Friendship bracelet style!

I have managed to do a handful of different designs and patterns for my friendship bracelets, I have already posted the picture to my separate Friendship Bracelet page on my blog! I think I will only upload photos with a brief caption there- but if anyone is interested in buying any, just write a comment and we can arrange something! The bracelets on there at the moment are quite simple ones; I have already made a couple more (a bit harder), so I will be updating the collection soon!

I was also wondering if showing a tutorial of a couple of them would be of any interest? So comment and I will try my best to make more, and make tutorials if that would be any help to anyone!

 Here's the collection so far with my simple (first trial ones), but I might do an update tomorrow just of some more difficult designs!

Snacks for scrutiny.

I think each food for thought title is going to have some sort of ring; changing it up every time just to add that unique-ness to each topic to ponder!

My last post like this I put some quotes on here and questioned them, but I think I might do something I have to question myself. I guess most of this is just opinions I feel personally, and just like my other post of "Food for thought" please feel free to comment- I would love to hear your opinions or any anecdotes!

My topic for today is technology more of a live saver than a risk?

I know this may sound silly as I am writing from my laptop- yes a source of technology that has gone global. But everyone has heard those horror stories of deceit over social networks and the risks the internet can carry. But I don't want to rant about the rather disturbing stories! Of course technology has saved so many lives, and I'm not denying that. But does the loss of live through all this deceit and lies out weigh all the lives it saves?

To my mind technology is something mind boggling, something I will never understand (although I am in no way an engineer or electrician!) It is so revolutionary, whether it is something that changes your life for example finding a new jobs or something totally life changing like operations. Through all these opportunities technology creates for so many people but does all the hurt and pressure outweigh all these pro's?  But maybe without the world of technology there would be less pain from words? threats? The internet creates a wall between people that makes it easier for people to threaten and belittle people because they can stay anonymous. This cyber bullying is for me the lowest form of bullying. The bully can stay anonymous which just makes them even more cowardly.

Technology has taught us so much about the world- exploring the moon, capturing photographs of what they have found, then documenting it on computers. But doesn't it also create pressure for anyone to have the updated/newest phone or Ipod? Maybe this secludes people who aren't as well off. Maybe this is just another way of separating people up into social groups.

So I wanted to be controversial and be biased towards the bad points of technology because I think the obvious points are for the advancement of technology. But please feel free to show your opinions!

Hope I hear from you!

Ellie.

Food for thought.

I was going to write more posts on Graphics and some more work, but I think I wanted to focus on something a little bit different. I want to see what people think on controversial subjects. This is slightly off topic- but should catch someone's imagination and hopefully get you thinking as it has done me! I might make this a regular topic post if this one is a success! So please I want to hear from you, comment and tell me how you feel about the subject and hopefully get a discussion going!

I'm not going to throw out hugely controversial subjects at the start, I don't want to put people off from commenting if the subject matter is something of a hurtful or deep subject. But please if you want to create a subject to talk about please feel free to comment and start the talking!

So the first thing I wanted to put up here was some quotes that really caught my attention- they also link really nicely into my work I posted yesterday.

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chitton Pearce. I found this some what difficult to believe, but I guess this depends on what you consider a 'creative life'. Maybe he means it literally? That you must let go of your fear of creating something you see as a mistake, to create something truly creative and beautiful? Or does he mean that if you live out-side the box you should get ready for the mistakes you will make? But to me living out-side the box, being creative can never be wrong. Part of learning from what looks best is always good because learning and teaching yourself something can never be looked upon as wrong? Does he mean something deeper than the art created?

Another quote I found- which hopefully is more recognised, so could spark some more interest in comments, is from Albert Einstein. I wouldn't usually think as him as someone I would refer back to for quotes because I focus on the creative/outside the box way of making me think. And personally I wouldn't expect to see this sort of quote talking about imagination being something stronger than knowledge, especially to a man I believe to be completely focused on his knowledge of science. I think this quote backs up what this blog is all about- knowledge is powerful but imagination controls your knowledge. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."- Albert Einstein. So my questions I put to you are, do you really think Imagination is more important than knowledge? Do you think your knowledge is limited by your imagination, or by another cause? Do you think that imagination can really include everything in the world?

I hope to hear what you have to say about these topics! And please feel free to add to any opinions :)

Ellie.