Been Gone

I have not been active here for a bit, because I am rearranging my craft room, and also have exited a number of websites that I found no longer interesting and/or downright worrysome.

Facebook, of which I never was a big fan, but which I joined mainly for yarn related activities, made another one of its numerous "improvements", which left me utterly confused and irritated. Because any time they "improve" something, all your privacy settings are deactivated and you have to go through it all again, very carefully, to make sure that you cannot be found by certain idiots who like to play very impractical and so not amusing "tricks" on your site.

I also tweeted myself out of the twitter thingy. I don't know about you, but after 30 followers I felt overwhelmed and by the time I had 75 I could not keep them apart or chronologically tie together all the reported little activities  they  "shared",  or the affairs they either attended or had had.  All the political crap is aggravatingly crazy making too,  so I left them to it.

I am just not that "peeps" oriented. You might even say I have no problem with being a bit  "peepsless" or "peepsless peep" myself.  That reminds me though:  loooove those easter peeps...

Then I found remnants of an old Myspace account, which to me, always felt more like "their space" - I never quite figured out the rules and it was so not speedy.  And there was an old Linked In  account, like I am ever going to work again...  So  you see?   All this connectivity and no real connections.

Anyway,  this required the removal of lots of info and photos, which wasted a lot of  time at both ends.  Apart from that, for more than two months now,  construction is going on in my neighborhood, which basically forces us to sleep during the day and be awake at night when it is quiet,  and we can hear ourselves think.  But all this ended up making us very crabby and cranky.

I did manage to create a few things, however.  Actually wrote a prescription for myself:

Rx: Make Art QD

And there you have it.    I'll soon add some new pictures.  It is supposed to rain later today and the rest of the week - so perhaps that will stop the banging in the neighborhood for a while.  Would be nice.  Right now, it is almost 10:30 AM, time to go to bed and sleep until "quittin' time" for the construction workers.

And how was your summer?

 
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~ Tranquility and Tolerance ~

Amazing Paper Miniatures

In the past I believe I have made mention of design.boom.com where edgy, original, contemporary ideas and designs of any kind (from kitchenware to architecture,  light installations, clothing, and art) are presented by people from all over the world.  You can subscribe to their daily newsletter and there has been many a moment when my mood has been lifted by the people and their ideas I have encountered there.  On days when I fear humanity is going completely so not in a positive direction, designboom has not failed to show me that there is still,  loads of creative and critical thinking and art and poetry in looking at how to make our world more interesting or different or better. 

Today, I found the Russian duo: Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich who make very small, intricate and amazing paper cuttings.  I subscribe to Cloth Paper Scissors, and they too have wonderful ideas for projects but this floored me because of its minute precision and artful execution of tiny paper sculpture.  You feel these two have a great sense of humor as well.

To give you some perspective:  the two men on the left are playing chess.  Below, you can see how tiny the chessboard is.  Also note the floor, which gives the illusion of being made of shiny, reflective, parquet.  Wow!

So:  do yourself a favor and rush to the link below:

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=10&TOPIC_PK=13801

 check out the artists’ site as well: 

http://peopletoo.ru/

and lose yourself for a little while  in their tiny but impressive world where (quoted from designboom.com):

“celebrity and historical figures find a second life in these paper miniatures by people too, the collaborative efforts of russian designers alexei lyapunov and lena ehrlich.
using a range of knives, scissors, tweezers, and other tools on wire and a combination of construction and specialty papers, the team creates not only miniature furniture and figures but also entire sets for the pieces. their 'star' series represents famous musicians, from michael jackson to queen to elton john; 'tsar peter and tsarevitch alexey' depicts the happier early days of the famous russian rulers” and their 'office' and 'factory' series recreate scenes from the everyday working world."

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~ Tranquility and Tolerance ~