tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85118437053223779622024-03-13T08:37:16.295-07:00Evelyn MarkaskyMade of metal, soft, warm, organic formsEvelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-15303299922703425242013-03-14T14:59:00.001-07:002013-03-14T14:59:26.601-07:00BAD# 67 & Etsy Metal Project Runway Challenge<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8558442766/" title="BAD-2013-67&#x2F;365 & EMPR & BAW 11&#x2F;52"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8379/8558442766_58543900de.jpg" alt="BAD-2013-67&#x2F;365 & EMPR & BAW 11&#x2F;52 by markasky" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8558442766/">BAD-2013-67&#x2F;365 & EMPR & BAW 11&#x2F;52</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/">markasky</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p><br />Season 11, Episode 7: A Sticky Situation<br /><br />It is another unconventional challenge and they used Duck Tape to create a prom dress look and it needs to be fashion forward. They will take their looks to a high school and students will judge it that night and their score counts for 20% of their final score.<br /><br />Translation: What can I say, make a piece of jewelry using duct tape; just duct tape or combine it with other materials.<br /><br />OMG, I have found my new favorite material! And I am such a pyromaniac, I just had to burn it!<br />Copper mesh, duct tape, alcohol inks. And gee, what better way to put a pin back on than to duck tape it!!!!</p>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-52861063251644027312013-03-08T18:14:00.001-08:002013-03-08T18:14:27.080-08:00BAD 2013 61/365<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8540022279/" title="BAD 2013 61/365"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8517/8540022279_e8aea4b05d.jpg" alt="BAD 2013 61/365 by markasky" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8540022279/">BAD 2013 61/365</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/">markasky</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Brooch # 61 of 365. Mesh fused on to burned copper with fossilized sand dollar setting.</p>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-12308269816399762012013-03-08T18:13:00.001-08:002013-03-08T18:13:24.923-08:00BAD 2013 #60/365<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8541046622/" title="BAD 2013 #60/365"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8519/8541046622_9d4241b21c.jpg" alt="BAD 2013 #60/365 by markasky" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8541046622/">BAD 2013 #60/365</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/">markasky</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Fused copper wire mesh, with enamel attachments – Brooch</p>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-35633832055773835492013-03-05T13:13:00.002-08:002013-03-05T13:13:40.684-08:00Belle Armoire Jewelry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>What are your photography secrets?! Any tips, tricks, what works best for you, what doesn't? How often do you photograph your work? Do you have an expensive set-up or a homemade one. Your best piece of advice for photographing jewelry. Show us some of your best photos.</strong><br />
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I'm a metal smith. I make jewelry and small sculptural pieces. I'm not a photographer. But I need to take pictures of my work and it's expensive to have to keep paying someone else to do it and I'm not usually happy with the results. So out of necessity, I've had to learn to photograph my work. It's been a long process (and I'm not done yet!) I did take a couple of photography classes in college, but that was a long time ago in the days of actually putting film in your camera.</div>
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Something that helped a lot was taking a lighting class from a local photographer. A lot of simple, inexpensive tricks, using a plastic milk carton to filter the light, frosted plexiglas, elevating the piece on a piece of glass with some texture below that will be out of focus. Also to think about unusual props. (Although I did just order some lights and a light tent.)</div>
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I looked at a lot of other people's photos, asked how they did it. Lighting is really important and shooting in daylight can be really good. Indirect lighting.<br />
Read books, read blogs, experimented - <strong>a lot</strong>. Doing Ring-A-Day was really helpful. I know that if you keep doing something every day, you start to figure things out and get better at it. I had to take <strong>at least</strong> 1 picture a day, and that really helped step up the game.</div>
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It's really about paying attention to the details before you take the picture. Where's the reflection, is there too much glare, is there dirt on background, what's in focus - what's not.<br />
I shoot in RAW format. I like that because I can adjust the white balance in the RAW program instead of my camera. That way I don't have to remember where the AWB button is or spend an hour looking for it in the manual. And I can save the photo as a big file and refer back to it if I need the picture in different formats.<br />
For when I need a quick photo... like for Brooch A Day... I shoot my brooches mostly on a piece of frosted white plexiglas to get a good contrast of the image so I can add a gradient background in PhotoShop. I also use frosted white plexiglas as a filter on the 2 side lights and top light.</div>
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It's hard with jewelry, because what works well with one piece doesn't necessarily work well with others. I use PhotoShop to add backgrounds, adjust the exposure, contrast and clean up any dirt and dust. The one thing I'd really like to learn is to do gradients using lighting and the camera... my brain can't seem to get a grip on that yet!<br />
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To see more photography tips, check out other<br />
Etsy Metal members here:<br />
<a href="http://peculiarforest.blogspot.fr/" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102) !important; text-decoration: none;" title="">Lou Hunter</a><br />
<a href="http://laurajanebouton.blogspot.it/" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102) !important; text-decoration: none;" title="">Laura Jane Bouton</a><br />
<a href="http://www.jewelrytutorial.blogspot.com/" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102) !important; text-decoration: none;" title="">2Roses </a><br />
<a href="http://jewellietta.blogspot.gr/" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102) !important; text-decoration: none;" title="">Chrysoula</a><br />
<a href="http://nodeform.blogspot.com/" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102) !important; text-decoration: none;" title="">Nodeform</a><br />
<a href="http://www.e5jewelryblog.com/" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102) !important; text-decoration: none;" title="">Deborah Lee Taylor</a><br />
<a href="http://www.abellablue.com/blog" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102) !important; text-decoration: none;" title="">Abella Blue</a></div>
Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-31061673614964765122013-01-31T00:50:00.001-08:002013-01-31T00:50:17.732-08:00BAD-2013 30/365<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8432368778/" title="BAD-2013 30/365"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8334/8432368778_892f550b27.jpg" alt="BAD-2013 30/365 by markasky" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8432368778/">BAD-2013 30/365</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/">markasky</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Brooch A Day combined with Etsy Metal Monthly Theme - Pop Art.<br />A combination of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Batman.<br />Copper, vitreous enamel (torch-fired), glass beads, rubber stick-on letters.</p>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-48389554403610200562013-01-25T16:58:00.001-08:002013-01-25T16:58:51.038-08:00BAD 2013 24/365<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8413868332/" title="BAD 2013 24/365"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8214/8413868332_fe3d6e3a01.jpg" alt="BAD 2013 24/365 by markasky" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8413868332/">BAD 2013 24/365</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/">markasky</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Another brooch closer to 2014!</p>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-11396394723185789982013-01-19T22:23:00.001-08:002013-01-19T22:23:21.303-08:00BAD-2013 18/365<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8397648326/" title="BAD-2013 18/365"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8183/8397648326_bca3754a1e.jpg" alt="BAD-2013 18/365 by markasky" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8397648326/">BAD-2013 18/365</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/">markasky</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>more experimenting on pocket protectors with new enamels. This is opal horizon blue.</p>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-39345072537888400652013-01-16T18:33:00.001-08:002013-01-16T18:33:26.496-08:00BAD 2013 16/365<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8388668652/" title="BAD 2013 16/365"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8360/8388668652_c87ec76051.jpg" alt="BAD 2013 16/365 by markasky" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8388668652/">BAD 2013 16/365</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/">markasky</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>More experimenting with new enamels on some sort of brooch type thing!<br />I like to call this a "Pocket Brooch" or for my nerdier side a "Pocket Protector Brooch." Designed to slip into a pocket.<br />This is opalescent chartreuse enamel, torch-fired over plain copper. Quickly becoming one of my favorite enamels!</p>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-63603048992633213962013-01-16T18:22:00.001-08:002013-01-16T18:22:34.637-08:00BAD 2013 15/365<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8387558839/" title="BAD 2013 15/365"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8327/8387558839_63a7f101ca.jpg" alt="BAD 2013 15/365 by markasky" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/8387558839/">BAD 2013 15/365</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/markasky/">markasky</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>I just got some new enamels! So thought I would experiment with them while putting them on some sort of brooch type thing! <br />I like to call this a "Pocket Brooch" or for my nerdier side a "Pocket Protector Brooch." Designed to slip into a pocket.<br />This is opalescent turquoise enamel, torch-fired over plain copper on the left and over white enamel on the right.</p>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-26943827549642164102012-11-05T03:00:00.000-08:002012-11-05T15:42:52.984-08:00Why Do I Make Jewelry?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">This month's question is "Why Do I Make Jewelry?