https://www.glenoomen.ca/news daily 0.75 2024-10-01 https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2022/1/17/gosh-i-love-a-good-winter monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2020/10/8/neobladders-who-knew monthly 0.5 2020-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1602424150422-ZP7C50M1QEZ46K4USQKT/Ileal%2BCondiut%2BImage%2B7%2B-%2Bcompletion%2Bpressure%2Btest%2BRCSI%2Bmarked.jpg Blog - Neobladders, who knew? The completed neobladder is pressure tested before being sutured to stoma opening to create the urostomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1602423380003-VF3KQ1RGAS8CDQXE3VSS/Ileal%2BCondiut%2BImage%2B2%2B-%2BJankauer%2Binto%2Bbowel%2BRCSI%2Bmarked.jpg Blog - Neobladders, who knew? A Yankauer suction tube is pushed through a perforation in the bowel to use as a guide for a catheter and guidewire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1602423429457-BO4INLK1JTG60AOVGF9Z/Ileal+Condiut+Image+3+-+catheter+into+ureter+RCSI+marked.jpg Blog - Neobladders, who knew? The spatulated ureter is slid over the guidewire and catheter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1602423493079-FUA6EWHNNL8DJQZPEOKX/Ileal+Condiut+Image+4+-+suture+through+ureter+RCSI+marked.jpg Blog - Neobladders, who knew? A suture is used to draw the spatulated ureter over the catheter and into the bowel, where it is secured https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1602423216398-OHH4VLUW3EJHJ1N1IPDP/Ileal+Condiut+Image+1+-+bowel+and+ureter+RCSI+marked.jpg Blog - Neobladders, who knew? Neobladders: start with one little bit of distal small bowel and two ureters, spatulated and freed from their retroperitoneal hiding place. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2020/5/28/the-last-place-where-you-will-live-part-1 monthly 0.5 2021-11-25 https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2019/5/15/why-design-matters monthly 0.5 2020-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1557952009788-TTBD9UJMOQWRR0BNLW7X/Canadian+Business+-+Design.jpg Blog - Why Design Matters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1557949418125-LLQ8QO2XOSTVW195JRGI/DOET.jpg Blog - Why Design Matters Donald Norman’s famous book on designing usability. The Masochists Teapot has always graced its cover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1557947221495-P6EZ18AMOOWAO654SR8P/why+design+matters+-+canadian+business+2016_Page_1.jpg Blog - Why Design Matters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1557947323936-ER7P2KKOS0DCEOF98D3L/why+design+matters+-+canadian+business+2016_Page_2.jpg Blog - Why Design Matters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1557950711131-M84SLFJ66TMA310E97D7/Rotman+on+Design.jpg Blog - Why Design Matters I still haven’t gotten through this anthology of design articles collected by Rotman magazine. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2019/4/15/theres-a-first-time-for-everything monthly 0.5 2019-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1555350195449-PDU64HLNH1NV7XL5BU2A/Model-WIP2.jpg Blog - There's a first time for everything The first bit of CAD modelling based on the actual DGA and the base dimensions of 18”x24”, which needed to break down to fit in a suit case (or something). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1555350488372-C5WFUMCZ1C7T14Q34P03/Model-WIP3.jpg Blog - There's a first time for everything Some of the bits and bobs in CAD. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1555352825755-VR4QXKQPHHG9PIF4HC4N/20190414_212941.jpg Blog - There's a first time for everything The finished model! You can’t even tell that I nearly ruined it all getting it over the finish line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1555351534788-QOA76R4PSVTLPGVK4ZGY/Canadian+Tire+UV+lamp+for+%2414 Blog - There's a first time for everything Here is my little hero which I think it actually curing my 3D prints, but that feeling might be the placebo effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1555351947417-MS2LVG3VJIC20PMBBSYT/20190412_155124.jpg Blog - There's a first time for everything A more or less finished transformer and a wind turbine, plus the raw, fresh from the tank 3D prints. Progress is good! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1555350087711-8TBOOJC1F9AVRPU7CQYD/gas+anaylzer+display+sketch+V1.jpg Blog - There's a first time for everything The first sketch! Approved https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1555351649272-ARMA2MDFQ4E67WTA8HKN/3D+prints+oh+my. Blog - There's a first time for everything A wack of prints. While I printed the details I started gluing the panels of the transformer together. Gluing and filling and sanding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1555352085126-YKVQ2R2T7E7YIG5T58N9/20190412_155146.jpg Blog - There's a first time for everything Painting the MDF base panels. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2018/12/4/for-the-love-of-sternums monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1543958533670-4UGVB1FL5CWXXF4RZVYT/Parasternal+wire+weave+for+sternotomy Blog - For the love of sternums Parasternal wire weave for binding sternum post sternotomy. Copyright 2018 Oomen/Gandhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1543958210166-3J4NFNIYZUUJJ7NA0CAK/General+sternum+anatomy Blog - For the love of sternums General sternum anatomy. Copyright 2018 Oomen/Gandhi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1544107127135-XD9FAANJF15GF739POMI/Non-locking+vs+locking+screw+%2F+plate+tear-out+patterns Blog - For the love of sternums Non-locking vs Locking screw/plate tear out patterns. Copyright 2018 Oomen/Gandhi https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2018/7/24/full-circle-that-time-we-started-an-ultimate-league monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532459963444-2S8SOS32IUWQ1NINBLLG/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league Third GUPA logo. Accepted, embraced and now being worn on traded jerseys all over the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532461442430-OFAQGSM8L5XEIFRKRS90/IMG_0781.JPG Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league A happy German. Julia with a new Canadian jersey. GUPA and WODS go to Marburg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532460878418-GJUF1U3M9ESQJ2SP5CZA/IMG_0459.JPG Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league A Crash of Rhinos gets ready to play on the showcase field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532461240599-CPBB9FRZAGU1BUJ2UON0/IMG_0780.JPG Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league Julia from Marburg's "Hässlicher Erdferkel" and Serena after trading light jerseys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532459990458-772I65GIYDBZL47ACA0M/logochick.jpg Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532461146464-NV2YW41V7FGBM9XG55CN/IMG_0557.JPG Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league Group photo right after falling 15-12 to eventual World Champions BFG from Seattle, WA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532460026885-98DBV2YG1KH7IPG6IFZK/logodude.jpg Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league Me and my crap backhand grip immortalized on the GUPA logo. Later on, when I left Guelph to play Open in Toronto, I learned to properly huck backhand - totally different grip. And that visor... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532460285284-LK1HKHSTK2TVO3X7PDEF/gupalayout.jpg Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league Second GUPA logo. Rejected for being sexist. So glad we didn't use this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532460171836-VHAACRZYQ95UJ2BTBJWQ/ganesh+logo.jpg Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league First GUPA logo. Rejected for being blasphemous. So glad we didn't use this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1532461821024-6N1NI3RO095TWMXKOUUM/IMG_0607.JPG Blog - Full circle: that time we started an ultimate league https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2018/7/12/book-report-the-end-of-average monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1531452009961-3D960TCI5K6V2N6M97GC/The+End+of+Average Blog - Desert Island Books: "The End of Average" by Todd Rose. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2018/6/28/the-ugliest-thing monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1530308063933-8B5461BYXW9YIYR2H8ZD/upload.jpg Blog - The Ugliest Thing The RBG builds these sandy nesting pads around the local marshy inlet. Volunteers patrol the pads and, when they see evidence of laying, they stake chicken wire over top to keep out raccoons and foxes. This gives the turtles a fighting chance and the minis can hatch and make their way back to the lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1530308017394-H65U4Q12GBRG3QWL9RS7/upload.jpg Blog - The Ugliest Thing Cuteness overload. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1530227332334-APJQ7YVHDN12R58MK2GV/upload.jpg Blog - The Ugliest Thing A creation worthy of grade 9 shop class. Oh wait, kids don't have shop class anymore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1530307503088-OLU6LO1P9HE7WOHOBIU8/Ugly+compost+aerator Blog - The Ugliest Thing Someone in my class said I should paint it. Then they quietly retracted their suggested as it is common knowledge that painting rebar just makes an ugly thing uglier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1530292472394-GKZKGOUFBG6Q38P4NXL0/upload.jpg Blog - The Ugliest Thing Our allotment plot, looking a little bit sparse these days. But look at those row covers, and that compost aerator in the background! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1530293695475-50KHLXMR6OTRZXMZDSWA/upload.jpg Blog - The Ugliest Thing Here it is in it's natural element. Nope, no paint. We'll just let it rust. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2018/6/4/all-the-things-you-can-do-with-stick monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1528150111459-AYAXIWDNN43UFAUQK25P/Stick+Design+Group+Logo+small+white.gif Blog - Stick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1528146902355-CBX95Z50W6UZHMSEIG6Q/SGLT2+inhibitors+image+2+-+interstitial+eodema Blog - Stick. Ah, the old block-of-human-tissue trick for illustrating pathology. In this case I was showing the oedema in generic tissue caused by diabetic heart failure, and the resulting changes resulting from administrating tube diuretics or SGLT2 inhibitors. Rock on blood pressure. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2018/3/2/static-discharge monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520021406464-92CX74NQU6VJP027841F/Static+Discharger+V2.0+top+view.JPG Blog - Static Discharge The fatter, longer version 2.0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520020495225-E4JEQ8GXATK7PAPBRIAV/concepts+1-2.jpg Blog - Static Discharge "Store the knowledge in the world", says human factors grand-pappy Donald Norman. In other words, you shouldn't need to read the instruction manual while you're 50m up crawling through the housing of a wind turbine to know intuitively which way to install the thing. That is a design nugget. Nice and grippy too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520019902622-MZ8ULBAWPY05GC7SSO0X/20180202_122845.jpg Blog - Static Discharge The guts of the discharge tail without over-molding. One end contacts the blade while it rotates and adjusts pitch, the tail end contacts the nacelle and turbine housing while the whole turbine turns. According to Amin, that tail will travel some 50,000km a year and will slowly wear. Things you never think of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520020896024-ISC08Z7XVVNG6BB8B636/Static+Discharger+V1.0+bottom+view.JPG Blog - Static Discharge And the bottom view. Look at that: "Made in Canada". Not just Made in Canada, but made in a former factory - now occupied by an amazing array of people just doing their thing - in formerly very industrial east Hamilton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520020809700-0Y86N9D4VD7J0VX1XO2J/Static+Discharger+V1.0+top+view.JPG Blog - Static Discharge This was my first version. We decided a bit later that it was maybe a bit too trim and slim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520020429440-VU1QW58C8KE8S3DJLSU7/concepts+1.jpg Blog - Static Discharge Personally, I kind of liked the blocky square and faceted ones. Not my baby though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520022858790-Q9W523P00QAU231QYORN/printing-yay.JPG Blog - Static Discharge Sccreen grab of Preform, the set up software for my Formlabs Form2. Love that it automatically generates the intricate support scafolding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520021675334-8FODFGVW1ECIH3ZT3SDR/beauty+incarnate.jpg Blog - Static Discharge A thing of beauty! Joe sent me this pic of the final device mounted on it's HDPE insulating rod. The whole thing is mounted on the the hub of the turbine and rotates with the blades. The tail at left constantly contacts a grounding surface on the nacelle as the hub rotates; the right side contacts the base of the blade and allows it to turn relative to the hub as the blade changes pitch with different wind speeds. (Do I need to draw a diagram?) Way better than hose clamps and electrical tape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520044197642-PTUDK31HJ28R068IES3I/upload.jpg Blog - Static Discharge The device, including their first rough attempt, and the new 3D printed over-molding patterns on my work bench. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2018/2/20/the-process-part-2 monthly 0.5 2018-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519168257467-UPS6PKYHOPWRPNVVV5M3/blocks+process1.JPG Blog - The Process (part 2) This is the working document for this image so far. As I mentioned above, the coloured pencil allows me to tell which layer I'm working on. This will get sorted out when I start to render the image in final. Also, the edema layer has an extra layer on top of that show water droplets. We thought it would be good show the tissue 'sweating' moisture to show how much fluid accumulates in it. If it doesn't work, it's not actually part of the drawing so it doesn't need to be incorporated. This also really just a cartoon as it doesn't represent any real anatomical part bu the concept of tissues and compartments holding fluid and swelling up with it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519168559539-L07T6BVWGI8T4IJXOTOK/hearts+working2.jpg Blog - The Process (part 2) Since those initial sketches were fine, I can do final pencil sketches over top of them and refine it a bit more, add more details etc. You can see the original sketches in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519167901979-9FBG3IW4MGKTVH8JEDN7/image+2+edema+sketch+V2.0.jpg Blog - The Process (part 2) This is actually three digital sketches composited into something approximating what we think the end layout will be. These images, if approved will form the basis for the final illustrations. They're different colours so I can tell which layer I'm working on photoshop as they're all currently in the same document. It's important that there be a noticeable difference between them. Tough to do when you're showing the difference in effect between standard loop diuretics and newer NHE inhibitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519169470938-8STAJHFWZEF3DXL2I5W0/Rhino+take-off.jpeg Blog - The Process (part 2) This is the 16th century equivalent to an internet meme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519165794002-CV0XPXST1RRWQM9ORUKC/https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP816484.jpg Blog - The Process (part 2) Albrecht Drer's 1515 woodcut of an Indian Rhinoceros. This image served as the archetype for how rhinos were thought to look. It was copied extensively and, with each duplication, the new artist added or omitted key details. Scientific illustration works the same way. If each new illustration didn't go to or rely on the source material or information, it would simply be based on the images that came before it and slowly, slowly corrupted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519167494435-4XS67N0EITGEE8BKMYAV/image1+hearts+comparison+sketch.jpg Blog - The Process (part 2) Quick digital sketch of the two hearts in the first image of the series; one with HFpEF, the other normal-ish. I sent this off to make sure my increased ventricular wall thickness wasn't too much or too little. 