This piece of public art in Gimli, Manitoba features the Gimli Glider incident. This panel depicts the safe landing of a Boeing 767 that ran out of gas at 41,000 feet.

This is one of my favourite pieces of art in Gimli. Why do I love it so much? Is it the kid scratching his ass? His bodybuilder sister? Or their double-jointed grandma? Honestly, I think we’ll never know.

This is apparently how they party in Gimli, Manitoba.

Gimli, Manitoba is home to the largest concentration of people of Icelandic ancestry outside of Iceland. (From 1876-1887, Icelandic settlers established a short-lived republic, the Republic of New Iceland over a disputed territorial area.) Additionally, filmmaker Caelum Vatnsdal told me that a hundred families have come to the area in the last year in the wake of Iceland’s financial collapse.

Gimli’s breakwater on the shore of Lake Winnipeg features many panels of public art, some of which has fallen prey to the elements. Those that can’t be repainted are replaced by new paintings, like the one featuring the Gimli Glider below.

The Aqua Books/Eat! bistro staff Christmas Party:

First there was pizza making

and then present giving.

and then there was some karaoke singing.

and then there was dancing

and a bunch of flipping and summersaulting

(I’m tumbling on the tumblr!)

and more karaoke