Tid-bits

I saw "The Last Air Bender" at Iqaluit's movie theatre tonight. The theatre was like any other yousee in a small town, nice and small! The opening scene was of the "water tribe". A group of people affiliated with element water. The charaters were dressed in Inuit Garb and their village was similar to an Inuit village. The main actors weren't Inuit butit seemed as if the extras but you only caught glimpses of them. I don't recommend the movie, it is full of paganism run amok and I am sure the easter spirituality within it could have been better presented.
Before the movie I cooked dinner, nothing fancy, stir fry, at my new house sitting gig. I am housesitting for apublic servant and her husband while they are down south. They gave me a detailed tour of their food supplies, large, and said I was welcome to everything. This includes: Bacon, Trout, Ox, Porc, Beef, Arctic Char, Cariboo heart, and so forth. The green beans were moldy but there was also a good quantity of fresh food. My stir fry as composed of mushrooms carrots, and onion; and the sauce was made up of soy sauce, vinager, sugar, and garlic.
Yesterday, I bought my first Inuit sculpture. Several weeks ago, when I was volunteering at the a canteen, a boy asked me to keep my eyes open for his bicycle which e believed was taken. I did spot his blue mountain bike. This boy I learned carved scultures and I would bump into him around town as I wa job hunting, he was often at the same places sellinghis scultures. I told him I would be a sculture when i got a job. I kept my bargain and bought a little Inukshuk with an accompanying stand. For ten dollars its alright considering I know the kid. He is in fact working for North mart temporarily, as he and a bunch others have been trasnferring stuff from newly arrived cargo. Every couple of weeks a ship arrives with cargo for the stores and others who have ordered goods, such as food and cars. One of the characteristics of Iqaluit, thought, is the Hawkers; sculptors will hawk the carvings in stores, at restaurants, and on the streets. Indeed, if you eat at he Frobisher Inn on a Friday night, I am told, along with your meal will come 15 hawkers. If you have the money it can be quite fun to bargain a polar down from $500 to $150. Its hard to identify whats good and what isn't and it is tempting to buy straight from the artist because it is much cheaper than going to the local art dealers. For instance the other day during my lunch break I went to the library to write an entry for this blog. Well lo and behold there was a a guest artist, a print maker at the entrance doing his thing. I bought two prints from him even though I wasn't sure as to the quality. With that said I have seen his prints elsewhere and he was invited to be there by the director of the visitors centre. The prints are of hunter catching a seal and they are in sequence so that the first shows the hunter hoding a harpoong, and the second the shows an impaled seal with harpoons rope twisting aound the seal.