Margareth Osju´s blog

Photography

2012-03-08T12:54:00.000+01:00

Pink Taxi in Lebanon

2012-03-08T10:59:00.001+01:00

A taxi only for women. I actually like the idea. Why not`?
It's a way for females to come home safe.
As long as we need a safe zone we have to find a safe zone.
I wish the ladies good luck.

Taxi!!!

Numbers in the rain

2012-03-07T04:15:00.000+01:00

A serial of numbers from a photowalk.

Mandala - Sacred art

2012-03-06T06:27:00.000+01:00

Buddhist Sand Art At Namgyal Monastery

I am blessed that I can rest my eyes in peace rewarding art.

From all the artistic traditions of Tantric Buddhism, that of painting with colored sand ranks as one of the most unique and exquisite. In Tibetan this art is called dul-tson-kyil-khor, which literally means "mandala of colored powders." Millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks.

What is a mandala?
The Tibetan mandala is a tool for gaining wisdom and compassion and generally is depicted as a tightly balanced, geometric composition wherein deities reside. The principal deity is housed in the center. The mandala serves as a tool for guiding individuals along the path to enlightenment. Monks meditate upon the mandala, imagining it as a three-dimensional palace. The deities who reside in the palace embody philosophical views and serve as role models. The mandala's purpose is to help transform ordinary minds into enlightened ones.

If form is crucial to the mandala, so too is color. The quadrants of the mandala-palace are typically divided into isosceles triangles of color, including four of the following five: white, yellow, red, green and dark blue. Each of these colors is associated with one of the five transcendental Buddhas, further associated with the five delusions of human nature. These delusions obscure our true nature, but through spiritual practice they can be transformed into the wisdom of these five respective Buddhas. Specifically:

White - Vairocana: The delusion of ignorance becomes the wisdom of reality.
Yellow - Ratnasambhava: The delusion of pride becomes the wisdom of sameness.
Red - Amitabha: The delusion of attachment becomes the wisdom of discernment.
Green - Amoghasiddhi: The delusion of jealousy becomes the wisdom of accomplishment.
Blue - Akshobhya: The delusion of anger becomes the mirror like wisdom.

I recommend this article " The Mandala - The Mandala - Sacred Geometry and Art

Time and Facebook

2012-03-05T09:02:00.002+01:00

Today I have to take the bus to the employment office.
It's a lot with the system that is not correct. I shall write about it one day. Here is a link about one of the things that is not correct.
After the registration I shall take a walk to the library and print out the contract from the galleria and i have to start to look for a scholarship. I have to calculate how much the exhibition will cost me. Let see; flight to New Delhi, 14 days living, transport of the artworks, taxi and some money to have in case of emergency. What more do I need. Hmm, maybe to early to think about exhibition right now.

This blog it's such kind of a very important blog, like those status you write on facebook " I am drinking coffee to wake up". And according to what's on news; Facebook share unhappiness.
Well, I have to visit my facebook account to share some happiness with a smile.
Because you see, if it was not for Facebook, I would never had this opportunity to have my solo-exhibition in New Delhi.
If it had not been for Facebook, I had not come so far in my artistic career with exhibitions abroad,
I am a happy facebooks user.:)

Implant our brains, only science fiction? Are you sure?

2012-03-05T02:47:00.000+01:00

Russian Mogul Plans to Plant Our Brains in Robots and Keep Them Alive Forever
This article made me think about a conversation we had in class. One of the topic was : when will come a day when the robots take over. What is the difference between a robot and a human? If we implant feelings in a robot, are they humans? Robot have no soul, it's that why the are robots?

If we would implant brain in a robots , let see, they might will be as humans without a soul. Hm. A clever robot will see that the humans has not brain enough to be clever and will say to other robots:
. Let's take over. We rule the world as humans are not capable to do it.

Science fiction?
Maybe only our future.
It's two o clock in the morning. i woke up to read the article? Best to sleep again or maybe I am still sleeping and dreaming of the future on Earth.By the way maybe we humans already are slaves to the robots. Hm.
Good night.

Blue is the color

2012-03-03T22:24:00.000+01:00

It was such a beautiful weather that I have to share this blue blue i capture with my camera.
I hope tomorrow will be blue day again. About blue, I love Love is Blue..:)

Artworks twice a time

2012-03-03T21:56:00.000+01:00

Those are two artworks I have working most with. It's belong to each other in a serial.
I am painting both, so it's take twice times. Sometimes it's feels that I will never end.
It's a little bit different of what i usual do.

To be different

2012-03-03T21:47:00.001+01:00

To be different is not always the most easy way to go, but it's worth every minute of it.

Walk in the Sun

2012-03-03T16:54:00.001+01:00

I hope we all achieve our dreams

2012-03-02T08:42:00.000+01:00

This is what I see every morning when I drink my daily poison, the black gold, my coffee. But today there was no coffee at all, I woke up late and had to run to the bus.
It seems a bit odd that today is the last day of the course. 7 intensive weeks.
On Monday I need to register again on employment center..
On Tuesday, I have an important meeting, which hopefully will give me many answers in how to proceed.

The Garden and hidden secrets

2012-03-01T19:07:00.000+01:00

Source: thegreenbacksgal.com via Pj on Pinterest

This was a interesting garden design. Lets say that is a way to recycling the bottles.

The Spring is coming. I will miss the garden of roses, but I had no choice.
It was to much heavy and to much of everything for a single person to carry.
But still I will miss the touch of nature in my hand.
I wonder when will come a day someone will buy it.

It's a soul in the garden and many hidden secrets too.
It was there I became an artist.

Photo and the ice.

2012-02-29T18:38:00.000+01:00

I took a walk with my camera early in the morning. The birds chirped, the Spring smiled welcome.
The snow from the ground was gone, but still some ice on the lake telling that winter is still clinging in the cold.

It was the only fresh air activity I did outdoors. All day I was at the library trying to finish my business plan. Miracles happen, but yes, I do have to work hard for it.
Now I'll drink some coffee and see if I finish the rest.
I hope it will not take all night long.
My mind is tired today.

Love and Life and lot of Dreams

2012-02-29T09:19:00.002+01:00

Source: flickr.com via Artist Margareth on Pinterest

I an dreaming today and looking at the distance between New Delhi and Agra, though I should start my homework. I am counting the days until November when the solo exhibition will start. In many ways, the story is stunning.

I really hope I can have the opportunity to photograph the city of New Delhi but also have the time to take the train to Agra and photograph the world's most famous declaration of love. Taj Mahal.

If I have to stay at the gallery mostly of the time I might try to travel earlier to India or stay some days more after the exhibition is over.
My life, this year, certainly started to be an adventure.
Though now best to speed up and smile to the world.
I have a thing to end to start something new.

Source: flickr.com via Artist Margareth on Pinterest

Garden on top of the bus

2012-02-28T07:37:00.001+01:00

Perhaps this would be something for the bus I take to school .. :)

Gardens Thrive on Top of City Busses
Bus Roots is a living garden planted on the roofs of city buses. It’s an effort that rose out of New York City designer Marco Antonio Castro Cosio’s graduate thesis at the NYU. The project aims to reclaim the forgotten space on the tops of city buses, while enhancing the quality of urban life by proliferating green spaces on these unused bus roofs.

A prototype of the rolling gardens has been installed on the roof of the BioBus, a mobile science laboratory and the first bus with an extensive green roof system. It has been growing for five months while travelling around New York City and as far as Ohio.
Bus Roots joins the ranks of mobile gardens planted on trucks, trains, and other roving sites. Cosio explains his project as an exercise in “nomadic urban agriculture.”
I do not know from which article these lines are taken so unfortunately I can not link to it, but I links to the designers webpage:http://www.marcocastrocosio.com/

The Golden City and the artworks

2012-02-27T20:25:00.002+01:00

I am trying to plan what kind of illustrations and artworks I will take to my solo exhibition abroad.
Oh, it's not easy at all. I have done so much and in so many different styles and themes. It is really difficult to select.
This one belongs to a serial called " The Golden City"
I am happy that I have plenty of time to wonder what shall I take or not.

The course is almost over.
I have learned and done a lot during those six weeks.
Now I have just a little to complete and summarize before the week is over.

Spring came at the weekend and it disappeared today.
It's snowing, it's cold.
I hope the weather is better tomorrow.

I refuse H3N2

2012-02-25T11:42:00.001+01:00

I made this illustration when the swinflu was active. By the way, this is guaranteed not my best illustration, but what can you expect from the creation of fever? :)

I don't took the vaccine, I got the flu , yes, but I survived. Now I read that is waves of flu that spread through Sweden. It is said to be the great grand children of Hong Kong flu.
Hm. I awoke with a splitting headache and pain in every muscle, every bone in my body feels. Ouch.
Can I talk to a virus?