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">I have a BFA in sculpture and did metal sculpture and some jewelry in college, a long long time ago. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But, I've made art all my life. I've made lots and lots of different art... printmaking, calligraphy, sign painting, clay, silk painting, metal sculpture, photography, drawing, ... </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't really think I have a choice, I have to make something.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;">So about 10 years ago I ventured back into working with metal and enamels and making jewelry. And I felt like I had come home. I absorbed everything I read and learned in workshops and it stuck. It was as if I already knew all of this stuff, I had just forgotten. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">It was different than making something to hang on a wall. Jewelry is more alive: it moves; it's 3-dimensional; it's noisy; you are allowed to touch it, as a matter of fact you have to touch it. I have a hard time going to a museum or a gallery to look at </span>paintings and sculpture and not being allowed to touch them... I do it anyway!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">The other thing that appeals to my ADD nature, is that just about any art that you can do, you can do on jewelry, like painting, drawing, calligraphy, small sculpture, photography... so I feel like I'm not missing out on anything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Why do other Etsy Metal members make jewelry?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://cynthiadelgiudice.blogspot.com/" style="color: #6193b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">Cynthia Del Giudice</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"> </span><a href="http://laurajanebouton.blogspot.it/" style="color: #6193b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">Laura Jane Bouton</a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://peculiarforest.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6193b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span style="font-size: large;">Peculiar Forest </span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.nanopod.me/" style="background-color: white; color: #6193b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span style="font-size: large;">Tosca Terán </span></a><br />
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<a href="http://silverpearlmetalworks.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6193b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span style="font-size: large;">Mary Anne Karren</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.creativeinclinations.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6193b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span style="font-size: large;">Anne Walker</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amuckdesign.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #6193b5; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title=""><span style="font-size: large;">Andrea Ring </span></a><br />
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Please share your pets with us! Pictures, stories, new pets, old pets, dogs, cats, ants, anything that has ever lived in your house that wasn't human, be they friend or foe!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Before Lucy & Sparky we had a chow/yellow lab mix named Chris. He was a great dog. The lab/chow mix had him a bit confused though. Chows don't like the water and labs love it, so when we would take him to the beach he'd want to go in the water, but he'd only go in up to his doggie knees. It was a sad day when he died at age 13.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;">I have 3 sons, so we've done the pet circuit... we've had parakeets – Shim 1, 2, and 3. My son didn't know how to tell if they were male or female, so he took the 'sh' from she, and the 'im' from him = 'Shim." And we've had hamsters, bunnies, goldfish, and a giant 7' iguana named Noddy. That was interesting. He kept attacking one of my sons. And their poop is like giant bird poop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 27px;">If you would like to learn about the pets of other Etsy Metal Team members, check out their blogs here:</span></span><br />
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Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-38115824725441791292012-07-01T21:00:00.067-07:002012-10-15T19:14:14.383-07:00"What In The World Are You You Doing?"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"><b>Etsy Metal Blog Carnival</b><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Topic: <span style="font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"What In The World Are You You Doing?" </span></span></span><br />
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Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-44085833992081565972012-06-26T21:00:00.000-07:002012-10-15T19:02:41.996-07:00More Imagining<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;">He talks about how brainstorming isn't really effective, because of the most important principle – the absence of criticism. You know, so everyone can contribute without feeling judges. The problem with that is that you have a group of people all shouting out every idea they can think of with no one ever saying things like, that might not work, or challenging or debating it in some way. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">He talks about how the only way to 'maximize group creativity...is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes (159.)" I don't think you need to be mean, but you should be able to have a discussion about what's good and what's bad. "...when everybody is 'right' –when all new ideas are equally useful, as in a brainstorming session – we stay within ourselves. There is no incentive to think about someone else's thoughts or embrace unfamiliar possibilities. And so the problem remains impossible. The absence of criticism has kept us all in the same place (161.)"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I know from my very own experience, when someone has told me that they didn't like something I made or thought I could have done it differently... I don't always like what they said in the moment. But I spend the rest of the day, in the back of my mind, thinking about it and trying to figure out how to do it better. So instead of them trying to be nice and saying that they like something when they don't, doesn't really help me. I want to do better and a lot of the time you have to be able to step out of yourself to see how that can be done. Sometimes being uncomfortable helps you to grow.</span></div>
Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-73854578464090525902012-06-17T16:27:00.000-07:002012-10-15T19:03:04.551-07:00Imagine Chapter 3 – The Unconcealing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;">He starts to lose me a little bit in Chapter 3. I like the part where he reminds you that creativity is a verb. It's good to have that insight, but to turn that idea into something real takes a lot of sweat, boredom, failure, and a lot of work. I experience this almost every time I got to work in my shop. I start working, then I think of about 20 other 'really important' things I need to do... get the mail, pull some weeds, load the dishwasher, wash some clothes,... the list is endless and they do need to be done, but in this instance I am just using them as a distraction. I have the idea, but I don't really want to cut out all of these boring shapes int he hopes that I can construct them into something beautiful. BUT if I ignore the thoughts in my head and work through them, I get caught up in what I'm doing and start enjoying the process.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;">The part of Chapter 3 that I didn't like, didn't agree with... was the part where he investigates the link between negative moods and creativity. It comes down to the suffering artist syndrome. How really great artists are depressed and bi-polar. He shows studies that reflect that thinking. Well, I think that you can take any profession and find a good percentage of people that are bi-polar or depressed, not just artists. I've just heard this all my life about all these famous artists being so intensely disturbed. But I'm thinking that maybe all great artists are disturbed because the art critics and media that made them famous are the ones who are disturbed! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Basically, relaxation or a relaxed state of mind helps us direct the spotlight of attention inward towards the right brain. When we are really focused, our attention tends to be directed outward, which keeps us from those insightful moments. It's like we have all these answers in us, we just need to listen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I find I get a lot of insightful ideas when I just wake up in the morning and can just lay in bed for awhile. A lot of the time, I get so many ideas that they make get up out of bed without even thinking so I can go and get started on them – as long as I'm not too distracted along the way!</span></div>
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Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-76395774653168189762012-06-13T13:25:00.000-07:002012-10-15T19:03:54.876-07:00Book Review – Imagine – Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> In chapter 1,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><em style="position: relative;">Bob Dylan's Brain</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;">, he talks about how people have ideas and then all of a sudden they can't think about what to do next... creativity has left the house. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> Lehrer talks about how creative journeys 'begin with a problem' which usually moves on to a feeling of frustration and just not being able to find the answer, you hit that brick wall. And you quit. I'm pretty familiar with this process! However, what we usually don't hear about is how this 'process' this 'act of being stumped–is an essential part of the creative process.' It's like you have to completely give up, quit looking for the answer. And then all of a sudden the answer shows up.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> I've experienced this almost on a daily basis. I'll be talking with a friend... oh, did you see that movie the other night, you know the one with, uh, what's his name?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;">And I can't remember 'what's his name' at all, and the harder I try to remember his name, the more my brain blocks the process. Now this has happened often enough, that I know what to do. I stop trying to remember his name and move on. Then maybe 10 minutes or an hour or 3 hours later, completely out of nowhere, his name appears in my brain. Completely out of nowhere, did I say that already? It's as if I had been going through a file cabinet in my brain and it finally came across the right file.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> Well, Chapter 1,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><em style="position: relative;">Bob Dylan's Brain</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;">, explains this phenomenon. And he goes as far as to show how it works, by using people, puzzles,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><em style="position: relative;">f</em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;">MRI's and EEG's.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> It comes from a burst of gamma rays and the discovery of "'neural correlate of insight' a small fold of tissue, located on the surface of the right hemisphere just above the ear, which becomes unusually active in the seconds before the epiphany."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"> And that brings us up to page 19! Please leave a comment if you've experienced anything like this.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;"><br />
