Archive for the 'Arts' Category

Website Design Dallas Perception

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Have a separate area for general navigation. A common mistake I see all the time is no navigation area, but a bunch of hyperlinks mixed in throughout the content. Don’t hide your navigation. Since the web is a visual medium, color plays an important role in how viewers perceive it with website design dallas. Have you ever gone to a site that had a dark background and darker text? After you have some content, do not ruin it by making it unreadable. Avoid fancy scripts, centered text, flashing items and overuse of bold and italics.

Country music takes it to the floor.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

When it comes to dancing. There is no better music to dance to than good old fashioned country music. This form of music has created a great form of dance that has brought many people together. There are many types of country dancing such as clogging, contradance, cumbia, galop, mazurka, minuet, polka, polonaise, quadrille, redowa, schottische, and the most popular which is the two-step. The two-step is an easy dance to learn and a fun dance to do. The dance itself is very contagious and when some country music gets turned on, people hit the floor and start doing the two-step to the beat.

Soulja boy has a new shoe and apparel line due out this fall

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Soulja Boy, the latest teen rapper sensation, recently signed a deal for Soulja Boy shoes with Dallas based Yum Shoes for a line of his own sneakers. The footwear will be called “Block Star,” and the young star will also have an apparel line to match. Soulja Boy expects the new shoe line to be released this fall along with his new album also scheduled for a fall release. Look for the new fashion line to be unveiled at the Magic Fashion trade show in Las Vegas. Soulja Boy will appear in print and television ads to promote the shoe and apparel lines.

I Love To Look at All The Art For Sale Around Town.

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I have always been into browsing because I think that it is fun even if you don’t buy anything to look at everything that is out there for sale. One of my favorite things to look at are the different pieces of art for sale. I like to go into some of the local art consignment shops and some of the many art galleries that are about town and just look at all of the different pieces. It is almost like going to an art museum except if I really likes a piece of art I could purchase it if I chose to.

Cross Tattoo Designs- Roman Times

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Tattooing goes back hundreds if not thousands of years, and even in ancient times one of the biggest tattoo ideas was the cross tattoo designs. Ever since the Western world was introduced to the idea of tattooing people have been getting cross tattoos to signify some type of religious belief or just because they like the design. You will even see Roman soldiers were known to get tattoos of crosses on their arms to show their allegiance to the church and the King. Drawings of Gladiator’s fighting with each other show them with cross tattoos on their arms and or chests.

Guitar Tuning’s Hard on Some People

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Do they have any way for tone deaf people to tune guitars these days? Way back when I was a teenager, it was the time of the Beatles and the British Invasion, and it seemed everyone was in a band. So I tried my hand at guitar, but I’m basically tone deaf and unless you’re Joe Satriani or somebody, guitar players usually need to sing. So I became a drummer, which I liked better anyway. But I’d like to start playing the guitar again. I just always hated acoustic guitar tuning. Hopefully the computer age has come to my rescue and they have some sort of electronic thingie that beeps or something when a string’s in tune. Maybe I should just get myself a set of electronic drums and a soundproof room!

I need Tattoo Designs for the 4 elements.

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

I need unique Tattoo Designs for the 4 elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water). I am not sure how this would look, but know that i do not want it to look plain. I would want it to look interesting. Maybe the water could be in the shape of the moon, since that is what controls the moon. maybe the air could be in the shape of leaves blowing in the wind since the wind is most visible that way. Maybe the earth could be a plateau since that is earth personified. Maybe fire could be - well I don’t know. That is where i get stuck everytime……

Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

If you enjoy learning about, viewing, and creating art, you will appreciate a visit to the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island. The Museum includes three buildings that house the Museum’s permanent collection of art, an art school, and restored galleries.The original Newport Art Museum building is probably the most interesting one from an architectural and historic point of view. It was designed by famous architect Richard Morris Hunt in the year 1862 and construction was completed in 1864. The building is an example of Styk Style architecture and is a National Historic Landmark. The Newport Art Museum’s permanent art collection includes a variety of works of both an historic and contemporary nature. Southern New England and Newport artists are well represented in the collection. Exhibits at the Museum include works from private art collections as well as pieces from other museums in addition to its own works.   Art workshops and classes, musical performances and gallery openings and receptions are some of the special events and programs held at the Newport Art Museum throughout the year.

Tabla - Bayan, the Big Drum

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Both drum shells are covered with a head (natively termed as puri) that is constructed from a goat skin-a material commonly used with most of the ethnic percussion instruments originating in Asia. Since the cow is a sacred animal in India, cow skins are never used (particularly in India) in the tabla. So the  goat skin is overlaid by an outer ring of skin (called the keenar) to serve as suppressor of the natural overtones the tabla creates. The two skins are stitched together by a complex woven braid that gives the entire assembly the strength to be tensioned onto the shell. The completed head construction is then affixed to the drum shell with a continuous piece of goat or camel hide strap that is laced in between the braid of the head assembly and another ring that is placed on the bottom of the drum.

Comet

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Across my shoulder blades I have been contemplating getting a star tattoo design. I love the idea that a shooting star going through the sky has actually died out thousands of years ago by the time we see it. I think it can be such a wonderful metaphor for so many things in life. Adding to that design I want to have a comet leading the way and then having a bunch of shooting stars behind it. I think it would be great if the comet was on one shoulder blade with the string of shooting stars arching over my back and finishing on the other blade.

Watercolor Painting: Getting Started

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

You have decided you want to do watercolor paintings, now you must get the essential supplies. First of for most you need your brush. The best brush to start off with is a #8 brush. Next you need your paints, make sure you get your basic colors to include: yellow, red, blue and green. You will also need your paper, the heavier the paper the better. Of coarse all true painters need a palette. There are different sizes and types of palettes, make sure you get one that best suites you. Finally you will need water. This is the most inexpensive part of the whole painting process. Get two jars of water so you can use one for cleaning the brush. Once you have these basic materials you are ready to begin painting.

Metal To Paper Quilling

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Today’s quillers work exclusively with paper so it may come as a shock to some but the craft of quilling actually began as far back as the fifth century with artists using gold and silver wires to make decorations for rich families and religious institutions.  This form of the art, known then as metal filigree, carried on for many hundreds of years before the ever rising cost of materials meant that  paper began to be incorporated in designs.  The use of paper meant that the craft now became available to all and the term quilling was introduced for the first time to replace paper filigree.