"Stop!! I refuse you now. I have a week left of my course. Let me finish it first. Let me finished with what I'm doing, let me finish illustration, let me finish with the actionplan. Let me......and so one. I have a lot to say to the virus.
But I think the virus don't care:(

Well to something,something more positive;)
I have to respond the gallery. I got an email yesterday and now I know the number of artworks I will take with me to India. I think I know what kind of artworks I will choose, but I have to frame them. I have to contact the embassy, Export Council, the Arts Grants to know what I have to think about. I am happy that my soloexhibition is in November. I get the time to prepare.
It's feels so exiting, I am sure that it will be the biggest adventure ever in my life.
It was difficult to write a blog with headache. Well, best to go back to bed and sleep away the flu. I can always be happy that I don't have the Cluster headache, nicknamed "suicide headache".
DN AF

Always look at the bright side of life.

Investigating Pinterest

2012-02-23T10:21:00.000+01:00

I made this illustration for some years ago. Fix well for the topic of today.

Do you have Pinterest? Don´t you know what it is?
What is Pinterest?

Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. Pinterest allows you to organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. You can browse pinboards created by other people to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

I'm into check up the place, always interesting when something news come up.
It seems practical to collect all images, links all in one place and be able to pin interesting pictures , artworks,books, videos etc. Certainly, Pintarest can be a perfect place for marketers to explore what interests we have, what taste we have, what books, movies we see and read in a very easy way.
It's investigate peoples board.
Do you have Pinterest? Follow me, who knows, I might Pin you..:)
Here is a link how it's looks like when you create a board with, here in my case, a board with frozen images.

The difference between G +/Facebook and Pintarest is according to my opinion:
On G + or Facebook or another social media, you can cover interesting conversation, debate, comments. Pintarest is mostly a place you collects images and it's give you a feeling that is more a monologue than a dialogue. So I guess I would like to say about the difference between G +/Facebook and Pintarest.
G´+/Facebook is Dialogue and Pintarest is Monologue.
What's your opionion?
Someone wrote on G+ those words: Pinterest is for women, G+ is for men. :)

Here is a link how my boards look like.

Welcome little princess

2012-02-23T08:54:00.000+01:00

Sweden's crown princess gives birth to baby girl.

Early this morning, a princess was born
Welcome little girl, welcome to the world.
May happiness follow you on your path through life.

My Congratulations to the Royal family.

DN AB

Behaviors of creative geniuses, creativity flourished

2012-02-19T12:33:00.001+01:00

Yesterday I had a very creative day with two other creative souls. We have started an exciting project together. I will talk later about it. Still we don't know how we shall find a way to realize it as it will cost some bucks, but we are sure that we will handle it and in fact, we has already started the project. We are very optimistic and the creativity flow in us. I enjoy working with creative people. Mostly creative are openminded, open for new ideas, they see beyond the imagination, their souls are not locked in mind and their heart is open.

What is creativity? Here is an interesting article about it:

What Does the Word Creativity Mean?

......When you look at the behaviors of creative geniuses throughout the history of the world, you will find that, like the patterns of nature, the form and contents of their behaviors are inextricably connected and can't be separated. Creators have the intention to create, and act and speak in a positive and joyful manner. Creators look at what is and what can be instead of what is not. Instead of excluding possibilities, creators consider all possibilities, both real and imagined. Creators interpret experiences for themselves and disregard the interpretations of past thinkers. Creators learn how to look at things in different ways and use different ways of thinking. And most importantly, creators are creative because they believe they are creative and have the intention to create.

Speaking of creativity. Here is a video made by a very creative human being. He posted this video on my stream on facebook. Art by Humanitarian Artist Alain ITerz.
I have been privileged to know and have many international artists through facebook and G +.
I think I will start to introduce some of them through the blog.

More information about the artist can be found here:

http://fineartgraphicdesign.webs.com/

Glimpses of memories

2012-02-18T05:08:00.000+01:00

My father was an scientist but he was also an architect-. This is a model of our house in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

I am the little girl holding my little brothers hand. The white house in the background is the garage.

This is the house. I have very few photos from that time. When we escaped from Chile to Sweden the soldier in the airport took a lot of photos from us.

Inspiration, dreams and the market.

2012-02-17T09:00:00.001+01:00

I woke up inspired and would like to continue with this illustration, This is far from complete and I want to finished it before I forget how it will look like in the end. But the reality is calling, I have to do homework. Marketing plan is on schedule.
I know one thing at least when it's come to the market: I refuse to adapt my way to create to it.
I wonder if the old days artists, if they lived in our modern custom world. Would they then become who they were? Would they become corporatized, baked in a segment?

After homework, I will spend a few hours searching scholarships. I've lost count of how many denials I've got so far, I wonder if it's worth it to put my time searching for something I did not will get?

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
--Marc Chagall

Who I am?

2012-02-15T11:22:00.000+01:00

I have to write something about me to an foreign art magazine. It's funny, everything happens abroad for me. My soul has moved abroad and had left my body here in Sweden. I am convinced about that.

Well, writing about me was the topic.
Who am I? In the photo here: I was 8 years old.

I know who I am now. But who was I between that photo and today.?
It might is irrelevant now. I must write about my art.
The question is: Where do I begin.?

It's started with love.

Short and concise.
Not too much and not too little.
But first I have to run to catch the bus.

F for Fake /Orson Welles

2012-02-15T05:25:00.000+01:00

What is fake or true? Can we believe in what we see, hear, in facts or illustions? ?
Of course we believe in politician, in what´s on the news, in art, in the market, in what the ......?
The market say it all....? Money rules the world, rules the world? Fake or true?
This was a very interesting film. Make me think a lot. I love those kind of films that make me feel the true:).

Orson Welles, he was a genius. I wonder; It's a place for genius today?
What would he said about our modern world of today? He knew it before we knew it
that big brother would keep their global eyes on us.

If Orson Welles lived today, would he have been market-driven? Would Picasso create what he created if he were alive today? Would Salvador Dali created his surreal creations if he were alive today?
Is there room for geniuses today, anyway?
A thought that struck me at 4 am when I put aside market-oriented study to the side and saw F for Fake.
I should be sleeping more than a few hours a night.

I copied some lines from Wikipedia
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked extensively in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaption of Julius Caesar and the debut of the Mercury Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), the most famous broadcast in the history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941), which many critics and scholars name as the best film of all time.

F for Fake is the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of art. Loosely a documentary, the film operates in several different genres and has been described as a kind of film essay.

Far from serving as a traditional documentary on Elmyr de Hory, the film also incorporates Welles's companion Oja Kodar, notorious "hoax-biographer" Clifford Irving, and Orson Welles himself, in an autobiographical role.

Frozen hearts and exhibition

2012-02-14T07:24:00.000+01:00

I took the photo a few years ago when it was so cold. But the frost gave life to the two hearts of stone that stood at the entrance.

Today I start a little bit later and I'm going to use this morning to calculate how much should I need to save to take me down to my gallery in India to my first solo exhibition So far I have done so many miracles in so much so one wonders more or less can probably be arranged. I fortunately have a few months for it.

God, give me a job so I can realize a dream.

I live up to the image of the poor artist, but it will not prevent me to get where I want. Stubborn? I? Are you kidding? :)

More information will follow when I know the exhibition date , but I think it will probably be in November. Would be perfect at the end of November.
Well, as I wrote, more information will come later.
Now time to catch the day.

Greece and the Laurel in survival

2012-02-13T21:46:00.000+01:00

Laurel in survival is the name of the illustration.
I done it for some years ago. In some way it's fix perfect to the topic of today.

I grew up with Greek mythology, my father raised my interest to Greek philosophers theses. Platon, Socrates, Pythagoras, Aristoteles, Epikuros. I have been seduced by the Greek music, become captivated by the Greek culture, art and literature. Unfortunately, I have never been to Greece.

What will happen to Greece?
The country where democracy was born. Is democracy about to expire at the same rate as the economy gets people to their knees?
It is the ordinary people who pay the highest price, those who do not have much, there are those who will have even less.

Greece will pay its debts back, if you let us.
But not with a German knife held to our throats. The Telegraph

Mr Basdekis, with his pension of €400 a month, does not know how he will survive."All my life, I have been proud to work and support myself. And now that has been taken away from me," he said. "I liked the feeling of being able to buy something with my own money. I worked hard and looked after my home. But that has gone. They have taken away my pride."

One of the many voices from Greece:
"Yesterday the member sof the Greek Parliament voted for the end of Greece! They voted to suurender the "keys" of Greece to IMF, to E.U and to the bankers!! They voted new harder austerity measures which will make the majority of the Greek people poorer!!They didn't hear the strong voices of the thousands of demonstrators, who were outside and the police hitted against them! The young people want to move from Greece! They don't see any future here! Many peole now are starving they are homeless!I think these who voted for this memorandum are betrayals!!

Pictures From A Greek Soup Kitchen
What is clear is that in 2010, almost 28 percent of Greeks, or 3.03 million people, lived at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to numbers released last week by the EU statistical agency Eurostat. With the recession only having deepened since, it seems likely that the number of poor Greeks rose in 2011.

