Here are some pictures taken of the opening.
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Melody V. is happy to be a part of the show Beyond the Curve II: Celebrating Women’s Vision, at the CCAC Pineville gallery! The focus is to bring greater exposure to women in the arts, and highlight their unique perspectives of the world at large. A mix of paintings, ceramics, glass, mosaics, digital art , weaving and photography will be represented. I’ll be posting photos of the opening soon! Three of my pieces will be shown, Peace, Happiness and Fruits & Flowers.
Show opening is Friday March 2, 20120 6:30-9pm in downtown Pineville, NC and will run through March 31. Gallery hours are the first three weekends in March, 12pm-4pm. Gallery address is 316 Main Street, Pineville NC 28134. 704-889-2434.
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One of my favorite stores is Somogyi in Paris, France (formerly known as Crystal Mosaic), named after it’s founder S. P. Somogyi, former creative director for Swarovski Crystal.
In 1960, Mr. Somogyi started working for Swarovski, first in sales and then on the creative side. In the early 70s, he started creating crystal designs for the product consumer market – tableware, decorative objects, lighting etc…
Since retiring from Swarvoski in 2002, Mr. Somogyi opened his Paris store. Working with Murano and Bohemian glass, Swarovski crystal, mosaics and precious metals, his creations are truly one of a kind. The website can’t really do justice on how the light sparkles on these pieces or the quality of the detail work all done by hand.
Happily I notice they now have an online store that ships internationally! I had the pleasure of chatting with Mr. Somogyi when I visited his store last year. He truly loves what he does and cares about the craft of jewelry making and making his customers happy. So refreshing in a world of mass production.
Tattly is a online store for temporary tattoos. Conceived by designer Tina Roth Eisenberg (better known as swissmiss), Tattly features designs by various artists. People can choose from a variety of unique tattoos that wash off with plain soap and water. Non toxic and kid safe.
I’m partial to the Pantone and Spirograph looking ones myself.
I wanted to share with everyone a tool thought might be helpful for everyone’s blog/websites called Qik.com.
Where as Youtube or UStream allow you to create videos for your blog/website to post online, Qik.com is a video service that allows you to stream live and post over the internet specifically from your phone.
This is great for taking footage of live events and having it immediately posted to your Qik.com account. You can then post to Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, anyone in your contact list or embed to your blog. So say you are looking at apartments as you have to relocate. As you walk around the rooms you can record the space and take notes of your surroundings for to review later, or post to friends to get their thoughts immediately.
You can make your links public or private, allow geo tagging if you like and works off-line (should you need to) then uploads when you’re back on-line. The only downside is, unlike Youtube, you are unable to edit the content before posting. Whatever is happening live, stays that way.
A Qik.com account is free, although they have paid subscription rates, and works with most mobile phones with 3G data service, so you don’t need a wifi connection.
Omm Writer is one of my favorite new things. It’s a program that allows you to get to the business of writing without all the distraction of your desktop. Opening the program transports your desktop to a tranquil landscape with various sounds from nature to type to. It’s just you and your words. Save as a .txt file when you’re done.
It’s at the moment still in beta format, so you’re a bit limited in backgrounds and font options, but I suspect they will have a full version released soon. Unfortunately, it’s only for Mac OS as of this beta release.
