Shots from the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts‘ display at the Royal Ontario Museum’s ‘Medieval Madness’ program for March break schoolchildren. Our booth put on displays of historical European fencing (after the 15th-century treatise of Fiori de Liberi) and allowed children to handle practive weapons and reproductions of arms and armor.

John Woods, co-founder of the Ottowa Medieval Sword Guild, demonstrates the use of sword-and-buckler (”swashbuckling”).

An AEMMA student poses with a fencing weapon in front of our colorful backdrop.
Shots from the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts’ display at the Royal Ontario Museum’s ‘Medieval Madness’ program for March break schoolchildren. Our booth put on displays of historical European fencing (after the 15th-century treatise of Fiori de Liberi) and allowed children [...]

I am volunteering all week for the Royal Ontario Museum’s ‘Medieval Madness’ program for elementary students on March break, and do not have time to produce anything new, so I thought I would bring back one of my quirkier projects, from the Summer of 2003, designed to keep me from going mad while taking the [...]

 
Inspired by David Hobby’s Strobist self-portrait, I decided to try a self-portrait lit from a flash bounced off a white card (read: a sheet of printer paper) on my laptop. I wanted it to be a scholarly portrait, so I found the right coat, put on a tie, waxed up my moustache, and ran back [...]