A Swedish interview with Theodor Kallifatides writer, Alexandra Pascalidou journalist/writer and Dimitrios Karkamanis economist and political scientist.

Democracy is ending in the land where it began or it's this a start to something new?
Have you been in Greece? What's is your opinion of what's happening?
Are you from Greece? What's your opinion of what is happening to you country?
What do you thing would be the best to save Greece from a financial collapse?

Winter, photos and craziness

2012-02-12T11:03:00.000+01:00

I'm trying to sort all the winter pictures I have taken during those last years. Well, It takes time.
Those two here are some of my favorite pictures, taken with a small camera I had.

It was very cold. It had snowed all night. In the morning the sun lit up the frozen snow. I saw the picture before I even took the photos.. I remember I went out without a jacket, took the picture, ran into.
Sometimes I'm a little crazy.

11 months after the catastrophe

2012-02-12T10:43:00.001+01:00

I admire the Japanese people very much. One day, I would want to travel to Japan to learn their culture, their ability to recover, their diligence. This artwork I made short after Japan was hit by both an earthquake and tsunami to show my participation. It was my simple my way to show my love and compassion.

I hope one day I can have an exhibition in Tokyo as well. It would give me the opportunity to maybe be variable to meet these two wonderful people I met for some years ago, who were at my side when I needed help the most. That I will always carry with me everytime I think of my friends from Japan. The feeling of warmth, love and gratitude.
I have never met them, I learned to know them through the net. Yes, one day I want to meet these beautiful souls who crossed my path.

Great East Japan Earthquake; 9.0-magnitude
Today when I was surfing on the net I found this article and I am impressed. Unbelievable that the Japanese people so quickly re-create that much. Deep respect for the Japanese people.
Please take time and look at those photos . It´s show how it looks short after the tsunami and 11 months after the catastrophe. My deepest respect to the people of Japan.

Eleven months after the tsunami ravaged Japan, a series of pictures reveals the incredible progress being made to clear up the devastation

Some facts:
The 2011 earthquake of the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin?),also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake,or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 32 km (20 mi). It was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland. The earthquake moved Honshu 2.4 m (8 ft) east and shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in).

The tsunami caused a number of nuclear accidents, primarily the ongoing level 7 meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant complex, and the associated evacuation zones affecting hundreds of thousands of residents.] Many electrical generators were taken down, and at least three nuclear reactors suffered explosions due to hydrogen gas that had built up within their outer containment buildings after cooling system failure. Residents within a 20 km (12 mi) radius of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant and a 10 km (6.2 mi) radius of the Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant were evacuated.)Wikipedia

God is taking home the stars

2012-02-12T06:41:00.000+01:00

Whitney Houston was such a phenomenal singer with her majestic angelical voice..
There will never be another voice like hers. It's difficult to understand that she is gone.
I absolutely loved her voice.
Thank you for all the songs that marked major times in my life.
Rest in Peace, Whitney.

Photoblog: What you should not do as an photographer

2012-02-11T18:11:00.000+01:00

I was more interested to take a photo of the photographer then to take a photo of the winning car only.:)

Sometimes you see the perfect motive and then is good to have your camera with you, right?
I was lucky to had my camera with me when I saw the photographer and the winning car.

I was reading a blog by Rosh Sillars, a veteran photographer with a photojournalism background, about what you should not do as an photographer

Some of you might have read this before, but maybe some of you has not. Some advice´s are also good for artists that publish artworks on the net. I took the freedom to copy some words, but I recommend you to read those 17 advice, they are good and read the comments too, it's good advice there too.
I had learn a lot from those photographers that share their knowledge on the net.

5. Take every assignment. Every photographer has a few specialities. Just because a job is offered to you doesn’t mean you should take it. It’s about your reputation.
10. Ignore blogging. Blogging helps people get to know you on a deeper level as a photographer. It is also great for search engine optimization.
12. Place sensitive photographs on the web. If you fear a photograph will be shared improperly or stolen for use on the Web, don’t post it.

Read the whole blog here: 17 things photographers should not do

Scaring feminism

2012-02-11T08:49:00.000+01:00

There is a group of extreme feminists who scares. There is a hatred among the extreme that blights all that is equality. I refer to this article: Feministerna har inte kunnat hantera sin framgång (The feminists have not been able to handle their success) Many years ago I met some of them. I still remember the hatred and I disappeared very quickly.Hatred breeds hatred.
Men and women need each other in mutual respect. Hatred is blinding. See the world how much hatred there is.

From hatred and feminism to miracles in colors.
I'll try to finished a series artworks that I can take with me to the gallery on the other side of the world. It's exciting and in many ways it's feels still unreal.
In the present moment I still don´t not know how to get there but there I will. I have succeeded so far with so much against me so I learn to manage to go to my own exhibition.
I hope next I get the answer to the jobs I applied for.

About jobs.

The prime minister wants us to be able to work to 75. I wonder if there is anyone who wants to hire me? I am 49 years old and considered old. Maybe I should write on the work application:
I am 49 but 75 in life experience.

Arts and oceans.

2012-02-08T20:25:00.000+01:00

My soul is abroad , my body is here. I have to find a way so I can transfer my body where my soul is.

I had two conversations today from two different parts of the world.
The result of the conversations is:
1. I have to figure out how to get from point A to point B, C, D.
I have a challenge ahead of me.
There is a sea between those points.

2. I have to write an introduction about me and my art in English
I have to select some images to be e-mailed with the words.

I will write later what those conversations is about. But not today. Later.
Patience to the curious:)

Snowdrops, 30 degrees below zero and vikings

2012-02-05T21:20:00.000+01:00

I want to see snowdrops that gives hope that spring is approaching. The weekend has been cold, the coldest we had yesterday was -17 degrees below zero but some places had much more; Kvikkjokk had -42,7 Some parts of Europe has also been hard hit by the cold and when cold weather strikes, it's always chaos in traffic. Cars, Flights and Trains. Good to don't need to travel when it's such weather. The cold don't scared, me and my cousin was out walking along the lake. Beautiful and calm, the snow crunched under our shoes. A hot fish soup warmed afterwards.
Speaking of cold, 60 Vikings raced to swim outside in 30 degree cold. Here is the proof if you do not believe me. Oh my God. I would die before I even took off my clothes. Brr ...
The evenings I spent on updating my website at the same time I was thinking about all those changes that has been and those new changes that is to come. Is just to respect, accept and wish the best with love. It's a meaning with everything that happen. I also let my cousin listen to the radio interview to hear her opinion. The program will be broadcast in February and I think I started to feel a little bit nervous. But to late to change my mind now. Everything happen for a reason, it's says too. Hm.

Well, to speak about something else: I was looking at some Earth related videos on Youtube when this comment by SuperSithan, catches my attention:

When my father arrived in Sao Paulo-Brazil in 1946 the city was called the "city of mist". The temperature was low and he was always overdressed and had a dread fear of catching tuberculosis. Sao Paulo is now a hot city, with a heavy rainfall that causes floods and landslides increasingly severe. And every year São Paulo subject to epidemics of dengue, but the Aedes aegypti mosquito was not found in the city at the time of my father. I do not need NASA to tell me that the weather changed.

Are we heading towards warmer times or are we heading towards an ice age?

Temperature Data: 1880-2011
Global temperatures have warmed significantly since 1880, the beginning of what scientists call the "modern record." At this time, the coverage provided by weather stations allowed for essentially global temperature data. As greenhouse gas emissions from energy production, industry and vehicles have increased, temperatures have climbed, most notably since the late 1970s. In this animation of temperature data from 1880-2011, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average.

Fear attract fear

2012-02-02T15:32:00.000+01:00

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.Buddha

I was reading this article: Do You Like Online Privacy? You May Be a Terrorist
Fear is an effective weapon. When fear takes over the man loses his mind.
Is this for real or it is a false propaganda? If I understand this right, everyone who want to have some privacy online is a terrorist? Tell me this is a joke, will you?
If this is for real, then the fear is taking over and who is the winner then?

What if, a utopia;
Think about if all the people around the world would stop being afraid, if all refused to bear arms.
If everyone refused to obey orders to kill anyone else.
What if .....

Jobs, dreams and attraction

2012-02-02T11:30:00.002+01:00

I spent the morning searching for work. Hopefully, I get a summer job. It's a start. . Optimistic me. But I have to be optimistic; I believe in the Laws of Attraction.

Now is best to proceed with writing strategies, business planning, calculations of the critical point and everything that you have to know if you want to start your own businees. The course is good, I learn a lot. When I have my own I will celebrate that I actually learned to create from nothing and start withot nothing too.

That said, I have a goal and I have many dream: One day I'll sit on that beach and paint and love and write my life.
If you don't belive in me ? It don't matter. The important is that I believe in my dreams.
I am a Eagle and I am preparing to fly over the hills .....:)

Reflection of darkness

2012-02-02T08:52:00.002+01:00

At the employment center

The first thing I saw when I came up to jobcentern was a man sitting at a table. After all these years, I see almost in the body language how people might feel. His way of moving his arms and head in very slowly moves spoke. A woman went back and forth. Her tired and tense face told also a story.

