Inspired Etches

Symbols #2                  For a website titled Inspired “Etches,” it is no wonder that there is a post here talking about cave drawings, hieroglyphics, and other carved symbols and shapes. When we follow through their evolution, they have the greatest impact on not only me, but everyone who associates symbols with loved ones, pictures with loved ones, and anyone who has ever seen a movie. For me, this subject is very raw and that is great because it means that it is powerful and may help me pay closer than normal attention to detail on this post.                   This year, the last Saturday in February, my Mommom passed away from a stroke. When the initial shock died down, we began to realize that she was now with her late husband, my Poppop, and to handle her affairs here on earth were 6 children she ra...

 Paper/ T-Shirts             William Baumol once wrote a manifest explaining that in cultures, we derive our innovation based on what societal norms and the cultures depiction of wealth and prestige in a society. In Baumol’s words, it is the “Rules of the game”. In Ancient Chinese civilization, their “rules of the game” were based on what they valued in their culture. In Ancient China, wealth and prestige was associated with scholarship. For this reason, even though China was technologically ready for a variety of advancements, the innovation of paper was invented by  Ts'ai Lun because their “rules of the game” encouraged it. Overtime the process became simplified and is now synonymous with all cultures. At times, I feel that I live by my own “rules of the game” and create things based on my demographic. For me that is Sorority T-shirts.            ...

            In my life and for this idea, I would like to be able to say that I am great at something. In grade school, I was never picked last for a team in gym, yet I was never picked first either. However, after 21 years there is one thing that I am better at than anyone else in the world: knowing movie quotes. There is something beautiful about being connected to others through repayable words in a movie, song or sitcom. The feeling of connection is a hunger that is never fully satisfied and only tasted in addicting doses. Today, we have shown that are known by all such as the classic show  Friends that have connected the world through laughter and witty puns. This powerful art of connection can be related to and traced back by the connection society felt when it was given one of the first massed produced copies of print that could easily connect everyone.          ...

#8 The Arts and Craft Movement              There is no better people on the planet that are influenced by arts and crafts as a a sorority girl. I want to express apologies if this is found stereotypical because it is meant in quite the opposite way. Developing objects that enhance the way we see the world and keeping them as memories is a way for a sisterhood bond to be locked for years to come.                A quote from  HistoryofGraphicdesingn.com  also similarly states, “During the 1880s and 1890s the Arts and Crafts movement was underpinned by a number of societies and guilds that sought to establish democratic artistic communities united for the common good. These ranged from exhibition cooperatives to communes based on socialist and religious ideals.” As a sister in Delta Zeta, I can pin point key elements in the arts and craft’s revolution tha...

#7 The Industrial Revolution                  Walt Disney World has changed my life in the ways that many people can surely relate too. Walking up that slight rise in the Magic Kingdom, seeing all the original architecture, characters, and everything else with all the fixing’s make the Disney name synonymous with entertainment and enjoyment. However, perhaps as I get older and more cost-conscious I can start to see the cracks and deception within my childhood. Disney at time can appear to lose its magic when moving towards almost a mechanic viewpoint. At times, it relates to the way the Industrial Revolution caught lash back for forcing those to adapt to change that may or may not have been ready for it.                   Both Walt Disney World as well as the Industrial revolution sparked enhancements that cha...

# 6                  The arrival of printing brought the world to a place where looking back was never an option. On a business standpoint, marketing has never been the same since branding now can not only design a marketable design but, are able to replicate it with complete accuracy. It is so common for things to be mass produced that we crave to be different. As a society, we are so used to taking for granted the ability Gutenberg’s press and the Qing’s dynasty left us with moveable and replicating printing.                    I am no exception to this rule as I have an over two-hundred fifty piece Disney pin collection that I pride myself on for filling my collection with rare, limited edition, errored in production, and many more distinguishable qualities that make my collection stand out from t...

           My senior year of high school, A brain injury ended my athletic career and I had to stop playing sports I loved. Today, it has been a long journey back but, I would not have survived without another constructive outlet that filled a void in my heart that sports once had. It was a gift that allowed me to make gifts with endless possibilities and cut out any and every shape I wanted. Receiving my Silhouette Cameo was a gift and a task all at once and I was grateful for it. The very first thing I used it for was a gift for my mentors in high school. The first, a Silhouette outline of Goofy, just on cardstock. With this, I spray painted a canvas silver, and then placed my goofy cut out on the silver canvas as a filler and spray painted again black. Once I removed the cardstock, I was left with Goofy himself. A gift I’ll remember giving forever and it would have never been a possibility without the amazing capabilities of my Silhouette Cameo Ma...