Filed under: design, jewelry, process by ramune

It hit me this morning that I only have three more enamels classes left for the Winter session. No worries though . . . our class was postponed so many times that the Spring session starts only two weeks after my last class . . . phew! How I long for a large studio in a barn in the middle of nowhere with a teleporter to a nice city loft. I can dream, can’t I?

I will work on those plans (and you work on developing that teleporter for me), but in the meantime here I am preparing some copper discs to be etched. I need to get better at focusing when I can’t actually look at the viewfinder.

Filed under: favorites, photography, urbex by ramune

Abandoned buildings are my “new” favorite thing. I’ve always been fascinated with urban decay and have wanted to explore abandoned places, but until recently I had not really sought them out. This past Monday while I was in NYC (seems to be a bimonthly visit now), my sister and I took a wee road trip outside of the city to find this lovely decaying power plant. Unfortunately it was raining and the place was in a pretty sketchy area. It’s funny how a rainy overcast day in a sketchy part of town can make you a bit hesitant to enter a creepy decaying building. It was probably the smarter thing to do, but I would like to go back sometime and explore some more. Until then, here are some photos from the outside, and as usual more photos from this trip and any future trips to abandoned places around New York are here.

Somewhat disturbing graffiti . . . I am going to imagine it’s just someone stabbing marshmallows to roast over a fire.

Filed under: music, photography by ramune

On Saturday I went to Carderock hoping to take photos of the area in snow. Unfortunately by the time I got there the little bit of snow that had fallen earlier in the day had melted, and the snow that was to come was several hours south. Even though there wasn’t much (any) snow, it was a really pleasant walk and there were barely any people there. I did find it rather amusing that walking in one direction I was passing all Europeans and walking back I was passing all Americans. I’m not entirely sure what that means. Read into it what you will.

I took this photo along the Billy Goat Trail. I am not sure what the foamy stuff is, but it made a really mesmerizing pattern that I stared at for a while.

Driving to and from Carderock I had the song “The Bhabar Belt” by The Protist on repeat. They are quite the talented duo, both musically and visually. Enjoy!