I went to the table, nodded a greeting to the man and sat me on the chair. The woman kept walking back and forth, the man was reading some papers he hold in his hand. On the wall nearly the table it was an artwork that suddenly cathed my attention and I felt how all me reacted about the darkness that I saw.
The white face, abstract, looked like a skull with thin skin, you could see the contours of a face of a man. Pain, depression and sorrow was all over the face. I felt how I reacted and thought to myself: Why such a depressing painting in a place where people , without a job, go to look for work. Or maybe it's a meaning that we shall feel like the artwork on our way to be chained by the system.?

The artwork sneered at me.

I turned to the man, I think he was around my age, and asked him if it was here that the meeting would be. I do not know, he said, I'll meet my officer. Oh, I said. Good luck. Yes, he said, I need all the luck.
-They want me to work, he said, but I was seriously injured and can hardly move arms and my back and neck is broken. I was into a serious accident. They don;t want to see that I have a work injury. I saw the despair in the man's eyes.
I turned to the woman who had stopped to listen to the man's words and I asked if she would go at the same meeting that I would? Yes, she said. Then she nodded to the man and said: I'm also damage, she said. I've been it for many years, but now I can not be that anymore because of those new rules.

It was such a heavy atmosphere in the room. I felt how I shuddered.

The dark artwork was listen to our words with his white smile of blood. It was like it confirm that we was those three unquiet souls who are waiting for the system to hang us in the wall.
What I did there? I was also one of those who are in the system even if I try to break free by all means I can find to release me. I have my talent, I am back in live and I am a survivor that refuse to give up. I have a dream that I shall realize, but first I need to find a job so I can break me free.

I promised myself that one day I'll write about those years.

Peel P50

2012-02-01T12:00:00.000+01:00

I love how he parks outside the bbc building and just pics the car up and drags it.
No more parking problems. You can take the car into the apartment, or to school, or to a meeting and even to the bathroom if you want to.

The ultimate car.

Pina Bausch; choreographer and dancer

2012-01-30T05:11:00.000+01:00

Music "Lilies in the Valley" and composed by Jun Miyake

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings.
Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words.
In the work, everything belongs to everything else -- the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said.
I don't know where one thing stops and another begins, and I don't need to analyze it. It would limit the work if I were too analytical. (New York Times, September 29, 1985

Pina Bausch

Misha Gordin - amazing photographs

2012-01-29T21:05:00.000+01:00

The photographer Misha Gordin.
He was born in Riga, Latvia in 1946 under soviet communist rule.
His evocative conceptual photography capture the viewer's soul. I am always fascinate, no matter how many times I look at his brilliant and poetic pictures. It's such a huge poetry in every single detail.

I would love to see an exhibition with his photographs. Yes, he is exceptional.I am a huge admirer of his visual poetry.

Garden in the sky, The vertical forest

2012-01-29T08:43:00.000+01:00

A modern Garden of Babylon? More and more people believe that access to a garden, and to gardening, is a basic human need. But is the answer a traditional house and garden or should we be looking at gardens in the sky? The most exciting new tower in the world is under construction in Milan.
Bosco Verticale is the vision of Stefano Boeri, architect, academic and former editor of design and architecture magazine Domus: he begins his presentation with Ovid’s fantasy of the nymph Daphne being turned into a tree. But, he adds, such a metamorphosis adds only 5 per cent to construction costs. And, he argues, it is a necessary response to the sprawl of the modern city.Read the article: The age of flower towers By Christopher Woodward

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one of the Wonders that may have been purely legendary. They were purportedly built in the ancient city-state of Babylon, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq. The Hanging Gardens were not the only World Wonder in Babylon; the city walls and obelisk attributed to Queen Semiramis were also featured in ancient lists of Wonders

Japanese Surrealist

2012-01-28T22:03:00.000+01:00

I continue to share those artists that influence me or have touched me in some way.

Todays artist is: Tetsuya Ishida, a Japanese painter, best known for his surreal portrayal of an ordinary Japanese life.
His short lifestory (31 years old he was accidentally killed by a train) and the characters in his painting appear unhappy and their bodies are part of machine or other object, touch. You can nearly feel the alone-less in his artwork. I don't know but it's something with his artworks, the darkness, it's like scenes from a nightmare.

Ishida's works feature three major themes: Japan's identity and role in today's world; Japan's social and academic educational structures, and Japanese people's struggles to adapt to social and technological changes in Japan's contemporary life.

He conveys isolation, anxiety, identity crisis, scepticism, claustrophia and solitude, incurred by these themes, by making school boys and business men as part of a factory and portraying young people, mostly young men, as physically integrated with everyday household objects. Such as a wash basin, a radiator, a toilet and a desk. His subjects have faces that resemble Ishida's own face. The resemblance suggests these are autobiographical, but Ishida had firmly denied this.

Ishida shared anecdotes of his parents expressing bewilderment over his art style and the dark nature of his works. His mother was particularly upset by one of his self-portraits as she felt it was too dark, but he assured her that it was him at his happiest because he felt he could communicate better through his painting than he could in person. He later reported that his parents came to accept his works as part of his personality and that they, particularly his father, were able to appreciate his works even though they still didn't understand his art.

In a snippet from an archived television interview used during Tokyo TV's Kirin Art Gallery's feature "The Grand Art Masters", Ishida had stated that regardless of whether he liked painting or not, he felt compelled to continue painting "people at mercy of Japan's contradicting nature of its social systems for as long as they exist".

There are some aspects of his works that still intrigue his art critics. One of most discussed topics is a recurring motif found in the majority of Ishida's works: a plastic shopping bag. Ishida had consistently refused to explain the purpose and the meaning of the shopping bag. With Ishida gone, the question mark over the shopping bag motif is likely to remain for good.

Since his death in 2005, a large number of unpublished works have been uncovered in his home, which brings the estimated total of paintings he produced during his ten-year career as an artist to 186.

In 2007, Ishida's family donated 21 of Ishida's works to the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art in their hometown as a permanent exhibition.

You can see more of Tetsuya Ishida artworks here: http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2008/11/07/incredible-paintings-by-tetsuya-ishida/

Radiation Storm and the End again.

2012-01-24T14:07:00.000+01:00

Ok folks, put on your seat belts.

A powerful solar radiation storm will blast a stream of charged particles toward Earth today and some predict that it is the beginning to the end of the world. Would not the world end today, so I hope to see equally amazing pictures from Nasa that shown here.

Still, I wonder how many times the Earth will end until it really ends the world and I try to figurate if the aliens will come before the end or after the end.

“Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” Luke 21:26

Well, what kind of power it might be come, I have to continue with my illustration and after, do my homework. It's feels that I have to hurry before it's to late...

Utopia

2012-01-24T08:10:00.000+01:00

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.Dwight D. Eisenhower

An utopia but what would happen if suddenly it was peace all around the world, no conflicts, no need of guns and weapon?
What would happen with the weapon industry all around the world?

I was surfing around the net and then i found this site about War is business(News website with statistics and lists on top defense contractors and arms dealers)
and it's the reason I am thinking of war and peace, flowers and kids.

Structure and artworks

2012-01-23T17:56:00.000+01:00

Artwork: 7 years in Karlsborg.

I do have to travel to Stockholm to take home my artwork.
It's still in Niki;s place. This is one of the first painted artworks I done and it has a lot of my life in it. I was more use to illustrate with the computer, and at that time I don't had any idea how to paint. Believe me; I used to go to youtube and type: Paint in acrylic; How to paint?
Well, I learned to paint at my mixed way of what I find to paint with.
My creativity has no limit.

One day this artwork, well it will be the cover of a book I shall write, some kind of self-biography. :)

Back to present time.

I really enjoy the course and I think I begin to have an structure of how I should think to take the steps I need.
I know what I want, I just have to find a way to get where I want.
Just a piece of cake, hm?

Today we had service on schedule and it was instructive.
First, the teacher's lecture, but also the discussions after was very good.

Different experiences, different point of view always gives a bigger perspective. I have very nice classmates.

Now I shall see if I finished with an illustration that I have struggled with, but first I need a cup of coffee.
I can feel that I woke up a little bit to early today, much earlier that I needed.

The limit of imagination is endless

2012-01-21T18:43:00.000+01:00

Vladimir Kush, russian painter and sculptor with his metaphorical realism and

Jacek Yerka ,polish painter of fantasy world and landscapes; is something extraordinary.

Etta James - The Very Thought of You

2012-01-20T22:06:00.000+01:00

When I’m singing blues, I’m singing life. ~Etta James

I am dancing while I am painting

2012-01-20T18:23:00.000+01:00

I am painting my dreams to the music and my thoughts
are free and they follow the tones.
I like to paint tones of music.

