underneath you.
It is in these really difficult times that hopefully someone will reach out a hand and pull you up. It has happened to me a number of times, because sometimes for some reason, some people just fall more than others, we are not bad people, we are not lazy or stupid, Life Happens! Bad things happen, that is Just Life!
BUT good things happen too!
Anyways, as I was saying this letter from Covenant House arrived, and it had these cute little cards, and a letter. My guess is very few people read the letter. My guess is that many people kept those cards and didn't actually read ALL the letter and just tossed it in the recycling.
It was a GREAT letter, it was so truthful and so accurate, and so IMPORTANT! So I'm asking you to go back and look at that letter because that letter explains what happens to kids that don't have the solid LOVING environment to grow up in and become healthy happy adults and actually contribute to society.
That letter tells how VERY DAMAGED SICK people sneakily prey upon beautiful young children and youths and then those children become damaged, and then these young people have no hope to actually contribute because they must seek help instead.
The Downtown Vancouver streets are scary. Years ago I had to take the bus up Hastings to commute and I saw really sad and awful things.
So I'm asking you to please READ THAT LETTER, ALL OF IT! and please visit this link and say to yourself, WHAT IF I didn't have that loving family, or WHAT IF that person didn't reach out and help me up when I fell...
That's all I'm asking, I know you'll do what you can after that.
http://www.covenanthousebc.org/
http://www.covenanthousebc.org/blog
Do you have an old winter coat?
http://www.covenanthousebc.org/blog/2010/11/25/donations-winter-coats-needed
http://www.covenanthousebc.org/help/items
Life is like that, you have a plan, but things just don't follow it, things don't fall into place...you take 2 steps forward, and then someone or something pulls the rug out from underneath you.
It is in these really difficult times that hopefully someone will reach out a hand and pull you up. It has happened to me a number of times, because sometimes for some reason, some people just fall more than others, we are not bad people, we are not lazy or stupid, Life Happens! Bad things happen, that is Just Life!
BUT good things happen too!
Anyways, as I was saying this letter from Covenant House arrived, and it had these cute little cards, and a letter. My guess is very few people read the letter. My guess is that many people kept those cards and didn't actually read ALL the letter and just tossed it in the recycling.
It was a GREAT letter, it was so truthful and so accurate, and so IMPORTANT! So I'm asking you to go back and look at that letter because that letter explains what happens to kids that don't have the solid LOVING environment to grow up in and become healthy happy adults and actually contribute to society.
That letter tells how VERY DAMAGED SICK people sneakily prey upon beautiful young children and youths and then those children become damaged, and then these young people have no hope to actually contribute because they must seek help instead.
The Downtown Vancouver streets are scary. Years ago I had to take the bus up Hastings to commute and I saw really sad and awful things.
So I'm asking you to please READ THAT LETTER, ALL OF IT! and please visit this link and say to yourself, WHAT IF I didn't have that loving family, or WHAT IF that person didn't reach out and help me up when I fell...
That's all I'm asking, I know you'll do what you can after that.
http://www.covenanthousebc.org/
http://www.covenanthousebc.org/blog
Do you have an old winter coat?
http://www.covenanthousebc.org/blog/2010/11/25/donations-winter-coats-needed
http://www.covenanthousebc.org/help/items
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