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What is the world coming to?
Rumors of the world ending delivered to us via false prophets and true prophets. A sense of uncertainty has overcome humanity I think. With the world’s economical system in the dumps and little hope for a positive future, I don’t blame humanity for thinking the world may end. I have become very interested in humanities destiny because I am sensitive to foretelling future events. Although I would never call myself a prophet. No one should, why? Because time doesn’t exist. Time is a physical law of this dimension. A psychic reads the current energy and if the energy changes; time changes, the outcome changes. One doesn’t need a PHD in astrophysics to determine that time is caused by motion which is the fourth axis. We only need to observe the rotation of the earth’s axis to determine planetary time. Time is evolutionary, it evolves from morning to midday to evening to night. Time isn’t instant, hardly anything in life is instant.

Pablo Picasso once said, “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”

As an art student my professors have stressed numerous laws and rules that we should follow during our own processes. My professors have also stressed the difference between art and design. The major difference is that art establishes the strongest emotional bond between the artist and their audience. On the other hand, the designer’s job isn’t to invent something new, but to communicate something that already exists, for a purpose. Good art sends a different message to everyone. Good design sends the SAME message to everyone. Within design there are specific principles that should be paid attention to, in art such principles are more likely to not exist.

In design its’ principles are; balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, proportion, space and unity. Essentially all design disciplines follow the same principles. In mysticism, the physical universe is seen as architecture. The secret societies especially the Freemasons call the God concept the Great Architect of the Universe. Here is where I plead my case; once one learns the principles of design of one design discipline he can then apply them to other design disciplines, including architecture and therefore the physical world.

The universe, with both physical and spiritual, is the completed composition, that which expresses the design principle of unity and oneness. In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus once said to his disciples, ‎”On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?” Within this divine composition we face contrast and the struggle to keep balance. Contrast expresses the positive and negative magnetism that holds the physical shell together. Without contrast, or opposites our bodies and the physical world cannot function. Movement or motion creates the illusion of time and therefore change. The Law of Motion changes not, but all things change in motion. For motion is the force that holds events separate, each in its own proper place. Space is the boundless, three-dimensional extent in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction. Motion is time, to stop time, to end it creates stillness, oneness. Although modern physicists usually consider it, with motion, to be part of the boundless four-dimensional continuum known as space-time. Harmonic Proportion is essential to keeping the building of physical reality in balance. In the Vedic civilization of the Far East, the Vedas delivered the science of architecture, or Vastu. Vastu is a system of design based on directional alignments. Vastu shastra prescribes desirable characteristics for sites and buildings based on flow of energy (prana in Sanskrit). Many of the rules are attributed to cosmological considerations – the sun’s path, the rotation of the earth, magnetic field, etc. The harmonic proportions, human proportions, cosmological/astronomical proportions and orientations, and various aspects of sacred geometry (the vesica piscis), pentagram, golden ratio, and small whole-number ratios were all applied as part of the practice of architectural design. The rule of emphasis is seen as synchronistic events. Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events, that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner. Synchronistic events reveal an underlying pattern, a conceptual framework that encompasses, but is larger than, any of the systems that display the synchronicity.

Romany Vardo – Gypsy Wagon/Caravan

Lately, I have been obsessing (I even had a dream about it) about gypsy caravans, especially like the one in the picture above. Yes, the prairie covered wagons were probably derived from a gypsy caravan. Generally they are $12,000 but the thought of creating your own vehicle is enlightening. I had a dream about being in a covered wagon out in the Amish country in Pennsylvania, and if you know me, I don’t remember my dreams often. I woke up so pleased and happy from that dream. I think its’ a calling.

Gypsy Caravans seem perfect for my personality… just finding a builder in the USA may be tough (since Gypsy Caravans originally came from England).

A cute little room with a bed and a small kitchen is all really I need. I am also thinking about adding solar panels for electricity to modernize it. Love love love

Alive

Heyyyyy I’m alive. 🙂 Just been semi-busy… but doing boring stuff that’s not worthy to blog about. I’ve started my second session of french classes this summer. Not sure how well I did last session yet. Family finally got the cape house under our belts, so I’ve been busy going to the cape during the weekends. So. Much. Fun.

We went last weekend. Went to a couple of the local beaches and I found a piece of genuine (haha) sea glass! Sea glass is rare b/c people are becoming more environmentally aware so they aren’t throwing it into the ocean.. kinda sad for jewelers and crafters who use it and now have to use the fake stuff.

After the beach, my mom and I went to the Artists’ Guild Craft faire on the Eastham common. Eastham as well as Orleans is known for their old fashioned windmills and I went up Eastham’s never been in a wooden windmill before :P. But we met a jeweler at the craft faire and we’re having the sea glass I found made into a pendant with a star fish. So excited to see it. I can’t believe I had that piece in my bag! I usually keep things I really like that I find on the beach with me instead of tossing it into the bucket and having it get mixed with all the shells we’ve collected over the years.

