Upcoming Events - Nocturne

This will either suck or be awesome. I'll be away this weekend but I'd go to it if I was here. Running October 18th from 6-12pm this art extravaganza is modeled after other "light up the night" style festivals only with a better name and more art. Nocturne promises to be a good time.

Unfortunately I think there will be a very high ratio of shitty poorly thought art to good art. Expect data projectors, gobos, and christmas lights.

I also question if it will be half-assed. I can picture people afraid to use energy not really doing that much of anything and aside from a few twinkly lights the streets of Halifax will remain the same as always.

You should go though and report back. I can't be there so if anyone sends me a hilarious review I'll print it the following week.

***Unrelated content:
NetBear wrote me back! Pretty much the best day ever. For those of you who read the blog infrequently or are not in the habit of ever going to back issues, a bear responded to my Monday entry about the beard hat image I used that came from his site, I then asked him the specifics of his hilariously named "Bearotic" site:

Thanks Ian. I appreciate your adding the link.
You see the image you are using in the article is actually being served-up by OUR SERVER, not yours. The image is coming from www.bearotic.com. So technically we're paying to have that image display on your site. (gasp) That said, a lot of people seem to embed other people's graphics. But it's not a very advisable practice since we could have our server display evil things on your site. Heh. A better route would be to save your own copy of the image and display it that way.
Regarding what is bear or not... Bearotic isn't just bear related stuff. It's entertainment for bears. Since many many bears are into theater they enjoy reading about Daniel Radcliffe getting naked in Equus. Actually most of the known universe seems to be interested in that. LOL. So it's not so much that Daniel is a bear. But he is interesting to bears in the entertainment sense.
As for bears vs otters vs polar bears, etc., people love to categorize. And also people love to label. So we come up with things like pocket bears for short guys and otters for not so portly guys. Meh... At Bearotic we like the expression, "If you think you're a bear, then you are." That spirit is reflected in quad-color logo with the changing faces on Bearotic. We try to embrace the entire bear community.
Hope this helps clear things up. ;-)
NetBear

Lessons to take home: 1) Bears are also hairy gay men who like Harry Potter, 2) Bears are awesome, 3) I have decided I am an Otter bear -- which is no sort of bear at all, except in the gay world where otters ARE bears. 4) I am vague now on if my childhood teddy was a portly hairy gay man, or a stuffed animal 5) Link to the website I find images on, and draw it to the webmasters attention. 6) I want to refer to someone as a "pocket bear" 7) Why bears? Why not gorillas?