What does the anthropecene mean to me? Personally I don’t see a lot of hope in the anthropecene. In the past few weeks we’ve been told we have 12 years to change or we destroy the planet, that we have so much C02 in the air that planting more trees can’t help and that giraffes …
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PROJECT 2
I am choosing option 2 – Further investigate your Assessment One topic To do this I will work on creating a ring from scratch, I will need to learn more about crafting rings and work on whether I want to cast it or make a bespoke piece where the metal doesn’t have to be melted. …
Rings that drive my point
http://www.josephlamsin.com/bespoke-jewellery-gallery this ring is really very raw looking – the edges of it could be altered from person to person and would be an amazing band for stacking http://www.josephlamsin.com/gold-silver-womens-designer-handmade-jewellery/silver-gold-unique-designer-handmade-rings/driftwood-cornish-handmade-sterling-silver-ring.html http://www.josephlamsin.com/gold-silver-womens-designer-handmade-jewellery/silver-gold-unique-designer-handmade-rings/beach-sand-textured-handmade-cornish-silver-bespoke-wedding-ring.html# I love how the ring itself is a near perfect circle but the surface is textures in order to create difference – you can change …
Karl Fritsch – a jeweler whose style shows my message
Jeweller offers raw approach Edition: First, Section: Arts, pg. 36 Reviewed by Penny Webb KARL FRITSCH Born in Germany in 1963, Karl Fritsch trained as a goldsmith and worked for a jeweller before attending the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, from 1987 to 1994, studying under Hermann Junger and Otto Kunzli. An intuitive remodeller of …
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Blood diamonds
Notes from Geologies of power: Blood diamonds, security politics and Zimbabwe’s troubled transition 2007 was a new case of ‘blood diamonds’, whereby state security forces secretly oversaw the extraction and criminal smuggling of rough diamonds – in the process, violently displacing local communities, informal miners and legal title-holders, and depriving the national treasury of significant …
Divorce and why wedding rings aren’t a good investment
Divorce Rate by Country: The World’s 10 Most and Least Divorced Nations September 29, 2017 We’ve taken a closer look at the divorce trends across the globe. Marriage is becoming less popular and divorce continues to rise. Check out the infographic below: Every year, world organizations such as the UN record global divorce rates. According …
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Recycled metal jewlrey
I feel that wedding rings at the moment lack substance. As looked at previously diamonds are a huge sticking point for consumerism. Rings are no longer driven by love, meaning or individuality but by how many carats you can buy (not necessarily afford as people spend absorbent amounts) and are a means to exploit and …
Peter Oren – Anthropecene
This is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Anthropocene Where will I go When I don’t want to be With idle hands awaiting catastrophe Here in the Anthropocene How will we escape this hell we made How will we escape this hell Is it a park is it a plaza where do …
Diamond mining
I wanted to look into rough diamonds mined annually and how much of these are wasted in the process of cutting and polishing. I could find very little on overall waste in the industry but also looked into diamond consumerism worldwide (how much is sold and why, average ring price etc) Here’s what I found: …
My Mother’s rings
Engagement ring · Dad and I found my ring in a second-hand store in Blenheim in January / February 1994. · I loved the solitaire diamond, and the way the side pattern transfers from platinum to gold with two single lines (on the band) · When I tried the ring on for the first time (and asked the …
Dressing the Anthropocene 