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Kristi Beisecker is a graphic designer, photographer, printmaker and alternative scientist whose interested in making images through two contrasting elements. She is also a blogger in lifestyle, travel, wellness and health, art and design, beauty and fashion.

Interning for no pay

In my opinion never ever accept an internship for no pay.

It is expressing a one way deal, intern doing free work for an employer: it also expresses a bit of selfishness within the company. If you can’t pay your intern, don’t offer one!

Last summer I got involved with a business ordeal. I found that this gallery was opening in Quincy, Ma on craigslist and thought it would be a great opportunity. I sent them my resume and portfolio and they responded. We set up an interview in Quincy and it started off great and ended great! They loved my work, my insight, etc. and thought I’d be a great addition. Well some time down the road I got a bit frustrated with their lack of communication regarding my involvement with this whole process and sent an email which they interpreted as me not being interested! They wanted me to teach classes during the summer when they thought they would open at the beginning of: so I set up a calender; organized the classes, the supplies and had everything up and ready. And things started to fall apart from there…

In return for setting up the classes, they would showcase 14 of my photographs I had taken that summer. That would have been really cool! They wanted large frames and smaller 5×6 photos for purchase. I had gotten postcards with my contact info and put the photos on that. I probably spent around $80 getting this all together. By now they kept delaying the opening date and its now the end of August. I had dropped everything off before I left for college. Then when they finally opened, I noticed photos on facebook of the place and noticed my photographs weren’t even on the walls. I heard nothing about the photos being accepted or not accepted so I again sent them another email asking what’s up… they said they wouldn’t put them up because the presentation was not what they expected: because apparently by meaning “black frame” they meant your standard gallery frame from Dick Blicks and shrink wrap envelopes instead of shrink wrap wrapping for easter baskets. They NEVER specified any of this.

This “art director” was a professor. I’d be damned if she was ever my professor. A simple spec sheet given to me via email would’ve saved so many arguments.

Yes. I did argue with this art director about her refusal of my artwork. I had spent money and time putting that crap together and what did she respond with? The same thing. That SHE spent more time and money getting the gallery together. NO SHIT.

It appeared that she didn’t know how to treat people in business. I hope she knew how much it took to organize and pay for all the presentation supplies. They took the class stuff but never paid me back at all. For anything. Since that summer I haven’t heard a peep from them.

I had asked my mom to get the photos from the gallery because I wanted to submit some of them to the Banafactory Photography show that was going on in the Fall (my pieces weren’t accepted) and when my mom came back she said it had FAIL written all over it.

They had used a BLUE RUSSIAN GREY for the walls. WHO uses a grey for gallery walls?! I understand you want to make it more hip and had a vision but you gotta do what’s expected in a gallery =/

In the end, unless the experience is REALLY worth it, don’t do it.

“Labels”

Okay, so you know the field at the bottom of the post field when you create a new post? That field is, indeed important.

If you want an organized blog, a really good way is to label all your posts. I did mine and it didn’t take long. When you view your post and click a label, it will bring up all the posts that are associated with that label. Then you can create a sub navigation like I have for your blog. I’ve been doing this for awhile and its probably the best way to navigate through your blog and to organize it. 🙂

What I hope to accomplish this summer

I hate making lists, because I never follow them. But perhaps this time I’ll be motivated enough. I think I’m really glad to be home this summer. Strange.


  1. Take french classes so I can graduate this winter
  2. Find a Job
  3. If no job, take a class in motion graphics
  4. Get a significant head start on my book.
  5. Spend time at the new Cape house
  6. Use up a significant amount of my Jewelry supplies
  7. Possibly sell what I make at Wellfleet Flea Market (down at the Cape close to the Cape house)
  8. Take a lot of photos
  9. Try and define a new exercise routine
  10. Be motivated enough to craft, and produce some ideas I have in my head regarding projects

Sounds good. 😀

Mother’s Day Necklace

Made this for my Grandma for mother’s day.
I make her a necklace for every holiday because my mom buys her clothes and then I make her jewelry to go with it.

I need to start documenting them.