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Well, I like this piece, but it really wasn't at all what I intended. I started out with a strip of copper with 2 rectangles on the ends and my plan was to forge the skinny part till it curved which I did and that was successful. But the ends were going to be parallel to each other and I was going to stamp a design on them and it was going to be a pendant. But... the piece was really too big. Also, when I forged it the rectangles curved into each other instead of being parallel. However they curved into each other enough to cut them into strips and weave them. But... next time I would make the strips longer and cut off the excess, because of the overlapping I ran out of length on the one side so I had to cut off one of the end strips. You can see that the right side only has 3 strips while the left has 4.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1.NR Jewellery Design <a class="postlink" href="http://nrjewellerydesign.blogspot.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 138, 210); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">http://nrjewellerydesign.blogspot.com/</a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />2. 2Roses: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.jewelrytutorial.blogspot.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 138, 210); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">http://www.jewelrytutorial.blogspot.com</a><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />3. Rebecca Bogan: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.adobesol.com/blog" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 138, 210); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; unicode-bidi: embed;">http://www.AdobeSol.com/blog</a></span>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-71725391706372011422011-11-07T01:00:00.000-08:002011-11-09T17:47:22.142-08:00Holiday Previews EM Blog Carnival<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Topic: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Holiday Previews"</span></span><br />
<span class="postbody" style="line-height: 18px;"> The Holidays are fast approaching! Give us a preview of what you are working on for this special time of year. </span><br />
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<span class="postbody" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Good question! What AM I working on?</span></span><br />
<span class="postbody" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">I have a hard time gearing my work to holidays. I always feel like I should be making something special, but it never seems to work for me.</span></span><br />
<span class="postbody" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Here are a few things I have going right now...</span></span><br />
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Not very holiday oriented, but this is where I'm at!!<br />
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See what other Etsy Metal members are up to:<br />
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<span class="postbody" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">1. Michele Grady Designs:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"> <a href="http://www.michelegradydesigns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">www.michelegradydesigns.blogspot.com</span></a></span><br />
2. Erin Austin: <a href="http://www.metalmusing.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">www.metalmusing.blogspot.com</span></a><br />
3. Cynthia Del Giudice: <a href="http://cynthiadelgiudice.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://cynthiadelgiudice.blogspot.com</span></a><br />
4. Nodeform: <a href="http://nodeform.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://nodeform.blogspot.com/</span></a><br />
5. Rebecca Bogan: <a href="http://www.AdobeSol.com/blog" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://www.AdobeSol.com/blog</span></a><br />
6. Panicmama Jewelry: <a href="http://panicmama.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://panicmama.blogspot.com</span></a><br />
7. kate jones: <a href="http://katejonesdesign.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://katejonesdesign.blogspot.com</span></a><br />
9. Beth Cyr <a href="http://bcyrjewelry.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://bcyrjewelry.blogspot.com</span></a></span>Evelyn Markaskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10868555819515270916noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511843705322377962.post-49452115302598518672011-10-03T09:23:00.000-07:002011-10-04T12:35:49.998-07:00Food! EM Blog Carnival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><b>Topic: "Let's Talk About Food!"</b><br />
<b>The weather is cooling, Fall cooking season is 'round the corner. Tell us about some of your eating habits, philosophies, favorite foods and share a seasonal recipe!</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old time family picnic, I'm sure there<br />