My thoughts on SOPA

2012-01-18T20:25:00.000+01:00

Black out my blogg .

Street Art and 3D

2012-01-18T08:55:00.001+01:00

I found a blog with photographs of street art that I want to share with you.
Visit Ned Hardy;s blog and enjoy the trip.
It's a fascinating journey through diverse artistic creativity.
Suddenly I want to paint the streets blue as the sky.

And as I am in street art mood today, I have to share this video of 3D street art. I wonder if I would dare to cross the street .....
Now it is best that I take pen and paper and continue sketch upon my world.
And yes, I woke free from fever. I am weak but alive..:)

Me and Buddha.

2012-01-17T22:17:00.000+01:00

I usually pray, it's something I've learned to do. I pray and thank the creator for the day, for the night, and for all that life gives me in experiences and inspirations. I have very much to be grateful for.
I'm not religious in the sense that I belong to any religion. However, I have deep respect for people's faith. I usually pray in front of this Buddha statue. It's a gift from a friend.

Today I took it easy. It is not so much to do when you feel dizzy and frozen by the cold, but that has not stopped me to much because I've sat and studied ,trying to structure the ideas I have in mind , but now I shall try to sleep.I hope I will feel better tomorrow.

Smiles and words.

2012-01-17T13:54:00.000+01:00

I should have realized that sooner or later the cold would win. Actually it was a matter of time after days of chills and headache. But I had to get sick now? The day after the course start? Well, it's just to call and croak out that I have no voice, but however, I have a fever peak. I have slept most all day and start to become somewhat human now after some pills against headache and a little bit awake after some cup of coffee.

How was yesterday? Well, as it was the first day it was mostly about information about the course, so the current situation, I have not much to write about it, but I think it will give good results.
At the afternoon and evening I had my artistic friends on an artists' dinner. It was nice interesting hours with a lot of talk and laughter about the past and the future and great ideas in present time. I like my artistic friends, I am happy to have them in my life. This song of Charlie Chaplin fix so well for us three.

My wailing wall..:)

2012-01-15T20:38:00.001+01:00

Next time I move I'll be more observant and check up before how is with bus times from where I´ll live. Amazing to see how environmentally conscious we are in our society given that the bus schedule is not always adapted for flexibility.

Hm. Yes, I know, I complain. I have been spoiled when I had the car. Although I was thinking environmentally, I was an environmental villain. I'll think about it when I go earlier than I need to take the bus.

By the way, I wonder why the car starts breaking down after a few years. There should be eternally cars that run on air. Can none invent it? Think how great it would be for the environment and for me and all others who have to spend a lot of money to repair damaged cars.
I think I will use the blog as my "wailing wall of nonsense. :)
But I am in a good mood to spend it away in complain about that I have to wake up one hour earlier then I need.

Let's see, the music for tonight will be a song for tomorrow.

Creativity and drops of sun

2012-01-15T15:31:00.000+01:00

I have to remind me to write this blog between two different shades of color.
Now I use the color that shines like the sun.
I like strong colors, so today I paint drips of sun who is dancing in the sky. As today the weather is quite gray I had to warm my spirit with colors.

Except that I am very creative these days that have passed, I have also had headaches. The cold seems to want to catch me but I am fighting against it. It would be very bad timing to get it now.

I look forward to tomorrow, it will be undeniably exciting to start something new. I am and remain a perpetual student who is stimulated by learning.
After the course, two good friends will come to visit me. One is poet and the other is a painter. So we are three creative female souls that shall have a talk about life and of course, about art and poetry.

About creativity, this is an interesting article about creativity ;
Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking.

As an example, (copied from the article)
3. You must go through the motions of being creative. When you are producing ideas, you are replenishing neurotransmitters linked to genes that are being turned on and off in response to what your brain is doing, which in turn is responding to challenges. When you go through the motions of trying to come up with new ideas, you are energizing your brain by increasing the number of contacts between neurons. The more times you try to get ideas, the more active your brain becomes and the more creative you become. If you want to become an artist and all you did was paint a picture every day, you will become an artist. You may not become another Vincent Van Gogh, but you will become more of an artist than someone who has never tried.

Perfect music for my mood: B-tribe. Alegria.

Painting tones of music

2012-01-14T09:24:00.000+01:00

I usually write on my international account on Facebook: painting tones of music and then I post the music I paint too.
Music has helped me a lot as well as thet art, especially during the most difficult time.
I learned to paint by its tones, shades of life. I learned how to reinforce a sense and I learned to turn a sense in color using music.

Actually it is not the technique or what medium I use that is the most important. It is the melody I hear that is important to catch what I see in mind.
When I was as most sensitive for noise I don't played or listened to the music I posted on my logg at all.
I just hear the music in silence inside me and paint from it.

I usually take what I have on hand to create.
If I have no oil to paint with, I paint with acrylic, If I have no acrylic, why not paint with pastel, watercolor or with the computer or why not mix what I have? If I don't have canvas I always use to have paper.

I do not limit my self if I do not have something to create with. :)
In fact, It's become my way to create and I actually feels pleasure to make my own "take what you have" mix to create my surreal world.

Rules of Creators Life

2012-01-14T06:47:00.000+01:00

I woke up early, a little bit too much early.
Five o´clock.

The morning is still black, as black as my coffee.
But the Internet is awake. Some creative souls on my internatioal facebook account are awake as well as those on my circles on G+.
I becomes inspired.
Time to create. I know that I will not have so much time to create when the classes start and I have a lot I want to illustrate before Monday.

I can say that I follow these rules very well ..:)

The image is taking from the site Creative Something

I got life ..:)

2012-01-13T11:29:00.000+01:00

Yesterday's icy wind gave me a headache today, which I hopefully can cure with a few cups of coffee.
I sit here and think that I am getting close to one of my goals. When nobody else believes in you, you must learn to believe in yourself. I read these words somewhere and I agree.

Today I will spend the day with something as creative as cleaning.
Hopefully I find my camera charger, which should be somewhere here at home and hopefully I find some illustrations that I know I packed up and put somewhere.

It takes time to pack up a life.
Well I shall see if the camera charger is in one of those moving boxes that I still have not packed up. I miss my walks with my camera, it has been my faithful companion all these years. It is old and I wonder how much longer it hold to follow me on my adventures through life. I need a new camera.

But instead of writing a fairly uninteresting blog, it's better if I start with the cleaning and packing up the last.

I look forward to start the course. I hope it lives up to my expectations.
I do not want to waste any more time than necessary.

I got life..:)

I got life, mother
I got laughs, sister
I got freedom, brother
I got good times, man

I got crazy ways, daughter
I got million-dollar charm, cousin
I got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too
Like you

Music, patience and the art of living

2012-01-12T18:57:00.000+01:00

Man's creativity is impressive, and to say nothing of her patience to create.
This video is unbelievable.

Speaking of patience. It's something I should learn. Difficult art, the patience.
On Monday, I start the course "start your own business" I will study the art to be my own entrepreneur.I intend to combine artistry with my knowledge.

As I don't find a job, well, then I have create it.
I know what I can and yes, I have a dream, in fact, I have several dreams.

Never give up your dreams, it's says.
One day....

Rain, rain, tears and tears

2012-01-12T12:08:00.000+01:00

I like the rain,I like the changes in nature and yes, I usually like rain; tears from heaven.
I tend to think that the gods weep over people's stupidity, but above all of people's greed and meanness.

Today it rains, it rains a lot and I try to see the poetic in the rain. A little difficult right now, I have to go out in the rain to take the bus.

Positive thinking.rain, drops of tears from Gud, tears of life ... drops of water .... ... hmm ....
Maybe dancing in the rain make the miracle?

Drink it or paint with it.

2012-01-12T09:12:00.000+01:00

The painting here by the artist Elisabetta Rogai is exquisitely created with an exquisite product.
I must test to paint with wine without drinking it up. This article caught my attention and yes,
next time I buy a bottle of wine It will be a double Cheers.:)

And in fact, it happens sometimes that when you open a bottle of wine, it use to be some wine left as you pour out.
A good way to reuse the old wine?

Cheers..:)

Talented Italian Artist Paints with Wine
Wine has been the inspiration of many famous painters throughout the centuries, but Florentine artist Elisabetta Rogai is taking the relationship between the drink of Dionysus and art to a whole new level, by using wine as paint.
Can a painting truly age? The concept was first explored English writer Oscar Wilde, in his book, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, and now, over a century later, it’s taking a new meaning in the work of Elisabetta Rogai.

The Italian painter uses only white and red wine, with no other chemical additives, to create beautiful paintings.
This “allows the wine to reproduce on the canvas exactly the same process of ageing that normally takes place inside the bottle,” she explains, adding that “the wine aging, which normally occurs over the years, takes only a few months on the canvas.”
The difference between a freshly painted artwork and a three-months-old one is clearly visible; the texture changes and the colors evolve from young purples and cherry reds to more mature tones of amber, orange and brown.
Unlike the portrait of Dorian Gray, her works become more beautiful with time.

