Crocheted Neclace with Ribbon

After long time from not making anything, I got inspired from an old wooden sewing box. Inside, there is tons of tons little treasure from "back" in the great days of sewing. A pair of three level of stocked wooden draws fanned out like an accordion. It's great! You see everything in each wooden draws.

There inside are a couple spools of crocheting threads and one very very fine crochet hook. It scribed #14 (in this scale, the hook is finer with the number growing bigger, see picture below). And I found a edging ribbon for clothing edges. Not sure what is intended.


With the help of a great lady from the great days of sewing, Mrs. Buchman helped to crochet a pearl-shape form, ~3/8" diameter sphere for my necklace. She spent 20 minutes or so, figuring out for the corrected stitch to make a little sphere.

Making 5 spheres (~3/8" in diameter), using some #8 crochet thread.


Needle: #14 (very very small)
Pattern:
1st row: 7 chains (looped the end ch (8th ch) to the 1st ch); 1 dc
2nd row: 3 ch on 1 loop below (repeat twice for each chain below. here you are increase.); 1 dc
3rd row: 3 ch on each loop below (no repeat); 1 dc
4th row: 3 ch on every loop below (skip every other loop below--7 strands); 1dc
5th row: 1 dc

lizard visits @ Zoo

The past weekend, I went to bio-sphere dome with the theme of: Madagascar in the Zurich Zoo. It is free wandering forest environ with free wandering people and free birds and free monkeys jumping above our heads ( no cage, no fence). I found one of the beautiful wanders, hiding behind the bushes and leaves. There are three lizards that are found during the curved wander through the forest.

Tree Protectors: Comp Idea

Bamboo: Cone


Bamboo: Tunnel

Bamboo: Tunnel (context)


Bamboo: Wall Enclosure








Stone: Pavement


Built Environ: Bench

Visual Obstruction @ PS1

>>PS 1 Musuem, Long Island City, New York > Exhibition>Leandro Erlich: Swimming Pool
>http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/207/

Since now the exhibition @ PS 1 is ending soon and it would ruin fewer people's surprise to the installation experience, I was very fond the experience of the swimming pool room below and the cross-confusion in first glance of the installation. At the time, my friends and I were the only one in the room and no one else was in the room. We experienced the confusion as the way intended by the artist. After walking through the patio wood steps to the space below, I came to the conclusion that the idea is quite ingenious. After spending some time inside the void, (aka swimming pool) and pretending to be a swimmer inside the void, my visit looking down at the swimming pool from the deck view was quite different. I have appreciated the installation much more. Both from its reflection of the subject and object and the concept of void and fill and from the constant alternation of the concept of subject and object are proudly presented.

random beats: techno

i listen to "all songs consider" podcast from time to time. sometime, the show has a mysterious way of bring all different types of music together in 1 show : classical, experimental, techno, indies.... etc.
this time, i really like their recommendation for "Pantha Du Prince", techno music from Berlin Germany.
http://www.myspace.com/panthaduprince

Indie Band from Hong Kong: Kowloon Tong

"a certain romance from Kowloon Tong" from a Hong Kong Indie Band: "my little airport", ah "P" (music) and Nicole (vocal). Their lyrics and videos only express the most Hong Kong sarcastism, humor and general endless work-alcoholic attitude. Full of creativity and reflection of the current events and a piece of their life in HK. Their video/story is fun to watch with easy-going melody. Everything beyond the HK pop and lovey dovey crap.

This story describes ah "P"s personal messup with a friend that ended their friendship. In their website's description, this is a memoir of their friendship. [I say forgive and forget. Life is so short to hold grouches.]

Line Logo: Polish Street Underground

>Polish Street Underground Control Logo> http://www.fadwebsite.com/tag/polish-art/



Sexy lines!!!

weaving your everyday Plastic

This is part of the Eden Project near Cornwall. And it is amazing what our daily objects can morph into a defined message is sent. I think that they are potentials for other weaved projects, using used plastic bags in the future. Probably more sturdy than plastic tarp. I wonder.