there is no end

Uni is finished, but I still need to work during summer to save some money for the new year.
Feel a bit down because all my friends are in Riga, and I'm here in London. Sometimes you need somebody to support you and tell that all you are doing isn't worthless.
miss my family as well.
pfff, now I sound completely miserable.
Anyway, I have new ideas and some works that I hope to scan in Uni and upload here. I didn't updated my deviantart gallery for a while as well.
ohh.. so many things to do...

Besides that, my interview and trial today was fine. They will give me a call on friday.
well, we will live and we will see..

Fairy Tale

Fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already because it is in the world already. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.
The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St George to kill the dragon.

—G. K. Chesterton

I asked for a fairy tale romance. In my defence, I'd never read any actual fairy tales. First time I've ever asked for the Disney version.

—A Softer World

A story which depicts a fantastic sequence of events. Often, fairy tales include creatures from folklore such as goblins, witches, and dragons. Fairy tales usually take place "once upon a time", with few (if any) references to real people, places or events.
Orally told fairy tales are told in extremely spare and laconic style. Even the fancy dresses the heroine wears to a ball are discussed briefly; "three dresses, one as golden as the sun, one as silvery as the moon, and one as bright as the stars" and the story goes on. Likewise, characters are defined by their actions. Even when motives are provided (which is only for human characters), they are short and simple: the heroine is out to find her fortune; the hero wants to marry the princess; the Wicked Stepmother is greedy and doesn't want her stepchild to have an inheritance, or envious of her beauty, or if she has a stepson, destroy his wife; the false hero wants to marry the princess; the king falls in love with the strange woman he meets in the woods because of her beauty. And motives may not be; in the Grimms' The Twelve Dancing Princesses, we never find out why the princesses are going to the nightly dances, and indeed never discover whether they are doing so voluntarily or not.
"Fairy tale" is often used in modern times to depict an idealized romance or ending, although many classic fairy tales are much darker than many people realize. Heroes may be the victims of such violence as having hands chopped off or eyes gouged out; at the end of the story, villains may be disposed of by such methods as having them wear red-hot shoes and dance until they die, or putting them in a barrel lined with nails and having a horse drag it until they die. The spare style helps minimize the impact, as it can deal with the violence briefly and without gory detail, but even so many fairy tales have produced Nightmare Fuel. In some cases, this is intentional, to Scare 'Em Straight.
Fairy tales are found in cultures all over the earth. Many tale types have wide-spread variants. However, only a tiny handful of them are widely known in modern culture. Consequently, when a writer goes to rewrite a fairy tale into Fractured Fairy Tale, with parody or subversion, it generally invokes one of that handful. For instance, the fairy godmother is a relatively rare figure in fairy tales, but having featured in Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, is epidemic in the Fractured Fairy Tale. Even retellings that do not parody the fairy tales generally stick to the best known.
Fairy tales were originally intended for all ages, but for a long period of time, they were only written or presented as children's stories. Disney is rather famous for adapting fairy tales into movie musicals, often with changes to make them more light-hearted. Writers who seek to restore fairy tales to their original intensity may intensify it to the point of Grimmification.
Very few fairy tales actually feature fairies; even those European countries with a developed fairy folklore preferred to use Talking Animals instead. The name of the genre can be traced to Madame d'Aulnoy's Les Contes de Fées, which appeared only after literary fairy tales became all the rage. Folklorists have made valiant attempts to give the category more accurate names, such as "wonder tale", or the Grimms' original term "household tale" or Märchen, but the name sticks. Other names include "folk tales" and "tall tales".
Several extremely popular tales such as Perrault's "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" did feature fairies, helping give weight to the name, while others like Rumpelstiltskin alluded to a more sinister kind of folkloric fairies. On the other hand, Perrault's Cinderella is an odd-ball; normally the Cinderella figure is helped by her dead mother, and Sleeping Beauty is as likely to be a victim of prophecy as a curse). Many, such as Rapunzel, Puss In Boots, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White, contain no such figures. Some, like The Emperor's New Clothes contain no magic of any kind.
See also Fairytale Motifs and Propp's Functions of Folktales. Not to be confused with the similarly-named manga Fairy Tail.
For a list of tropes common to fairy tales, see Fairy Tale Tropes.

Предыдущие means NEXT PAGE.

In the end of this page don't know why but NEXT PAGE written in russian. I couldn't change the lenguage, so I hope it wont be a big problem for.

