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Post by deb193redux on Jun 3, 2013 20:09:59 GMT -5
| # | Design
| Statement/Vision | 1) Tela
|  | I chose this because it reminds me of an old show I saw- a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, where the sun was going nova. Everything was drying up and paint was melting off canvases. This is like that bright enveloping sun with shriveled up trees in silhouette and a dead landscape. Not a very pretty picture, but I like it.
| 2) Lee
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| A brief explanation of why I chose the part of the slab, I saw the bird in the rock and after all it is birdseye, and the sun above shining on the bird.
| 3) Susan
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I chose the scene of the Native Americans in canoe on the winding river (see the two walking out to meet them) Behind them is the village, as well as the smoke billowing up. It is a quiet, peaceful scene, with all of the subtle variations in color that I would want in this scene. I particularly like that the sun is setting and that the explorers/hunters are returning home.
(There were numerous wonderful images in this slab--the duck (or dragon) pulling the cart on top of the upside down elephant, the Amazon woman's breasts, the battlegrounds and the heart with bull's eye and mistletoe near the top. Tough choices!)
| 4) Adrian
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| What I saw in that slab is not only a bird's eye, but also a whole bird, dreaming at its origin (the giant egg in the top left of the cab). So, this cab would picture very well the eternal enigma: "which was first, the egg or the bird?"
| 5) Orrum
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| calibrated style perfect oval, the cab itself has a big hot yellow sun on the horizon with a big black t-rex dinosaur in front of the sun and closer to you is another dinosaur (the type that is huge and down on all four legs and has a real long neck with small head). This dinosaur is red due to the reflection and wavering heat waves on the cracked desert floor they are crossing. I know dinos are in swamps and grasslands but this is at the end after the meteor hit and everthing is drying up and dying. The fractures in the cab are the cracks in the desert. So in summary its a oval cab with a t-rex at the top and another dino at the bottom and there is a huge yellow sun at the top behind the t-rex.
| 6) Jean
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| "Cratered Moon"
I picked this section because the most obvious birds eye looks like a crater, and made me think of the moon. So a crescent moon with some craters on it.
| 7) Chuck
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| At first sight I knew I had to use the large obvious eye and I kept thinking teardrop shape with the large end around the big eye and the small end around the small eye to the left about an inch away but after messing around in the photo editor I chose to go with a standard "eyeball" shape so I found a template for drawing eyeballs and copied that onto your photo.
| 8) Helen
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| "Run Away!"
This rock has a lot of possibilities. The most obvious one to me was one dinosaur under the sun... but I decided not to do that because it wasn't very dynamic. The other one I saw was the old 'T-Rex vs Tricerotops" battle... which you could stretch the imagination to make the black blob on the left a triceratops, and the T-rex battling under the sun... but it's not got the big head plate, so wouldn't look quite right. Then I thought of doing a simple one using the orb shapes, and ignoring the dinosaurs.
I decided on the 'group' of dinosaurs because they looked
1. dynamic, the 3 focal dinosaurs look like they're in motion.
2. they're all running in 1 direction!
3. the group looks like a bunch of different dinosaur types running,
4. and most importantly, it reminded me of the old saying: 'you don't have
to be faster than the bear... you just have to be faster than the the
slowest man in your group... ' LOL!
I envisioned the group running together from a wildfire... predator and prey together... "there are no enemies in death"... and they all want to get out of the path of the fire, whether they are flying, running, crawling, slithering.
I cropped tight to get a bigger 'herd' effect. |
So lets acknowledge the contribution of all participants. Thanks guys!Now please share you thoughts about what works and WHY. A lot of large cabs this time. Some would have to be display pieces. But no rule said the cab had to be wearable. Lets have a good discussion. I will post some of my thoughts later. |
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Post by orrum on Jun 3, 2013 21:04:57 GMT -5
Well birdseye ryolite..... I think the science people think the dinos were birds with tiny feathers. Great subject Daniel,, our hobby is about prehistoric rocks turned to cabs etc. Lot of creative minds in this forum!
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Post by orrum on Jun 3, 2013 21:09:37 GMT -5
Duh I cant figure out how to vote! Help!
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Post by deb193redux on Jun 3, 2013 21:13:48 GMT -5
Not sure about tablets and touch screen, but I just had to click next to my choices and got green check marks show up
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Post by deb193redux on Jun 3, 2013 21:24:25 GMT -5
There was a lot of complexity of visions here. Helen had a whole heard on rampage, Adrian had the bird and the egg within a cab with the proportions of an egg, Susan sees an entire village/river scene - and brings us along. Tela describes a vivid landscape.
Chuck took pains to get the proportions of pupil and eye correct. Jean was very playful with her crescent. Lee gave s the bird/goose in a tall oval, which I like, and has a balance of the sun above with the halo around the goose head. Orrum/Bill went to great pains to enter, and I like the symmetry of the two figures in his cab: light above and dark below.
Right now Susan's cab has my eye because it is the one that I would take the most joy in seeing someone wear. I do wish the scene was a little larger, but what a great scene. It will be interesting to see if one of the others grows on me over the next few days. I keep thinking about the egg shape of Adrian's cab, how much fun it would be to set Jean's moon, and I can almost hear Helen's rampage.
