Where to become a facebook fan.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Culver-City-CA/Silver-Cholla-and-The-Vintage-Jewelry-Box/96832319285#
Saturday, November 21, 2009
http://www.thefind.com/
Silver Cholla, The Vintage Jewelry Box and The Automat are now registered with
TheFind.
TheFind is the vertical search engine for shopping that puts every product, every store, every sale, coupon and discount, right at your fingertips. Thier mission is to help every shopper find exactly what they want to buy, and to help every merchant, large and small, to reach those shoppers.
TheFind.
TheFind is the vertical search engine for shopping that puts every product, every store, every sale, coupon and discount, right at your fingertips. Thier mission is to help every shopper find exactly what they want to buy, and to help every merchant, large and small, to reach those shoppers.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Etsy Lounge: Little Fish in Etsy's Big Pond
Thank you to Andria of Etsylounge.blogspot.com for featuring The Vintage Jewelry Box's Swimming Fish Bracelet in Etsy Lounge, an independent blog. This is an wonderfully written, thoughtful blog that is well worth a visit. Think of it as a personal shopping guide.Andria, runs several websites KatsaraYarns , Piacere. , and Katsarayarns.com . In addition to Etsy Lounge, she writes the blog, Katsarastudio.blogspot.com .
This image is of one of her felted silk and merino Nasturtium Scarves. Beautiful!
It might be time to write about fiber arts!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Silver Cholla Now on Art Fire
New to this site, Silver Cholla Jewelry has created a online store with ArtFire.com.
Today I managed to get a couple of listings up and a profile built. Click on the Art Fire logo or the link to get there silvercholla.artfire.com .
ArtFire.com is a place to buy and sell handmade items designed by artisans from around the globe. Their free community is designed to let artisans promote their handmade products and crafts while celebrating unique handmade items and designs.
(adapted from Art Fires home page)
Watch for more listings to come.
Watch for more listings to come.
Who knows, maybe it will become a home
for The Automat and The Vintage Jewelry Box too.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Thank You to Laura Lanz-Frolio, a NY Bargain Shopping Examiner, for this thoughtful review of The Vintage Jewelry Box.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Some Front Page Etsy Exposure
Exciting news for The Vintage Jewelry Box this past week and month. First, this item was chosen to be in the Etsy Summer Gift Guide. It was then featured in this awesome Treasury made by GetReadySetGo and made it to the front page. Thank you GetReadySetGo.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Silver Cholla is my New Etsy Store.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Paint like Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Click on the name Jackson Pollock, you should have a white page on your screen.
Drag and click you mouse around the page.
Have great fun!
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Here is a bonus video too!
Click on the name Jackson Pollock, you should have a white page on your screen.
Drag and click you mouse around the page.
Have great fun!
..........................
Here is a bonus video too!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Just make them think!
You can't continually stand next to your art and explain
your intentions, so use your creative talents to make people think.
Create your work with a visual message.
They might not understand exactly what you are trying to say,
but they will walk away pondering something.
This is what keeps the wheel of inspiration rolling.
This does mean that YOU will need to think while creating.
your intentions, so use your creative talents to make people think.
Create your work with a visual message.
They might not understand exactly what you are trying to say,
but they will walk away pondering something.
This is what keeps the wheel of inspiration rolling.
This does mean that YOU will need to think while creating.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Un Chien Andalou - This classic Surrealist film is not for the squeamish.
Un Chien Andalou - An Andalusian Dog is a 1928 -1929 short surrealist film produced in France by two Spanish auteurs: the Aragonian director Luis Buñuel and the Catalonian artist Salvador Dalí -
Warning: some grotesque footage. Here is the film I refer to in the post below...Film - This is Unedited and Spilled Out. This classic Surrealist film is 15:34 minutes.
"Un Chien Andalou remains a startling artifact suggesting ways in which film can express the subconscious. The result of Luis Bunuel's collaboration with Salvador Dali, the 17-minute, 1929 film was designed expressly to shock and provoke. Opening with the canonical eyeball-slashing sequence and divided into baffling 'chapters', this is a work of art obsessed with religion, lust, decay, violence, and death. Un Chien Andalou isn't simply one of the great works of the surrealist movement, but a segment of cinematic DNA that irrevocably altered the aesthetics of film." -amazon.com (Ryan Boudinot)
Warning: some grotesque footage. Here is the film I refer to in the post below...Film - This is Unedited and Spilled Out. This classic Surrealist film is 15:34 minutes.