This isn’t one of the best pieces I’ve done, but I still like it 🙂

Runes – Esoteric Design Inspiration

So thanks to my wonderful mom, she got me a new set of rune stones! Classic ones too! Mine are exactly like the picture above.

The Runic Alphabet, also called Futhark, writing system of uncertain origin used by Germanic peoples of northern Europe, Britain, Scandinavia, and Iceland from about the 3rd century to the 16th or 17th century AD. Runic writing appeared rather late in the history of writing and is clearly derived from one of the alphabets of the Mediterranean area. Because of its angular letter forms, however, and because early runic inscriptions were written from right to left like the earliest alphabets, runic writing seems to belong to a more ancient system.

Scholars have attempted to derive it from the Greek or Latin alphabets, either capitals or cursive forms, at any period from the 6th century BC to the 5th century AD. A likely theory is that the runic alphabet was developed by the Goths, a Germanic people, from the Etruscan alphabet of northern Italy and was perhaps also influenced by the Latin alphabet in the 1st or 2nd century BC.

Two inscriptions, the Negau and the Maria Saalerberg inscriptions, written in Etruscan script in a Germanic language and dating from the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, respectively, give credence to the theory of Etruscan origins for runic.

There are at least three main varieties of runic script: Early, or Common, Germanic (Teutonic), used in northern Europe before about 800 AD; Anglo-Saxon, or Anglian, used in Britain from the 5th or 6th century to about the 12th century AD; and Nordic, or Scandinavian, used from the 8th to about the 12th or 13th century AD in Scandinavia and Iceland.

After the 12th century, runes were still used occasionally for charms and memorial inscriptions until the 16th or 17th century, chiefly in Scandinavia.

The Early Germanic script had 24 letters, divided into three groups, called ættir, of 8 letters each. The sounds of the first six letters were f, u, th, a, r, and k, respectively, giving the alphabet its name: futhark. The Anglo-Saxon script added letters to the futhark to represent sounds of Old English that did not occur in the languages that had used the Early Germanic script.

Anglo-Saxon had 28 letters, and after about 900 AD it had 33.

There were also some slight differences in letter shape.

The Scandinavian languages were even richer in sounds than Old English; but, instead of adding letters to the futhark to represent the new sounds, the users of the Nordic script compounded the letter values, using the same letter to stand for more than one sound–e.g., one letter for k and g, one letter for a, æ, and o. This practice eventually resulted in the reduction of the futhark to 16 letters.

Other varieties of runes included the Hälsinge Runes, the Manx Runes, and the stungnar runir, or “dotted runes,” all of which were variants of the Nordic script. More than 4,000 runic inscriptions and several runic manuscripts are extant.

Approximately 2,500 of these come from Sweden, the remainder being from Norway, Denmark and Schleswig, Britain, Iceland, various islands off the coast of Britain and Scandinavia, and other countries of Europe, including France, Germany, Ukraine, and Russia.

Futhark actually is analogous to our “alphabet”, in that f,u, th, a, r, and k are the first 6 Runic letters, while alpha and beta are the first 2 Greek letters. This order must have had some mneumonic function that was not preserved. (Just like why aleph, beth, and gimmel are the first 3 letters in Phoenician/Ugaritic).

Source: http://www.crystalinks.com/futhark.htm

Symbol Quote

…”So they devised ciphers, codes and symbolism for the their own and future generations to decipher. Symbols are hidden all around us like a trail of clues leading towards treasure. We come into contact with them everywhere we go; from the symbolic architecture and stained glass windows of medieval churches, to, for example, the logo on a company van.

Mankind has used this subtle language for thousands of years. Through each generation, this alternative form of communication has developed and grown increasingly complex, making it more difficult to decipher. The only way to discover the secrets of symbolism is to break down each and every painting, building or text into every possible meaning, and consider both the people who created these artefacts and the time in which they lived.” – The Shining Ones: The World’s most powerful secret society revealed.Philip Gardiner

Books to Read

The Shining Ones: The most powerful secret society reveal
http://books.google.com/books?id=twm-qEmxw38C&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+shining+ones+egypt&hl=en&ei=edbCTcSRJsLSgQfL3rnxAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=1&ved=0CC0QuwUwAA#v=onepage&q=the%20shining%20ones%20egypt&f=false

Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man by Albert Churchward
http://books.google.com/books?id=LZ8RfTAR8tsC&pg=PA234&dq=the+shining+ones+egypt&hl=en&ei=e9_CTfDjCYHJgQflnqyGAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=9&ved=0CFQQuwUwCDgU#v=onepage&q=the%20shining%20ones%20egypt&f=false

So-called Angelic Script – light is the inspiration for script fonts?

