Contemporary Jewelry

I've been doing quite a bit of reading and reflecting upon contemporary jewelery making recently.
As a result of some of this research I am pleased to release
my new range of badges this week.







The badges come separately or in these hand picked sets





Each badge is individually handcrafted from an original design.







As always they are available to peruse and purchase at the
Rose St. Artists Market on Saturdays.

Get them now while you still can!

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I'm not sure if I'm supposed to put colloquial expressions
on my blog but this made me laugh and i just wanted to share it.

The more I look at it the more I laugh.

Such a pair of cuties!

International Language System

Bit by bit with the help of others, I've been growing
the international language system.
It's such a thrill when someone agrees to contribute their hand writing
and language into the collection.

These are some of the new ones from top left clockwise:
Polish, Indian, Irish, Romanian, Cantonese and Arabic.

If your native language is one you'd like to contribute come on
down to the Rose St. market on a Saturday.

Many thanks again to all the contributors so far.

hugh mcspeddon's light projections

The first taker on this phenomenal advertising opportunity.
Hugh Mcspeddon Light projection onto the face of the
Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne.

For all your large and small scale building face lifts,
flick the switch now.

A rare and amazing opportunity now available!

For the month of March only I am
trialling my new advertising technology.

This prime web space on black with an elegant white border
and measuring 2cm X3cm will be available for free!


It's a first in first served basis.
Quick quick quick.

A GOOD NEWS STORY

An unsolicited testimonial!

"I recently traveled overseas. A bomb was detonated at the airport shortly before I arrived, there were violent clashes between Maoist cliques and I met many trekkers who had been held up, sometimes at gun point. I wasn't affected by any of that and I can't say with absolute certainty that it wasn't, in some measure, because of the 'Good Luck Personal Modern Traveling Talisman TM' I'd been given before I left. If it wasn't due to other, unrelated factors, thank you 'Good Luck Personal Modern Traveling Talisman TM' ! "




see more about the
Good Luck Personal Modern Traveling Talisman TM'

A very lucky 'lucky cat'

This ancient lucky cat has landed in my possession.
Sources suggest that it has spent a good deal of time submerged
in salt water, most likely the sea.
An accurate dating of its age is not possible.
The miracle is that it still functions, waving its arm to
passers by who drive and walk by our shop window.

This is indeed one lucky cat.
I'm hoping that it's going to rub off.

On Saturdays I'll carefully pack it up and take it down
with me to the Rose St. Market.

INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM

I've started up my ongoing collaborative international sign Esperanto system again.
Christmas was so busy i put it aside for a little while.

The system so far:


German, Serbian, Greek, Thai, Malay, Spanish, Korean, Swedish,
English, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian (and French not included in picture)

My theory is that there are the ten beginning words that any desperate traveller needs.
We can argue about the ten I've chosen:

• 1. hello
• 2. good
• 3. yes
• 4. no
• 5. thank you
• 6. go away
• 7. please
• 8. shit
• 9. how much?
• 10 good bye

People have suggested 'beer' needs to be there, and maybe 'how are you?'
I think it doesn't really matter too much.

My mission is to teach everyone in the world these ten meanings and the associated numbers.
When this is achieved we should be able to communicate with anyone on the planet just signing these 10 numbers.

Imagine rolling up at passport control and holding up one for hello, an eight when you find out your passport's expired and 10 for good-bye as you leave the airport to go home.
Four two as they say/sign!

All of the templates have been created by native speakers that I've encountered at the Rose St. Market in Fitzroy. The deal is they translate for me and add themselves to the archive and I give them one of my hand made badges and a place in the international language hall of fame.

Check out the beautiful script from Thailand.





Big thanks to all who have participated so far.

If you're in the vicinity of Fitzroy on a Saturday and can contribute,
I'd be happy to see you.

THE YEAR OF THE GOAT

I've been working my way around to making larger pieces and finally something has arrived that I'm content with.
It's too big to be a postcard, maybe it's a placard?
It measures 41cmx41cm and it features a red goat.
I'm calling 2009 my year of the goat.
I'm not really sure what that means but please take from it what you will.

OMG

OMG it's hard to crank this writing up again when it's been a while.
Hard to shut the critical mind up,
and the big pressure of how to start this new year?
What about this?



A happy healthy loving and peaceful new year to all.