I’ve also spending my time on Pinterest which is an awesome addicting website that allows you to pin whatever you find on the internet onto “boards” and different categories. I have lots of boards already around 35 I think. Right now I was working on a “Food Shopping List” board when Pinterest decided to go down =(. Its kinda helping me keep organized. Since I can see everything I’ve ever wished for or visually thought of all in one place. I guess since its’ down I should go to bed =D


Mom and dad in front of the cape house

We’re going back this weekend so I’ll take lots of pictures since we’re a little more settled now. =) Two more days of class and then back to the cape! Love this.

“Papier Mache” Clay

Easy Homemade clay, all you need is newspaper and wallpaper paste.

This is the easiest and cheapest recipe for paper clay.

Steps:

1. Get your newspaper
2. Soak it in water.
3. Tear it into strips. Into a bucket
4. Put more water in it so it just barely covers the paper.
5. Stir it up using a dremmel tool blender, food processor or regular blender.
6. Blend it into a pulp
7. Transfer some pulp into another bucket. Poor more water into the 1st bucket and stir more.
8. Get a cotton (or mesh) bag and put pulp in it and strain it.
9. Take strained pulp and put into the 2nd bucket.
10. Take some wallpaper paste and sprinkle it onto pulp.
11. Stomp/Kneed pulp into a clay.

This technique has been the only technique that uses very little glue.

According to www.wallpaperinstaller.com Cellulose is common binder for a substitute for natural gums and a stabilizer in emulsions as well as a thickening agent. It can be simply created using NaOH (Sodium hydroxide) which dissolves the wood or cotton with an alkali.

Cellulose
“Cellulose methyl ether, produced by treating cellulose from wood or cotton with an alkali, such as sodium hydroxide, followed by methyl chloride. The resulting product is a white granular solid, soluble in cold water but insoluble in hot water. In addition to being used as an adhesive, it is used as a thickening agent, as a substitute for natural gums, and as a stabilizer in emulsions.”
-from Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books Dictionary from the Conservation On-Line (COOL) website

“Methyl cellulose occurs as practically odorless and tasteless, white to yellowish-white granules or powder. The pH of a 1% w/v solution is in the range of 5.5 to 8.0. Its angle of repose is about 40 degrees to 50 degrees and it is hygroscopic. It swells and disperses slowly in cold water to form a clear-to-opalescent, viscous, colloidal dispersion. The viscosity is increased with increased concentrations. The viscosity decreases with increased temperatures to about 50 degrees to 60 degrees Celsius, where gel formation occurs. The thermogelation is reversible when the viscous solution reforms upon cooling.”
-from Wade A., Weller P.J. (eds) Handbook of Pharmaceutical Compounding.

In paperhanging, cellulose has the highest water content of any paste in general use (around 97%). It usually comes in a small box and is packaged as a white powder. It is mixed with cold water on the job and can be used with a variety of lightweight materials such as porous papers, grasscloth and silk. It’s adhesion is mostly of the mechanical type. It leaves very little solids behind and is not suitable for many wallcoverings which require greater amounts of initial tack and holding power.

Rug out of old t-shirts

What does it take to transform a pile of old T-shirts into spectacular works of woven art? Just a spare hula hoop or embroidery hoop and the techniques we’ll show you here. The oversize looms and easy-to-use loops of T-shirt fabric make these projects particularly appealing to beginning weavers. Learn the basic hoop weaving technique by crafting a colorful accent rug to brighten up a room. And if you want to take the weaving a little further, check out our basket and chair pad weaves

Before you begin, some terms you need to know: the warp is the material you string on the hoop, the weft is the material you weave with.
Source: http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/hula-hoop-rug-995304/print/

Hermeticism in Judiasm

In Judiasm, the Hermetic influences emerged in the Kabbalah. the short and fundamental Kabbalistic text Sepher Yezirah (the “Book of Creation,” ca. third century A.D.) expounds a cosmology, notable the sevenfold one of the planets, days of the week, openings in the head and body, etc, and the twelve-fold one of the zodiac, directions of space, monts, organs of the body, etc. It describes a cosmos not torn between good and evil, but held in polarity by positive and negative energies. The method of salvation is through becoming aware of oneself as a microcosm, seating the “King on his Throne” (the divine presence) in the center of life. Again we have a doctrine that is affirmative of nature and the body, and dedicated to the realization of the macrocosm in the microcosm. the esoteric idea of Israel is also a Hermetic one: it is that the Jews are called upon to bear witness to the divine order on earth. Just as in Hermetism the earth, including the humb body, is replete with celestial influences, so the Jewish way of life is designed to ensure that every action carries a spiritual significance.

From the Golden Thread, translated by Joscelyn Godwin, (C) 2007, reproduced by permission of Quest Books, the imprint of the Theosophical Publishing Housel

Weather War

“The key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy.” – Professor Gordon J.F. MacDonald.