| anyone collect breyers? |
[May. 8th, 2009|06:19 pm] |
In my youth I collected a whopping FOUR breyer horses.
I'm keeping one, for now, as it has a broken leg and it was my first one. IT also matches blondie.
Are the others worth selling? Anyone want em?
I have Secretariat (the one I was actually curious about selling) & a grey arab mare/foal. Secretariat is in pretty good condition, just a few spots where some of the paint has worn. The arabs have marks (pencils? pastels? Dunno) and stuff because they are white and I've just been carting them around in boxes forever. If you want them, shipping takes them. |
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| CAMERA HELP |
[Apr. 29th, 2009|09:10 am] |
Leah? Anyone?
Yesterday I put my CF card into my sister's computer to get some pictures off of it, worked fine.
Shortly after I took it out, put it back in my camera for a few more pictures, and put it in the CF card reader again. When I tried to access the photos a window popped up that it wasn't formatted and would I like to format it?
NO.
And then it won't open them. It also does this with my portable card reader in my computer and my work computer. I can't just plug my camera in because that stopped working a long time ago.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Is there anything I can DO? |
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| new stuff new stuff |
[Mar. 26th, 2009|10:05 pm] |
New jewelries...will be posting to etsy tomorrow when I can get better quality pictures.
(Turquoise ring, size 7.5)
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| New Jewelry! |
[Feb. 1st, 2009|11:11 am] |
Still 3 more items to list, will do that later. |
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| A note (rather long one) on originality. |
[Jan. 30th, 2009|03:14 pm] |
None of this has completely come together in my head. It's all kind of sitting out there trying to make sense.
So I'll try. If I don't start writing it all down I'm going to explode. But, bear in mind that it has been nearly 3 years since I've so much as thought about any of this on any sort of intellectual level. I'm dusting it off but I really do need to dig up my texts and notes and refresh myself in order to give accurate background.
First: True originality is impossible to obtain. (thank you, wikipedia, that was a very concise way of saying what I was taking a paragraph to say.)
The issue: Artists complaining (on sites such as etsy) about people "copying" their designs. Not only complaining, but attacking people who "stole" their ideas.
A touch of art history (under the cut):
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Once the definition of art changed it opened up so many doors for so many people. Anyone and everyone can be an artist. We have street artists, installation artists, video artists, metal artists, mixed media artists. We have people creating art out of plastic bags and burlap. What is art? It's completely left up to to viewer.
But that's not really what I'm trying to get into. Let's try and go back to "the issue."
If you look at HOW MUCH has been done over time, what the artists of the past have done (and these are just the BIG names), what the artists of the present are doing...how anyone can think they've come up with wonderfully novel ideas that other people MUST BE COPYING?
Let's take a moment and reflect on this. Your ideas are not original.
Nothing. is. original.
Do you want to know what happened to me the other day? I was trying to make a very simple ring out of 14g wire. Simple as in a band. 14g is thick and not very easy to work with. I was filing the ends so they would match and touch perfectly. If they do not touch, they will not solder.
I spent a good 1/2 hour trying to make this work. Out of frustration, I decided to scrap that idea and instead overlap them. This also didn't work. So I stuck a bezel in between and it now looks like it's being held between the 2 ends by tension. I decided to put a topaz in there. I haven't listed this ring yet because I had some issues setting the stone and haven't felt like messing with it.
Well, 2 days ago I found a jeweler on etsy who had the exact same design down to the color of the stone. The only difference? She used a faceted topaz, I used a cabachon.
She obviously didn't copy me, I obviously didn't copy her.
And, given the simplicity of the design, I bet there are many, many others on etsy alone.
There's one example.
Another one? In college I discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Abakanowicz
and fell head over heals in love. I wanted to make life size burlap people, so I did. I created it out of chicken wire and sewed the burlap over it. Her name was Cecelia and her crumpled form now resides in my truck. Did she look anything like Magda's sculptures? Nope. But she was my inspiration. A picture of Cece for you: ( Read more... )
Want to know what happened after that? The next year my art partner in crime used burlap "bodies" (he dipped strips of burlap in glue and put them over manakins to create hollow torsos) for his senior show. Yup, he discovered Magda too. And he used her as inspiration to create completely different burlap bodies than hers or mine.
I hear people saying things like, "if you're a painter go look at other painters and then forget everything you saw before you sit down at your canvas."
What the hell ever happened to inspiration and allowing yourself to be inspired by others? You can't be inspired and then be like "Oh wait I need to forget that."
Perhaps artists should be required to take some basic science and psychology classes. Because even if we do not seek to imitate or even incorporate those techniques, they are with us after we see them and we may end up doing it anyway. Flashes of brilliance? Probably not. It's probably just your brain remembering something you saw, but you don't remember seeing it so you think you are the most original creative person ever.