"Un Chien Andalou remains a startling artifact suggesting ways in which film can express the subconscious. The result of Luis Bunuel's collaboration with Salvador Dali, the 17-minute, 1929 film was designed expressly to shock and provoke. Opening with the canonical eyeball-slashing sequence and divided into baffling 'chapters', this is a work of art obsessed with religion, lust, decay, violence, and death. Un Chien Andalou isn't simply one of the great works of the surrealist movement, but a segment of cinematic DNA that irrevocably altered the aesthetics of film." -amazon.com (Ryan Boudinot)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Film - This is unedited and spilled out ....
I found myself at the book store yesterday, in the film section of all places. This is a first.
I am looking for something on film that is rather raw and enjoyable for a friend that seems inspired by film and drama at the moment. I slowly passed by every book on every shelf. So many choices, but most such serious reads. I came across a book called "The Age of Gold" Dali, Bunuel, Artaud: Surrealist Cinema. The cover is a still shot of the infamous scene in the film "Un Chien Andalou" just before the straight razor slices through the eye of a woman. Ah hah! That is the film I was looking for on You Tube last week. The film we were required to watch in Art School's, History of Graphic Design class. Unnerving then as it is now, I still find myself so curious about the making of Surrealist art and that includes a very brief history of film making done during at that time. It took a minute to realize, this book was coming home with me.
In the intro there is mentioned of two artists/poets of that time, who found themselves taken with the new art of film. They would roam from cinema to cinema, entering and leaving each film at random places in the production. Creating a visual poetry of their own, in doing so.
Imagine that today, an extravagant spilling out of cash to roam from film to film at your leisure.
Can't be done quite as easily today as it was when each film cost a penny or so.
Got me to thinking though. I have grown less and less interested in television with every year of my life. Growing up in the TV era, I have just had my fill. What I do now is read or crossword puzzle or sleep while my husband controls the clicker, often randomly flipping from scene to scene, from station to station. I have experienced this poetry myself, the same as the artist mentioned above. A random assortment of scenes collaged together, creating its own art form, story, poem or audio visual. In those days, though, it was a silent film, so it was all up to the eyes. Hence the beginning of the film, "Un Chien Andalou" where the movie starts out with a razor slash to the eye, like a reflection of yourself and your own eye being slashed.
So how does the random flipping of television programs, or movies, become a rather personal reflection of who you are? Perhaps, it is the turning on and off the scenes you find most and least stimulating. Controlling what can enter your vision and now your ears, can create quite a poetic escape from reality. Not as romantic as the cinema of silent films, but the amount of viewing pleasure seem endless. I still think I'd like to roam in and out of theaters though.
I am looking for something on film that is rather raw and enjoyable for a friend that seems inspired by film and drama at the moment. I slowly passed by every book on every shelf. So many choices, but most such serious reads. I came across a book called "The Age of Gold" Dali, Bunuel, Artaud: Surrealist Cinema. The cover is a still shot of the infamous scene in the film "Un Chien Andalou" just before the straight razor slices through the eye of a woman. Ah hah! That is the film I was looking for on You Tube last week. The film we were required to watch in Art School's, History of Graphic Design class. Unnerving then as it is now, I still find myself so curious about the making of Surrealist art and that includes a very brief history of film making done during at that time. It took a minute to realize, this book was coming home with me.
In the intro there is mentioned of two artists/poets of that time, who found themselves taken with the new art of film. They would roam from cinema to cinema, entering and leaving each film at random places in the production. Creating a visual poetry of their own, in doing so.
Imagine that today, an extravagant spilling out of cash to roam from film to film at your leisure.
Can't be done quite as easily today as it was when each film cost a penny or so.
Got me to thinking though. I have grown less and less interested in television with every year of my life. Growing up in the TV era, I have just had my fill. What I do now is read or crossword puzzle or sleep while my husband controls the clicker, often randomly flipping from scene to scene, from station to station. I have experienced this poetry myself, the same as the artist mentioned above. A random assortment of scenes collaged together, creating its own art form, story, poem or audio visual. In those days, though, it was a silent film, so it was all up to the eyes. Hence the beginning of the film, "Un Chien Andalou" where the movie starts out with a razor slash to the eye, like a reflection of yourself and your own eye being slashed.
So how does the random flipping of television programs, or movies, become a rather personal reflection of who you are? Perhaps, it is the turning on and off the scenes you find most and least stimulating. Controlling what can enter your vision and now your ears, can create quite a poetic escape from reality. Not as romantic as the cinema of silent films, but the amount of viewing pleasure seem endless. I still think I'd like to roam in and out of theaters though.