There is an esoteric side to everything, no doubt. That is why I like this school of thought.

Some say script is just the effect of primitive writing. Calligraphy was just a primitive writing style and things developed after the printing press into the print penmanship we know of today.

But one must ask, what made us use flowing inky lines? What in our subconscious told us that flowing lines were easier than architectural letters?

Some say is has to do with the flow of energy and some say it is actually the manifestation of our thoughts (which is light with sound attached).

The artist, Bryan Deflores says about his work:

The channeled art pieces/accelerators contained within these galleries are designed to trigger a dramatic reconfiguration of our consciousness; assisting us to return to our original blueprints of divine perfection and connection. Although many of these images are intense and highly complex, it is important to understand that their primary purpose is to connect you with the new thought fields currently merging with our planetary matrix. All image originals are drawn ‘by hand’ in a matter of minutes and are often created several at a time. To manifest these art pieces, I use Prismacolor pencils and/or gold and silver metallic markers on Canson drawing paper.

THE GRIDWORKERS #74 5th dimensional Arcturian lightships assisting in healing and activating the planetary grid system. Vanadinite.

THE SCIENCE OF MIRACLES #71 Original innocence shifts the body consciousness into experiencing more joy and reverence for all of creation; divine creativity. Rhodochrosite

DIE EGO, DIE #67 Aboriginal Dreamtime Accelerator This image organizes the true inner management principals of the mind while gently unraveling the ‘old’ Ego Structure. Your strategies will falter and fail as this accelerator brings all inner conflicts to a halt.

PERCEPTIONTATION #73 Aboriginal Dreamtime Accelerator Serendipitous reunion; a portal into an unexplored dimension now ready to be explored; eliminates prejudice of off-planet creational processes; Higher Self bridge for accessing information of & to the Self; assists one with objective witnessing & infinite perspective.

THE VRIL POWER #75 Activates all energy centers in the body; also called the Kundalini Energy, each individual’s personal power located at the base of the spine; liquid light acceleration fluid. Sugelite and Carnelian.

PILLARS OF HERCULES #5 Manifests divine intervention; calls forth the ‘Power of the Gods’; harmony and balance; strength and courage; support & empowerment.

THE TITAN #62 Seven ships united, bringing the program for rebalancing Earth; ancient shield of protection to impact the current morphogenetic field, allows transcendence of time and space for co-creation; redistributes commonalities throughout the grid.

ETERNAL LIGHT #35 Spark of creation; divine custodian; ignites a chain reaction of sustained light within the physical body; designed by the Progress Helpers and the Superangels.

Depending on your view of channeling (I prefer the word ‘transmission’) these can have a very powerful effect spiritually but are also a good source of design inspiration.

The Quarantine and Military Logos

Article by David Wilcock:

“THE RULES”

As you may already know, I have been fortunate enough to interact with multiple witnesses who have worked in various levels of the UFO cover-up — some at levels significantly above the need-to-know basis of the President of the United States.

When you speak with the top-level insiders in the black-ops community, you often hear them mention THE RULES.

These projects are so compartmentalized that only the high-level people are even aware that THE RULES exist — or of how far-reaching they are.
It has taken me years of interviews to explore and unravel this strange subject — particularly because of the potential for confusion.
Sometimes, when insiders talk about THE RULES, they are talking about guidelines their own group insists they follow — such as secrets they must keep, disinformation they are expected to pass along, who gets to know how much, what mistakes are bad enough to get you killed, et cetera.
However, over the course of many conversations, I increasingly realized there was another level of THE RULES — a level they have absolutely no control over. 

WHAT ARE “THE RULES”?

In this greater cosmic sense, THE RULES are a set of principles that the insider black-ops community has felt, for at least the past century, were as fixed and unchangeable as the Universe itself.
They also believed THE RULES would continue, unaltered, for millions of years. Apparently they have time-viewing technology that led them to believe this was the case.

The idea that this was a manipulated timeline, and not necessarily the real future, was far too mind-blowing for them to ever consider — particularly since you have people living within these timelines, and you can go and visit them and live there yourself.
Nonetheless, all ETs visiting the Earth must operate within THE RULES. It is impossible for them not to.

WHO MAKES “THE RULES?”

One day, only a few weeks ago, I finally got smart enough to bluntly ask one of my main contacts, “Who makes THE RULES?”

The reply was: “Who makes gravity? Who makes the sun rise and set? Who makes the Galaxy spin?

“We don’t know who makes THE RULES, David, but we have no choice but to follow them. There is no workaround. There is no other way. That’s why they’re THE RULES.”

This is a strange subject, and will undoubtedly lead to some folks laughing and thinking I’m crazy… but this is what you hear about when you talk to these insiders yourself.

At the highest levels of the UFO cover-up, it is well-understood that events on Earth, and indeed throughout the inhabited galaxy, are being managed and controlled — by unseen forces.

Some things are allowed to happen… and others are not.

THE ‘QUARANTINE’

As one key example of THE RULES, our Earth is under a ‘Quarantine’ that prevents most ETs from being able to enter our airspace in a way that would be visible to the naked eye — except in rare, unpredictable and brief bursts of time.

This is the main reason why we don’t see more visible UFOs — particularly in the case of negatively-oriented ETs. In fact, without this Quarantine, negative ETs would have invaded and taken over this planet eons ago.

This Quarantine also appears to allow those planetary controllers here on Earth to do whatever they want. Or so they thought.

The Quarantine is maintained by a vast network of super-advanced, indestructible satellites surrounding the Earth — built by very high-level ETs. These satellites keep humanity locked in — and everyone else locked out.

The insiders do not know who built these satellites, nor precisely why they are there. It’s simply another part of THE RULES.

When you view the patches of US Space Command or Navy Space Command, they picture the Earth surrounded by two circles, similar to the typical depiction of electron orbitals around an atom.

This symbolizes the Quarantine — which protects us from the bad guys.

LET’S SEE SOME PATCHES

On this official military website, you can find a patch commemorating the 25th anniversary of Air Force Space Command — from 1982 to 2007. You can see the two rings around the Earth clearly depicted, as well as a stylized image of a back-engineered ET spacecraft in flight:

From what I’ve heard, these triangular craft are enormous in size — taking quite some time to walk from one end to the other — and are already in operation throughout the galaxy. The shape you see in these emblems is almost exactly what they look like.

UNITED STATES SPACE COMMAND

If you read this US Space Command page, you will find very specific information about who was in charge, when they were in charge, and what they allegedly were up to… and it includes the following emblem, featuring the rings I’m talking about:

Notice the crosses on each of the rings. We’ll get back to that in a minute.

You can also read about US Space Command in this article on Space.com — in an interview with Gene McCall, chief scientist for the Air Force Space Command. Naturally, the article attempts to put a mundane spin on the story and does not include any real ‘juice’ of Disclosure.

AIR FORCE SPACE COMMAND

You again see the rings around the Earth in the Air Force Space Command patch. This was originally featured on the official Air Force Space Command website, which has since been taken down.

However, at this website, there is a comprehensive series of mirrored links to what was originally on these official websites — along with the now-defunct links. I suggest saving your own copy in case it gets taken down.

When you go to this mirror site and sort through the images and text, this triangular metallic flying machine image appears over and over again on various badges and emblems — along with the two “quarantine rings”:

Also, again notice the two crosses on either side of the delta-shaped spacecraft — crosses that directly contact the rings.

These, I believe, are meant to be Knights Templar crosses.

THE “KNIGHTS TEMPORAL”

In a Project Camelot interview, Gordon Novel revealed that these insiders like to refer to themselves as the Knights Temporal:

http://www.projectcamelot.org/lang/en/gordon_novel_interview_transcript_en.html

K: When you say “we,” who’s we?

