a new www.johnwatt.ca

[John Watt]

It's taken a long, long and criminally disrupted time,
where I had to stop hacking up, organically,
but I've finally managed to get my own name online, again.
There is a new purpose for my new domain,
not just a new provider and build.

To honour my new purpose, working with the Metis Organization of Ontario,
I'll use a scan of a page from the first book published by a North American native,
Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, an Ojibway chief who lived south of Simcoe,
a couple of hundred miles away.
He also describes his travels through the Niagara Peninsula.

Oh, should our lands again be so ripe for all life.

as always, John Watt

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[John Watt]

Building a domain might be so user friendly now it's fun,
even sizing photos, but talking with professional tech talkers,
inspired a poem.
I can see admins and mods here sharing some serendipitous sympatico.

Font Cussers: by John Watt of johnwatt.ca, [email protected]
[email protected], [email protected], johnwatt

Font cussers cussed the font,
as customers are stacking font up,
because the font cussers tech talk work,
took tech talk to tick tock to tech talk ticked off,
click, click, clicking, all around the customers' clock.
Font cussers......ooooooooh!

Font Cussers: The Movie
The Trailer Park Boys all get call center jobs,
and every1 at the trailer park gets online.
A Street Sales DVD special

 

[John Watt]

My goodness, everything online is upgrading faster than me,
even if I'm getting too fast for my own good.
Here's what's becoming just joking around, domain building.
This is for a friend down the street who has a tailor shop, not her name.

www.johnwatt.ca

Even Jess Greenberg is getting better, an online creation I immediately wondered about.
Now you can see how everything from the dark edge contrast of her top tighty,
has different skin tones and lighting from the shoulders, arms and hands on the guitar.
Too bad they can't create her as a fully formed figure singing and playing and dancing onstage,
or she might be the first You Tube video artist to be a top seller, just to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasOOy1B17I

 

[JHC]

What are you doing John???? I expect your web page and get an online shop, I also get a video of a young lass playing a gee tar even if with a Capo :crazy: where oh where is your web page????

 

[John Watt]

Oh! Thanks for your interest JHC, and I do aim to please, and that's a long aim too.

Try http://www.johnwatt.ca now, riffing offa friend with a wife who are starting a flower shop.

[email protected] and [email protected] are now deactivated.

If you'd like, you can look at http://www.gigsters.ca to see some, uh, benign content.
After being poisoned after being told I was trying to build a new domain,
the political and profane johnwatt.ca, I put up gigsters to talk about Welland musicians,
so the local criminals who monitor me can see what they've done.
For you JHC, just as I'd take a song request, I recommend "listeners".

The version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" that is played is so musically developed,
for an acoustic guitar, it informed even me about ways to play through all those overdubs.
And I've been playing that song left-handed since 1969,
one of the first Jimi Hendrix songs I tried to figure out.
The only criticism I have is she doesn't slow down enough at some places.

I keep hinting in all my comments about her, that she's a computer creation,
but no-one's got back to me about that.

 

[JHC]

OK John I see the difference now (I think) you must have been a busy joker I really don't think the lass is computer generated but if so could you make one for me. the best I have ever done is a free web page (Weebly) must have been 10 years ago approx and is mostly pictures and does take a while to load I have sent you a link via a PM, not as sophisticated as yours I will have to update it.

 

[John Watt]

JHC! I don't know why you say not as sophisticated,
yours looks fresh, everything is spaced out with breathing room,
nothing is jammed up to make errors with the build, no, it looks great.
You also have more variety with lots of photos and great music links.

And for sure, I would sooner be celebrating the joys and friends of a lifetime,
instead of working to bring down the criminals who make me suffer.

 

[JHC]

You are too kind John. it is just a simple thing, a bit like me

 

[John Watt]

Don'gimme'nonna that right-handed attitude to me, JHC!
I know I'm not too kind, and I really don'wanna'be.

This culmination of a lot of life's efforts has created an infusion of John Watt here in Welland.
An infusion that has created it's own outlet, with predicted input and comments with photos.
This totally unexpected development enveloped us at a computer store, visiting with friends.
When I went walking and talking and shopping a little at the mall across the street,
everyone's head snapped around, staring at me with wide-open eyes,
saying that's incredible, you should do it, Welland needs it, go for it, I'll be there, all positive.
When I got back to my apartment, I registered wellandforums.ca to build as online forums.
Everyone is seeing this as an alternative to our local newspaper, a criminal story for itself.