Old rusty metal table restauration

A couple of days ago I found this thing on the to the park. It is quite heavy and all rusty. I found a couple of methods how you can get it off:

Natural Rust Removal

Vinegar naturally cleans many materials, including rust-covered metals. To remove rust from metal objects (coins, silverware, jewelry, etc.), soak in undiluted vinegar (the standar 5% solution available in grocery stores works just fine) for as long as necessary before simply wiping or scrubbing the rust from the metal.

Baking soda is another natural cleanser that removes rust. Create a thick paste by mixing baking soda with a small amount of water, then spread the baking soda paste over the rusted area and allow to sit before scrubbing to remove the paste and the rust.

Some people recommend commerical soft drinks like Coke to remove rust. Apparently, the citric acid in sodas like coca cola works away at the rust on metals, tile, you name it. Just soak a cloth or paper towel in some coke, then rub the rusty area to remove the rust.

And so of course, plain citric acid will also remove rust, especially from steel. You can buy a variety of commerical cleaners with solution of 6% citric acid at most grocery or drugstores. To remove rust, simply soak a cloth or paper towel in the citric acid solution and scrub the rusty area.

OTHER METHODS:

Scrape and sand away rust from the surface. You can use sandpaper, a wire brush, or crumpled aluminum foil to scrape off the surface flakes of rust. This will leave the surface underneath clear and ready for repairing to prevent more rust. For rusted surfaces to big to scrape by hand, use a wire brush attached to a drill, or an industrial sandblaster.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_get_rust_off_of_metal#ixzz1IgF6krCP

I choose the last method in the end because natural rust removal sounds a bit too extreme for me and I didn't want to get my bath damaged doing it.

So I took off the rust using drill with wire brush in the end. It is a very messy and hard work but quite quick. Actually I find it quite hard for a girl to do, as the drill is heavy and need a strong hands to keep it on one place. Afterwards I spayed it with rust preventing stuff and painted it.  

final evaluation

  In my project proposal I wrote that I want to make text visual and create such shapes and forms that you can read a fairy-tale with out words. It gave me very good immediate start. I wasn't really sure how I will do it, but i knew what I want to create and how much time I had for that. The idea to make all the storyboard out of wire doesn't seem so easy now. I did needed to revise my first ideas and plans after proper research.
Even if I have changed my project through the research and idea development, I still managed to visually present a fairy-tale to a public. The text attached on the top, considering my FMP proposal not suppose to be there, but it completes my project, and gives it a new meaning. The fire-bird in a cage is a light, which you can use for reading fairy-tales before you go to sleep. It does work as a night light by itself and you can change the light to make it brighter or lighter.
Besides that, I got a few ideas during this project, that I want to full fill after this course. I definitely want to research more birds animal skeletons and use it for the mixed media sculpture. As well as I have a very real Idea now how to show text in wire. First I need to do all the parts and then fix them together in a sphere shape or big tube. It might be quite big, but the bigger - the better.

My research was good and I didn't really needed to come back for more ideas or inspiration. I was mostly researching mixed media sculpture, because I didn't need any help in making things. I knew what I wanted to do and what tools I have at home. The other part of my research was in the 4D modelling shop, where I was wondering about for 3 hours choosing appropriate materials for my project and my tools (with kind staff help of course).

Talking about methods and processes I needed to experiment with wire mesh and get new ideas how to make a bird, because I found polystyrene very uneasy and not practical. I can't say I got the expected result from my materials, but I got clear idea now how to use them and get exactly what I want.

Looking back at feedbacks and crits I found them useless as they wasn't critical. Just wasn't helpful at all.

My time management plant wasn't any good at all as I changed the direction of my project straight after submitting the action plan.

If I think about what I have learned during this project, I would say that on a first place is how to organize your my work. What I need to do after what. As well as, importance of an action plan. In the end I planned my work every day before I start doing anything.

FINISHED

The whole project is finished now. Before I wrote story I needed to translate it to English and cut it a bit so it would fit on my piece of paper. The cage, fire-bird and an apple visually shows what the story is about. The text attached to the top of the cage is a Russian version of Yugoslavian fairy-tale about the fire bird. I have realised what I wanted I showed a fairy-tale with out words, but I can't say I finished 'playing' with this idea. 

After this project I want to fix the storyboards that I have done for FMP in a box, and make slides show mechanism. The other thing I am very interested at the moment is birds and animals skeletons. I plan on doing more mixed media sculpture based on animal skeleton studies. Besides all that, i want to redo my fire bird. I want to make it bigger, longer and more elegant. No feather are acceptable, only wire decorative sculpture. 

If the writing would be any bigger or paper a bit smaller I wouldn't be able to fit it. Good that I tested the ink and size of the writing before I started finished piece.

I had a couple of ideas hoe to close the scroll, but the simplest one was the most practical one.