Mississauga Jazz Festival pictures

My Pictures 14: In the land where I came from

Andriyiv Church, Kyiv

Pencil

2001

My Pictures 13: Nova Scotia

1997. Watercolours. I painted it from a photograph.

Lake Huron

A stormy day at Pinery Provincial Park... 

...and a quiet sunset.

Lake Erie

On a windy sunny day at Rock Point Provincial Park...

 ...and at a windless dusk.

My Pictures 12: Still Objects

Still objects at an art studio in Ukraine, 1992. One of my best-loved watercolours. The art instructor gave us a task to make it with black, red and yellow only. 

My Pictures 11: A Car Design

1991

My Pictures 10: A Lotus

1987

Costa Rica

This was one of my best trips into tropics. Imagine a country that can serve as a backdrop to Avatar's Pandora: intensely green jungles, steep wooded mountains and active volcanos. Costaricans say that they have tremors every two weeks. As we stayed there for one week (June 12 to 19, 2010) we felt no earthquakes. (We felt it, however, today in Toronto.)

    

Arenal Volcano

Below: Riu Guanacaste Hotel completed in 2009. A high-technology installation amidst the jungle.  

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And a short story, real with a little pinch of fiction: 

We were flying to Costa Rica. To start a small talk I asked a young air hostess about the amount of the departure fee when leaving Costa Rica and she said: "You know, I have no idea, I am working this flight for the first time. I will ask our senior hostess to come and tell you." - "OK"- I said. The senior hostess never came and I thought that the young hostess simply forgot to ask her. 

Some fifteen minutes after the senior hostess was passing by and I asked her, just to start a small talk, if she knew what was the time difference between Toronto and Costa Rica and she apologized and said: "You know, I'm flying this route for the first time. I'll go and ask our captain and then tell you." - "All right" - I said. She came back later and informed me that there was one hour difference (In fact, it was two hours, but it's OK: at least she or the captain tried.)   

And then I just thought that if I go to the captain and ask him something like if he knew that the Boeing he was operating was sufficiently safe and he would reply that he was flying this machine for the first time, therefore, he didn't know... I decided not to.     

Niagara Falls

Turquoise power beauty

Structural beauty

The fog covering the American side

A building in the fog

2010 Valentine's Day

Jerome Godboo with Jack Keyzer and special guest Shawn Kellerman (lead guitar)
at Sky Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge. February 14, 2010.

My Pictures 9: A Lake in India

This watercolours picture was made in 1987.

Elevation 70

Night lights at Eglinton Centre, Toronto.

No tripod. Exposure: 0,5 sec. Aperture: 7

My Pictures 8: A Banana

A banana in the sun. Colour pencils

This Is It

This Is It was really an unexpected film for me to see. First thing that struck me was the enormity of a show Michael Jackson planned to do. If he did this show, some of the modern stars would have had their market crippled. Mind it - he was off stage for about ten years! The pop industry went more primitive ways. Modern star shows look cheaper or sell easy basic things. A thought that occurred to me was that he was stopped by someone for fear of ruining his or her market. His singing and dancing talents were extraordinary. He still had a good health at his 50. Sounds like a farfetched conspiracy theory, but this is what I think.

My Pictures 7: Nikolay Roerikh's Messenger

An attempted copying of Nikolay Roerikh's Messenger, 1986

My Pictures 6: Valeriy's House

This is a watercolours picture of a house where Lyuda's brother Valeriy and his family lived in 80s between  our Pakistan contract and India contract. The original picture still probably hangs in one of the rooms of the Abrams & Krochak Corporation

See my flickr sets:

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My Pictures 5: St. Petersburg

A pearl at the Baltic Sea gate

My Pictures 4: An island in the ocean

A watercolours picture of an island in the Pacific. It is based on an advertisement photograph published in a Newsweek or a Time in 1985. I have never been on this island.