Blog Inaugural

A new semester means new jewelry projects to over complicate; this time to the tune of one singular theme. And, as a bonus, the entire process is to be featured live on The Musery blog! Without further ado, onward to the creativity!

As one may have guessed from the above picture (the eighth hit on google for science fiction) this semester's grand theme is science fiction. After briefly considering the usual idea of nature that leaps into everyone's head when confronted with a need for a theme, and debating the use of gears for the first project, kinetic adornment, it occurred to me that science fiction also uses lots of mechanisms and I like science fiction a whole lot. I'm also hoping for a shot at a quasi unique theme, even though I've outed my self as some one who can argue why the classic series of Doctor Who is better than the new one and how Captain Kirk defeated the Kobayashi Maru test in Star Trek II was cooler than in the 2009 movie.

What particularly endeared me to sci-fi is the possibilities for the second project, a tiara, since there has been no end to wild, wacky, and stupid head gear featured on alien females and a few males. And this theme should be helpful for the super special mystery secret third project, as science fiction has always been an opportunity for designers to go nuts, for better or worse. For evidence of this I humbly submit the infamous GM promotional short Design for Dreaming, made when sci-fi was the future and the future was sci-fi. (And if heavy doses of sarcasm are required the MST3K version is here.)

At the very least it ought to be interesting researching the hopes and dreams of tomorrow, fictional or otherwise in order to ape those smooth curves and impracticality that screams "The Future!" And the most excellent place to begin my search is with one of my favorite websites, Tales of Future Past, maintained by a David Szondy and chronicling exactly how we were meant to be living in the future.