About

Maija Graham

I am a visual artist, educational media developer, graphic designer, writer and schemer living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Lately I have also been exploring social marketing and social media for social change and I am very interested in building sustainable communities.

I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts as well as a Bachelor of Science. My apparently disparate educational background sometimes surprises people, but there is more overlap and intermingling between the disciplines than one might suspect, most notably in the exploration of ideas and creative problem solving.

As an educational media developer, I have worked with a variety of educational and corporate clients including the University of Calgary, the Calgary Stampede, SC Johnson & Son Inc., Alberta Learning, the Glenbow Museum, Canadian Pacific Railway, and SAIT Polytechnic.

Harebrained News contains the portfolio of my work in both digital and tactile media. It is also a blog for my thoughts and schemes on sustainable urban planning, making the world a better place, and, inevitably, comic books.

‘British Bulldog’ is the wild ancestor of the game ‘Red Rover’. In British Bulldog, two teams line up at either end of a playing field (preferably a muddy one). A “bulldog” or two are assigned to stand guard over their team’s end (roughly the back quarter or third of the field) . At a signal, the two teams rush for the opposite end of the field. The bulldogs try to tag as many of the rushers as possible. Anyone who is tagged becomes a bulldog for that side. The team with at least one person remaining un-tagged is the winner. It is a terrifying and thrilling game. I played it at summer camp until the camp nurse banned it because of all the injuries.

My fantasy British Bulldog team consists of all of the remaining regular characters (both timelines) on Lost, including the Smoke Monster.