You can read the truly story here: http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/talented-italian-artist-paints-with-wine.html

Silence, Dreams and Changes

2012-01-11T21:20:00.000+01:00

It's been a long time since I have posted on my blog, but honestly, I have had so much to do
but the main reason for my silence is that I wanted to finish what I started in silence.

I have also moved and I have left behind me the Garden of Roses.

In 2011, I will always look back with gratitude. A radio interview will be broadcast in February,
where I explain a bit what I did in 2011. I promise to publish it here on the blog.

When the new year rang in, I knew that now, for the first time for years, I can look forward with joy and hope, peace and in anticipation.

I wish you all a beautiful Year 2012.

Creativity and I

2011-09-09T13:47:00.000+02:00

When I create I am in present moment. I am one with my soul. Then my mind is closed and my heart is open. When I create what I want to create as the way I want to create I am happy as a child and free as a bird .:)

Creating gives me joy. The series I'm doing and painting now gives me many smiles. Sometimes I wonder what my subconscious thinks. I have noticed a big change this year. Now I paint with happy warm colors. I do not care so much whether it is right or wrong in shadows and shapes, or if it is considered to be qualitative or not, or it may be perceived as good or bad. I am no longer so self-critical as I was before. This series is so different from what I used to create. Completely different but oh so very much funny.:)

The meeting yesterday went well.
Now I know how I should proceed. I feel excited and I know, although there is much to learn, but I know that now I am on my way to something entirely new.
So many thoughts, so many doubts, so many words written and so many unwritten lines, but now I know that the time is right to take those steps I took yesterday.

I am grateful for what I learned and grateful for the strength I got. I feels happy even if I still have some things to put in order, but yes, I do feels happiness and tranquil in soul.
Life is indeed a journey .
I wish you all a peaceful weekend.
Margareth

Prophets, artworks and meeting.

2011-09-07T21:31:00.000+02:00

This is my latest artwork. It is No. 7. Now I have only five pieces to which I shall prepare. At least for now, perhaps..:)
I have not had time to paint as much these days. I've mostly been busy with writing an action plan to a meeting tomorrow. I think I might be finished with the most important of the plane. Based on the result, I will update the action level for the next step.

Create your world, say the prophets. Well I am creating my own special world and I am happy in my soul. :)

Wish me good luck tomorrow afternoon.
Wish you all a nice week.
Margareth

Photoblog: Sweden

2011-09-05T08:04:00.002+02:00

I am resting my blue eyes against the blue water.

Photoblog: A Piece of Autumn.

2011-09-05T07:41:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I took a photographic walk and came home with 2 liters of chanterelles. I dare not pick other kind of muschrooms because of lack of knowledge. I prefere to capture it with the camera more then pick up them. :)Those mushrooms in the picture I do not know if they are edible. The red one, I know/think is poisonous. Be careful when you pick up mushrooms, be sure that you know if they are edible or not.

Lyme borreliosis, jobs and arts

2011-08-31T09:46:00.000+02:00

I have a fever and chills. I am eating penicillin and try to cure me from a tick bite. The bite gave me Lyme borreliosis.

Well, except that I am warm and feel sorry for me, I continue to look for jobs. I also waiting for my contact person from the employment office contact me. He is difficult to reach and I need to get in touch with him because I have some questions I need answers to.

Beside that I keep my self busy searching jobs I am writing an action plan and trying to think from different perspectives in what I can do, how I should proceed and what wonders I need. This action plan I will take to the meeting with my contact person from the employment office.

Meanwhile, I continue to learn Goggle + and how it works.

I have put the painting aside, the main color ran out.
I shifted on another medium.
I am grateful that I can switch on so easily between different styles, depending on what I have on hand to create with.

The light

2011-08-26T08:45:00.000+02:00

I feel happy, relieved and grateful. Yes, I do have so much to be very grateful. I feel reborn. It's a great feeling, the feeling of happiness. Life is magical. When you reach the light at the end, everything becomes light.

Wish all my readers a great and magical weekend. :)

Arts and updates.

2011-08-22T08:46:00.001+02:00

I have not updated what is happening on my artistic life for a very long time.
Well I was working, I had a very nice summer job. Now I´m searching for a new job.
I don't like to be unemployed. In fact, I really dislike it.

So I hope I will get a new job soon. I have also several ideas of what I can do, I am making some research to see if it's possible to realize what I have in mind before I make any moves. .

But mostly of my time I am painting and waiting and trying to learn the art of patience. And patience and me, well, yes, I do need to learn the art of patience. :)

Duo in One./Evgeni Plushenko and Edvin Marton

2011-08-20T09:51:00.000+02:00

When two geniuses meet, a rare double masterpiece creates.

THE DALAI LAMA - ADVICE TO ARTISTS

2011-08-19T20:41:00.000+02:00

He is a very wise man...

The Sex Contract

2011-08-19T09:34:00.001+02:00

I wonder sometimes if the animals has much easier then humans. More danger in a lot, but maybe their don't complicate life as human do.

Save the world and UFO thoughts

2011-08-17T07:49:00.000+02:00

I guess we humans must always expect help from others and from outside?

Well, given that we seem to go against a global economic collapse, I hope the alien come and rescue us very quickly.

Alien, hallo hallo,
come and help me out of here ...

The domino effect

2011-08-16T06:54:00.002+02:00

Let us assume that every experience, meetings, joy, sadness, disappointment, anticipation, love, farewell, expectations, dreams, illusions, well, every single experiende of life, are dominoes we put next to each other during time we developed.

All dominoes you builded or got throughout life is different, in both shape and appearance, from each other. During your development, you create endless circles of different pieces, through straight paths and crooked corridors.

One day when you begin to realize each bricks part of it all, you begin to understand and the first brick fall.

Brick after bricks falls at the rate it is destined to fall. One of one, sometimes faster, some times slowly, but in the time they are destined to fall.

Everything has its time.
Time, time is a scarce commodity in our modern society..

Photos from Karlsborg in the Sun

2011-07-30T22:24:00.001+02:00

There were so many people who came to watch the show and to sing together .. I heard that there were nearly 7000 people. Amazing, really. I saw people everywhere:)

The Lill Babs Show in Karlborg /Sweden

2011-07-30T21:55:00.000+02:00

It is the first time I see Lill Babs on stage. I understood why she is so loved by her audience and her fans. She has tremendous charisma and strong personality and she gives a lot of herself. It was a really nice surprise to see her and to take photo of her too.

The red hats in Karlsborg, Sweden

2011-07-30T21:24:00.003+02:00

Some photos from the Lill Babs show yesterday in Karlsborg. These ladies sat in the audience and was called up to the scene. They were asked: Why red hats?
The answered : Because it's fun ..:)

More joy to the people, more fun to all of us. More red hats to the people.
Life is so much easier when you have fun.
I like those ladies with their red hats :)

Silence

2011-07-24T20:16:00.000+02:00

Even silence weeps in sorrow
for the unimaginable that happened in Norway.

My thoughts and prayers are with those
who have lost their beloved ones.

Karlsborg and drogs

2011-07-22T10:05:00.001+02:00

I was in Karlsborg with a friend yesterday to pick some raspberries and we saw this.

I became sad when I saw those deodorant bottles thrown in the grass and realized that there are some who have breathed into its contents. It is so sad to know that there are those who flee their reality in such a way.

My friend pick up those deodorant bottles to take to the recycling station.

Roses and humility

2011-07-20T14:27:00.000+02:00

I have a feeling of humility in my heart.
I picked roses in quantities.
I am rich in natural experiences ..:)

Sunset, awaking and swallows

2011-07-20T10:04:00.000+02:00

I keep on going through all the photos and illustrations I have done all these years. Sometimes I wonder where I got all the ideas from in my world of yesterday.

When the mind is disconnected and the feeling rules, then the soul has took over.
And when the soul take over, everything changes, and I mean everything.

Though yes, right now, I wonder whatever I shall do with all these pictures I have in my new world. I commuted between the illustrations, photoart and photo compositions. Like this one, the sunset ..:)
I like colors and yes, I do like to create, and I am so grateful that my soul rules my world now..:)
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I awoke up to a wonderful day. The birds are chirping and there are so many swallows that circulates over the house. I love swallows and it's not often I see them. The sun is shining and it smells so good from the flowers and from the wet of the night's rain. Life is wonderful and I am very grateful to be a part of it.
Wish you all a day of life.

Cars and cellphones

2011-07-19T19:48:00.002+02:00

I guess the car needs to come to the workshop. Something broke. A spring broke. Perfect. I was gonna call the workshop and then my cell phone dies. I have a feeling that today is not my day with regard to the technical. Well, positive thinking. I may start taking the bus to work until I can fix the car and buy myself a new mobile phone. Why do things that are made nowadays have such short lives? But I will not complain, it could be worse. It may not be as expensive to fix a broken spring. I wish I had friends who are expert in how to fix broken cars.