Just to show you this isn't a matter of political opinion,
two elections ago at Notre Dame, hosting debates for a few elections,
with all four city councilors now running for mayor onstage, with me,
the audience literally only clapped for me from the beginning.
After two questions the moderator told the audience they couldn't clap at all,
if they were only going to clap for me and not the elected officials.
The Tribune printed that I rambled on about my long-haired days in rock bands,
and that's all they said that I said.
They fabricated a story with the other candidates to make them look good.
That's just ordinary news for the Tribune, promoting the careers of known criminals.

People today where I worked for an hour were saying they'll look at the Trib for ads and obits,
and look to me for the views. I always liked typing my music column at the newspaper,
the sound of the teletype machines was like being in a movie,
but I didn't know I was going to end up this much of a publisher, especially online.

Hey! This feels good to type, but it's going to take a while to do things right.
In Canada, if you apply for a .ca you are investigated to see if you can become one.
This gains you entry into the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, CIRA,
where you become a voting member on Canadian internet policy.
I get invitations to attend events in Ottawa, but that's too far for where I'm traveling.

All this got me thinking, beyond variations on what could be the name, The Welland Seen,
things like that, about what would I like if I was going to be publishing anything.
I'd want one of those architectural photocopiers, so I could cut and paste a newspaper,
and then photocopy it out. And I'd sooner have good black and white photos than bad colour.
I said cut and paste, but you could probably find one to plug into a computer, way too expensive.

My new domain, the new public forums, are about far more unkind than any kindness.
And I'm paying the bills with the provincial government giving me the money to do that.
Scottish people say, when Scottish people stand up in society,
there must be something really wrong with that society.
Oh yeah! Notre Dame? No debate at all this year.

And the new John Watt is taking something back from the original, 1966, typewriter owning John Watt

as allways, John Watt

 

[John Watt]

When John Watt changes change occurs around him.
Look at this new growth in my bedroom, and it's uh,
autographed already.
My room rates are having to go up now.

 

[JHC]

Then, as if by magic..........

 

[John Watt]

Uh-oh! If that was you JHC I don't remember. I really don't.
How come your font is so much better than mine?
That was probably the fourth or fifth time I tried that writing.
When I talked with a computerist at my local store, complaining about that,
when I sell artwork I do by hand,
he said it took him over a year to get that writing thing going good enough to use,
so that made me feel better.
I'm not looking for my first middle-aged moment,
but I would like to see it coming.

I've got lots of new photos and things to show and talk about,
being back here after a not too long not being here,
but the biggest news has to be what new things are growing out there.
Country people think plants are mutating to grow in winter,
talking mutations as plant problems, growing when they should be dormant,
and then it freezes a little before it gets warm again.

I've got some photos of new growth just before Christmas,
and if there's still any doubt about global warming for any reason,
I was out on a bike-hike around the peninsula two days before Christmas,
and between midnight and four in the morning,
I was walking my bike barefoot with no toque or jacket on, and was warm.
Some of the photos I got are clouds and growth I've never seen before.

I don't use files in the computer, putting pictures on discs that I write up to find,
so I'll be doing that maybe tomorrow, looking forward to it.
And even while you're looking at them, I'll ask questions you probably can't answer.
I know I can't.

 

[JHC]

Looking forward to seeing your photos.

 

[John Watt]

JHC! Thank you for the inviting, uh, home coming. It feels that way, a musical retreat.
Both sides of my life have been very busy lately, with music stuck in the middle.
That includes growth within and without me.

The first two photos show a new growth two weeks before Christmas.
This is Canada, the Niagara Peninsula, and you don't see snow or ice.
Growing in the shadows of these pine trees, this new growth is a mutation.
The second photo shows how it's sending a shoot, or stem,
straight up into the air, not weaving through the trees, just straight up.
If it wasn't in such a wind protected setting, it would have blown down.

The third photo shows new growth, again days before Christmas.
This is just an isolated patch in an old abandoned farm property.

