If you've already read Patrick's bio, then you won't be surprised by this: The Nomadic Spirit doesn't do any one thing. A partial list of our projects and talents:

 

. Graphics (Politics, Spirit and, well, a mix of both: Hollywood)

I've always wanted to design t-shirts and CafePress provides the online means to do so. It started with t-shirts but I've discovered that buttons, stickers and, of all things, license plate frames(!!!), are very popular media for political agitation and spiritual inspiration.

° Critical Graphics

Politically progressive agitation and inspiration. Slogans, quotes and symbols on the themes of Peace, Politics, Philosophy, Spirituality, Love and plain old Attitude. A little anger. A lot of determination. Anti-Bush, get-the-hell-out-of-iraq, and facing the tough philosophical quandaries of our times.

° Peace & Love Shop

A kinder, gentler version of Critical Graphics featuring the more inspirational and affirmative designs plus a few more. Peace, Spirit and Love. Buddha, Peace Signs, Gandhi, Einstein, Daoism. Uplift in a time of upheaval.

° Filmmaker Tees

Hey, I make movies for a living. This was a natch. My favourite? Relax, it's only a movie! But It Is What It Is is the constant refrain on any set. Actually, that might be a good one for Critical Graphics too... Oh, sigh.

° Murphy was an Optimist

Murphy's law states "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." Seems pretty awful but, in fact, O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's law observes "Murphy was an optimist." So no matter how bad things are in Murphy's world just remember: it's actually worse. And we've got the Murphisms on Murphy was an Optimist to prove it.

° 2 Clever 4 Words

I love words. Words are cool. I like blending them, reassembling them after violent dissassembly. I like it when other people find ways to make important concepts clear using words. 2 Clever 4 Words is all about, well, words. Turns of phrase, quotations and common sense. Words and more words.

 

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. Suitable for Framing

The Suitable for Framing online gallery is in a state of transition as we realign our product offerings with partners CafePress & DeviantArt. Look for a completely new site design and concept in the coming months.

 

. The Nomadic Spirit

This is a sprawling website consisting of approximately 2,000 distinct pages covering themes of travel, photography, history, current events, philosophy, social activism, science and more. There are travel stories, web resources and message forums. The Travelogue's pages are divided into several categories, described below.

° The Nomadic Spirit Travelogue

The Nomadic Spirit is a big comfy armchair of a travelogue, overstuffed with over hundreds of photographs appearing in over 200 electronic journal entries. These travelogues document Patrick's epic journeys through Australia, SE Asia, China, Europe and North America.

° The ejournal-list

The Nomadic Spirit began as an electronic mailing list, the ejournal-list, kept during Patrick's journeys through Australia and SE Asia. More than simply a travelogue, Patrick includes essays, prose-poetry and found texts in his unusual approach to travel writing. Subscribe now so you won't miss his next journey.

° Photography Gallery

An extensively indexed set of thumbnail galleries provides a gateway to nearly 1,400 award-winning travel photographs taken on journeys to four contenents: Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.

° Traveller's Aid

A set of resources built on packing lists and traveller's tips initially posted to the ejournal-list. Backpackers, cyle tourers and armchair adventurers should all find useful tips and advice here.

° Critical History, Texts, Thinkers & Cultures

Developed as integral resources for the Nomadic Spirit travelogue, these reference pages daily attract hundreds of people seeking the annotated links and bibliographies they provide. Some popular examples include Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, the Indian Removal Act of Andrew Jackson, and Critical Texts for Critical Times.

° Critical Events Calendar

A web calendar providing event schedules for many of the people and topics featured in the Critical Resources pages. Anyone can post additional events to this elegantly configurable and functional calendar.

° Nomadic Spirit Message Forums

Online forums are a new addition to the Nomadic Spirit site. The Nomadic Spirit forums provide discussion groups under a variety of topics within the Nomadic Spirit categories defined above.

. Blogs

I've taken the ejournal format about as far as it can go with its present tools. For years I coded the whole thing with a text editor and, for the image gallery an access database program I'd written. A bit over a year ago, I upgraded to Dreamweaver, an excellent WYSIWYG web development tool. But there's some exciting, relatively new stuff going on that provides rich interactivity and astounding content management resources. I'm talking about blogging.

° NoMad MaN

Devoted to the written word, mostly my own, mostly extracted from the obscurity of my sent mail log.

° My Messy Workbench

If you've ever seen my workspaces, you know how accurate a description this blog is. It's a workspace chronicalling the technical development of these blogs, though it will range into other subjects.

° GHS 79 Reunion 25

Fellow alumni of Gilford High's Class of '79 might want to check this blog out. It has news of our upcoming 25th ruenion.

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. Movement: Seeking Perfect Lines

Traversing a globe mapped long ago I seek, in places strange and familiar, the unmappable sources of insight and wonder, the perfect lines drawing us all together, and the broken ones dividing us. I learned the most compelling discoveries come when we look outward and inward with equal curiosity. This dawning age of exploration yearns to connect rather than conquer, to understand rather than judge. It underlies my choice at every fork in the road, informs the telling of every tale and frames every photograph.

That is an excerpt from the introduction of Patrick's book, Movement:Seeking Perfect Lines, now available in a special review edition. Movement is a distillation of the Nomadic Spirit's best written material, the funniest stories, the most poignant and provocative essays, the finest examples of its lyrical, evocative prose. To receive a free, copy of Movement's first edition printing, signed by the Author, Purchase the review edition, review it, then send your preview copy to eJournal Press.

Learn more about the preview edition.

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. Prisoners (Theatre)

Imagine: You are an artificial being, imprisoned for being a little bit too human in ways human beings would rather forget. On your journey into the light, you learn to love the darkness.

There is a love story, an epiphany and a car chase.

So reads the promotional blurb for Prisoners, a play Patrick wrote and produced. It premiered at the 2000 Vancouver International Fringe Festival to popular and critical success. Vancouver's Georgia Straight wrote "It is a long and wordy journey...and I enjoyed the mental workout.... Prisoners is awash with big questions, about ethics, accountability, and existence."

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. Film Arts

Patrick and his crew bring their keen sense of design to film, television and theatrical production in several key positions including script-writing and editing, art direction, set decoration, on-set dressing, and props.