Looking forward to hearing how these designs strike others.
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Post by helens on Jun 3, 2013 22:40:38 GMT -5
Ok, I liked Susan's the best, it's cute, colorful and different!!
I liked Tela's next best, because while it's super simple, I liked her Twilight Zone story... and the double ringed sun!!
I think they're all good tho, and I'm glad you are giving prizes to everyone, because they are all interesting:).
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Post by adrian65 on Jun 3, 2013 23:10:31 GMT -5
Well, I have to say Susan's scene is the best in my opinion. Not too easy to spot such a complex and discrete scene while that bird is popping in sight.
Adrian
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Post by susand24224 on Jun 4, 2013 1:01:36 GMT -5
I commented awhile ago but it somehow never made it--I wonder what I did wrong? I saw the dinosaurs/duck/upside down elephant, and also the sun. All of these cabs have character and enhance the area of the stone they were created around. Jean's fascinates me--I like the layout and it didn't enter my mind at all to do what she did, perhaps since I could never muster that shape in real life. I agree with Daniel and would have preferred that the scene in mine was bigger, but I still liked the river and the peacefulness enough to go "small." I love the duck and sun as well. Daniel, the slab is just too darn picturesque to like just one cab!
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Post by deb193redux on Jun 4, 2013 1:04:52 GMT -5
thats why I let vote on two
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Post by deb193redux on Jun 4, 2013 11:53:08 GMT -5
so glad to see everyone has at least one vote.
Discussion is a little quiet. Is it just that the poll started on a Monday night and some folks are distracted by v5 upgrade?
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 4, 2013 13:23:38 GMT -5
so glad to see everyone has at least one vote. Discussion is a little quiet. Is it just that the poll started on a Monday night and some folks are distracted by v5 upgrade? Yeah, the update will take some getting used to. I must say, I think Susan should just be crowned now! What a great stone! I never even saw that, till I saw her stone. We got some great visions out of one slab! This is really fun, Daniel. |
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Post by deb193redux on Jun 4, 2013 14:31:39 GMT -5
I do think Susan it the one to beat. I will wait a bit to place any "crown" because I don;t have pics ready of the prizes. Except for the slab we used, they are still sitting in the bottom of my slab bucket.
Tela, what kind of wrap would you pair with a small intricate scene like Susan's virtual cab? Keeping a lot of wire off the face seems obvious, but do you see any architectural elements that might echo the Native American scene?
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 4, 2013 14:46:31 GMT -5
Well, Daniel, at the risk of being repetitive... I would go with a woven bail because of basket weaving tradition and I would try to incorporate some small, brick red, red jasper beads to pull out the scene some more. Maybe the prong type wrap that I did for a man wrap only use tiny beads around the frame. I'll try to find a picture.... Can't attach it- need to upload. BRB
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 4, 2013 14:50:54 GMT -5
Something like this with a woven bail and small red beads all around. I know Susan has been playing with the idea of using beads.  .jpg) |
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Post by orrum on Jun 4, 2013 15:02:25 GMT -5
Ok there you go Daniel, Phase two of the virtual cab ryolite birdseye contest will be how would you wrap the winning cab! Maybe something like wrap a sample cab n photograph it n submit it as the style and color that would best be suited to the winning cab then vote. That way the wire wrappers get a piece of the action!
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Post by deb193redux on Jun 4, 2013 15:21:21 GMT -5
@tela: I can totally see that. I agree it would be very effective. @ orrum: Since I don't wrap, I wouldn't presume to hold a wrapping contest. But I like the idea of any wrapper who wants to discuss one or more of the designs above by talking about how they would wrap it. Most could be wrapped, although I think the larger display cabs might be somehow wrapped w/o a bail - more like a wire frame. I think I would put Jean's crescent moon on a disc of silver with prong setting. This would complete the image of the crescent moon, where the light gray image of the full moon is always there if you look. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 4, 2013 16:38:34 GMT -5
I like them all, but I think the uniqueness of the stone lends itself to more than just a ho-hum calibrated cab. I like Susan's creative vision, I DO see the Native Americans, canoes, the winding river and the village, but put it into a piece of jewelry (a small one at that) and one would have to get up close and personal to share that vision. Indeed, it would be suberb had it been a bigger image! I think of one Tela's wonderful weave wraps would be the cat's meow, but even if you were careful to maximize exposure of the stone, the wrap would still take center stage.
I like Daniel's idea of mounting the crescent moon on a silver disk (perhaps silver sheen obsidian?), giving it a simple wrap, hanging as a finished piece of jewelry just the way that it is portrayed. It would have understated elegance. Jean
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Post by rockjunquie on Jun 4, 2013 17:06:48 GMT -5
OOOOO, I like the idea of some silver sheen obsidian, that would be awesome. You could orient it to have have moon rays coming off it. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 4, 2013 17:22:53 GMT -5
Now that's an idea... Jean
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Post by deb193redux on Jun 4, 2013 17:51:21 GMT -5
I can imagine an intarsia of birdseye crescent and silver sheen obsidian. Possibly some "moon rays" could be stamped on a silver back-plate. Fancier beams are beyond my imagination.
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