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Cool Industrial Galactic Jewelry


Engineered time: Gears V5… Beautiful heliotrope crystal steampunk necklace $50.00

So I ran across this jewelry store on ETSY and I love it. I love their selection and it pretty much correlates to my style and everything. I love most of their descriptions and I think I am getting myself a pair of earrings.


Industrial Elegance: Neptune Termination $39.00

This is my favorite out of them all.

$25 for a pair of earrings is really not all that bad considering that they are handcrafted and are a unique batch. I can’t really decide which one to get first. =)

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*wipes drool off of keyboard*

Life’s Design – Welcome to the Microverse

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, detected tiny quartz-like crystals sprinkled in young planetary systems. The crystals, which are types of silica minerals called cristobalite and tridymite, can be seen close-up in the black-and-white insets (cristobalite is on the left, and tridymite on the right). The main picture is an artist’s concept of a young star and its swirling disk of planet-forming materials.

Cristobalite and tridymite are thought to be two of many planet ingredients. On Earth, they are normally found as tiny crystals in volcanic lava flows and meteorites from space. These minerals are both related to quartz. For example, if you were to heat the familiar quartz crystals often sold as mystical tokens, the quartz would transform into cristobalite and tridymite. Source
^ No surprise that cristobalite and trdymite were found…


Snow Crystals


Gultamate Crystal


Snowflake closeup


Soybean cyst nematode and egg


Tococara canis. This is a scanning electron microscope picture of the microscopic juvenile forms of the dog parasite Toxocara canis


Guitar String


Butterfly tongue


Pollen

Hairs on seed of Rochelia Persica

I want a SEM.
Too bad I can’t afford one now…
Next up Defraction Patterns

Quest of Mysteries

My astrologer friend Jen did a solar return review and said,”And your mind will as usual be focused on the 9th house things of philosophy/spirituality/learning/the mysteries/wisdom…” not too surprising since that is all I seem to be thinking about these days since the summer of 09…

I can’t believe its’ almost been two years of constant research on philosophy/spirituality/the mysteries/wisdom. I have learned so much. Sometimes I feel like Gandalf lol. The Hermit, yeah, that’d be me. But these discoveries are so exciting to me because they relate to my career, so amazingly so. It is quite amazing how much mysticism is in design as well as philosophy and spirituality… just need to look at it in the right light 😉

Like for example, I’ve always thought the old symbols were a language of sorts and always believed that the older the things are, the closer they are to the source and therefore have more truth. Part of the reason why I keep referring to Kabbalah, since Kabbalah seeks to define the nature of the universe and the human being, the nature and purpose of existence, and various other ontological questions. It is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an eternal and mysterious Creator and the mortal and finite universe (His creation). It is a school of thought concerned with the mystical aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It can be traced back to the Sumerians. In agreement with biblical history, Sumerian texts documented stories of extraterrestrials called ‘star gods’ who interbred with human women and took the eartly kings to the stars. According to the Sumerians, the ‘star gods’ were from Mars, the star system Pleiades and the star Sirius. The Sumerian texts also contain drawings of the solar system.

Yayayaya.

HIS-STORY is not all what it seems, yeah.
History given to us is so fake lolz

yaya and the Egyptians colonized Scotland…

The Egyptologist, Lorraine Evans, ‘Kingdom of the Ark’, suggests that the colonists were led by Princess Scotia, daughter of Akhenaten and half sister to Tutankhamen. Scotia’s descendents went on to become of the High kings of Ireland at TARA in County Meath and then continued on to Scotland which means ‘Land of Scotia’.

Yaya, I believe it. Did you know England is also a big hot spot for crop circle activity and UFO sightings? It all has to do with secret socities 😉
Ancient symbolism time….

SWASTIKA.
Okay, was not just a nazi thing.

The swastika (Sanskrit: स्वास्तिक) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India.

WHAT WHAT WHAT.
Swastika.
Ancient India. INdus… INca…

Swastika… what did it mean and how did the INDUS used it?!

According to the esoteric student run magazine, Knowledge of Reality, the Swastika was used to explain Atomic theory! AYE.

The ancients used myth, folklore and symbolism to explain complex math and science.
WHY?
Cause they recognized the artistic, visionary, archetypal, graphic MIND. WHOO.
It is then NO surprise that a Graphic Designer by the name of Bryan Kemila outlined the reality of the 3rd Dimension using Kabbalah, stating that ALL things, are symbolic and mean something subliminally and all relate through ‘hypnotic suggestion’ or subliminal suggestion… this is ALL subconscious work! If you can’t recognize the subconscious being a reality you are too entranced within this realm 😉 Lighten up, seriously 😛

Subliminals are constructed through such techniques as simple shapes, sounds and colours, and then more complex, multi-layered methods, such as reverse imagery, reverse symbolism, distorted symbolism, reverse speech patterns, neuro-linguistic (brain language) programming techniques, and the elaborate use of the language and number systems, among other devious modes of manipulation.

