Tipping points for the Pointy tips

Artist Dalton Ghetti's tiny sculptures carved out of the fragile tips of pencils, go to Inhabitat  for the full gallery
點擊圖片看看他其餘彫刻品

I have always admire craftsman, they have this superior concentration that can only be fine tune with time and their talent and skill.
Imagine myself and a craftsman in a staring contest...staring at an object for hours.... I would certainly get board fairly quickly...but I bet he would be able to generate lots of info and ideas, of what the object is, and what it could become in his hands.
It takes a totally different mind set....
With curiosity, observations imaginations, love, Passion and maybe a little stubbornness too. And they make magic happen...when they are in their zone.

迷你藝術品既細致又神乎奇技!!
讓人驚訝的彫刻品， 原來只是用盡了的鉛筆， 藝術家Dalton Ghetti 的迷你藝術品既細致又神乎奇技, 巴西藝術家度頓工作時完全不用放大鏡，而工具只有三款，剃刀，縫針，及彫刻刀.
怕就是現在不用佩帶眼鏡…也許日後會有需要吧？
但怎樣把幾乎丟棄的東西變成藝術品，這可是個好例子！

The Good List

Do you have a list? My guess is yes you do....and not only one.
List is good.....its easy to find what you need or try to remember in a glance, it helps your brain to file away what is important to your logics and memories, it gives clear indication of what the priority is, I personally like list....it helps, until I made too many...Hahaha...
oh here is one more...and a good one! Let's share! 
http://greencitizen.com/blog/?p=53

Its a Wrap!!

Does it always have to be wrapping papers and ribbons? hm....may be not. How about a big leaf and a few twigs.....

Gets "Creative" and "Green" with gifts wrapping........ohoo... everyone will want one from you then....?

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20101127/GPG04/11270487/Personalize-your-gifts-with-unique-wrapping

Tangled up in blues?

           Hey! all you green warriors out there, I know that celebrating the holidays and keeping it real and green is high on the agenda. In San Francisco, we are kind of lucky to have the options and systems worked out by the city, to halp us do a better job. but what about the occasional plastic bag that still slipped into our home? Here is a list on how to put them into good use rather than tossing it into landfills right away

http://globalclimateissues.com/11/green-tip-recycle-your-plastic-bags/

and how about the # of the plastic, that don't shows on your Blue Cart?? such as #5??

well, now we have this "Gimme 5" program

http://www.preserveproducts.com/recycling/gimme5locations.html

It is not child's play

Being a Mom is is serious business,  not just talking about taking care and feeding the little rug rats, but keeping them out of harms way is often the most tricky  part of bringing up kids.

Eco-friendly modern mom author Paige Wolf's new book Spit That Out:  The Overly Informed Parent’s Guide to Raising Children in the Age of Environmental Guilt, offered experts advices for everyday moms on how to keep your family and the plant safe.
Especially when the Holidays is just around the corner, here is a list of what you can do when picking out stocking stuffers...or Green toys.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1LoMbW/www.inhabitots.com/2010/11/19/when-toys-seem-like-no-fun-green-mom-sanity-tips-for-safe-play//r:f

Cute Green Design

What a cute idea - a home designed to share
I love birds, if you love them too, then this might be what you are looking for

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6eYyGl/inhabitat.com/2010/11/02/clay-birdhouse-shingles-turn-your-roof-into-a-roost//r:f

New & Old

           We all love new gadgets, especially the more powder it give us, the more reasons to give up the old one, even that so call "old gadget" is barely pass its second birthday within our possession.
With the speed of the technology, and the increasing number of things we try to squeeze into our daily schedule, the change of heart is kind of understandable, and forgivable?( a self manifested reason for my guilty conscious)
So when this action seems to be inevitable, the least we can do is to make sure we don't just stop there, that the process should be more like an arrangement for a pet to be adopted, and to help our old love to continue on its wheel of life...the following article provided some options.....
http://techlifes.net/2010/10/going-green-how-to-recycle-or-donate-your-cell-phone/

Green Ideas for a small Planet

The television series Big Ideas for a Small Planet is all about different small movements that people around the United States are doing that could have a big impact on the planet. All of the ideas are interesting, and if put into practice could create positive benefits for the planet.
Get informed, and get down!!

Junks or treasures ?