Mold In My Paint Jars
So yeah, I cracked open the Hooker's Green and the Payne's Gray today in an attempt to follow through on some inspiration I had weeks ago (thanks Adam). It HAS been a long time since I hit the canvas. I have been staring at this unfinished painting for months or maybe years, not sure how to complete it. I keep telling myself...if you 'uck it up, no loss. However, when you do 'uck it up, you might just be telling yourself you don't have it anymore.
So back to the point. Mold in the paint. I scrape it off the top, get down to the thick stuff, and decide, well, it is a nature painting, what's a little mold (uptight painters cringe here). I have heard this could happen, and I should keep the paint in the fridge, but with this long of a creative break in painting, I'd rather have food in the fridge. Cheese with mold on it rather than acrylic.
I guess it is a pure luck that the paint does not smell like moldy cheese.
So this painting is an Acrylic base piece, abstract of wild grass seen while driving down the highway through Arizona /New Mexico. Oil sticks and oil pastels over the creamy yellow background were used to create the grassy lines.
I am planning to hit the whole piece with a spray bottle of Hooker's Green and another filled with Payne's Grey. I will attempt to give the canvas a horizon line in a proportionately appropriate place, still to be determined. I am hoping by mixing the paint with water, not medium, it will lay over the oil lines and create a resist, staining the area behind the lines. In a practice run, it seems to work, but still the acrylic seems to be altering the color of the oil pastels somewhat. Could be the canvas has sat too long and the resist of water on oil has weakened.
So I am hoping for a nice surprise with the altered colors. Surprises are nice, except in the form of mold in the paint jar.
So back to the point. Mold in the paint. I scrape it off the top, get down to the thick stuff, and decide, well, it is a nature painting, what's a little mold (uptight painters cringe here). I have heard this could happen, and I should keep the paint in the fridge, but with this long of a creative break in painting, I'd rather have food in the fridge. Cheese with mold on it rather than acrylic.
I guess it is a pure luck that the paint does not smell like moldy cheese.
So this painting is an Acrylic base piece, abstract of wild grass seen while driving down the highway through Arizona /New Mexico. Oil sticks and oil pastels over the creamy yellow background were used to create the grassy lines.
I am planning to hit the whole piece with a spray bottle of Hooker's Green and another filled with Payne's Grey. I will attempt to give the canvas a horizon line in a proportionately appropriate place, still to be determined. I am hoping by mixing the paint with water, not medium, it will lay over the oil lines and create a resist, staining the area behind the lines. In a practice run, it seems to work, but still the acrylic seems to be altering the color of the oil pastels somewhat. Could be the canvas has sat too long and the resist of water on oil has weakened.
So I am hoping for a nice surprise with the altered colors. Surprises are nice, except in the form of mold in the paint jar.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Recommended Book
Scraps of Life: Chilean Arpilleras
This book is an a excellent example of how modern life inspires collage and has become a necessary form of expression.
Collage, traditionally considered a folk art, became recognized as a significant art form in the twentieth century (a blog post to be written later). It still remains a traditional art form in many places, now blending itself with modern life experiences.
This is a borrowed Editorial Review from Amazon.com.
During the years 1980-1985, Marjorie Agosin returned often to her native Chile to visit the Arpillera workshops of the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared. Although she acknowledges, "the more I learned about what the military could do, with absolute impunity, the more terrified I became," she decides "not to be afraid of fear" and reaffirms her commitment to tell the stories of the women who make Arpilleras, embroidered and appliqued pictures which tell the true story of what is going on in Chile. These Arpilleristas are searching for any trace of relatives who have been picked up by the authorities and never seen or heard about again. Although most live with small children in crowded hovels with no food, electricity, or running water, these women have banded together to fight back in every way they can. With the help of the Catholic Church's Vicarate of Solidarity - which, despite the fact that these Arpilleras are illegal to sell in Chile, provides the materials, and buys and markets the work to the outside world - the Arpilleristas create art from "scraps of life:" hair clippings, clothing scraps, and pictures and messages about their detained-disappeared loved ones. Scraps of Life brings together a brief history of the rise of Pinochet dictatorship and moving descriptions of Marjorie Agosins' experiences with these revolutionary artists to give us life-saving stories
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Louise Bourgeois: Pandora's Box
Highly influential, Louise Bourgeois' work is currently at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles - MOCA. Anyone interested in modern or conceptual art and women as artists should see this show. Enjoy the film.
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