From Knowledge of Reality,

The sages that oversaw its development, through their mystic insight and deep meditation, discovered the ancient symbols of spirituality: Aumkara and Swastika. They also discovered many scientific principles that they applied to develop a highly advanced technology. They gave the atom its sanskrit name “Anu”.

Anu… now where have we seen that prefix before? Oh hai Sumerian texts!!!

In Sumerian mythology and later for Assyrians and Babylonians, Anu (also An; (from Sumerian *An = sky, heaven)) was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions.

Sumerian Cuneiform for An
SOooo who else does ANU remind us of? ANUbis of Egypt!

Anubis was associated with the mummification and protection of the dead for their journey into the afterlife.

So this all means that the ATOM (ADAM?!) or ANU has everything to do with afterlife, death and life.

The TRINITY OF RELIGION

The negative female energy is represented by the electrons.

These particles are the smallest of the atom just as the woman is generally physically smaller than the male.

This is the mother goddess of religion – (Semiramis/Isis/Mary etc.) Everything we see in the 3 dimensional space is an electron. In other words, everything visible is the female, or the woman, seducing and distracting all from reality. Again, this is not good or bad, its just the way it is.

The positive male energy is represented by the protons.

The protons are larger than the female electrons.

This is the father god. – (Cronus/Jehovah/El etc.)

The neutral energy is represented by the neutrons.

The neutrons are almost as large as the protons and represent the seed.

This is the son of god. Because of the neutrality of the neutrons, this is the prince of peace – the mediator – (Tammuz/Horus/Zeus/Jesus etc.)

The SEED is ONE with the FATHER.

This is the source of the Triune Godhead in religion. This is the worship of the woman. The Father and the Son are embedded within the nucleus. The woman is revolving around the nucleus. The father and the son (the protons and neutrons) are one in the nucleus. This is recorded in religious writings – The Father and the Son are One. However, this is the worship of the woman due to the fact the electrons are whirling around the protons and neutrons at incredible speed, completely blocking out the protons and neutrons from the naked eye. All we see in the 3D realm are electrons, the female portion of the triune god. This is why everything we see is so captivating, it is the beauty and seduction of the woman.

The manipulation of a light beam produces symbols, shapes, colours and sounds, through thoughts, and the accompanying doctrine (dogma and incantations), directly and deceitfully throws a veil over our ability to connect to wisdom. This occurs because we have been tricked to believe we are physically created and that life is breathed into us. In reality we have always been present, but through hypnotic suggestion, we believed our physical and mental being is reality. Life wasn’t breathed into us. Quite the opposite! A thick veil of deceit, illusion and death, has been cast over us, all in the name of the pretty rainbow of light we refer to as coming from god.

Hypnotic suggestion follows the same routine again and again. We grow up being seduced by, and responding to, the female form. When we reach puberty, we start having thoughts – sexual thoughts. This leads to the hypnotically suggested sex act, which leads to the hypnotically suggested pregnancy, which leads to the hypnotically suggested birth of a baby. All was conjured by one thought after another. Thoughts are lies, without fail. Sex thoughts, as lovely as they are, are lies. The end product of sex is the birth of yet another illusion.

This is not who and what we are! The 3 dimensional body is just the luciferian egregore group thought form, toying with our awareness, and disconnecting us from our original wisdom state.

This manipulation of light, or the male and female (positive and negative) has also produced the sex ritual/fertility symbol in use since ancient Babylon. The 6 pointed star symbolizes the sexual union of the man and the woman, once again forming the seductive hexagon of darkness in the centre. (A white hexagon formed in ADDITIVE COLOUR MIXING is just as symbolically seductive).

The WORD has SOUND which VIBRATES. This VIBRATION is ENERGY that GLOWS, and GLOWING is LIGHT. And LIGHT is EVERYTHING YOU SEE. Everything you SEE is LIGHT, and God is supposed to be the LIGHT of the WORLD. Jesus is supposed to be the LIGHT of the WORLD. Jesus is also, the WORD, we’re told. The LIGHT – WORD – EGO – THOUGHT – SOUND – VIBRATION – ENERGY – GLOWING – all this is god, and is the visible 3D experience.

^ The beginning of the end.

