Edmonton's current heat wave triggered a painful memory today. Back in junior high, we sometimes played team sports in gym class. I didn...

 I do believe my hair hasn't been this long since, perhaps, junior high school. Sylvia seems to like this new unplanned hairstyle, but o...

I made this leather bookmark in grade seven during Industrial Arts class. That year, I believe Industrial Arts had three modules: power mech...

This is one of the ash trays I made while stumbling through the ceramics unit of junior high industrial arts. I don't know why I mad...

This was my attempt to photograph a moving image, keeping it in focus while blurring the background by holding the shutter open and track...

Sometime in 1983 or 1984, I shot this black and white photo of a classmate popping a wheelie on a Leduc street. I wonder who it was. 

Here's a shot of my mouth, taken by a classmate for our Grade Eight Industrial Arts class at Leduc Junior High School. 

Way back in Grade 7, I made this stuff: a key, anvil, and an anchor, molded in molten metal; a cannon, turned on a lathe; a box, bottle ...

I watched Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused tonight. It's a good movie, but I found myself grinding my teeth in anger for much...

I ran across this video on Boing Boing tonight. Boing Boing contributor Ethan Gilsdorf used a Super 8 movie camera to shoot a couple of m...

I don't know if I shot this or if it was another Leduc Junior High School yearbook club member, but I'm grateful to have the shot...

I believe this was the Grade 9 Debate Club at Leduc Junior High School. In the front row we have Nevin Pottinger, Jason Hewitt, Mark Le...

Here I am sometime during Grade 8, working on a project for the photography module of our Industrial Arts class. I suspect the photo was ...

One day in high school - or perhaps it was junior high - during one of those rare moments when the teacher was out and we were free to talk...

I shot this on the west side of the Leduc Junior High School sometime during my Grade 8 Industrial Arts class, which included a unit on p...

Here's the last of the posters I photographed at Mom and Dad's before giving them the reluctant go-ahead to start recycling. I wo...

Things don't always improve with time; young Earl, primitive as his skills may have been, was a more talented freehand artist than ol...

I shot this photograph in Grade 8 as part of the Industrial Arts curriculum. It was supposed to show we grasped the concept of depth of f...

Today Mom phoned to tell me that she saw me on television this morning, during Global Edmonton's live broadcast of the Klondike Days Pa...

While it's true that Mr. Pottinger destroyed my bowl on the lathe , I still think he was a pretty good teacher. Despite my struggles wit...