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Food, one of my favorite topics! I'm Greek and growing up, food was a very important part of socialization. My father always had soda in our downstairs refrigerator in case 'company' came and my mother always had cookies in the freezer for those unexpected guests. I think it was a bit of a disgrace to have people come over and not have anything to serve them. And we always had a variety of serving trays to serve drinks and snacks.<br />
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We had acquired some homemade ouzo from Greece from some friends who had just come back from there. I wanted a friend of mine to try it and put some in a styrofoam cup to take to him across town. By the time I had gotten there the ouzo had eaten through the cup! Before I was born, my grandmother, that lived with us, had a still in the basement to make ouzo. I had asked my mother if she helped make it, but she said, "oh, no! I had to stand at the top of the steps and be the lookout!"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dad, far left, a cook in the army</td></tr>
</tbody></table>My grandparents had a restaurant called Hermes in downtown Youngstown, Ohio, way before I was born. My father worked in it since he was 5 years old. Because of that restaurant, we had acquired all the giant pots and pans and that was how my parents cooked. They always made tons of food. And my father cooked a lot too. I'd remember him in the mornings making sauce for spaghetti with chicken in it or he'd make us kids, 'box cars' (toast with the middle cut out in a square and an egg fried in it). We always said he cooked enough to feed an army, as a matter of fact, he was a cook in the army.<br />
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We also had a stove/oven in the basement, because sometime just one kitchen wasn't enough. Most of my mother's friends all had a 2nd kitchen in the basement too. It was especially handy when a wedding was coming up because there were about a million greek cookies to be made: baklava, courobedes, phoenikia, trigona, ...(please pardon the butchering of the spelling.)<br />
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I still make some of these foods, not very often, it's a lot of work and most of them are very fattening and I try to avoid wheat, corn, and dairy these days. (Except for ice cream!) Some of my favorites are spanakorizo (spinach and rice), roasted lamb, avgolemeno (chicken soup with lemon), and spanakopita. Spanakopita is made with spinach and feta cheese and eggs stuffed between filo (strudel leaves and lots of butter) I even made the filo myself a couple of times. Lots of work but fun. You have to stretch the dough over a pole to get it really thin. It's incredible tasty!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mom helping at a church dinner</td></tr>
</tbody></table>My mother used to make a simple variation of pita (spanakopita without the spinach.) We used to call it 'pita pizza' and here is my mother's recipe (you have to understand that she didn't measure anything):<br />
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Batter: 2 cups water; pinch of salt; 2 tsp yeast (add to the water)<br />
add flour until it's like a thick pancake batter<br />
spread it into a large pan with sides (I use like a cookie sheet that has low sides to it-I got them at <br />
Costco)<br />
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Add some salt and pepper<br />
Actually you can add anything else you like, I've added mushrooms and peppers, but really I prefer<br />
the original recipe with just the feta<br />
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Bake at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes.<br />
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Check out what other Etsy Metal members eat:<br />
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2. Victoria Takahashi - <a href="http://vtakahashi.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://vtakahashi.blogspot.com/</a><br />
3. Cynthia Del Giudice - <a href="http://cynthiadelgiudice.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://cynthiadelgiudice.blogspot.com</a><br />
4. kate jones - <a href="http://www.katejonesdesign.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://www.katejonesdesign.blogspot.com</a><br />
5. Twigs and Heather- <a href="http://www.twigsandheather.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://www.twigsandheather.blogspot.com</a><br />
6. nova of sweden - <a href="http://www.nova-designs.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://www.nova-designs.blogspot.com/</a><br />
7. Beth Cyr - <a href="http://bcyrjewelry.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://bcyrjewelry.blogspot.com</a><br />
8. Nodeform - <a href="http://nodeform.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://nodeform.blogspot.com/</a><br />
9. Rebecca Bogan - <a href="http://www.AdobeSol.com/blog" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://www.AdobeSol.com/blog</a><br />
10. Panicmama Jewelry - <a href="http://panicmama.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://panicmama.blogspot.com</a><br />
11. Evelyn Markasky <a href="http://www.markasky.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://www.markasky.blogspot.com</a><br />
12. 2Roses: <a href="http://www.jewelrytutorial.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://www.jewelrytutorial.blogspot.com</a><br />
13. Jenny Baughman (Gecko J): <a href="http://ridgeschool.blogspot.com/" style="color: #006699;" target="_blank">http://ridgeschool.blogspot.com/</a></span></td></tr>
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