Saturday, November 29, 2008
Opa Illustrations
Here some of the illustrations I am working on for my book. I decided to do it all in Graphite. I love the look and I think it works very well with the subject of the story. I am very much inspired by "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" from Brian Selznick and I just love the style he used in his book.
First draft Bill Portfolio page
Well, there is no question about it...I am in love with this man and lots of art I made off and about him reflects this perfectly so there is no surprise that Billy will make it into my portfolio on an entire page dedicated to him.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Thanksgiving at the Indian restaurant
every year for Thanksgiving, Bill and I do something different...so it is kinda our tradition to not have a tradition? This year we went to an Indian restaurant at noon... and then watched movies at home.
Bill wants to eat...NOW! lol enough with the pictures...
Bill wants to eat...NOW! lol enough with the pictures...
sooo full...ate way too much...
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
World's AIDS Day December 1st
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.
Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.
Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.
What can I do to support World AIDS Day?
The theme for World AIDS Day 2007 and 2008 is “leadership”. This theme will continue to be promoted with the campaigning slogan, “Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise.”
Leadership was selected as the theme for World AIDS Day to encourage leaders at all levels to stop AIDS. Building on the 2006 theme of accountability, leadership highlights the discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through. The theme empowers everyone from individuals to organisations to governments to lead in the response to AIDS.
Leadership was selected as the theme for World AIDS Day to encourage leaders at all levels to stop AIDS. Building on the 2006 theme of accountability, leadership highlights the discrepancy between the commitments that have been made to halt the spread of AIDS, and actions taken to follow them through. The theme empowers everyone from individuals to organisations to governments to lead in the response to AIDS.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
www.TanjasArt.com
...is under construction, thanks to my yoga teacher, friend and neighbour Micaela's brother ...lol
I love life and the way things just happen. I was so frustrated and didn't know what to do about my website and I am just amazed about random kindness of people. I think it might be Kharma. Micaela's brother does not know me , wrote me an e-mail and is putting together my website...I just think that it amazing. I love people and I am just so happy in general about kindness...
So I will let everybody know once my site is up and running...Namaste
And remember to give unconditional love and kindness...
I love life and the way things just happen. I was so frustrated and didn't know what to do about my website and I am just amazed about random kindness of people. I think it might be Kharma. Micaela's brother does not know me , wrote me an e-mail and is putting together my website...I just think that it amazing. I love people and I am just so happy in general about kindness...
So I will let everybody know once my site is up and running...Namaste
And remember to give unconditional love and kindness...
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Santa Clause came to Highland Park today...
First we had some hot tea :)
Santa came to Highland Park today riding on a fire truck into downtown. The mayor lit the lights on the trees, they had free cookies, hot chocolate, sly rides and Christmas songs were sung by a caroling choir. It looked like a scene out of a lifetime family movie. I didn't know this really existed. It was very cold but so nice. Most people came with their kids who couldn't wait to talk to Santa.
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Santa
Santa came to Highland Park today riding on a fire truck into downtown. The mayor lit the lights on the trees, they had free cookies, hot chocolate, sly rides and Christmas songs were sung by a caroling choir. It looked like a scene out of a lifetime family movie. I didn't know this really existed. It was very cold but so nice. Most people came with their kids who couldn't wait to talk to Santa.
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Santaat the Smart dealer
It got really cold so I had to get more Nitrogen into my tires at the Smart Car dealer and there I saw these "flaming hot new" Smart cars...lol I thought they looked funny.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Massacre in Jonestown November 18,1978
The Jonestown Massacre
The Ministry of Terror
by Elissa Haney
Almost three decades ago an unusual series of events led to the deaths of more than 900 people in the middle of a South American jungle. Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing.
The Jonestown cult (officially named the "People's Temple") was founded in 1955 by Indianapolis preacher James Warren Jones. Jones, who had no formal theological training, based his liberal ministry on a combination of religious and socialist philosophies.
A New, Isolated Community
After relocating to California in 1965, the church continued to grow in membership and began advocating their left-wing political ideals more actively. With an I.R.S. investigation and a great deal of negative press mounting against the radical church, Jones urged his congregation to join him in a new, isolated community where they could escape American capitalism—and criticism—and practice a more communal way of life.
In 1977, Jones and many of his followers relocated to Jonestown, located on a tract of land the People's Temple had purchased and begun to develop in Guyana three years earlier.
Relatives of cult members soon grew concerned and requested that the U.S. government rescue what they believed to be brainwashed victims living in concentration camp-like conditions under Jones's power.
The Visit of Congressman Ryan
In November 1978, California Congressman Leo Ryan arrived in Guyana to survey Jonestown and interview its inhabitants. After reportedly having his life threatened by a Temple member during the first day of his visit, Ryan decided to cut his trip short and return to the U.S. with some Jonestown residents who wished to leave. As they boarded their plane, a group of Jones's guards opened fire on them, killing Ryan and four others.
Some members of Ryan's party escaped, however. Upon learning this, Jones told his followers that Ryan's murder would make it impossible for their commune to continue functioning. Rather than return to the United States, the People's Temple would preserve their church by making the ultimate sacrifice: their own lives. Jones's 912 followers were given a deadly concoction of a purple drink mixed with cyanide, sedatives, and tranquilizers. Jones apparently shot himself in the head.
The Ministry of Terror
by Elissa Haney
Almost three decades ago an unusual series of events led to the deaths of more than 900 people in the middle of a South American jungle. Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing.
The Jonestown cult (officially named the "People's Temple") was founded in 1955 by Indianapolis preacher James Warren Jones. Jones, who had no formal theological training, based his liberal ministry on a combination of religious and socialist philosophies.
A New, Isolated Community
After relocating to California in 1965, the church continued to grow in membership and began advocating their left-wing political ideals more actively. With an I.R.S. investigation and a great deal of negative press mounting against the radical church, Jones urged his congregation to join him in a new, isolated community where they could escape American capitalism—and criticism—and practice a more communal way of life.
In 1977, Jones and many of his followers relocated to Jonestown, located on a tract of land the People's Temple had purchased and begun to develop in Guyana three years earlier.
Relatives of cult members soon grew concerned and requested that the U.S. government rescue what they believed to be brainwashed victims living in concentration camp-like conditions under Jones's power.
The Visit of Congressman Ryan
In November 1978, California Congressman Leo Ryan arrived in Guyana to survey Jonestown and interview its inhabitants. After reportedly having his life threatened by a Temple member during the first day of his visit, Ryan decided to cut his trip short and return to the U.S. with some Jonestown residents who wished to leave. As they boarded their plane, a group of Jones's guards opened fire on them, killing Ryan and four others.
Some members of Ryan's party escaped, however. Upon learning this, Jones told his followers that Ryan's murder would make it impossible for their commune to continue functioning. Rather than return to the United States, the People's Temple would preserve their church by making the ultimate sacrifice: their own lives. Jones's 912 followers were given a deadly concoction of a purple drink mixed with cyanide, sedatives, and tranquilizers. Jones apparently shot himself in the head.
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