Rural people and farmers I have talked with say it's the freezing and thawing,
when winter used to come and stay until the spring,
not just the warm temperatures, that are shocking, killing and mutating.

Local Mohawk say we are living in an upside-down world,
humans dominated by technology, invasive species, pollutions and off-shore manufacture.
This photo of Noah's Ark certainly isn't the Biblical lesson it should be.
Maybe it's going to go over the Falls and wake up Noah's spirit of the black bird.
And the abandoned Adam Beck Generating Station isn't lighting up itself.
This photo of my bicycle says it all, for Lake Erie shoreline bike-hiking,
a few days before Christmas.
No toque, no gloves, no jacket, no boots, bare-footin'it.
Lake Erie gets the most cold air coming down from the north.
Later at night, laying back on wind-blown rushes, supporting me off the sand,
I slept for half an hour or an hour, waking up warm and refreshed.

This is some of the most expensive real estate in Ontario,
but I'm out here all alone, Buffalonians using houses as summer vacations,
local residents living close to the lake hidden by dunes.

I'm going to continue with more photos.

 

[John Watt]

Even beavers are getting more ambitious with only warm weather.
I've never seen them trying to down adult trees to dam up a river.

Here's my bike and a boat, and that means the canal is still open.

This is one of my favorite dunes, climbing up there for the view.

The shoreline view is a world of itself when this is all you can see.

These clouds have some very unique features.
Those pinkish little shapes came out of the cloud and kept going by themselves.
If you look at a cloud towards the bottom left, you'll see little nubbies.
The next cloud photo, taken further along the beach, shows their evolution.

 

[John Watt]

Wow! Just when I was on a roll I took some serious criminal hits, offline for five weeks,
not that my fingers couldn't type, I just didn't want to be only a downer.

However, I bought mahogany plywood for panels and started some serious paintings.
I sold three of my first seven to employees in businesses downstairs, just showing some.
Yeah, I didn't even get them out off the property.

I glued together three art carriers and carry art around on a nice day.
People have been taking photos saying they want to show them to someone.
Rodman Hall in St. Catharines, https://www.brocku.ca/rodman-hall came around,
and asked if I'd show some pieces with their next exhibit, in weeks.
A couple of days later a man came over talking about their empty artist in residence apartment.

That's all I'm going to say.
What's beautiful about this for me? I'm accomplishing something,
not just working on my guitar and talking about a gig or starting a band.
I guess I forgot how much art meant to me when I was a teenager,
and that was the last time I painted for myself.

I've gone from Dollarama art supplies and Kleenex palette dividers from No Frills,
to painting with pro paint on mahogany and pre-white fiber panels.
Unless your camera has two eyes, you can't get a good look at artwork.
But here's a few to show something.
Art is it's own currency, you gotta show.

The "raven" isn't serious artwork, one of my art carriers.
The black stripe across the top with roses,
left over stencils from a sign as Welland is the Rose City,
is meant to look like the black pants and flower embroidery,
of South American natives.
The symbols around the edge are a sentence from a Mayan pyramid.
I have 3/4" wide spaces to carry four three foot wide artworks.

The "how many whales" is an artwork, for me, folk art.
I like the imitation soapstone frame, what Inuit carve.
The bottom whale is herding fish up from the bottom,
and the whale coming out from between the ice is after the silver.
Using silver fish was my artistic goal, like they're flashing away and toward.
They do that as you walk by or look side to side.

If you look at the ice shelf the Inuit are looking from,
if you see a black area lower like an eye,
the entire ice shelf is in the shape of a sperm whale.
If you see the smaller whale in it's mouth,
that's what whales do, holding young, teaching them to breathe above water.
I added some green to some bigger fish where the ice gap is,
for me, a nice, atmospheric part of the painting.
Yes, those ice shelves are disappearing just like the whales.

If you think that the top of the iceberg above water looks strange,
or are badly rendered clouds, look closer.
Does it look like the forecastle of the Titanic, and it shouldn't be there?
You're right. We all know that.
You can't see the fine line paint ridges in the blue sky,
wavy horizontals, upright verticals, symbolizing all the sonars whales have.

If anyone asks why I poked out the knots in the border, leaving them,
I say that's air bubbles from the whales.
I just bought another digital camera for indoor portraits, with instructions.
If you look at the soapstone frame,
you'll see my many times dropped camera can't take a straight line.

