Mary Louise Butterworth - Artist

The Modern Reflective era is how I describe the art produced by my friend Mary Butterworth .
On her site Mary gives a fuller description of her style. Some of the earliest pictures I saw from Mary where from places I know real well, Glen Tanner bridge for example. This painting did not include the bridge but by capturing just the Tanner burn, trees and glossy reflective water I knew where she was standing. And it has been this early reflective style that has been combined with night City scenes to produce Art like the picture of HMT Aberdeen, included in this post. There are new pictures from Edinburgh coming and I am looking forward to seeing those.

flocklocal.net activity no.1

The Flocklocal @sicamp team discovered and flash mob-ed Glasgow Wood Recycling this morning. Peter Lavelle welcomed us to his recycling center where we helped with with weeding inside and outside the area, painting and then a load of recycled wood was unloaded. 60 minutes of volunteering to make a positive impact to their centre, many hands make light work. Photo of the event here.

flash mob group live blogging

@sicamp twitter


Build a ________ that will match volunteer + resources

LOCATION TIME INTEREST TASK

People volunteer
short term
compulisive
no commitment


ORG
needs something done what tools dv???

project manager

volunteer = individuals

community / individuals

Volunteer
How do people want to volunteer location, type, time length

Diff. Technique
website
map
mobile
widget
FBconnect
twitter

Widget
sell $

Financial

Tools
Rating

Matching
Expertise
Past Activity
Interest/complexity
sector


Tools
online community
event-y site
maps pins
pledge banks

sicamp live blogging

Intro. morning talk

5 things need to happen

1. have chat
2. hack together software
3. think, stain idea, business model
4. name, people use it branding etc???
5. what going to do, to take forward

Up to teams to do that rest.

Open Space
Law of two feet, feel free to move to different groups


Ask for help
SIcamp team / twitter to at any time

Ballater Kirk Stainglass window

I met up with the Butterworth Clan and friends on Sunday to attend the service to commit the new Ballater Kirk stainglass window in legacy of Mike Sheridan the late local butcher. Howard Butterworth designed the stainglass window. The window is best viewed from inside the kirk but the spring sunshine shows some of its magic from outside. The van is on the window too if you look closely. Later in the day I visited the Butterworth Gallery to see the Spring collection by Howard and Mary. Howards Daffodils were my favorite, reminded me of this photo I took recently.


Ballater Kirk Stainglass window, originally uploaded by ecotorch.

BarCampScotland 2009

Barcamp Scotland comes around again, in Edinburgh, full details on wiki.

Peace & Abundance

War fills the airwaves again.

A world of abundance will give the world its best chance of peace.

That is the opportunity the Internet give us all.

aboynejames.co.uk goes social

I've added a google Friends Connect Gadget to the home page. Now I can say, see you on the site.