'Correct', comes the detailed response. I like the awkward angle of this image, but I don't like how I have shown the pulmonary vessels. This isn't supposed to be post-mortem so I'd like to avoid the cut-off vessel look. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2018/2/19/the-process-part-1 monthly 0.5 2018-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519071302186-PPJ1TF9YSQ11EMFZEPPZ/20180209_163854.jpg Blog - The Process (part 1) The second sketch of the second image shows the effects of NHE inhibitors on tissue fluid volume and blood volume when compared with standard loop diuretics. The image at furthest left shows the tissue during heart failure. The problem: how to do you show systemic edema. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519071813200-M8DIX3IO4DYRT5CKI1B1/20180202_162415.jpg Blog - The Process (part 1) And lastly, this is a reference image of the mechanism of action of NHE inhibitors ("EMPA" in this image). It somehow shows the mitochondria inside a cardiomyocyte and its sarcoplasmic reticulum. Can you figure it out? I can't. Because researchers make indecipherable images like this, I have a job. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1519070920715-AEWZEH11D0SKZTLK4YH3/20180209_181135.jpg Blog - The Process (part 1) This was the first sketch of the first image contrasting the diabetic heart and glomerulus. "Disaster heart and glomerulus" at the top, and the heart and glomerulus with NHE inhibitors at work, all the disasterous effects of diabetes slightly ameliorated. The squiggly line notes are just illustration notes of what I'm trying to show and am usually not able to geven the crudeness of the initial sketch. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2017/11/23/pirates-space-ships-and-mri-machines monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2017/11/2/sparklies monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1509663377402-R05YHZV76TS15UXVIQCL/Little+Panache+Lake+Thanksgiving.jpg Blog - Sparklies "Too many little sparklies on the right", said someone. But acceptable. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2017/10/12/give-away-10 monthly 0.5 2017-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1507842232929-UA91SDJE3UP9BTP0KEVC/upload.jpg Blog - The People's Laptop Stand Nobody sees the masking tape anyway! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1507842245642-QH4F6HF5SY7W48BHYFQC/upload.jpg Blog - The People's Laptop Stand Folded up, it protects my screen from scratches when I bundle it into its pouch with the keyboard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1507842082657-HKSICFUBXGEFW1RHF86F/upload.jpg Blog - The People's Laptop Stand In all it's glory! Foam-core was never more functional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1507841953490-5VYZHK04X3HX7Q47QPIP/new+computer+3.jpg Blog - The People's Laptop Stand The original post showed this image of it. The stand is obscured, like a sasquatch, behind the blinding splendor of my new computer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1507842140141-2BYQA1F763PVMUDT23HJ/upload.jpg Blog - The People's Laptop Stand Rarely photographed backside of my democratic tablet stand. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2017/10/2/side-gigging monthly 0.5 2017-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1506961028649-OL1FY5TZT57YH6O0JLCL/upload.jpg Blog - Side Projecting Burnished and polished up like a new penny. Not bad at all. Joe Gardin rides again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1506960959329-J58DSM55P4VGJGTGX02M/upload.jpg Blog - Side Projecting The mold, the copper badge, a fresh aluminium badge, and an original. At first I was a little disappointed because I couldn't get the reproductions to be as bright as the electroplated copper, but I think I'm OK with it. 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Good for the lap! It comes with a nice little shammy because touch screens get plenty greasy (or maybe I should not eat chips and then use the computer), and it comes with a lovely, though somewhat over-designed pen case. Keep your eyes off the ratty state of my mouse cable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1486577718155-LRY96JOL5SIL30M81X3U/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Retiring I made a quick and CHEAP folding stand out of light weight foam core. It works! Only now my capacity to plan projects with post-it notes is diminished a bit, what with less foam core on hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1486577317952-69LO6CDHSSOQWKIE6WRP/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Retiring This is like those pictures of Old Man of Last Year watching Baby New Year waddle in. My stalwart, dependable, but slightly geriatric and overweight Alienware M15 on the right. It's slick little replacement, the 16 inch Wacom MobileStudio Pro, fresh from its box on the left. I was terrified by the new tablet technology. https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2016/9/1/glossy-start-ups monthly 0.5 2018-01-18 https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2016/7/28/one-outfit-to-wear monthly 0.5 2017-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1469724439409-NG94MA5TK23JDBJDIFPO/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One outfit to wear Blast from the past (courtesy of the Wayback archive), back when BMC was a Division of Surgery. Marc's sciency looking wireframe sperm header replaced a pinky surgical image. And more males applied. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1469725371353-12UH1XQ3RHGBIW4VU146/image-asset.jpeg Blog - One outfit to wear CBC Radio 3's old Flash based website circa 2003 was the inspiration for my first site. This is actually beautiful. It had nav bar that pulled out from the side, a music player up at the top and magazine style topics, all over top of a beautiful big glamour shot. This was way ahead of it's time. Does anyone else miss Flash? Is anyone else sick of the limits placed on them by modern Content Management Systems? https://www.glenoomen.ca/news/2016/7/19/afg2dvmosy9ntv89z8p2sxwym7sj2r monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1468954472297-D3F3ZNBF40R5N1TWSWD6/image-asset.jpeg Blog - 40 Foot Pool Sandycove's legendary swimming hole at 40 Foot Pool on a beautiful sunny July afternoon. Sketched in watercolour after a quick dip. 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In this image, there is pineal tumor on the supero-posterior wall of the 3rd ventricle, but the approach also enables access to mammillary bodies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1543870988150-W35GYLUSZ8QSN17U3Y21/optic-nerve-sonography-V2.4.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Optic Nerve Sonography Illustration demonstrating the visualization of the optic nerve sheath as a means of assessing intracranial pressure. In this procedure a slight dilation of the optic nerve sheath, an extension of the dura mater, is visualized and used as a fast, non-invasive means of assessing how much sub-dural or intracranial pressure is present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1607374418870-24EKUZINK3TQEJD2LAPA/image-asset.jpeg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Microneedle Arrays: Sensing and Delivery Illustration describing how arrays of microneedles can be used for bio-sensing and drug delivery. The needles themselves can be vary in shape to serve as anchors within the skin, preventing removal, or be configured to slowly dissolve, releasing a drug as they do or physically releasing from the tissue after a prescribed period of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470595557258-URQJO6RJ0LXHBC17YIU7/tube_6_final_tube_insertion_2.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Tube Retractors in Neurosurgery This is one image from a larger series describing a technique for using tube retractors and guidance systems to access deep brain lesions. This image shows one of the final steps in the sequence, placing a larger diameter tube. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603138707957-1AY6F1AK4QVBPGRMLKAN/Superior+Hypophyseal+Artery+-+labelled+-+V2.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Superior Hypophyseal Artery Complex Neurosurgical journal illustration showing endoscopic view of the Superior Hypophyseal Artery (SHA) complex in relation to other critical features and landmarks during transphenoidal access. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470579806218-AJ1IUVY078SH7XSSI2IX/ankle3.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Ankle Sprain Illustration showing a classic ankle sprain and related ligaments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603137854254-IDRP8RT2Z59FFAUL5393/Part1+Fig6+sternum+vasculature+copy.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - General Sternum Anatomy Orthopedic journal illustration describing the general anatomy of the sternum and vascular considerations around midline sternotomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603137156014-CVCFAQG1VMD4A4F9NE6Q/Part3+Fig4+Linea+Alba+Closure+Technique+copy.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Midline fascia repair post sternotomy Illustration showing suturing of linea alba tendonous abdominal fascia, post midline sternotomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603137154667-PJK0XM2078M2PRSJKSES/Part3+Fig2+Two-piece+clamps+-+Copy+copy.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Sternal fixation: clamps Existing clamp devices for fixing sterni post midline sternotomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603138080256-6RRTPAW6161XSVG5LUBX/Ileal+Condiut+Image+7+-+completion+pressure+test.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Pressure testing neobladder Final image in sequence for urology journal article describing a technique for creating a neobladder from distal jejunum, showing the pressure testing of the final, constructed bladder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470585502235-E6HTEF3YEGXB15082TVQ/JBC_Cover_working.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Pulmonary Fibrosis Journal of Biological Chemistry cover showing pulmonary fibrosis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470588308254-32B1JVVTDP1835POB4ZJ/just+embryo.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - 46 Day Embryo Illustration showing a 46 day old human embryo and associated structures . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470585592392-NRAHSY7W95WDUK9791VM/doxorubicin+heart3.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Doxirubicin Cardiotoxicity Journal of Biological Chemistry cover for study describing a gene deficiency that predisposed cancer patients to irreparable cardiac cell death when treated with doxirubicin. The authors, cardiac surgeons, advocated for genetic testing prior to chemotherapy to ensure the safe use of of the chemotherapuetic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470580794381-BAFHAGNC18VP0ELHA3WE/FigB.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Cerebroprotective technique This illustration is one of a series describing a technique for cerebral protection while repairing ascending aortic aneurysm with dacron graft. The series specifically shows the placement of extracorporeal line placement to maximize blood flow to the head and brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470582876980-UVB8F2HRJJBG5OF4LQ6C/Mitral+Valve+full+composition.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Mitral valve prolapse repair This series of illustrations compares two different techniques for addressing mitral valve prolapse. In the top series, the prolapsing leaflet is resected. In the lower series artificial chordae are sutured in place, leaving a larger diameter final valve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470595411993-DC5K5YVCMHCV8RG6PH3T/BAV_NEJM.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Bicuspid Aortic Valve Illustration series done for New England Journal of Medicine article. This series relates different morphologies of Bicuspid Aortic Valve to the shear forces inflicted upon the aortic wall by their corresponding ejection fractions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603137554868-4YLR3XL0KIN0L9Y3BV3K/Illustration+comps+v2+-02.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Ross Procedure: three variations Surgical journal illustration showing three variations in aortic root replacement and repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470586109376-MFPB1SR82KO6VNKA4WET/image4-color.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Piggyback OPCABG One illustration from a large series describing different techniques for grafting small diameter vessels for coronary artery bypass. This image shows a piggyback graft and a Heartstring device being used. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470585367152-JGK1YFMASSL14L2XBYLE/PCNF_working+V1.7.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Posterior Cutaneous Nerve Illustration showing the course of the posterior cutaneous nerve of the forearm and how it relates to lateral epicondylitis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1607372611799-9ZMRXLC82E14HXDWWWH7/image-asset.jpeg Medical & Scientific Illustration - SGLT2 Inhibitor Myocardial effects Sodium Glucose cotransporters are responsible for the resorption of sodium and glucose in the kidneys. SGLT2 Inhibitors thus decrease the resorption of both solutes, decreasing both blood glucose and sodium as they two are excreted. This allows the myocardium to recover both structurally and metabolically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1607373078120-5X5SS0NT52EFWAJ3H8GD/SGLT2+inhibitors+glomeruli+V3.0.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - SGLT2 Inhibitors - renal effects Sodium Glucose cotransporters are responsible for the resorption of sodium and glucose in the kidneys. SGLT2 Inhibitors thus decrease the resorption of both solutes, decreasing both blood glucose and sodium as they two are excreted. This also changes the hemodynamics and vascular effects within the glomerulus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470585725417-LXBNS1BW4050RP5IV71X/ASIS_BW.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Biceps Tendon This image shows a pulley rupture of the ligaments supporting the biceps tendon as it ascends out of the bicepital groove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471982768219-L581SRGCECQZ1EMR3KFB/LDLillustration.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - LDL vs HDL Illustration comparing low density lipoproteins vs high density lipoproteins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470590813839-6SVLITXICDP1YQ3MZG6F/intraoral1.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Intraoral Anatomy Illustration showing normal intraoral anatomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470604982210-J73VJPD7VIHPIGJIMOM0/cover_final.jpg Medical & Scientific Illustration - Excalibur Book Cover This book cover was done for 96 year old retired general surgeon and inaugural chair of surgery at McMaster University C. Barber Mueller. Writing the book was one of the last things he really wanted to do, it was kind of his opus. I illustrated the whole book. It's kind of a history of the big ideas in science and how they're all linked. I spent most thursday afternoons with 'Barb' as I worked on the illustration roughs and he would tell me stories about the first kidney transplants, the first dialysis machines, being present when the Berlin wall fell, what it was like to see a CT or MRI for the first time, or when he was awarded the Bronze Star when he was a Marine Corpsman. He was one very fascinating and friendly man. It was such a fun and lovely project to work on. I didn't charge a cent for it. https://www.glenoomen.ca/painting daily 0.75 2016-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470602969774-PY5R9DW2EDHGUQ79XR83/overpass.jpg Painting & Sketches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470595839333-0TKQSZA8317PNBLZ3Y0J/40_foot_pool.jpg Painting & Sketches - The 40foot Pool Sandycove / Dalkey has this fantastic swimming spot called the "40 foot" (for the 40th Foot Regiment that manned the adjacent Martello Tower). It's a fantastic place to spend a nice summer afternoon and, if you're a fan of James Joyce, it's quite a literary spot too. Watercolour, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470603739343-VUTIQD8IJJBPRV9SYCSV/40foot2.jpg Painting & Sketches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470596972028-NUUFEQXB6LZTDUDSU2JQ/overpass1.jpg Painting & Sketches - Overpass, Guelph I spent a number of years living in Guelph, Ontario, first as a student and then again after graduate school. My Saturday morning ritual was a visit to Guelph's excellent farmers market. I was alway liked the rust and faded paint of the CN overpass against a bright blue sky. Oil on Canvas, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470597042378-QDJM435KDYTLRUVPJ8GN/tidal.jpg Painting & Sketches - Tidal (unfinished) At 48'x28' this is actually a large painting (for me). It's been on hold for more than two years as I live and work in Dublin. The painting itself is of the edge of my parents property in Blomidon, NS. I always like the way the water turned muddy as the high tide began to recede. The lovely green spring grass made for a great colour combination. Oil on Canvas, 2013 (unfinished). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470597143106-7LXLDNLFW8SH2FXS1NMT/Vancouver_EnglishBay.jpg Painting & Sketches - Saturday Morning, English Bay I carry a little watercolour kit with me while I'm travelling. I always seem to have more downtime when I'm travelling for business or whatever than I normally do, so painting is a great way to sit and take a place in. I managed to sneak away on a quiet Saturday morning from UBC, head down to the beach and paint this great view north, with the freighters at anchor, across English Bay in Vancouver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470598952582-8FAGQE94G7VLIJ7IXHNW/Cascade+Glacier.jpg Painting & Sketches - Cascade Glacier, Alaska A couple of years ago I had the fantastic privilege of being US Forest Service Artist in Residence. My placement was in Alaska, in the Chugach National Forest on Prince William Sound. We did a week long kayak patrol of Herriman Fjord cleaning up camp sites, doing Leave No Trace outreach, and monitoring the area for noise and man-made intrusions. It was stunning. So stunning, in fact, that it was almost impossible to paint. I tried. Oh, I tried. But without distilling it down to little bits, it's just so hard to capture it all. This paint sketch, looking north to Cascade Glacier, was my first attempt. The shadows, the glaciers, the light, the sheer scale of the landscape was all a bit much for a tiny sketchbook. Casein, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470598951983-Y4PQSZ9U881JF2TUXQ8L/Herriman+Glacier.jpg Painting & Sketches - Herriman Glacier, Alaska At the western end of Herriman Fjord in Alaska's Chugach National Forest is the incredible face or Herriman Glacier. Part marine and part on land it gives you this sense of a few things. Firstly, it doesn't just give you a sense of how unbelievable small you are, it tells you in no uncertain terms: you are a tiny speck in this place. Second it gives you a real idea of geological time. It's happening right now, the earth is being shaped, but we are always so busy to notice. Thirdly, it gives you the impression of dying titan. Climate change is happening and there is no more effective place to be convinced of it than the face of a glacier. On land this glacier, huge and vast, just sort of peters out into piles of gravel. You can walk up the slope that results from it's slow, relentless melting. But where it meets the sea, it explodes and thunders and building sized chunks break off. Lastly, if you consider the energy that is dissipated by it, you can't help but try to imagine how much energy went into creating it. Nature is an immeasurably powerful force and we are very small, selfish creatures in it. Casein, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470598957376-PUO5669DTAQBWY8W61FE/Surprise+Glacier.jpg Painting & Sketches - Surprise Glacier, Alaska I think this was one of the most incredible places I've ever been in the world, this little outcropping with its soft grass and wild flowers, halfway down Herriman Fjord in Alaska's Chugach National Forest. It's one of the prettiest spots I've ever been in my life. We stopped for lunch, picked invasive dandelions and I got to painting this scene from View Beach north to Surprise Glacier. It was an almost perfect day, dead calm, you could hear everything: the birds, the waterfalls, the glaciers calving. I could not paint how incredible this scene was, but once again, I did try. Watercolour, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470599565718-961LBYIZUB6V1VI93095/harbour_air.jpg Painting & Sketches - Harbour Air, Victoria Every couple of years my brother and I take a trip together. "Brothers Day" we call it. A few years ago, we took a trip out to visit our uncle in Victoria, BC, and to hike the West Coast Trail. One of the things I love about travelling with him is that we both bring sketchbooks with us, and we both quietly just sort of sit down and start painting. If one of us does it, the other does too. We had a day or so kicking around in Victoria, and I like things that go, so I picked this handsome Harbour Air floatplane and managed to paint it before it was loaded up and flew off to Vancouver or one of the gulf islands. Watercolour, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470603378196-6LQP31220XETVZWSCD7H/flying+rower.jpg Painting & Sketches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470603420294-OIX2YRUEKE7RZ1GIT8X7/heres+yer+problem.jpg Painting & Sketches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470603460338-JJKFTAI5JIGWZ2PCS7NY/squirrels+on+a+moped.jpg Painting & Sketches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470603470048-6OZU3TD894MG5YWTX9PO/wild_man_riders_of+octopi.jpg Painting & Sketches https://www.glenoomen.ca/work daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520472210899-BTQNL3V6RF859T0TDHF8/Lazy+Otter+in+Whittier+AK Work Loading the Lazy Otter in Whittier, AK. I stopped painting the bags as there were a lot of bags. Our kayaks were the three yellow ones up top. The rest were for at trip for teachers run by Alaskan Geographic. Alone, we were rigged for almost two weeks of patrolling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471562289079-SQB57GIMM4VQ9YI5JHWP/image-asset.jpeg Work Offloading The Lazy Otter landing boat at Pakenham Point in Prince William Sound. Two standard sea kayaks for Barbara and Trace, one XL kayak for the artist and all his stuff, six bear barrels of food, two tents, thermarests, sleeping bags, rain gear, fuel, paddling jackets, tarps, weeding tools, garbage bags, radios, etc etc. A lot of gear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480711482827-TXI0ZAIHQXQFFXVSX2F4/View+Beach Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1481330810801-TR959UTTIIMPHDDI5KIM/Harriman+Glacier Work The face of Harriman Glacier is so tough to paint! I always have trouble with the greens of forests at best of times, but couple the greens of the hillside beyond and the iridescent blues of the ice was pretty difficult. Casein on paper. Co-ordinates: 60°58'12.0"N 148°25'36.3"W https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480983861695-SM7YOQKZ5N6AON1HIMFD/Rainy+lunch Work On our way to Harriman Glacier, we tucked ourselves into a little cove to take a little break from paddling. We rafted up like otters and bobbed about, eating our lunch out of the wind and rain. We always kept some snacks handy in the cockpit for a break from paddling. There's something amazing about eating crispy food like crackers when it's raining. Crispiness just tastes better! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479840828682-S55IS5QCY1ZGV64GOW1Z/image-asset.jpeg Work Through the water of Prince William Sound towards Herriman Fjord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480983601456-556ONF9IU64YM7791NQ2/image-asset.jpeg Work Once the weather cleared, the gravel field at the face of Harriman glacier was home for a few days. The tides are very high in the fjord so we parked our boats and made camp quite far from the water. Doubly smart since you never know when the glacier would calf, sending large waves your way. The winds off the glacier made for some cold camping (and bathing!), but also made for some great kite flying. Tied to a kayak, Pocket Kite stayed up all day. Here Barbara kicked back after a day of rangering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1508436432588-ZWTXBGF11I954Y5PEM9E/Barbara_kayak.jpg Work On our way to Coxe glacier, Barbara and Trace check out a small iceberg calved from a glacier. It was fun picking our way through chunks of ice; some just little bits, others the size of houses. Beautiful, cold, deep turquoise water. Casein on gessoed panel. Co-ordinates: 61.113015, -148.140475 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520531535595-82JG2DQJ5QRGS7QRB2ZK/Barbara+Radio.jpg Work Sketch of USFS Ranger Barbara Lydon standing on a high point to get a weather report on the radio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471565202680-YOAN5DHN3EYW6ZDCUB0E/image-asset.jpeg Work My first painting in the field, sitting on a house-sized boulder at the foot of Coxe glacier and looking across the fjord to Cascade glacier. An incredible landscape doesn't seem like it would be too great a detriment to painting. But for me, someone who makes his living dealing in details, trying not to show everything was so difficult! The landscape was so enormous that I would sit down and start painting and, before long, would realize that my subject simply wasn't going to fit in my little spiral bound sketchbook. In this image I was trying to capture the shadows of the clouds drifting across the mountainside. Of note: Barry glacier, which, 10 years ago, would have run into this scene from the right and covered the little island at the foot of Cascade, has receded almost a kilometer in that time. Climate change is a very real thing and very noticeable in Alaska. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1509676719666-Y9CVNP2G2T304OXKXC6D/USFS+painted+logo.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1481332375600-EI7HLJIQI4LQWK6INNUZ/image-asset.jpeg Work View Beach across to Surprise Glacier. The fjord was like glass and the silence was incredible. If we could have stayed out for another few days, I don't think I would have ever tired of seeing this. Watercolour. Co-ordinates: 61°02'08.9"N 148°18'48.7"W https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1507145261243-BWSXXEFSN0UGPN1BI31I/Harriman_panoramaB.jpg Work The field of gravel deposited by the retreating terrestrial part of Harriman Glacier was vast as this 180 degree panorama demonstrates. The face of the glacier is almost 2km wide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1520532267136-P0PKMMND5PLGJHJJ1ATE/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479962614870-H9LX6Y6MICN832ODAIFG/image-asset.jpeg Work We had this great little cycling culture coffee shop in Dundas for a few years. Sadly it closed just after I moved to Ireland (my leaving was not the cause), but it left a really positive mark on the community. I think it was a victim of its own success: people lingered and chatted to total strangers, I made friends there, pitched my laptop and did some illustration work there, whiled away many a sunny sunday afternoon there, and even learned to like coffee there (my affinity for cycling came first). They had fantastic brownies and a pretty good scone. Domestique is dead. Long live Domestique. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479962492473-KTRS26UA0YNUW44C4OHV/image-asset.jpeg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479960789244-FO6JUCS07JIM8XWRIPOR/image-asset.jpeg Work Even giant robots need plumbers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480982790435-6XD6KXQL76PAPUHM0LPR/vintage+Canadian+Harvard Work I parked myself at the local airshow one day to doodle planes and settled down to do a quick sketch of this little yellow Harvard. The pilot came over and aksed my why, when he was parked next to all sorts of jets, I chose this little propellor plane. I said that this one was more interesting - and it was yellow. Secretly, though, I figured I had a greater chance of being offered a ride in this one than the F-20 parked next to it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479964170618-DAM93IA53MUTYH1333E7/image-asset.jpeg Work My nephew always asks me to draw with him. Specifically, he wanted to draw a city. OK! There was a time I was about his age when I would practically run home from school to watch The Secret City, this great educational drawing show on the Buffalo PBS station. The host would draw all these great futuristic cities populated by one-horned bears called, appropriately, "Unibears". I actually learned a lot about drawing from The Secret City. In my tribute to Commander Mark and his eradicator (eraser), we populated this city with Unibears too. My nephew loves this drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479961618858-K93TC29T64HDKLES05J9/image-asset.jpeg Work Staff meetings in the Faculty of Health Sciences often felt like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479960895923-1N0XVOYZYVWO6AS0BOLP/image-asset.jpeg Work Air Canada regional flights vs. Pterodactyls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479963798821-0TWJDVNQU36G2IA2RV9C/image-asset.jpeg Work Faculty meetings. We discussed setting up a sub-committee to deal with something or other. So productive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479961435181-XAC5XWACEDO09CX1JLQ2/image-asset.jpeg Work This is actually a favorite doodle. A few years ago I was trying to figure out why there wasn't any really good medical illustration directed towards in consumers in Canada. It always seemed like this great opportunity to educate the public: show how drugs work, how a disease develops etc. Turns out you can't show the consumer anything of the sort lest they get any crazy ideas and go asking their physician about drug X or Y. Just price and dose. I wouldn't have had that suspicion confirmed unless I had attended a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board of Canada. Nor would I have an excellent sketch of squirrels riding a stolen moped. It was that boring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479963122382-UMD2P3YM5ED1YWGYB8U2/image-asset.jpeg Work Dublin Bay is dotted with great swimming spots and the Irish, they like to swim. There's a pretty incredible tradition there. My favorites spots are Seapoint and the 40 Foot. They're accessible on the DART, but I often cycled down because I like the ride south from the city center. I was deeply envious of anyone who could just walk down their street in flip-flops and a robe for a quick (it's cold!) dip. We almost rented a coach-house in Sandycove and then a considered another in place in Dalkey. That could have been us, that could have been us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480712923652-WA0SYI11MKI3QYBBJ68S/image-asset.jpeg Work Concept sketches for an anaesthetic filling device I've been working on. This image is actually a composite of several sketches done while working on my M.Sc Medical Device Design thesis project. The company I worked for liked these sketches so much, they blew them up and framed them for their R&D office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1479964875338-JEPUDBLZ535CDP5NVE3G/image-asset.jpeg Work My brother and I were in Victoria a few years ago visiting our Uncle Mike. We stopped by the inner harbour for some lunch and sunshine, and, since my brother is a bit of sketchy fellow himself, we both sat down and started painting. I showed this painting to a friend of mine and she said, "Hey I know the pilot of that plane!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480970388367-BRMQ51AXGY5L04K7DE22/Andersons+Creperie Work Just up the street from where we lived in Dublin there was a great creperie called Anderson's. One of Drumcondras best little gems, they serve delicious crepes and waffles with excellent coffee. I did this little painting and sent it back to my wife when she had gone back to work in Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480706606846-OCZDP6DURC9CWT07BPCJ/severe+atherosclerosis+in+PSCAD Work Image copyright 2014, Glen Oomen & Dr. Jacqueline Saw, Vancouver General Hospital / University of British Columbia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480707214594-IIYG3PHBJJDAPNA17EXA/athlerosclerosis+in+PSCAD Work Image copyright 2014, Glen Oomen & Dr. Jacqueline Saw, Vancouver General Hospital / University of British Columbia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480706076584-MFDBK1FO1DICA3J28SRD/Artery+cross-section+for+PSCAD Work Image copyright 2014, Glen Oomen & Dr. Jacqueline Saw, Vancouver General Hospital / University of British Columbia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480707414991-QMQ89L3M6757U6IP3D7N/ankle3.