Monday, February 27, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Forestwalk and Imperial Amethyst

Two of my latest creations.

This one is called "Forestwalk at night" and is inspired by the feeling of walking along a road at night beside the forest.
The lamppost lightening in front of where you going, you can see the trees and fallen leaves.

Next one is "Imperial Amethyst" because of the fantasy empire feeling.
I actually designed the the pendant without setting with amethyst at first, for another my first metal course. Then we learned at the new metal course how to do a stone setting, suddenly I felt my old work being so empty.
I was mixing with couple of ideas and amethyst suited this design well.

Monoral - Kiri

Opening song to one of my few favorite anime "Ergo Proxy".

Friday, February 10, 2012

Evanescence - Lost In Paradise

Week 6

Been having cleaning week in both metal workshop and stone workshop this week, haven't much to do tho since other people actually bother cleaning after themselves.
I have been at the metal workshop a lot this week, still haven't been in the stone workshop yet..
But I'm done with a lot in metal, I've finished my halfround ring, simple stone setting pendant and own designed jewellery (I made a pendant) with a stone setting and 5 solderings. Still have to do another ring, setting with faceted stone (straight-sided setting) then I'm done with the metal and got to start with the stones.

I will hopefully take some pictures today and upload them here later.

Friday, February 3, 2012

It's not cold.. it's only snowy?

I have been here for so long and yet I haven't said much about the weather. There's a lot of snow up here in the north and it's pretty cold, I might get a shot so you can see how much snow it's here :D
Well, here's a screen from a weather-site.



Although it's around -30 the cold is dry in the north, you can more or less have normal winter clothes.
I did say that -10 in Stockholm is worse..

Rurutia - Arabesque

Thursday, February 2, 2012

In Time

In Time (2011)

Society have always been unfair, one of the reasons is taking the "best/strongest" to make the society stronger. The cost of this have always been life, something like "for a greater good needs sacrifices" because of fast changes makes societies to develop faster.
Someone will always fall behind in "value" because the societies need different skills during different times, although we can even the differences a lot more, we don't.
What if everyone had the same access to everything, why would someone do something most people don't want to? They do that today because they must, because our society is formed to be like that.
If you compare us with rest of the world where people have better and worst than us, the global difference can easily be changed aswell. But it doesn't because of every person individual "value" for the world.
As long you don't let people choose, the equation of "act -> consequence" will be easier to predict.

It's exactly the same in our society as in this movie, the only exception is that we die slower when we run out of money.
In the third world "time = life", if someone in the family gets sick, we need to invest time to cure than work.
In our society we just put money into this to confuse, it makes us blind by "giving" us power that the ones in the top controls anyway. When people starts to get more money they make things more expensive to keep it balanced.

"No one should be immortal, if even one person has to die."
Will Salas - In Time
There's a sacrifice for luxury.

Lisa Miskovsky - Lover