I done a lot in the garden today. The result of what the garden gives me. Not bad, hm? I might are a quite poor artist but rich in richness..:) and I am very happy that I have a summerjob. It was really in the right time and in fact, my life is starting to be in order. What a victory, none can take that from me. The feeling of having the right to control my own life is great.

C and artworks

2011-07-19T09:05:00.000+02:00

I survived a format C Trip:)

The week I was without the computer I took the time to sort all the illustrations/photoarts I have created over several years. It's now I realize how much I really have done.

Now is time to take the next step.

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This photoillustration belongs to a serial of blogillustrations I done. I used to catch up bloggers from the Aftonbladets blogportal and illustrate whom was hidden behind the words as I saw them from my point of view.
In fact, looking back at time, It was that way I started to learn how to illustrate.

Now, with the knowledge of what I know today, after several years of training in illustration and painting , I'll take all those old illustrations, retouch where the shortcomings is need, (I was at that time a very amateur in computer graphics) and when I am finished with those first illustrations I done, then may I see ; in the present moment, the idea is still at the beginning of an idea ...

The beautiful lady at the photo is a very talent photographer and painter.
I don't knew at that time that she was a singer. I love her voice, what a voice. Her name is Annica Kvarnström.

Her songs http://www.myspace.com/annicakvarnstroem

Her blogg
http://rubilder.wordpress.com

Back in time

2011-07-14T13:31:00.005+02:00

I must learn not to see too much backward in time. Well, one day I might teach me the art of "Now is not yesterday and tomorrow is not today."

Angels really exist, and I learned that sometimes it is good to ask for help. They have helped me a lot during those years.

Angels on earth exist too. I had a phone call and I realize that I got the help I asked for. I still can not believe it, and I realize that the years of yesterday is over.

I am so grateful.
A new begin starts today.

I actually handle it.....

Exhibition and memories

2011-07-13T07:04:00.000+02:00

A rose from my garden.
Yesterday I started my day with a nice invitation. It's about a world exhibition and in my former homeland, Brazil. The country, where a big part of my heart still lives, although I have never gone back. I hope I will able to travel to Brazil one day and visit those places where I lived as kid. The invitation gave me flashback of memories.

Tomorrow I'll go through the rules which the gallery require. It feels pretty nice to have plenty of time to select images this time. The exhibition is in November. The exhibition fee is $ 140. It's give me time to save money to the fee too.

But now it's best to drink my coffee, time to go to work soon.

Night in Daylight.

2011-07-11T23:15:00.000+02:00

The moon fascinates me, it lights up the darkness of the night.
Swedish summer nights are bright as a sunny day.

I love the moon, regardless of whether it lights when the night is bright as day or if the night is dark as night.

Arts, mosquitoes and drogs

2011-07-10T19:48:00.001+02:00

Swedish mosquitoes like Brazilian blood. :(
I realized their desired after several of these flying cannibals began to drain me. It was just to go in and continue to paint indoors.

I'm starting to finish the whole serie. Not bad, I wish that I was so effective all the time. About time, I think I suffer from lack of sleep. Today I woke up four o'clock in the morning.

Painting is good for my mind, it is good way to focus thoughts. I'm waiting for some important answers and instad of I thinking about those answers, I'll paint my unconscious thoughts.

When things is in order I will take back my brasilian me, I have missed her in the whole story. I have to start to follow Alana Ruas. :) She is a brazilian fashion bloger.

Well today I have to sleep early. I am quite sleepy.

By the way, there are many who have vacation now and is travelling to different destinations. Take it easy, there are unfortunately those who take a trip on the road too.

This video is good, it's fun and you get an eye-opener. He actually looks like the pink rabbit. Hm.

Drive sober, drive carefully and take care of each other.

Have a nice holiday.

Este es un nuevo dia by FACUNDO CABRAL

2011-07-10T07:32:00.003+02:00

What a way to die, get shot on the way home.

Facundo Cabral was a great singer and poet.

You start your new day, far from Earth, Mr Cabral.
Rest in Peace.

You have a heart, a brain,
A soul, a spirit,
So how can you feel poor and unhappy.
Facundo Cabral

Artlife and meditation

2011-07-09T08:44:00.000+02:00

There is a word I do not like and that's the word Art Factory. As an artist, I refuse to be a machine that produces art.

I woke up with sore muscles, have some kind of muscle pain in my body after yesterday's gymnastic exercises in replant flowers .... ouch .. but it's starting to look nice. Yellow with yellow , nearly the blue, and weeds, hmm the weeds love the rain, or so they clone themselves in the night?

Today I will sort out some pictures to the image bank, I got the answer from the Employment Service that I was approved to do that, and then I'll start looking up for some galleries, in Sweden and abroad.

On Monday I start working and will work four weeks. It's a summerjob and yes, I continue to seek a job, here or abroad.

Now I just have to think how I should handle the two weeks to come. Well, I have managed many miracles the past 3 ½ years and one more or less, it doesnt' matter :) It's just to accept that it is a part of my journey.

I will find peace and solution in the garden and I will follow those advices:

Art and roses

2011-07-08T22:51:00.000+02:00

In the garden, I seek strength. Among the flowers and weeds I find inspiration.

Many of the illustrations I do are created in the tanks in the open garden.
When darkness come in the night I end the thoughts in a picture.

The last journey

2011-07-07T06:40:00.000+02:00

Rest in Peace, old man. In 98 year you have lived here on Earth. May you tired body rest, your soul is now free.

My thoughts are with his wife and with my mother.

The question...

2011-07-06T17:37:00.000+02:00

If someone were to ask me what I am good at, so the answer is obvious.
I'm good at doing miracles. I am expert to catch the light in the night.
No doubt about it.

Now I have to post a letter.

Time of the Roses/photography

2011-07-06T08:56:00.000+02:00

Some roses from my Garden of Roses.

Världen i hans händer

2011-07-05T16:24:00.000+02:00

Den andra idealisten jag tänker lyfta upp idag med en illustration är Jens Odsvall. Han är också en av dessa engagerade bloggare som jag har träffat och som jag har följt nu i flera års tid. Han tar sig tid till att vidarebefordra, informera, dela länkar och videos, skriva om det som sker utav orättvisor, både hemma och på utomlands. Via facebook, via sin hemsida, via twitter och jag skulle inte bli förvånad om han finns även på andra ställen än det nämnda.

Jens har dessa ord på sin sida på facebook: Mänskliga fri- och rättigheter är en förutsättning, för ett värdigt liv.

Det är inte det lättaste att uppdatera sig ständigt med världens elände. Jag vet. Jag har sett vidriga videos och bilder på lemlästade människor och fosforbrända barn. Det är vidrigt, det finns inte ord att beskriva känslan av vanmakt,sorg och uppgivenhet över det ondska som finns.

Att då som Jens, som dagligen uppdaterar sig med allt som sker, som öppnar lådor efter lådor, läser vidare det som han hittar där i mörkret till världen, är beundransvärd. Kan man annat än respektera en sådan människas engagemang? Vad är det som driver en idealist? Vad är det som gör att de inte står vid sidan om och tyst iakttar?

Martin Luther King sa dessa berömda ord: Den yttersta tragedin är inte de onda människornas brutalitet, utan de goda människornas tystnad.

Skimra som silver, stråla som guld och att kämpa för sin rätt

2011-07-05T08:24:00.000+02:00

Människor intresserar mig, kunskap och insikt likaså. Människoöden berör mig, idealisters kamp får min respekt. Internet har gett mig många möjligheter att beröras, jag har lärt mig oerhört mycket genom möten.

Idag tänkte jag presentera en idealist, en riktigt kämpe som jag beundrar för hennes kunskap, vänlighet, empati men också för hennes mod. För visst krävs det mod av blotta sig helt alla för att informera, debattera, skaka om, vända upp och ner på himmel och jord i sitt försök att försöka förändra? Vad vore världen utan idealister som kämpar för sin sak, som kämpar för att rasera alla dessa fördomar som florerar?

Jag har följt Amanda Brihed under ganska lång tid, och jag har läst många av de länkar hon har publicerat både på sin blogg och även på facebook. Jag har läst många av hennes inlägg och artiklar.

Hon är en brinnande idealist som bär sitt kall med bravur.

Det har och skrivs mycket nu om tvångssterilisering. Här är några av de artiklar där Amanda berättar om sig själv. Väldigt utlämnande, väldigt naket, väldigt rakt på sak. Hon är modig. Världen behöver modiga människor.

Pride står för min rätt att slippa samhällets sjukliga fixering av underliv, av Amanda Brihed, Newsmill

Amanda Brihed: Hur kan svensk lag få stjäla min möjlighet att bilda familj? Aftonbladet

Mänskliga rättigheter går inte och lägger sig av Amanda Brihed. Wendela

Alla vi har rätt att skimra som silver och stråla som guld, därav anledning att jag gjorde illustrationen i ett skimrande look. Alla har rätt att sola sig i glansen i att vara unik. Alla har rätt att blir respekterad som människa.
Kärlek och ljus till er alla.
Margareth

Badhytt och samhällsnytta

2011-07-01T22:09:00.000+02:00

Ett semestertips nu i sommartider.

