A Visit To The White House
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Categories : Life
The Road To A Golden Pearl
18 12 2010We saw the hard work in the pearl oysters farms in a previous post, but the most difficult in the process of growing pearl oysters became excretion of Pinctada Maxima oysters, which produce some the finest and most beautiful pearls in the world.
Biologists struggled with breeding rare species of oysters for 15 years. The company now Jacques Branell owns is unique in the world and it has the secret of the golden pearls.
Categories : Food & Drink
Letitia Orsivschi’s Egg Museum
17 12 2010Letitia Orsivschi is a craftwoman from the village of Vama in the Suceava Region of Romania. You can contact her to send you some of her beautiful handmade eggs or you can visit her shop. Letitia also runs a bed and breakfast.
Categories : Art, People
Jeff Nishinaka Paper Art
15 12 2010Jeff Nishinaka carves and pinches paper to create intricate paper sculptures. His meticulous sculptural 3D work appears to have been created from marble or extremely fine sand or vanilla ice cream or thick foam — definitely of something other than “just” paper.
Categories : Art
The Road To A Perfect Pearl
14 12 2010Cultured pearls are grown on what are known as pearl farms. Like any other form of farming, pearl farming can be a risky business. An entire bed of oysters can be completely devastated by unpredictable factors, such as water pollution, severe storms, excessive heat or cold, disease.
After the pearls have been allowed to develop fully and extracted from the oysters, they are washed, dried, and sorted into general categories. Sometimes, the pearls are polished by tumbling in salt and water. The pearls are then sold to jewelers, manufacturers, and pearl dealers.
Categories : Life, People
Alexa Meade Trompe-L’Oeil Painting
3 12 2010Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Rather than painting a representational picture on a flat canvas, Meade paints her representational image directly on top of her three-dimensional subjects.
Categories : Art
