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There are few notions more psychologically disconcerting than that of bycatch;

let’s all do our part to do away with it.

Yours in recreation,

–Ionatan Ws

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Enough said.

–I.W. https://about.me/ionatan

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“Am I eating right?”

We ask ourselves this question all the time.

What is a good diet? What are we supposed to eat?

Supposed to? Are you out of your mind? It’s astounding that we’re even here—an ape-like creature that has domesticated grasses, developed the light-bulb and the locomotive, spread to the corners of the world—cooking, eating, gambling, Skyping, shitting in giant sanitary systems, creating music and visual art, splitting the atom for energy, orbiting the planet in vessels made out of materials extracted from the rock of the earth—and now inquiring, in such ceaseless chatter, about what we’re supposed to be eating… can even there be an answer?

The diet of our species is beyond unusual; even our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, can’t provide us with the clues we need—they don’t share our gastronomic history. Humans have undergone thousands of years’ worth of evolution in the presence of cooked food; no other organism on this earth can say the same. Homo erectus, a long-lost relative of ours, was cooking before the first true human… he’s not around to answer any questions, however, but we have spent millions of dollars analyzing his teeth for different microscopic grooves characteristic of different diets, in our desire to answer this question.

As researchers progressively probe the realm of nutrition, our understanding of a healthy diet is slowly being developed, based on qualitative and quantitative observations. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll have noticed that the “Food Pyramid”, which we’re encouraged to follow (Be good… eat your burger!), changes every couple of years as we use newfound knowledge to develop diets that (on paper, at least) make us less prone to disease, deficiency, and so on.

“Am I eating right?”

I’m afraid I can’t say. We’re working on it, though, that’s for sure.

Many apologies,

–The Omnivore

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Greetings, gentlefolk.

As you all know, it is important to adapt to the circumstances. In this case, the circumstances entail my home scanner no longer working as well as it once did.

What this means in the context of Art Time Collective, is that many of my uploads will be coming from the University of Toronto Scotiabank Information Commons. Indeed, my art will now be indirectly sponsored by a colossal research institution posing as a university, coupled with one of the companies responsible for the 2001 financial crisis in Argentina.

But my, what crisp images.

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Geocache:

Markers and pencil crayons, combined with a background from a Jacques Cousteau book, as well as a puffer fish from a book of questions and answers. The eyebeams were cut out from a duotang-type folder.

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For Sale

Images from a handyman’s encyclopoedia, as well as from National Geographic. The thought bubbles are outlines in black Sharpie.

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Vanity flair

Background from a handyman’s encyclopoedia, statue from a book about Greek mythology. I  drew the screwdriver using permanent marker.

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Oh, science. God only knows what I’d be without you.

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Adrift

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I can’t remember.

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Big game

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of the hunt. Such savage beasts, brought to the ground in mercy. Smile, gentlemen.

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Pristine

If pristine wilderness is what you’re looking for, you’re going to have to start looking harder.

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Emptied out

When Jason heard about the oil spill, he became pallid and beaded with sweat. Within seconds, a heavy thud shook the room; wine was everywhere.

“Stay with me, Jason.”

I pumped at his chest, doing the best that I could. You won’t believe what happened next.

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As Vincent and Bill looked skywards, they we struck by sudden panic–

What would happen to their beautiful lawns?

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A three-panel series in memory of all of the families that didn’t work out.

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Meet Eugene.

Like any of our Bellybeans (TM), Eugene is the perfect child.

Eugene has no physical or mental defects, allergies, or predispositions to disease. His immune system is top-notch, and he will grow to a healthy  6’3″ under proper nurture.

Eugene will do well in school, at his job, at home, and as a member of society. He will be an outstanding individual, always ready to contribute selflessly for the good of the nation. Eugene will always be prompt, courteous, and happy productive.

Contact us now for a consultation,

and we’ll be on our way to making

The Perfect Society.

— Bellybeans Inc.

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This piece is roughly the size of a standard photo. The background was taken from a stock images book, and the foreground was taken from various pages of a book about genetics. I made the jar myself out of thick white paper, and a transparency, which I had to cloud up using a nail file. There was something very unnerving about the cesarean process of cutting out all of those babies, but I’m glad to have been helped by a bunch of fine folk, including Tom, Erika and Gwyn.

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After having countless lives taken from them, the deer population decided that they’d had enough.

When you touch a ghost, do you go right through it? How about when you hit it with a car?

Why don’t we see what  poor ol’ Hank has to say?

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Media: Deer and smoke (migrating ungulates) are from two natural history books, as are the background and the tree on the right. The car is from an ad, and the passenger is from a golfing magazine. Construction paper was used for the soil (texturized with marker and pencil crayon) and the inside of the car. The shattered windshield is made out of shiny packaging material.

Feel free to leave some comments, as always :)

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Solanum infernadentis, the helltooth potato, is Canada’s only predatory potato. Unlike the closely-related winged potato of western Canada, this rare species is virtually immobile, relying mostly on its ability to camouflage and pull itself into the ground using its shallow root system. Concealed, it waits for pronghorns or other large ungulates.

Occasionally, as shown in this photo, helltooth potatoes will form harems, with various females belonging to one or two of the fanged males. The mature fruit produced in these harems is dispersed mostly by birds, which do not make up a significant part of this potato’s strictly carnivorous diet.

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