All the above is related to Informed Simplicity or the ability to assimilate information into a bigger picture…

101 things I learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick, according to the principles of architecture visual syntax can be described as informed simplicity, which is an enlightened view of reality,

It is founded upon an ability to discern or create clarifying patterns within complex mixtures. Pattern recognition is a crucial skill for an architect, who must create a highly ordered building [our physical realm] amid many competing and frequently nebulous design considerations.

So studying architecture is crucial to understanding this dimension? yes.
So graphic design is ultimately 2D architecture? Yes.

So is it not a coincidence that the freemasons call their God the “Great Architect of the Universe”? yes.

Inky Designs with Ferrofluid

Yeah know how we designers like clean inky lines on the computer using vectors and illustrator?? Well you can make similar designs in real life with ferrofluid and sound. Cymatics is teh study of sound moving matter and can be a really interesting project to do. More experimentation should be done regarding Hebrew sounds, matter and sound. But here is some inky ferrofluid goodness:

The last one is fun, but it just shows that sound energy (or energy in general) is spiral in nature. Why do you think the spiral is the most common form in nature?!

Subatomic Spiral – Tracks of the reaction between subatomic particles observed in the cloud chamber. This is a device, containing a gas saturated with the vapor of a liquid, which allows us to photograph the trajectory of subatomic particles having an electric charge, or better the track of droplets produced by them when traveling through the vapor.

This photo makes enough evidence that energy travels in a spiral, which is seen through out all nature. We are made up of subatomic particles.

Paper: Viewing Life as a Design

Studying Design has helped me evolve into seeing that life itself is a Design. A lot of my R&R is studying the esoteric teachings and mystic teachings originating from ancient Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica. I have learned that how they see the world is completely different from how contemporary society views the world, but the way the ancients saw the world never changed, reality never changed, WE CHANGED and thus our global perception of reality changed.

People often take into their own personal world view and truth what attracts them. This is not a bad way of living but it isn’t the healthiest way of living. The esoteric and mystic teachings say that we should see things as what we feel is right. What our emotional and psychic body feels right not the things that attract us.

The ancients saw the world as archetypes and used symbols as the main writing system. There were archetypes (images, think cave paintings), then symbols, then letter forms, then alphabets, then the letter press, then grammar, etc. Therefore the way we communicate to people today, the contemporary writing system is but a product of man, therefore it is not natural. The natural language is of archetypes, of symbols, of imagery, of visions, etc. The creative flux.

Therefore the way I am communicating to you now on this blog does not exist naturally, the English Language (or any Latin language) is a man-made systemic, sequential form of communication, a group of words (which man gave meaning to), sentence structure, etc. Its’ fascinating that the ancients called Latin the language of lies.

Since Latin languages dominate the world today it actually DISTRACTS us from the natural language of visual syntax (grammar), the natural language of archetypes. In design we know this, we treat letter forms as if they are symbols and archetypes. The estoeric and mystical teachings say that the Universe was created from order out of chaos. Well language is order, images or archetypes are chaos, and design simply puts the order back into chaos. Another way to look at this is balancing the simplicity and complexity.

Therefore, it is crucial to look at the subliminal suggestions that occur through life. The subliminal suggestions expose a lot of information that otherwise we overlook that comes from the creative flux. According to the website, Natural News, an article states, “A new measure of intelligence: Big-picture thinking trumps narrow-minded expertise” …

The label of “high IQ” is typically assigned to those who are experts in narrowly-defined fields such as disease pathology, pharmacology, particle physics, mathematics or other so-called “hard science” areas. And yet, it’s not uncommon to see a high-level mathematics professor with an IQ of 175 chowing down on a processed hamburger laced with toxic chemical additives, while wearing clothes washed in carcinogenic mainstream laundry detergent.

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Highly-intelligent architects for some reason don’t question the collapse of the WTC 7 building on 9/11 even though the official explanation of the collapse violates the laws of physics (a subject in which architects are well-versed). Chemists don’t consider the chemistry of the toxic shampoos they put on their hair every day. Nor do many scientists think realistically about the toxicity of mercury fillings or the fluorosilicic acid (“fluoride”) dumped into the public water supply. I could go on…

The point of all this is that there exists a huge gap in practical intelligence among the so-called “smartest” people in our society. I’ve spoken with countless doctors and conventional health care providers who are brilliant in their own fields and yet don’t even know the basics of nutrition. So how can it be that a guy is so smart he can be the world’s best brain surgeon, but when he goes home at night, he bathes his own brain and body in a sea of toxic chemicals consumed as additives in his processed food dinner?