Aside from this, though, I think people just need to get over it and themselves. SO WHAT if an artist uses one of your techniques in their own work? SO WHAT if they admire your style and want to try something similar out? Unless they are outright TRYING to copy you down to the very last detail it's not going to look the same! Everyone is bringing their own experiences into their art. I may like a technique you use, but when I combine it with a technique I learned in high school...it's not the same. And if no one ever used techniques that other people came up with we wouldn't have gotten ANYWHERE. We'd be clubbing our food and cooking over fucking camp fires.
Everything we see and touch and feel and experience shapes us and therefore our art in some manner. We may not realize this while we're doing it, or even after the fact, but it is true.
I like to think of art today as paying homage to what came before us (without them we could not be doing what we are today, do you understand now?) and putting our own twist on it. That is what makes things "unique" or "original." It's what WE as individuals brings to the table. It's our own series of life events and experiences.
That's all I'm going to say on that for now since it's long-winded enough. For now. :o |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 5th, 2009|02:58 pm] |
I have a lot to write about. But I think it's more important that you watch this guy dance.
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| TELL EVERYONE!!!11 |
[Jan. 1st, 2009|02:13 am] |
I FINALLY have pieces up on etsy!!
www.cholulajewelry.etsy.com
Yayayay!
I wasn't going to go to bed until I had items spilling onto a second page, but shit this is taking a long time. And hi, it's afer 2am (my bedtime is like 11 at the LATEST). More to come in the next few days!
Check it out, tell everyone you know :D
Oh, and happy new year. |
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| Hmm. |
[Sep. 29th, 2008|09:20 am] |
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What do I want for my birthday? |
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[Sep. 28th, 2008|09:21 am] |
I am kind of obsessed with this song.
At first I thought it was annoying, but about one minute later I was dancing in my car and thought it was the greatest thing ever.
Cho and I need to do a freestyle to it.
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[Sep. 11th, 2008|02:37 pm] |
I really like hats. Especially vintage/vintage-inspired hats. I think more people should wear them. There should be more hat-wearing occasions.
Currently I want a cloche. I figure I'll start small and work my way up to crazy hats. |
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| Chocolate Cake! |
[Aug. 31st, 2008|05:37 pm] |
The nice thing about grocery shopping and cooking for yourself is that you can have whatever the hell you feel like and no one is going to tell you that it's not a meal or that you can't just make THAT...or I don't like that, I don't feel like eating that, can't we make/eat/whatever something else?
Tonight I made the most god-awful failure of deviled eggs I've ever made in my life. Basically, the cookbook lied. Hard boiled eggs do not in fact cook in 10 minutes. So, the yolks were orangey and not the right texture, the egg whites were ripping and generally not cooperating, etc. When I mixed up the filling it was lumpy and looks pretty unappetizing. My spice rack didn't even come with paprika (wtf spice rack, you fail. Fuck pizza seasoning, give me paprika) so I couldn't cover up the disaster before me with a pretty little sprinkle of red. They taste just fine though, and that's good enough for me.
I also made the standard cucumber/tomato salad. And that is dinner, the end. |
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| win. |
[Aug. 19th, 2008|08:55 am] |
OMG
LOL @ Steffen Peters' music!!! |
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| Oh, and... |
[Aug. 14th, 2008|01:51 pm] |
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SO excited to see Isabell beat Anky!! |
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| Now it's my turn to be obnoxious with Olympic Posts... |
[Aug. 13th, 2008|10:08 am] |
Is anyone else watching the dressage live feed? Looking at the scores? I know less than half of the competitors have gone, but the scores seem kind of low for this level of competition.
I only started watching one ride ago (they are on the Italian rider now) so I don't really have any clue how the rides went..but a lot of the scores are upper 50s and low 60s. |
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| 2nd Pointless Post of the Day! |
[Aug. 11th, 2008|12:10 pm] |
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I would really like to watch the Olympics this year. I would have liked to keep up with eventing from day 1, I want to watch all of the dressage so I can see for myself why the US loses again (I'm just not optimistic about it, sorry!), and I want to watch swimming.
Unfortunately I don't have television and I couldn't really figure out the video watching online so I gave up. There is no way I can watch any of this "live" because of my schedule. I would really like it if someone could just give me a good recap of everything that's going on/has happened. Any takers? :P |
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| Community Ed is stupid. |
[Aug. 11th, 2008|10:29 am] |
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I just got the Community Ed brochure for Fall 2008. The only 2 things I could find in there that I have any interest in doing is learning how to spin (I have no idea why, but I have been wanting to make my own yarn for a really long time. I think spinning would be fun.) and saving baby turtles.
I was really hoping for a photoshop class because I need to learn the basics but it's just not one of those programs you can mess around with and figure out. Too complicated. At this rate I'm just going to have to suck it up and read the damn manual. You know, the one that's the size of Shakespeare's Complete Works.
The only language classes they offer are Hebrew, Spanish, and Norwegian. I probably should learn Spanish, but right now I would rather actually LEARN Italian and German enough to get by in those countries.
Saving baby turtles and learning how to spin yarn it is. Productive! |
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