What I'm calling Ooze Blues is what I'm doing right now,
experiments with different paints, making a very detailed textural background.
Please, look at these as big as possible.
I want to get your Art-Rate up!

I missed you J.H.C.

 

[John Watt]

I'm looking at "Blues Ooze" here myself.
That's a blue acrylic paint as a first coat on the bare mahogany.
The second coat, just keeping on keeping on painting without cleaning the brush,
the sandy colour, is a Urethane clear-coat with that colour tint.
The greenish colour, the third coat, is an oil based paint,
and I used the blue acrylic for a fourth coat on top.

Looking here, I wish the sandy colour was white, yeah, clouds.
See, you can look at clouds from both sides now.

Oh yeah! The soapstone arctic painting.
The one Inuit and his half-Irish, half Inuit grandson, being Mi'kmaq,
is supposed to be Larry and his grandfather,
a northern Newfoundlander who has a weekend flea market next door.
That's where I like to hang out every Sunday, some Saturdays too.
They're hard, and I can't look into his deep, steely blues eyes for long.

 

[Boot]

The op makes me long to get back up to our place on the escarpment, in Lion's Head.

 

[John Watt]

Oh, oh yeah, I knew I was venting and going on by myself, for along time,
and when I saw "boot" I thought I was going to catch some admin action.

However, it's only one sentence, but you're tripping over me.
I don't even know what you mean by op.
Lion's Head is so famous, kinda, when I'm a Niagara Peninsula boy,
being escarpmental,
doing a painting about the formation of the falls into Lake Ontario.
If I didn't travel around Ontario so much in the 1970's,
I wouldn't know Lion's Head, not seeing it advertised anywhere.

This painting is only half finished,
some things will change with additional elements,
and the white in the water is just a primer, stuff sketched in.
I'm left-handed, easier to see the left reaching out to shake.

If you think having a "hands of god" painting is pushing it,
here's the photo that gave me the idea.

If you go back to Lion's Head, take me with you.

 

[John Watt]

This would be my next natural addition to this new me thread.
My wits are back, even if I'm still not ass-toot or ass-spiring,
oh, those nasty Gaelic sent a mental signs, or free pyscho-visual links.

This is the beginning of my new domain for the next election.
It's blank, just how I start, but local conversations with many people in authority,
who are interested in hearing more than just me describing their area,
motivated me to stay up all night and build this for one page of content.

Long time members will notice the amount of font right away, sayin'oh yeah,
and they might also notice I'm not the same spun out trying to be funny guy,
having more than just serious things to say.

If you are a .ca domain from Canada, the government investigates you,
before they let you become a voting member for Canadian internet,
especially if you've been arrested with federal and provincial libel charges.
I have to describe the content and intent for their approval, before I publish.

The fact that I can sit and pull an all-nighter,
and publish a .ca domain shows how efficient I have become online,
and the depth of co-operation I have.
Now, instead of typing and photocopying and trying to catch up to everyone,
to deliver it, as I do, I can phone or call, not bulk emailing, (I can do 5,000)
and just say take a look and download it if you can.

This is about the Niagara Peninsula and food.
It is a blank domain, building it even more up that way in the next few days,
so please, click "peninsula food" which is Niagara Peninsula food,
not to feel full and content, but to feel some food fear with political intent.

There was a power outage in my apartment neighbourhood,
snapping my open build shut and off, and my new domain wouldn't show here.
That could be Bell too.
Morning staff at the Grimsby police station, when Welland is closed,
took a look to see if it was on. It wasn't. Now it is.

http://www.johnwatt.ca

and no, I don't hafta be an https.

Talking about sent a mental signs,
I'm seeing so many movies made by Danish producers in Denmark,
mostly about ancient legends and viking around,
I feel like I've been there.
Buying four DVD movies for $5 yesterday, picking from over 500,
I got two I see this way.
"Valhalla Rising", a film by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Mads Mikkelsen
"In the Name of the King", a Ewe Boll film, starring Jason Statham.

Someone's going to have to teach me a greeting in Danish,
so I can talk back. Unless you want me to say good-bye,
and swim away underwater, trying to avoid the hands that reach up.