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480713130628-YURWCK9IYLEXETK3UE8S/Sedana+concept+sketches.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480966459261-ICRFR7D8WNYGF9H304RQ/ankle3.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1480970784457-KGO4OYUC066QLH864MKJ/IMG_1031corrected1.JPG Work https://www.glenoomen.ca/medical daily 0.75 2016-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471464150801-Z9E0PGCQKFBWUIGQAGZK/ankle3.jpg Medical Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471463480070-1IZM1U45HHKM4GQHJOIT/ankle3.jpg Medical Illustration - Ankle Sprain Dynamic illustration showing the classic lateral ankle sprain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471463615848-Q4HS02AR3Y58EICJPI7C/FigB.jpg Medical Illustration - Aneurysm Repair One in a series illustrating a technique for maximizing cerebral protection in repair of ascending aortic aneurysm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471547989888-1TP1L7845KE0E1LGJYBM/LDLillustration.jpg Medical Illustration - HDL vs LDL This illustration is an old favorite. It was used a journal cover for an edition examining the relationship between hypertension and low/high density lipoproteins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471548020571-U9P8E405FR6VNJ1WRG4A/doxorubicin+heart+final.jpg Medical Illustration - Doxorubicin & Cardiotoxicity This illustration was done for the cover of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. It was intended to illustrate gene deficiencies that predisposed patients cardiac tissue death when being treated with Doxorubicin, a common chemotherapeutic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471548049500-N579DFESUE1UC6ZOO4YJ/ASIS_BW.jpg Medical Illustration - Biceps tendon This illustration depicts a pulley rupture, where torn supporting ligaments in the joint capsule of the should allow the biceps tendon to flip out of the intertubercular groove - like a broken pulley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471548522337-AON4W5N6SG0YJDGSBR1M/Image2_V2.jpg Medical Illustration - PSCAD This image illustrates the key pathological features of sudden pregnancy related coronary artery disease, including a large mural thrombus and smooth muscle proliferation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471550544130-5BLPQVKTX3D04LDYS8QT/just+embryo.jpg Medical Illustration - 46 Day Embryo Image depicting a 46 day old human embryo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471550934782-KUGN1ZUF57E7U8KZ3IR4/BAV_NEJM.jpg Medical Illustration - Bicuspid Aortic Valves This illustration, originally done for the New England Journal of Medicine, shows the relationship between different leaflet configurations in bicuspid aortic valves, and the ejection fraction each configuration causes. The ejection fractions impose abnormal shear stress on the aortic wall causing different patterns of aneurysm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471550947050-L5CLRMD3I93O1J8OD0XK/PCNF_working+V1.7.jpg Medical Illustration - Posterior Cutaneous Nerve Illustration showing the path of the posterior cutaneous nerve of the forearm and how it might relate to lateral epicondylitis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471551063348-77FC29H4DBMQRW6GKFNJ/Pulonary_Fibrosis_large.jpg Medical Illustration - Pulmonary Fibrosis Cover for the Journal of Biological Chemistry depicting pulmonary fibrosis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471551124886-O48VEOEOZX19T6X9GKSN/Endoscope+rough+V4.5.jpg Medical Illustration - ETV access Illustration demonstrating the approach for endoscopic transventricular access to pineal tumours in the third ventricle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471551943436-I47ZDK51VC735IF5QSZL/image4-color.jpg Medical Illustration - Piggyback CABG This is one image in a large sequence describing different methods for grafting small-diameter vessels to the aorta during CABG. This image also demonstrates the use of a Heartstring device for hemostasis during the procedure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471564289312-E5BOOPJ3RMHVU9J0X2A0/tube_6_final_tube_insertion.jpg Medical Illustration - Tube Retractors This image was one of in a series demonstrating the neurosurgical use of conventional tube retractors to access lesions within the brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471552462379-LVD8KL6C4HS3HFX9ALH8/intraoral1.jpg Medical Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471552583479-QKQF9TH08MPC08Y9YVQ6/new_array_arrows.jpg Medical Illustration https://www.glenoomen.ca/developing daily 0.75 2016-07-30 https://www.glenoomen.ca/home daily 1.0 2019-05-17 https://www.glenoomen.ca/what-im-up-to daily 0.75 2016-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1469883240159-F1AYGD142ZCV0PPVRYYP/image-asset.jpeg What I'm up to With M.Sc #2 in hand from Ireland's National College of Art & Design, University College Dublin https://www.glenoomen.ca/contact daily 0.75 2022-01-10 https://www.glenoomen.ca/questions-answers daily 0.75 2021-03-09 https://www.glenoomen.ca/about daily 0.75 2021-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1469883240159-F1AYGD142ZCV0PPVRYYP/image-asset.jpeg About That's me with M.Sc #2 in hand from Ireland's National College of Art & Design, University College Dublin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471986253548-FJMLL11TOQYWXUU5SOHF/image-asset.jpeg About The Anatomy facilities at McMaster University are used by more than 2300 students per year and 10 different user groups. A decade ago students barely came through the door, now they study and do group work in the lab even if they're not working on anatomy. That's a win. This map was developed for the entrance to the lab, which is spread across several rooms. Each anatomical section was colour-coded and had a unique icon created specifically for it. In addition, scanning the QR code brought up a lab search function so that students looking for certain pathology specimens could easily locate them. https://www.glenoomen.ca/test-home-1 daily 0.75 2016-08-06 https://www.glenoomen.ca/test-medical-illustration-standard-page daily 0.75 2016-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470582717827-ELJT49DJTRNV3X4VNETC/Endoscope+access+uncropped.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Transventricular Access This neurosurgical image describes the burr hole placement and an endoscopic approach angle for accessing 3rd ventricle tumors and lesions. In this image, there is pineal tumor on the supero-posterior wall of the 3rd ventricle, but the approach also enables access to mammillary bodies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1543870988150-W35GYLUSZ8QSN17U3Y21/optic-nerve-sonography-V2.4.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Optic Nerve Sonography Illustration demonstrating the visualization of the optic nerve sheath as a means of assessing intracranial pressure. In this procedure a slight dilation of the optic nerve sheath, an extension of the dura mater, is visualized and used as a fast, non-invasive means of assessing how much sub-dural or intracranial pressure is present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1607374418870-24EKUZINK3TQEJD2LAPA/image-asset.jpeg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Microneedle Arrays: Sensing and Delivery Illustration describing how arrays of microneedles can be used for bio-sensing and drug delivery. The needles themselves can be vary in shape to serve as anchors within the skin, preventing removal, or be configured to slowly dissolve, releasing a drug as they do or physically releasing from the tissue after a prescribed period of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470595557258-URQJO6RJ0LXHBC17YIU7/tube_6_final_tube_insertion_2.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Tube Retractors in Neurosurgery This is one image from a larger series describing a technique for using tube retractors and guidance systems to access deep brain lesions. This image shows one of the final steps in the sequence, placing a larger diameter tube. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603138707957-1AY6F1AK4QVBPGRMLKAN/Superior+Hypophyseal+Artery+-+labelled+-+V2.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Superior Hypophyseal Artery Complex Neurosurgical journal illustration showing endoscopic view of the Superior Hypophyseal Artery (SHA) complex in relation to other critical features and landmarks during transphenoidal access. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470579806218-AJ1IUVY078SH7XSSI2IX/ankle3.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Ankle Sprain Illustration showing a classic ankle sprain and related ligaments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603137854254-IDRP8RT2Z59FFAUL5393/Part1+Fig6+sternum+vasculature+copy.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - General Sternum Anatomy Orthopedic journal illustration describing the general anatomy of the sternum and vascular considerations around midline sternotomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603137156014-CVCFAQG1VMD4A4F9NE6Q/Part3+Fig4+Linea+Alba+Closure+Technique+copy.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Midline fascia repair post sternotomy Illustration showing suturing of linea alba tendonous abdominal fascia, post midline sternotomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603137154667-PJK0XM2078M2PRSJKSES/Part3+Fig2+Two-piece+clamps+-+Copy+copy.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Sternal fixation: clamps Existing clamp devices for fixing sterni post midline sternotomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603138080256-6RRTPAW6161XSVG5LUBX/Ileal+Condiut+Image+7+-+completion+pressure+test.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Pressure testing neobladder Final image in sequence for urology journal article describing a technique for creating a neobladder from distal jejunum, showing the pressure testing of the final, constructed bladder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470585502235-E6HTEF3YEGXB15082TVQ/JBC_Cover_working.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Pulmonary Fibrosis Journal of Biological Chemistry cover showing pulmonary fibrosis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470588308254-32B1JVVTDP1835POB4ZJ/just+embryo.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - 46 Day Embryo Illustration showing a 46 day old human embryo and associated structures . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470585592392-NRAHSY7W95WDUK9791VM/doxorubicin+heart3.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Doxirubicin Cardiotoxicity Journal of Biological Chemistry cover for study describing a gene deficiency that predisposed cancer patients to irreparable cardiac cell death when treated with doxirubicin. The authors, cardiac surgeons, advocated for genetic testing prior to chemotherapy to ensure the safe use of of the chemotherapuetic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470580794381-BAFHAGNC18VP0ELHA3WE/FigB.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Cerebroprotective technique This illustration is one of a series describing a technique for cerebral protection while repairing ascending aortic aneurysm with dacron graft. The series specifically shows the placement of extracorporeal line placement to maximize blood flow to the head and brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470582876980-UVB8F2HRJJBG5OF4LQ6C/Mitral+Valve+full+composition.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Mitral valve prolapse repair This series of illustrations compares two different techniques for addressing mitral valve prolapse. In the top series, the prolapsing leaflet is resected. In the lower series artificial chordae are sutured in place, leaving a larger diameter final valve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470595411993-DC5K5YVCMHCV8RG6PH3T/BAV_NEJM.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Bicuspid Aortic Valve Illustration series done for New England Journal of Medicine article. This series relates different morphologies of Bicuspid Aortic Valve to the shear forces inflicted upon the aortic wall by their corresponding ejection fractions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1603137554868-4YLR3XL0KIN0L9Y3BV3K/Illustration+comps+v2+-02.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Ross Procedure: three variations Surgical journal illustration showing three variations in aortic root replacement and repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470586109376-MFPB1SR82KO6VNKA4WET/image4-color.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Piggyback OPCABG One illustration from a large series describing different techniques for grafting small diameter vessels for coronary artery bypass. This image shows a piggyback graft and a Heartstring device being used. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470585367152-JGK1YFMASSL14L2XBYLE/PCNF_working+V1.7.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Posterior Cutaneous Nerve Illustration showing the course of the posterior cutaneous nerve of the forearm and how it relates to lateral epicondylitis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1607372611799-9ZMRXLC82E14HXDWWWH7/image-asset.jpeg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - SGLT2 Inhibitor Myocardial effects Sodium Glucose cotransporters are responsible for the resorption of sodium and glucose in the kidneys. SGLT2 Inhibitors thus decrease the resorption of both solutes, decreasing both blood glucose and sodium as they two are excreted. This allows the myocardium to recover both structurally and metabolically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1607373078120-5X5SS0NT52EFWAJ3H8GD/SGLT2+inhibitors+glomeruli+V3.0.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - SGLT2 Inhibitors - renal effects Sodium Glucose cotransporters are responsible for the resorption of sodium and glucose in the kidneys. SGLT2 Inhibitors thus decrease the resorption of both solutes, decreasing both blood glucose and sodium as they two are excreted. This also changes the hemodynamics and vascular effects within the glomerulus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470585725417-LXBNS1BW4050RP5IV71X/ASIS_BW.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Biceps Tendon This image shows a pulley rupture of the ligaments supporting the biceps tendon as it ascends out of the bicepital groove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1471982768219-L581SRGCECQZ1EMR3KFB/LDLillustration.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - LDL vs HDL Illustration comparing low density lipoproteins vs high density lipoproteins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470590813839-6SVLITXICDP1YQ3MZG6F/intraoral1.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Intraoral Anatomy Illustration showing normal intraoral anatomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1470604982210-J73VJPD7VIHPIGJIMOM0/cover_final.jpg Test Medical Illustration Standard Page - Excalibur Book Cover This book cover was done for 96 year old retired general surgeon and inaugural chair of surgery at McMaster University C. Barber Mueller. Writing the book was one of the last things he really wanted to do, it was kind of his opus. I illustrated the whole book. It's kind of a history of the big ideas in science and how they're all linked. I spent most thursday afternoons with 'Barb' as I worked on the illustration roughs and he would tell me stories about the first kidney transplants, the first dialysis machines, being present when the Berlin wall fell, what it was like to see a CT or MRI for the first time, or when he was awarded the Bronze Star when he was a Marine Corpsman. He was one very fascinating and friendly man. It was such a fun and lovely project to work on. I didn't charge a cent for it. https://www.glenoomen.ca/patent-illustration daily 0.75 2018-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1522771289004-0FC6QP93RVMIA95OW0ZM/insert+variants+final-01.jpg Patent Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1522769910991-TGXRM7WC42LCDRI2T8AO/Bypass+patent+drawings+v1.0.jpg Patent Illustration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57836d92e58c622c69591359/1522770517595-0I2AOIPPZ4TB5Z16XD6D/ACD+all+figs+example-01.jpg Patent Illustration