In the book, 101 things I learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick, according to the principles of architecture visual syntax can be described as informed simplicity, which is an enlightened view of reality,

It is founded upon an ability to discern or create clarifying patterns within complex mixtures. Pattern recognition is a crucial skill for an architect, who must create a highly ordered building [our physical realm] amid many competing and frequently nebulous design considerations.

The Natural News article continues stating that, “Most people can’t assimilate the big picture,”

What’s lacking in these so-called “smart” people is the ability to see the bigger picture by assimilating information from a large number of seemingly unrelated sources. Or, stated in another way, even some of the most high-IQ people around can’t see the big picture because they get lost in the details.

Informed Simplicity is the term for “the ability to see the bigger picture by assimilating information”. Its’ the ability to ‘connect the dots’ or find the things that don’t seem to make sense, but when pieced together makes a bigger picture. Kind of like connecting stars in the sky to create a constellation.

Another example of lacking Informed Simplicity, is the frenzy astronomers created by restoring the ancient Babylonian zodiacal calendar to include the 13th sign, Ophiuchus, or commonly known as Serpentarius.
This whole hype kind of reminds me in Harry Potter when a Death Eater conjures up the Dark Mark, which is a skull and a snake through its’ mouth.

Surprisingly, the archetype of the constellation of Serpentarius is Man grasping the snake, which has been a symbol for DNA, cosmic energy, spiritual wisdom and mystical power. The word ‘America’ is actually a contemporary translation from the ancient Peruvian word ‘Ameruca’ or ‘Amaruca’ meaning “Land of the Serpent”. The Americas were once united under one spiritual tradition.

By the way, this sign was always there but because the earth wobbles every 2,000 years we see it more clearly than before. This 2,000 year wobble actually aligns with the Mayan calendar depicting its’ transition into a Golden Age. The term ‘Golden Age’ is mistranslated to mean ‘Golden Race’ and ‘Golden’ is an ancient term to mean light, or spiritual light, thus confirming the archetype ‘sign’ man grasping the spiritual wisdom and mystical power…

The 13th sign is actually a really good example of paying attention to the details rather instead of focusing on the bigger picture and putting Informed Simplicity into practice. Some people may ask, so what? Why is this important? Why is the world suddenly focusing on astrology?

What is astrology exactly?

The ancient Babylonians observed the behavior of human babies during a certain time of the year, started astrology. They would observe that certain babies acted more like a ram during the spring and noticed the sun was in a certain position as well as the planets and then would label that area of the sky as a ram’s head, therefore the animal symbols used on the signs are only but an archetype describing the area of the sky that mirrored human behavior. This doesn’t mean it was in the constellation of Aries it was just in that area of the sky that they called the ram personality in which the sun and planets would pass through.

The origin of Informed Simplicity may surprise the reader as it has esoteric and mystic origins. The oldest explanation of the relationship between an eternal and mysterious Creator and the mortal and finite Universe (His creation) lies within the Hebrew Rabbinic scriptures of Kabbalah. Kabbalah seeks to define the nature of the universe and the human being, the nature and purpose of existence, and various other ontological questions. The Hebrew alphabet which is extremely important in Kabbalah has origins that are Sumerian. In the Sumerian legends there is a character, Enoch who is given by ‘God’ the language of light. In Sumerian he calls this Hiburu which is Hebrew. Ancient Hebrew is the most ancient form of language as we see it.

As the website, Illuminati Matrix, that spells out Kabbalah states,

Kabbalism is the thought process, and is the initiator, or creator, and subsequent manipulator of energy. This isn’t good or bad, right or wrong, but one must understand, that, in spite of the fact that this is how things work in the 3D scheme of things, this kabbalistic thought process is the deception that keeps us separated, and disconnected from the ultimate expression of being that we are.

In Kabbalah its’ view on language is, that it can only communicate in terms relating to the speed of light. Understanding how thought is a word, is sound, is vibration, is energy, that glows, which is light… makes it very obvious how thoughts can manipulate light. Thoughts are light. Light is the 3 dimensional form. Change the thought and you change the form. If a person becomes very adept at changing their thought process and manipulating the thought process of those around, this is called magic, because the illusory images appear real.

The Illuminati Matrix continues,

There is no such thing as TIME or SPACE. Everything is but an illusion, merely projecting images before our physical eyes, creating the impression of space and the illusion of time passing. Everything is simply CURRENT THOUGHT being expressed by the luciferian egregore to create the 3 dimensional hypnotic trance state. Current Thought fosters Current Electrical Energy, the ION, which fosters Water Currents, or Space, which in turn, fosters Current Time, which fosters Current Money, or Currency.

