I’m a Snapdragon…

"Mischief is your middle name, but your first is friend. You are quite the prankster that loves to make other people laugh."

http://www.thisgardenisillegal.com/flower-quiz

plastic fantastic…

I have also collected these colourful nice tins!
But I haven’t done anything with it jet… I thought this was a great idea…

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=246164.0

From one of my favourite sites…
http://elmundodelreciclaje.blogspot.com/

I at mar de color rosa…

I at mar de color rosa… I’m glad for these photos at this nice, interesting and once again REALLY good jewellery blog!

This is “old” jewelleries of my, but if you want to see them and other, you can visit my website; www.paula.nu



http://www.mardecolorrosa.blogspot.com/


M'agrada d'aquesta joiera la facilitat que té d'experimentar amb els materials. Colors i textures semblen conduir-la cap a les formes que es manifesten amb tota llibertat, les seves peces em transmeten frescor i il.lusió. Malgrat el poc que he pogut intercanviar amb ella i per la informació que he trobat al seu bloc i al seu web intueixo que és una persona molt sensible i inquieta, algun dia m'agradaria conèixer-la.



TRANSLATION by Dario Rumbo:

What I like about this jewellery maker is the ease with which she uses and experiments with materials.

Colours and textures seem to drive us further into new shapes that really manifest/express themselves with total freedom.

Her pieces transmit to me a lot of joy and have a fresh feel to it.

Even though we have only exchange very little info between us and the only stuff I know about her is what comes/appears in her site and blog, she seemsto me a very sensitive and a very alive/lively person. I wish I could meet her in person one day.

still life...

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Art at midsummer, a lemon in water…

plan B, midsummer 2008.

Plan B, midsummer 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsummer

I and my friends Agneta and Mariann celebrate the midsummer in my small kitchen…
First we had the plan to go out, having picnic in the public park; Slottsskogen… But it was too rainy for a picnic, so…

It was a nice evening with good midsummer food, talk and playing games… It was not a full night party, because I have to go up and work at Saturday.

confused… but that don’t have to be a bad feeling... or?!

For the moment I’m stuck into a lot of different thoughts, and I don’t feel that I have the time or power to do noting with all this ideas and materials… Just now I’m collecting pics, happenings etc. to get some new fresh inspiration and power to start working with my art things…

the summer feeling…

This view could be anywhere in Sweden, this is in the city of Gothenburg…
Here we talk; same, same but different… It’s just the geographic places that separate the mini golf from another…

Today it was typical Swedish summer weather, rain in the air but still warm, NO sun at all…

lost and found…

Lost and found…
It’s only in movies you got a second chance of love…

climb or take of the shoes…

Just a very funny photo from an hair studio down town, it feels like nobody have taking care of this window for a very long time, and it’s funny with a big woman who need to take her shoes of, and the small man standing at some kind of mountain, may be that’s a symbol of love?! We have to do some offer for the one we love, climb or take of the shoes…

same, same but different…

From:
fischli & weiss: flowers and questions
january 30, 2008 - march 16, 2008
palazzo litta, milan, italyorganized by fondazione nicola trussardi http://www.fondazionenicolatrussardi.com

'figments' from 'suddenly this overview', 1981-2006
The image from http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/fischliandweiss4.html

Photo from internet... Chris Vicini...

Aren’t really close to Chris Vicinis ceramic art?!

http://chrisvicini.com/

I thought so when I saw this… But I don’t think someone have “stolen” it from each others,

I think we are living in the same time of inspiration, so it’s more or less fantastic that not more similar things comes up.

I thought that this was a skateboard for me…

skateboarding is not a crime, may be it just design at this time???

Ted Hesselbom opening speaks...

A proud guy, it was him who had done this skateboard…

This one I like...

Johan try to bench surf or… I don’t know…

A photo of a photo...

Johan and Daniel....

Daniel thought this was the greatest skateboard, I and I can see why… Not so much on it, more to your own imagination.

Skate or die… that was the opening word from Ted Hesselbom at Röhsska museet. http://www.designmuseum.se/

I was at this exhibition opening with my friend Johan and his friend Daniel, and I have to say I’m glad for it…
Because even if it was a lot of nice colour and shapes at this skateboard exhibition, the one and only impression I got was; SURFACE!
Why was it a lot of fishes painting on the boards??? May be because of that the skateboard have come from the windsurfer culture, that the windsurfer need some other “tools” when the wind was gone??? Otherwise I don’t understand why all the fish motives were there… or where come all the “hard core” motives from???

I have to tell that I leave this exhibition with a lot of questions and a very few answers, even if Johan and Daniel are skate guys…
I think this exhibition is for people who already know everything about skateboard and the culture around this…

But another experience was that at this exhibition opening it was mostly guys/men there! That was a nice surprise!

http://www.skatestudyhouse.com/
http://elmundodelreciclaje.blogspot.com/

History.

"There is no definitive origin or inventor of the skateboard. One proposed origin is that skateboards arose in the 1930s and 1940s, when children would participate in soapbox races, using soap-boxes attached to wooden planks on rollerskate wheels. When the soap-box became detached from the plank, children would ride these primitive "skateboards". Another suggests that the skateboard was created directly from the adaptation of a single roller skate taken apart and nailed to a 2x4, without the soapbox at all and that it was often surfers looking to recreate the feel of surfing on the land when the surf was flat.
Retail skateboards were first marketed in 1958 by Bill and Mark Richards of Dana Point, California. They attached roller skate wheels from the Chicago Roller Skate Company to a plank of wood and sold them in their Val Surf Shops.[1]
The skateboard has evolved since the first mass produced models in the 1960s. Boards in the past were often made in the shape of a surfboard, with no concavity and constructed of solid wood, plastic, even metal. The wheels were usually made of a clay composite, or steel and the trucks (axles) were less sturdy and initially of a 'single-action' design compared to today's 'double-action'."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboard