ginger coons learns outside of school

2004-2005: Art Gallery of Ontario Gallery School: ginger coons realizes that she'll need a portfolio if she wants to get into art school. For the first time, but not the last, someone tells her that she has great ideas but needs to work on her technique. Gallery School helps with that. ginger coons has her first brush with new media as art at Gallery School, falls in love with screen printing. Sculpts, draws, paints, develops a love of chicken wire.

Miscellaneous: ginger coons knows:

HTML, CSS, W3C Accessibility Guidelines, Flash, Action Script;

how to screen print, cut detailed things with exacto knives, draw with crayons, markers, pastels, pencils, grease pencils, solder, work with hand and power tools;

The GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Nvu, OpenOffice, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Dreamweaver, MS Office;

how to play nicely with Linux (Ubuntu, dynebolic, Suse, DSL, and some others), Windows in general, mostly XP and older, Mac OS (whatever the current version is), some Unix, basic command line;

how to program your electronic devices;

how to turn milk crates and old bits of junk from IKEA into functional and beautiful furniture;

how to dress herself, dye her own hair, tie her own shoelaces, and look good doing all of the above;

what you ate for breakfast.