ChrisThompson.ca Programming and making art in Vancouver, BC

I discovered this local textile artist almost by accident last year and I return to her Flickr portfolio often to admire these bizarre and imaginative plush creations.  This series is called “Choking Hazard Dolls” and incorporates components from old dolls that have been reworked with found objects and surgically precise stitches. Inspired by cartoons, comic [...]

Scott and I went to Europe in June 2007 and while sightseeing in Amsterdam, I visited the Reflex Modern Art Gallery.  The gallery, small and several blocks from the Rijksmuseum, was exhibiting large photographs of women (and one man) variously standing and sitting alone in modernist interiors.  The photographs were enormous and filled the walls.  [...]

I am trying out Sun’s Virtual Box this term. I’m going to be doing a fair amount of development in C and C++ which means using gcc on Ubuntu. I’m pretty invested in the software on my Windows 7 laptop and yes, I’ve got Cygwin, but I prefer working with C and C++ on Ubuntu. [...]