Canada Fall Tour Travel Journal Entry 2

October 2, 2011
Halifax, Canada
Day 2


Ottawa went well, with the VIP, Lecture, and then ghost hunt. Tyler and Jessica of SpiritQuest were a great hand as our volunteers.

Over the years of doing lectures, it has become only semi easy to stand in front of a large crowd and talk. What I do enjoy is seeing the reaction of the crowd when they see the evidence. Ryan tells the story and then we show the evidence, and I've seen people surprised or horrified.

After the lecture, we had a short break to allow the audience out for the ghost hunt. We devided the group in half, so that some would go upstairs with Sergey for Ganzfeld while the rest staid on the stage with Ryan and I for a seance. The centre did have rumors from of people seeing shadows and hearing strange sounds. We decided to do a very simple version of "One Hundered" candles, since it would put everyone in the spirit mood. Many ghost stories from guests of their own experiences were told including myself and Ryan. I hope to do this again at the other locations, and maybe even use candles this time.

After the Ghost hunt, we packed up everything and decided late night food was needed. The PRS crew and the volunteers headed to a local diner that is open 24 hours and claims to have the best poutin around. Elgin Street Diner is a place that is perfect to head to after a night the bar or club. These are my favorite places to eat at; especially late at night.
http://www.elginstreetdiner.com/

The poutin turned out really good, and it was a lot of fun to just sit and chat while enjoying diner food. When we left, all of the bars and clubs were letting out and quickly filling the small diner.

With an early flight to Halifax, we only got a few hours sleep before catching a plane to Halifax.

Sunday is a our down time before Monday's lecture at the Neptune Theater.

http://paranormalcanada.com/

Canada Fall Tour Travel Journal Entry 1

October 1, 2011
Ottawa, Canada
Day 1

The first time I visited Canada, was also my first time leaving the country. I was kind of scared, but excited in a similar way to when I went on my first plane ride. Toronto turned out to be a lovely place to visit, and I enjoyed speaking at the Great Hall theater as well. The Field Trips we've had over the last few years brought many fans from Canada, and each time they would ask when we would visit further north. So it was well recieved when we finally planned out the idea of doing a tour in Canada.This year has been filled with many changes, and visiting another country that held many people who not only enjoyed our show but also the work we do is an amazing experience.

For the first leg of this tour, we are first in Ottawa for the Oct. 1st. speaking at the shenkman Arts Centre. Even though I am always nervous at any public event, I am looking forward to meeting new people and hopefully not only entertaining them, but also have them leave knowing something more then when they came.

Also while in Canada, I hope to try some poutine, which is fries, cheese curds, and gravy. This bar food is apparently popular across Canada and being a foodie, I love trying the local treats. If anyone has any other local Canadian food favorites I should try let me know.

Off to bed now to get much needed rest before prep for the first speaking.

http://paranormalcanada.com/

Medusa painting

Serpents Coil and tumble in a cascade down her shoulders, as silver and gold glint off of pale flesh that has hardly seen the sun. Hidden away in her stone temple prison, a figure both used on shields for protection and feared for her deadly stare. No one is sure if she retained her beauty or became hideous when cursed for something that was possible not her doing.
Though closed off from the world and hunted by fighters bidding for her head to earn bragging rights, she drapes herself in fine cloth and the jewelry taken from the dead. Once she despised her curse, to never gaze upon a mortal without turning them to cold dead stone. Now driven by insanity and hatred for the outside world, she revels in each man who wonders through her gates with shield and sword in hand. A suitor to meet death at her could pale hands and bright eyes.

Here is my most recent work after “Playing Until the End”. As you can guess; this is a painting in almost portrait form of Medusa. She has always been a favorite of mine that I have drawn her several times before. The serpent hair is always the trickiest, since I have to make it mass of coiling snakes that seem individual and still resemble hair in a sense.

In many of the old images I have come across of her, I like the head piece of wings she wears, so I wanted to included those as well. Though I am not sure if they are attached to her, or just decoration.

While working on the painting, I had first started with a serpent like eye. I decided then to turn it from a serpent eye to a more human eye since no one can ever look into her eyes without being killed.

Playing Until the End

For the PRS Facebook Crypto contest in June, I decided to do an original image that the winner of the Crypto contest would receive the first autographed print. At first I was going to do some kind of Crypto as the painting, and even was thinking of doing a Japanese ghost, since I had been researching that for a while. In the end, I decided on an image that had been playing around in my head for a while.

Earlier this year I had done a painting of the Archangel Gabriel; which hangs in my office now, and from that came the thought of a sort of modern version of him on this earth. Gabriel soon became a 1920's New Orleans trumpet playing street performer. I put him in nice dress pants, button up shirt, and vest, with a fedora to top it off. From the looks of the painting, he traded his halo for the hat and the chance to play his trumpet all he wants. I will be making prints of this new painting, and then selling them on my blog and possible at the upcoming Field Trip in August at Salem, Mass.

The Winner of the June contest was Nicole Michaud who did a video of an "Investigation" of a Russian Crypto creature. You can check out the video on our facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/TheParanormalResearchSociety

Thank you also to those who entered into the June contest.