Just finished a trip to Istanbul and Paris, lots to looked at, and interestingly inspiring too. Both places are characteristic, and i saw a lot of examples with what and how they do with the new and old stuff in life. How they introduce the new things, but incorporated the old elements and used and kind of reinvented a new and stylish things full of characters, creativity, and the precious marks of  living is well preserved. Which got me thinking, in a way it is like moving on but also recognizing, and respecting the idea of  "Without the past, there will not be future."

If every time when I look at the things around me, and has the same kind of thinking, cherishing the has been and have been, then I will not need to have create so much waste. just if  I would think about it, before tossing, or even buying, my life will be getting more characteristic and creative also. Sometimes a simple act of add or subtract, can get surprisingly fresh idea to used items and created a whole new life to it, or even created my own trends.
May be this is what its all about, not having all the new trendy stuff that looks like a clone, but reinventing with a certain amount of  respect and restrain, this is how we should be, as a global citizen, respect the mother earth, respect what has been provided, then the restrain is really nothing, as we would understand the importance of such measure.

Great Idea that sell it-self

“Emergency Bra” Doubles as a Gas Mask When Disaster Strikes

could this be a good Christmas Present... Hee hee!!

Show & Tell

Read Jorge Parra's report on the New York Fashion week green show, and totally agreed with him on the note about Green Fashion still has a long way to go. For sure the attempts of all the designers are a great start, but the whole idea of being green must start from the bottom, from the way how we do and organize everything, and the state of mind, and must implement to the tiniest details. That means everyone and everything involved.
Otherwise, the green ideas will be reduced to just another fashion show & wishful thinking.
More Photos from Parra's page
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=582247&id=100000002321236&l=2badc6663a&ref=fbx_album

Collect & Create

If you are a crafty person like my sister, you might like to go to craft store a lot too... it is good to have somewhere to go look for materials when you've got a project in mind that you want to do...and craft stores can provide for the needs of the many crafty ladies, with a collections of great looking but cheap little components for their creative edge.
I'm my sister's shopping buddy... we goes everywhere together, and I often find myself drawn to those tiny little things that shows a vintage style, and touched my nostalgia side too. Sometimes I would still be temped to buy...and think that maybe I'll start a project myself. But when I saw Alex's blog the other day, she actually do the kind of art that I find interesting, and most of all, instead of buying the material from craft store, she reuse or repurpos old books pages to form new craft material....and that has start me thinking and planning on the album I would like to create for my up coming trip to Istanbul and Paris.
On the case of scrapbook album...I should be looking for a list of thing I can gather while I'm on the trip
Such as:
Old post card, stemps, old pictures, or any free leaflets with old images related to the place, maps, soda or beer bottle caps, stylish product's lables, newspaper, train or transit tickets...or simply anything I can spot that can spark memories of the trip, and can fit into my pocket.
This could be a way to reuse and re-purpose, fulfill my creative needs without making more rubbish....I'll post the progress as the project goes...and may be someone out there has more idea on this too? Yeh...let me know.
Happy collecting!

Why Revamp!!

"Revamp" has  always been a constant theme in my life...
Back in the days when I used to be in advertising productions, it means..."oh....got to do it again!!"
I was born in the 70s, the after effects of the hippies and the counter culture was still evidence enough to have affected my tiny present....bell bottoms, long hairs, platform shoes....and the loosen up enjoy your life kind of attitude was matching up great with the colorful 70s funk & disco scenes. All my auntie and uncles were having parties all the time....and the whole house would do some dancing (including the hustle)  before and after dinner....life was great.
Then came the 80s when the Glams and Camps rules.....and I was busy trying to look as delicious as Duran Duran, or Boy George and be crazy and cool.
But soon as the 90s arrived....everything is moving in such a rapid speed, and the internet has changed and reshaped everything from the way we live to the way we interact with each others. it became so much more than just style or music...it is also about the adaptations of new things..new ideas in a rapidly reinventing and redefining  new world. The new rules are no rules... needn't to wait in line anymore, everyone can speak, can equally voices their opinions. Yes, at first to me,  it seem to be chaotic, in the way it still is.... but within this massive volume of talks and expressions....is explosions of ideas..and a new sense of communities. I'm excited for what's happening.. for all the developments of sharing, and helping, and a sense of new consciousness this has brought to me....I like to think it is like a growing season...when all things spring into life, and thrives.
"Revamp" to me has  totally new meanings, to be able to recreate, reinvent, and restructure life with new ideas, new attitudes, full of hopes and possibility.

"Revamp" is my place to share what I have learn from the others, and share ideas that has help me navigated between the genuinely truly helpful ideas of how we can live a good life responsibly rather then just another commercial attempts. Cheers!