Showing posts with label Arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arts. Show all posts
Saturday, September 11, 2010

My Shadow And More Shadows

When i got married, thats when I always heard the saying: Me and my shadow. During the first year of our marriage, we decided to adopt a young puppy from the shelter and she definitely became a part of our family since then! Our dog is full of love, she love to be around us and play with us all the time. Most of the time, when we are around the house or in the yard, or dog follow us all around and checking us out what we are doing. When we go to the kitchen, she will be there. When we go to the bedroom, she will be there. That is why my husband always say: Me and my shadow, and refer our dog as his shadow.

Normally, a shadow is a silhouette reflection of you when a light particularly hit one side of you [or an object] and transmit your detailed figure on the opposite side of the lighting. Shadow is never constant, it keeps on changing depending on how you position yourself, the object, or the lighting. One of the most commonly used lighting for producing shadow is the sun, thats why shadow is pretty common especially outside. You can see shadows of people, trees, buildings, or pretty much anything!

There are times that i like to photograph shadows. I had photograph of my shadow in the sun and shadows of my hands and made some interesting figures out of my hands. There are some really interesting ways you can do very creative with shadows and make it an art form!

Written by Jazevox. All rights reserved.

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Enhance Your Shoe Lacing Skill

Shoelacing can be a danting task, it takes time and concentration specially when the holes in the shoes are so tiny that its hard to feed the lace through. Sometimes, its easier to just wear flip flop than mess with sneakers and rubber shoes and have to do shoe lacing.

How many shoelacing technique do you know? I know around two different ways, and not sure what each of the technique is called. But for the benefit and fun for all of us, its cool to know that there is Ians Shoelace Site that offers not one, not two, not three, but 34 Different Ways To Lace Shoe, how cool is that! Shoelacing can make a difference in the appearance of your shoes, lacing your shoe in different way compare to what we are accustomed can be fun, challenging and a break from the norm.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Package It Differently

Whether you are feeling crafty or just want to wrap some gifts up for family and friends, you could always use some creative new ways to make new boxes! Traditionally, we are used to the square or rectangle shapes as container for almost anything and everything. But if you feel a little bit more adventurous and creative, there are several other ways to make your presentation unique, fresh and appealing. Check out these several packaging templates today! If you put a little bit extra time making new packaging shapes and wrapping up in a different ways and manner, the receiver of your present or gift will definitely notice the difference and will treasure your gift even more, and appreciate your time and effort packaging it nicely.

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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Unique Tree Arts

Many of us probably heard about Bonsai plants, a very popular way of re-shaping and training trees and let the plants grow in miniature versions. Bonsai plants were known to be originally popularized in Japanese cultures and now its been practice in different parts of the world specially to gardeners and planters.

Not until today, I never heard of anyone who does re-shaping and training of trees as they grow, and trained such trees to achieve certain figures like the form of a chair, a structure of a man or woman, etc. Can you imagine a tree that is alive that have trunks and braches shape like a chair or a person? Imagine no more, check out PookTre Garden where they have wide variety of amazing collection of living trees that are currently growing in all shapes and sizes!

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Learn How To Tie A Knot

When I was in my elementary years, I was very active member for the Girls Scout. I used to join camping and jamboree activities all the time. I truly like being a Girl Scout because I learned so much, specially about the basics things in life like cooking, being resourceful with what nature has to offer. I even learned some different techniques of tying knots that can be used for different stuff.

What about you, do you know some techniques and different ways to tie ropes and strings? Compare what you know with what are available at
I Will Knot, a very unique website that shows you different ways to tie knots, complete with detailed images and videos, with step by step instruction how to do it!

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Mixed Artistic Mediums

Sometimes when you see or hear a bunch of artistic-inclined individuals gather together in one palce you hear them say the word, MEDIUM. Which refers to the type of materials used to accomplished a certain art. In the art world, there are different type of mediums available to create an artistic image. Some favorite materials regularly used are oil paints, pencils, watercolor, pastels and a lot more. While others choice to use mixed mediums, a combination of many different stuff, paints, wires, mesh and more.

With how technology advanced and progressed so rapidly over these years, it is more fitting that new ways and means have been develop to create an artwork inspired by the old and traditional ways and creates the same effect. Can you imagine creating an artwork using different types of materials, crayola, paint brush, pens, markers, etc with your computer? Imagine no more, try this really exciting
Crayola Digi-Color software that you can do just that. And the best part about their software is that you can print your hard-worked artwork so that you can file or hang it as a proof of your artistic ability.

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Expressing in style with fonts

The world of computers have gone a long way since it first started. From green, black screens to colored high definition monitors, from black and white text fonts to endless choices of text fonts to choose that you can type in different colors. In the beginning, you type texts in the computer using only one style font, just like using a typewriter. But nowadays, with so many fonts choices available, using style fonts is becoming a self-expression, expressing in style.

There are variety of office softwares available that you can choose to prepare documents and other paper works. And with the different variety of fonts available that you can apply to your project/document, you now have endless of option to make your documents your own, stylish, and let it stand out. But other times, there are some projects that calls for more unique fonts and needs more creativity, and using the most common fonts available just wont do it. If you have this need, checkout new, exciting new fonts that are available at
Dafont.

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Saturday, November 03, 2007

You like colors but can you name them?

I love colors! I specially like blue and green ones, but I have to admit, I dont know so much about which blue is particularly turquoise and which is tiffany, and which green is an evergreen, or which is sage! That is why today, I am very excited and totally thrilled to come across chir.ag website that features Name That Color. A very useful, user-friendly, and very direct, all you have to do is select a color, and the website will tell you what the color is called! So if you are a designer or an artist that want to express your style with color, not only can you use it well, but you can also identify each color by their names! Check it our yourself and have an exciting new color knowledge at Name That Color.

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Playing with Colors Using Mouse

I have never seen anything like it, every time you move your computer mouse, you started painting onscreen, and everytime you click your mouse, you change colors. The image you produce will depends how you make movements of your mouse! And to start from the very beginning, just click SPACE bar, and start moving your mouse again. It is like playing with paintbrush! Check it out at Jacksonpollock.org

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