Wowwee!

Wowwee #2, January 30, 2012
Digital sketch, 9" x 18", 300dpi

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Wowwee!

Wowwee #1, January 23, 2012
Digital sketch, 9" x 18", 300dpi

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The Complete Guide to Vision Quotes

This is an on-going guide to the vision quotes on twitter at @jrmccauley.

2012 01 04:
I shut my eyes in order to see. ~Paul Gauguin :27 days…

2012 01 05:
One eye sees, the other feels. ~Paul Klee :26 days…
2012 01 06:
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ~Jonathon Swift  :25 days…
2012 01 07:
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. ~George Orwell :24 days…

2012 01 08:
Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. ~Havel :23 days

2012 01 09:
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. ~Henri Bergson :22 days...

2012 01 10:
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. ~Helen Keller :21 days...

2012 01 11:
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world. ~Wilde :20 days…

2012 01 12:
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~Anais Nin :19 days

2012 01 13:


I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. ~Walt Disney :18 days...

2012 01 14:


It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. ~Helen Keller :17 days...



2021 01 15:
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ~Albert Einstein :16 days...

2012 01 16:


You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ~Mark Twain :15 days...

2012 01 17:
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. ~Benjamin Franklin : 14 days...

2012 01 18:
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ~Friedrich Nietzsche :13 days...

202 01 19
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson :12 days...

2012 01 20:
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? ~Bob Marley :11 days...

2012 01 21
Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes. ~Mitch Hedberg :10 days...

2012 01 22
Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? ~Groucho Marx  :9 days...

2012 01 23
When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. ~Oprah Winfrey :8 days...

2012 01 24
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford :7 days...

2012 01 25
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ~Leonardo da Vinci :6 days...

2012 01 26
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. ~Pablo Picasso :5 days...

2012 01 27
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ~marcu Tullius Cicero :4
days..

2012 01 28
I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that. ~Dolly Parton :3 days...

2012 01 29
I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better. ~Mahalia Jackson :2 days...

2012 01 30
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful. ~Sophia Loren : 1 day...

2012 01 31
Today I will lose my bad eye but all the same I will see.  ~John Mccauley :today


Mount Sinai, 12:30PM, Tuesday January 31, 2012







2012 The Year of Fish



Often, say every other year or so, I decide on a cooking adventure and dedicate the entire year to conquering a food. Several years ago it was bread. Aside from the occasional restaurant servings or purchased lunch sandwich, that year I ate only bread that I had made myself. Of course, I started with the a loaf of Standard white bread, but before long I was making flat breads and cheese and nut infused rolls. It was fun, particularly the humourous sudden rise of the pita! A year after that it was savory pies – meat pies, meal pies, everything but dessert pies. It, too, was fun. I learned especially how to make a proper crust. I have decided that 2012 will be the Year of Fish, but not the standard filet in butter. No, I want to investigate Paiayas, fish stews – and I’ll extend this to bivalves and shrimp – clam sauces, and Thai shrimp dishes. There may even be a fish bread or savory fish pie – actually I have already attempted the fish pie but it was a disaster which means, yes, I will prevail and try agian.  Tom and I have been leafing through the books of El Bulli, and though I don’t expect to get as rarified as say, Sardines with Fish Roe (pictured above), nonetheless their work is of great inspiration. Also, in many ways this is a tribute to fish, which if the news is to be believed, may not exist in another decade or so. I hope not, but with this irony in mind, I will be eating them this year.