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About Me

Web & multimedia designer, artist and writer/editor for U-Magazine.com . Website found at www.visual-stimulus.com . Painter, illustrator and maybe teacher? Never content sticking to doing just one thing.

Other than that, I don't think I identify with much else in particular. I once considered myself a raver. At some point I wore black all the time and angsted a lot. These days I work, write, make art, laugh, am stubbornly addicted to the Internet and generally find my way.

My Interests

Many forms of visual stimulii. Nature. Human nature and psychology. Thinking. People who think before they speak. Travel. Movement. Time.

Music:

allkindsofshit. Lots of tekno, dnb, trip hop, dub but also getting back into a lot of the old punk and (*forlackofabetterdescription*) alternative bands I used to like.

Movies:

Finally got around to watching Citizen Kane. Thought it's as good as everyone says. Also recently discovered THX 1138 - easily amongst my top 5, but I really need to see it another 10 times.

Television:

Currently without a TV and loving it.

Books:

Just finished: Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert. Explains climate change well. In a nutshell: we are currently living under atmospheric conditions unknown since before recorded history. Basically we're fucked. Move to higher ground. Now.Currently reading: Why We Get Sick - The New Science of Darwinian Medicine - Terrible name, but very interesting read. And Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson, which I just started so I can't really comment on it.

My Blog

MIA again

Well of course there's been another considerable absence on here. I'm nothing if not consistantly inconsistant. I've been up to many things, some of which I will mention, others not.I have a new ...
Posted by Just Jess on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:36:00 PST

Back to The Big Smoke

Yes that's right, I'm biting the bullet and moving back. I got a fair bit of work coming up and it would be best for me to be in Toronto to do it. I got a nice little studio in "Crackdale North" and i...
Posted by Just Jess on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:37:00 PST

Spontaneous poetry

This popped into my head last nite as I was trying to get to sleep:I love the haikuIts simple zen eleganceIt's just not my styleI've actually been writing a lot of poetry-type stuff lately because it'...
Posted by Just Jess on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:24:00 PST

I'M FREE!!!!!

Holy shit I thought this day would never arrive. I'm finally done that big illustration job that kind of dragged on a month or two longer than I anticipated. Barring any last minute additions or chang...
Posted by Just Jess on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:53:00 PST

I don't know why, but I feel compelled to post this

Maybe a bit cheesy but I've always liked it. It's sort of a reminder..The Invitationby Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesnt interest me what you do for a living. ...
Posted by Just Jess on Sun, 28 May 2006 07:09:00 PST

Deleted some things

I'm still not really sure about this blogging thing... I never seem to have anything worthwhile to say. I've deleted some entries so if you're wondering what happened to them, now you know. They didn'...
Posted by Just Jess on Thu, 18 May 2006 09:08:00 PST

I'm back

Yes I am back from Downunder and still have a bit of the tan left to prove it. I am not over thrilled to be here and am back at working my ass off to make up for the inevitable poverty that spending 2...
Posted by Just Jess on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:37:00 PST

Merry belated Christmas and Happy New Year

I haven't been writing here because I've been travelling in Australia and writing to this travelogue (which I am still behind on, but it's been hard to keep up over the holidays.) It's strange enough ...
Posted by Just Jess on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:38:00 PST

Testing...

I feel like I need to post something to keep the momentum going. Last nite I spent quite a while typing some some long, introspective thing about how our emotions can teach us lessons, only to find ...
Posted by Just Jess on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:05:00 PST

Whoa where have I been?

I haven't been doing a very good job keeping this updated. I notice now it's kind of weird that it says I have all these comments but they're really from one person who deleted his account a week or t...
Posted by Just Jess on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 07:27:00 PST