So this is my latest masterpiece, right?

I call it “Rage Against the Wireless Machine”. See, it’s supposed to symbolize the eternal struggle between network admins and the machines they must work with every day.

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This particular piece is mixed-media, comprised primarily of fibreglass, copper, and plastic. Inspiration came to the artist during a discrepancy over IP addresses. The artist’s vision was realized through the expert use of a 16oz claw hammer. Size, approx. 6″ x 4″, excluding antenna. Currently on exhibition in an IT environment, where it may serve as an inspiration to staff, and a warning to equipment.

My friend Lezley Davidson was sharing a table with Ty Dunitz in Toronto over the weekend at an art fair thingy. On Sunday I went to visit and see what it was all about. And I brought my Holga camera.

The Holga had some issues, namely the film counter window had issues (or maybe the film itself had issues) and we ended up with 6×6 pictures all overlapped by about 1cm. I scanned the images as best I could, but there’s lots of overlapping craziness. Out of a roll and a half, there were some shots that were interesting enough to share.

Recently I folded my Artwork website into my blog/CMS/site here. After some contemplation and thinking it over, I’ve decided to also fold my iPhone Software site into here as well.

There are a few reasons for doing this.

Primarily, it is to get everything into one place with regards to administration and site management. Certainly it’s easier to manage when all the related pages are under one roof so to speak.

Second, is the fact that having everything running under the same CMS / site provides a consistant look / feel / style to all the related content. In other words, instead of each separate site / sub-site having a different style and set-up, they all now share a common appearance, common menu navigation, and common search setup.

Finally, it makes things easier in the sense of not having to remember / maintain a bunch of different domains or sub-directories. The various domains can continue to exist but redirect to the new location under the primary domain, which makes overall navigation and cross-promotion within my various interests much easier, for readers and for myself.

Things continue to get slowly consolidated, old sites merging with this, my main site.

Just recently, my artwork website was assimilated: www.artsteph.com has been merged into the PlanetStephanie domain and site. My artwork gallery etc are all available here in WordPress.

It was a lot of aggravating work to get everything in there, but now that it’s in, maintaining it should be fairly simple. It’s not as complete or comprehensive as the old site was, but on the other hand, I’m not that heavily into art / painting at the moment. I might get back into photography again, as I just got a new digital camera that has more functions and power than a Mars lander…

Interesting illustrations, animations, et cetera.

And a fun web site too!

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