Jean Burman

Resistance is Useless

Jean Burman — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:25:47 +0000

I rarely get sick… but when I do… I have the habit of doing it rather spectacularly! I’ve been under the weather for over a week now and I don’t want to be. But for now there’s not much I can do about it [except get better!] And the fact that I am writing this [...]

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Life Lesson 101

Jean Burman — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:42:17 +0000

Illustration Copyright © 2010 Jean Burman This cartoon was so much fun to do. It brought back a truckload of childhood memories… of me and my little brother playing matchbox cars in the dirt in exchange for playing Barbie dolls and dress ups. It was a tradeoff brought on by my mother promising me a [...]

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Winging It To New York

Jean Burman — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 03:21:44 +0000

La Belle Femme 3 (crop) Watercolour and willow charcoal on Arches 640gsm 30″ x 15″ Copyright © 2010 Jean Burman Last night while the rest of the world was sleeping… La Belle Femme [No. 3 in the series] was winging her way stateside for the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 114th Annual Open Juried Exhibition. Not the [...]

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Don’t Do What You Can’t Fix

Jean Burman — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:08:25 +0000

Artwork & Content Copyright © 2010 Jean Burman Only after the last tree has been cut down Only after the last fish has been caught Only after the last river has been poisoned Only then will we learn that money cannot be eaten -Cree Indian Prophecy If mankind lived by just one creed “Don’t Do [...]

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Postcard From Melbourne

Jean Burman — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:17:20 +0000

The tram lurched and took off with a jolt as the four of us clung on for dear life to whatever we could manage to grab onto in the shoulder to shoulder crush of the late afternoon peak hour commute. It was a rainy cold winter afternoon in downtown Melbourne and business as usual for [...]

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Let’s Get Passionate!

Jean Burman — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:00:33 +0000

The ancient Greeks didn’t write Eulogies. They asked just one question when a man died…”Did he have passion?” – Serendipity 2001 Artwork & all Content © 2010 Jean Burman Passion is power. It’s the spark that lights the fire… that drives the engine… that powers the purpose… that gets the...

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Maximalism: the gentle art of living life to the max!

Jean Burman — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:15:41 +0000

Artwork & Content Copyright 2010 Jean Burman There has been a lot of talk lately on blogs about the virtues of the Minimalist lifestyle. For the uninitiated… minimalism is where the “stuff” of life is pared down to the bare essentials. The idea here is that people should divest themselves of as many material goods, [...]

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Feeling UPULAR

Jean Burman — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:48:18 +0000

I was feeling a bit down in the dumps the other day and then I met Pogo and it was all UPULAR from there! Take a look here and you’ll see what I mean… Pogo is an emerging electronic music artist in Perth, Western Australia. He is known for his work recording small sounds from [...]

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Just Breathe…

Jean Burman — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:31:34 +0000

Occasionally I need to escape the hard urban edges. That’s why the track was such a great find! It winds ever upward through bushland… around the ocean headland to the top of the hill… and then back down again to the sea. The air is salty here. And after the rain… the fresh smell of green… [...]

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Connect The Dots!

Jean Burman — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:36:36 +0000

Cartoon Pen & Watercolor © 2010 Jean Burman “Small steps taken often”… is a good prescription for life. In time they will take us to where we want to go. If we - Work diligently Live lovingly Hope unfailingly Eat sparingly *wink* And do it now… In time we might look behind to see how [...]

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