The Knights Temporal

G: Well, I have a group of folks that I call the Knights Temporal.

The most prominent aerospace engineers and physicists in the world today are all part of a team we call the RAM group. We call ourselves the Knights Temporal.

We took a page out of the idea of the Templars, who basically blackmailed the Pope to give them the fiefdoms over Europe. They created the banking orders we have today.

Since we believe the technology is rooted in time, we call ourselves the Knights Temporal. The alien technology, the UFO, is basically a flying time machine. That’s what we believe, and it’s all we know about it.

What Novel does not say here is that these international bankers did not merely “take a page out of the idea of the Templars.” These groups are the direct descendants of the Knight Templars — and have still kept all their secrets.

NAVAL SPACE COMMAND

The same two “quarantine rings” appear in the emblem for the Naval Space Command, also mirrored at the above site:

“TOP HAND” AT VANDENBURG AFB

This next patch can be found on the official Vandenburg Air Force Base website on Strategic Air Command.com.

Again we see a cross on one of the Earth’s protective rings. The sword, as we shall see, appears to be a Knight Templar blade.

With the line “Strengthen the Shield,” there is a clear implication here that the two rings around the Earth could be some sort of ‘shield’ that we want to make sure stays strong.

Further, there is the suggestion that this shield may be at least partially enforced by that same weird delta-shaped craft:

AFSST 76TH SPACE OPS

Also check out this “AFSST 76th Space Ops” patch from the same site — the official Vandenburg Air Force Base website on Strategic Air Command.com.

Again we see one of the “quarantine rings” as well as the same flying metallic triangle — this time with wings around it just in case you didn’t get the point that it flies.

Two smaller delta-shaped craft also flank the AFSST acronym at the bottom:

JOINT FUNCTIONAL COMPONENT COMMAND FOR SPACE

The “quarantine rings” and flying metallic triangles show up again in the emblem for the Joint Functional Component Command for Space, which has its own official Wikipedia page here:

As it says on the Wikipedia page, according to Lieutenant General William L. Shelton, “Our prime mission directive in JFCC SPACE is to ensure our freedom of action in space, while preventing adversary use of space against us.”

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE

These badges from Schriever Air Force Base follow the same theme — quarantine rings and peculiar aircraft operating far outside the Earth’s atmosphere — including an orange object that could be a comet, but could also be a saucer-shaped craft.

Notice the difference in size between the small black delta-shaped craft and the larger metallic delta-shaped craft in the first badge below.

That size difference may not be an indication that one is closer than the other — it may acutally be a direct indication of how huge the larger craft is in comparison to the black one:

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Why Bother?

Why do I even bother anymore? Why do I even try to please the people around me when all they’ve done is pretty much treat me like shit? What did I do to receive this kind of karma, or is it all in my mind?

This is going to be a rather off topic post so FYI..

I’ve been searching all my life for a companion, someone who is like minded… I’ve tried and yet my friendships dwindle after a year or two. Growing up my so-called best friends left me after two years… mysteriously. They would move, have excuses, etc I never understood that. I think part of it I am bored with them, people don’t ask me to do things and I’m afraid if I am the initiator I’ll be taken advantage of because that’s happened in the past. I feel like people take advantage of me because of my good nature, I don’t mind offering my services to people, but it comes to the point where its like, where’s my turn? My friendships usually turn into one sided friendships which I hate.

Why do I try to be the best I can be when no one around me appreciates what I do?

I try to please my parents but its just so difficult… last time I spoke with them I told them I was probably getting at least an A- in Modern Art and all they gave me was a “good for you”. That’s it?

I am sick and tired of pushing to achieve to be finally be good at something and then it all come crashing down on me. I was never considered good at anything naturally.

I don’t want to be complaining on here, but I’m kind of fed up.

I am tired of giving my sympathy and getting nothing in return.

I am tired of being there for people when they are never there for me.

I really wish I could stop caring about all this, but this has gone on throughout my life.

Each stage of my life (middle school, high school + College) I thought it would be different. Yes, it only got a little better… but not really.

People make me happy, I love being around people and cracking jokes and making people laugh.

But when it comes time for close relationships or friendships, forget it. Not gonna happen.

Ugh.