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What is this RotoGoboScope? The lantern that won the People’s Choice Award at the IllumiNite event in Edmonton! The RotoGoboScope is an innovative lantern that combines colorful LED lights with rotating mechanisms to produce a fantastic moving light-scape of patterned dots. It features custom electronics that are built into refurbished coffee cans, which are mounted [...]

Walking With Lanterns last week some friends and i went for a walk in the local ravine.  we brought some lanterns and a firepit on a wagon. all accounts concur that it was a  great evening in the park.  the weather was perfect too, chilly but not dangerous.  and the snow that had been threatening [...]

dear ladies and gentleman of good intention: you are cordially invited to join parastra intergalactic for a nov 11 tradition. where ever you are, on 11:11:11 imagine walking meditatively with friends, family, and lanterns. and then do so, if you can! 2 to 25 people and some lanterns is all it takes to transform a [...]

I’m involved in a festival project in my home town of Edmonton, AB, that takes on the colder half of our year.  It’s called Winter Light, cause we light up the long dark days of winter.  At our latitude, we can have as little as 4 hours of daylight in December.  Which is crazy.  Especially [...]

A big part of my art is site specific lighting installations. I created a new set of cad + waterjet woodcut Lanterns and Light Towers for Astral Harvest. Fun times. Extending my scope of action is always a fun thing to do, even the painful learning curves (of Adobe Illustrator for example) become satisfying and [...]

One of the things I get to do is help people make lights. Last October, my mother organized  a lantern painting workshop for the St. Albert Garden Club (which she has been a member of since approximately forever).  This was fun, as I remember one of my early art experiences going to a flower arrainging [...]