Category: Musings

Sketching and slowing down

Just spent a few days on Pender Island, the most southern of our Gulf Islands.  After schools end I simply wanted to slow myself down, think about the year, and make some plans. The way I slowed myself down was…

Good advice for all my students;

The electronics shop guy said this:   When I was building circuits in my early days, I struggled a lot. I found many circuit diagrams with different types of components. And I had to go to my local electronics shop…

The Theremin. Carolina Eyck playing ‘Elephant in Green’ (2015)

The Theremin is an electronic instrument, originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone[2] or termenvox/thereminvox) is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon…

Enzo’s, life cycles… and ink

First published Oct 5, 2014 revised 12/2016    As we move towards our field trip to Van Dusen gardens, I think we should spend a bit of time on ‘What’ and ‘Why’ and how does it connect with the Dhalli Lama’s…