Har ni varit i Hjo? Inte? Då tycker jag att ni ska åka dit. Dels för att trästaden vid Vättern är väldigt vacker. Den ligger väldigt fint till och det finns många smultronställe att besöka. Hjo har också mycket i konstväg att erbjuda sina besökare.

Åker ni till Hjo så vill jag passa på och tipsa om en badhyttsutställning.
Vi konstnärer som deltog i årets konstrunda fick skapa vår egen tolkning av Hjo;s badhytter. Flera nappade på förslaget så även jag skapade min tolkning som ni kan se om ni klickar HÄR.

Historien om badhytterna

1913 satt arkitekt Lars Kellman i Borås och skissade på nio små byggnader under rubriken Hjo Strandbad. Han ritade på frihand på rutat papper och färglade byggnaderna i klatschiga kulörer. Sannolikt blev det aldrig mer noggranna ritningar än så. Men med sina enkla skisser skapade Kellman det som än idag utgör en av Hjos mest kända och karaktäristiska stadsbilder.

Den större mittbyggnaden tjänstgjorde som biljettkiosk. Där kunde man också...ja, mer kan ni läsa om ni surfar in på Hjo;s kommuns hemsida. Där kan ni också läsa vad Hjo har att erbjuda er.

Så visst är det ett ypperligt tillfälle att andas in Vätterns friska luft och även insupa konstnärligt badhyttsinspiration? Vem vet, kanske lite konst ligger bra till för Svensk Näringsliv så de inser vikten av konstnärligt samhällsnytta. Hur var det nu det sa? Studerande inom konst och humaniora ska få studiemedel med sämre villkor än naturvetare och teknologer. Det föreslår Svenskt Näringsliv i en rapport (Svenskt Näringslivs rapport ”Konsten att strula till ett liv”) med motiveringen att filosofer har svårare att få jobb än ingenjörer. Hm. De som kom med förslaget (chefsekonom Stefan Fölster och Malin Sahlén, nationalekonom på organisationen)behöver onekligen mycket konst för att bli berikade och för att inte tala om att de lär behöva semester efter all kritik.. Organisationens vd Urban Bäckström sa att Svenskt Näringsliv inte alls driver ett sådant förslag. Hm.

Badhyttutställning var det:

Utställningen pågår Juli och Augusti.
Lördagar: 10-14. Söndagar: 12-16
Extra under slöjdmässan 8-10 Juli, 10-18

Länge Leve Konsten..:)

Art and midsummer

2011-06-26T10:05:00.000+02:00

Midsummer weather kept it´s promise and followed the Swedish tradition. It was overcast, it rained a bit but it was warm in the air. I had a nice Friday, celebrationg the day in good company with nice people.

Yesterday it rained all day and I painted all day too. I'm getting ready with several unfinished projects. Here is a picture of a finished work :)

Today is a nice sunny day, so I shall take care of the garden because if not, I will soon have a jungle out there. I have missed to be outdoors those raining day.
I like the garden, it's my studio, my inspiration, my poetic vein.

Why do I create?

2011-06-23T12:22:00.001+02:00

Well, lets do it: I will change my blog from swedish to english. Why? Because I am more overseas when I am online and sometimes I also publish my blog on my international account on facebook. 99% of my friends there are not from Sweden. I know, I ill treat the english language but overseas I dont met so many language polices as at home, and in fact, mostly people respect that I am trying to communicate even if I dont have perfect knowlegde of how to write in english.

Mostly of my international friends one facebook are artists in soul and heart. It's photographers, painters, illustrators, poets, musicians, moviemakers, sculptors
,designers, well I presume that is all kind of artists from all part of the world. To have so many creative souls around you, you becomes inspired everyday. In the morning when I´m trying to wake up with a cup of coffee or in the night before I go to sleep with a cup of tea and facebook:)

My international account is a pulsing heart of creativity.

I feel at home with my international friends and I always will have the dream to one day be able to meet some of them, and exhibit together somewhere in the world. I know I will. I have already one artist in mind. He is fantastic in the way he capture the world. One day we will have an exhibition together, here in Sweden and in his country. See the video below: I asked the photographer If I can make a video with some of his amazing photos and he let me do so. I felt so honored for the trust!

I will try to realize that dream to exhibit with him. We can never realize a dream if we don't try to realize it, right? And in fact, I am on way to start to realize a lot of dreams already.

I feels respected by my friends for my talent and for who I am, as well as I respect my friends for their talents and for who their are. Yes, I do like my friend and networking abroad is a little bit different from networking in Sweden. We help each other, share each others albums, give tips of exhibitions and competitions and give feedback to each others works etc etc. It's really helpful and that way to act gave me a lot of courage to believe in my own capacity as an artist. It's no Jente laws that take you down. :)

Even if I write with my english, none ever complain about it, they respect that I try to communicate as best I can. No word-police that disturb you and it`s great to have the ability to speak with images because it's a very international language.

Sometimes in the night when I can't sleep I can log into my account and I always find some other artist who is awake, creating. It's a creative way to not feel alone in your own solitude world. The question between artists is sometime: Why do we spent hours creating our world? Why do you paint? Why do you compose? Why do you write?

Today one of my friends posted a interesting link on her wall that I want to share with you.

"WHY do you paint?" | "WHY DO WE SEE?"

To answer the question; why do I create?
Well,It's my way to breath the pure air of freedom, it`s may way to use my gift to change my world. Creativity is my friend, my heart, my pulse, a huge part of my life. I am very grateful for the gift I got.

Are you an artist? Why do you create?

Here is the video I had the honor to create. May I present: Doctor Anirban Ray:

The rainbow

2011-06-22T19:49:00.005+02:00

The colors of the rainbow is spread on my kitchen floor. An unexpected conversation threw me back in time. It's has been such a long and hard journey ....

One day I will gather all these pieces of puzzle that is my life. But not now, first I have a new world to create.

To something else then my life
I want to share a very interesting story, it's about Jose Antonio Vargas life:
My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant

Jose Antonio Vargas is a former reporter for The Washington Post and shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. He founded Define American, which seeks to change the conversation on immigration reform.

Building up an portfolio

2011-06-22T08:45:00.008+02:00

I'm trying to create a well-considered aesthetically beautiful portfolio, but it takes time. It's to choose the artworks to the albums that's take most time as I create so much in so many different styles. I would need an agent, a curator, a miracelmaker so I can create my art in peace and not have to spend so much time on marketing myself, trying to commit miracles all the time.:)

may day, may day, where are you?

A good way to get motivated when you want to give up is to discover that the graphic card to your workingcomputer has passed away to the place beyond the time

Great, just great. First the computer screen, now the graphic card.
Give me a break.

Today I have to sent some employment letter. I hope I get a job very soon.

Tipsar om en YR-utställning

2011-06-21T10:23:00.012+02:00

Jag tänker passa på och tipsa om en fin uställning som är på gång inom kort. Det är så att flera av mina forna klasskamrater från Y-linjen (Yrkesförberedande konstnärligt fördjupningsår)/ Hellidens Folkhögskola, ställer ut på Galleri Smögen.

Galleri Smögen.
Vernissage 26/6 kl 14.00
Smögenbryggan-Konstnärsgränd-Kilen

Utställningen pågår t o m 2/7
mån-torsd 11-19, fred-lörd 11-20
sönd 11-17

Vad är då YR?

YR = är ett möte mellan konstnärer, formgivare och konsthantverkare. Vi bildade vår grupp när vi skulle ställa ut på Galleri Sandström i Tidaholm. Här är några bilder från oss på YR..:)

Tanken är att vi kommer att fortsätta att ställa ut tillsammans så om ni vet ett galleri som kan tänkas vara intresserad av oss, sänd mig ett mail: margareth.osju@gmail.com.

Varmt Välkommen till denna månghövdade kulturinjektion!

The freedom of madness

2011-06-20T07:38:00.014+02:00

The sensitivity, empathy, passion, intelligence, skill, humility, the never give up spirit is my greatest assets, it makes my talent. If I assume from what scientists have come up with about "Genius and madness - conspicuous myth or scientic fact?" , well, then I am a genius with a foolish streak. I'll write it as a diagnosis instead of referenses now when I am looking for a job to be happy:)

Thank God that I am unique and it is absolutely not bad at all to be the chosen one according to this quote: )

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Cataloguing Thoughts is nothing for me, to follow the stream is not my thing. Free as the wind is my madness and I have the courage to refuse to follow everything blindly. Which is not always the easiest in a square world where everything must be analyzed.

But even intelligent analysts / researchers need some brilliant counter-thrust.:)

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins

With respect for the scientist, his theory is interesting. I hope you all understand that this blog is written with a smile in my eyes:)