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The information on the this site reveals an agenda, and a pattern relating to the holographic consciousness. What is described as the thought process, and hypnotic subliminal manipulation, which uses the illusory body of all humanity to take control of the Paradise State, this article rightly refers to it as the place where consciousness is sorted out, divided up, chopped and diced into a myriad of illusions. The article can initiate the notion that things are not at at all what they appear to be, and in the process, this can assist some in breaking out of the trance state. It lends credence to the possibility where consideration of a concept other than rational reasoning becomes a viable option in understanding what reality truly is.

The earliest holographic consciousness ‘experiment’ can be seen with the Camera Obscura or pinhole. When one enters a dark room with a hole through the window on a bright day the light shines through with a picture of what is outside, upside down.

Interestingly the Kabbalah view of this is,

…the Universe was created by the gods of Israel and it was created from nothing

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. This is known as “Something from Nothing” (Yesh M’Ayin). This is the egregore thought form that forms the hypnosis trance state that makes everything appear in 3 dimensions. This is light energy with sound attached to it. Keep in mind that sound is a thought. Not only is sound a thought, but sounds are vibrations of energy, and energy is just light. There’s nothing there! Sounds are a deception and an illusion! In other words, sounds are lies. Therefore, all thoughts are lies.

Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject pass through a small hole in thin material they do not scatter but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole. This law of optics was known in ancient times. If a mirror is added to this apparatus the light will bounce off and reflect right side up. This is the earliest hologram! Plasma physics state that the physical world is 99.999% plasma, fourth state of matter. Matter is comprised of atoms which contain 99.999% space, or ether. 1.0% of an atom are the electrons that create our physical world. Our physical world is only 1.0% of the ENTIRE picture!

Georga O’Keefe once said, “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for!”

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5 websites I frequently visit

1. http://www.swimchick.net
– Detroit based Designer studying at the College of Creative Studies who focuses on photo manipulation using a wide variety of techniques with brushes, textures and lighting. Been following her since the age of Neopets. Generally simple website with the menu at the top. Aimed at a resource site while her blogs are filled about life with comic relief. While her resources are good and the layouts generally reflect her design style and she definitely has the creative flux, her arrogance regarding her work is unbelievable. The overall usability is user friendly with the resources all categorized.

2. http://www.doedeereblogazine.com
– New York City based makeup enthusiast, entrepreneur, fashionista & self-proclaimed Unicorn Queen. She is a model who gained herself a portion of the spotlight. She has a small makeup company that has been featured in many beauty magazines across the globe featuring brightly colored makeup with a rainbow futuristic concept and was recognized in the magazine, “self made” as the top 100 independent entrepreneurs of 2010. She is a lifestyle blogger who changes her personal fashion style every year or so ranging from gothic, futuristic to indie fashion styles. Her blog is relatively simple with a favorite photo from photoshoots as the header and a right column menu with a biography at the beginning. Her posts are categorized in separate categories. Many people call her fashion style ‘childish’ as she loves Unicorns and bright colors, but the way she presents herself has an adult charm.

3. http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/
– The blog is a joint effort and collaboration between leading designers around the world which contribute a wealth of expertise on all fields of design, such as coding, typography, Photoshop tutorials and more. The overall presentation I personally find rather misleading. It features a brightly colored header with vector graphics and a deep red as the main color. At first glance I feel like this website is geared to graphic tutorials and graphic designers rather than web designers and web developers. The right column menu is far too cluttered. The main navigation is far too down and can be often overlooked. The link to where the posts are categorized are simply called “Categories” whereas on the doedeere blogazine the categories are just listed under a section rather than listed on a separate link.

4. http://www.design-newz.com
– Design-Newz is a site that features articles, resources and tutorials written by designers and developers. The one thing that I dislike most about this site is that when you click on a new newz article, it opens in another window, and if you have a bajillion tabs open and the design newz website is at the beginning it opens a new window at the very end so you end up kinda lost… the overall design is very nice though. It uses the container feature to separate and organize information. It uses an easy scroll pagination as well as classic Bauhaus inspired color scheme. It doesn’t feel “corporate” yet it keeps a professional look and feel. Concept of the website is very interesting as well since it picks other newz articles rather than rewriting them in another blog.

5. http://www.instructables.com
– Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others. The site uses a bold playful gold yellow as well as a top navigational menu. When you click on a section of the menu the page opens up to reveal a secondary navigation underneath for subcategories. The website is fantastic for finding creative inspiration for projects but is a bit suffocating and overwhelming, it could definitely use some breathing room.