Witnessing the love of two friends!

I love witnessing a promise of love and today i witnessed the promise of forever-ness between my two friends -Melanie and Wankit,- you are so beautiful together. Love is a powerful thing. To merge into the ecstasy of love- we must transcend the ego in order to loosen our self-defined boundaries, that's why I say" when u step into the to house of marriage, please leave your ego by the door". Let love flow freely. There is no greater way to invite love than to offer it first. I wish you two the best Mr. and Mrs. Chow.

College degree

I have now spent 2,5 years at Mercer County Community College. Seven full time semesters and today i crossed that finish line. I finally have a C.o.l.l.e.g.e D.e.g.r.e.e!!! Wooot woot! Its feels soooooo soooo good. I double majored and now obtain two A.A.S degrees ( associates ) one in graphic/advertising design and one in illustration. Going back to college was at first a somewhat indecisive decision, i wasn't quite sure if sitting behind the school bench was my thing. But even though my ego and my mind wasn't so sure, my intuition kept pushing me further on in that direction. Even though I still was very reluctant during the first semester and would ask myself " what am i doing here? " "why am i studying this" i kept on keeping on.Hehe. I was on top of my studies with my head in the books. A couple of semesters passed and i started to get the hang of it. This last semester, was the best one. I won two poster contests, and a real world client ad campaign. I was the team leader and creative director in the ad campaign and my team got the honor to win. The judges was so pleased with our hard work, and it was a great opportunity to bridge the school world with the real work world. Work and network! Work and network! But most importantly this last semester I learned how to trust in my abilities as a designer, and the more i know the more i want to learn. Here is some images from the last day of advertising III course. Me and my team-the winners, together with the client and the judges in the background. The ad campaign is for "Furry Feet Fete", a fundraising event for the Trenton Animal Shelter and the Homeless Pets of The Shelter Project. I really care for this project. I respect the time and energy these people put into helping innocent beings in need. Really beautiful! And i am glad to be a part of it. The event is going to be held in November, the dog whisperer Cesar Milan will come guest speak as well as Rescue Ink, the "biker" boys that takes justice into their own hands regarding animal abusers and abuse the abusers right back (!) It will be an interesting event. If you are interested in buying a pet, please concider adopting one. When the animals reach the shelter they have 30 days to get adopted. If they dont they are put to sleep for good :( It is like the green mile. Not a good situation for these animals. I would adopt but my lifetsyle is not fit for it right now. Thank you for stopping by my blog. Have a good day! Peace, love and light!

Behind My Scenes '11

It was a hot summer day of 2011 in Lambertville, NJ, when i shot model/ hair product owner from Brooklyn, New York, miss Jena Berman. This was a fun collaboration with professional hair stylist/make-up artist Yuliana Bishop. It was a pleasure to work with these ladies and i am honored to have the camera man of Turtlevan Productions Mr.Bryan Gentry (www.turtlevan.com)to capture it all on video. Here it is folks, have a look at whats going on behind the scenes of a MeiVisions Photoshoot. Enjoy and thank you for taking a look at my blogg. Have a wonderful day now!!!

Creations on the wheel....

...here are some of the creations i did this semester. Enjoy!

Designing a book-jacket

One of my favouite authors....if not THE FAVOURITE author, Mr.Paulo Coehlo wrote a book called " The Devil and Miss Prym". It is a novel of temptation, greed, fear and cowardice and the main characters indecisiveness about her choice to be good or evil? The color of greed is green, it would be a strong green if it is a confident choice in beeing greedy, but miss Prym in this book reflects and contemplates and cannot make up her mind at first, hence why i chose to go with more muted tints of green and yellowish green for the base color. I created my own illustration in the same mood, with muted tones and lots of greenish variations in color to communicate the same indecisiveness. And the misty weather in the illustration shows the " fog" in her mind. For the title i chose a sans-serif font and a script font. At first i recieved critic for the mixing these two fonts togheter, but i stuck with it. The reason being that i love the movement in the script font. It shows something in motion, something that is fast....like the main characters thoughts tha are keeping her sleeless at night. I am happy with this book jacket, and hopefully i will create more in the future for myself and others. This is fun. If you havent read this book, go ahead and read it... if you havent read any of Paulo Coelhos books, i suggest you introduce yourself to his first masterpiece: "The Alchemist". Great,

great saga that! Thank you for taking a look at my blogg.

My first character is coming to life...

...and this is what she looks like. Little warrior goddess. Strong little spirit who fights for the good in whatever situation the author places her :) I say no more, but i hope to write a childrens book about this one some day soon. I am looking forward to the lecture with Jillian Kessleman, childrens book illustrator and professor at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. We are inviting her to the college i am currently enrolled in. Will be inspiring for "My words, my illustrations, my publications". One day, in a book store near you haha! Thank you for taking a look at my blogg. Enjoy therest of your day!

Liqurice bowl! Yum!

My own, hand-made, bowl. For those of you who know me, you know i am a liqurice lover, so of course, this bowl i had to dedicate to my liqurice indulging moments haha. When the clay is still wet but almost leather hard ( after about a week or so), it is time to paint the piece. I started out by painting it turqouise inside, and liqurice black outside. I also added a little text inside the bowl sayig " LAKRITS" which is the Swedish word for liqurice. First i printed out the word from a computer, cut the letters out with an exacto knife. Then I put the piece of paper in a bowl of water and let it soak for a little bit, so it would stick to the clay. When it was attached to the clay i simply brushed over it 3 -5 times with black color. A few minutes to dry and voila, its officially my liqurice bowl. It will now be in the keln for 3 days, then it is ready to be dipped in clear glaze, which will give it that porcelain look. Then it needs to be fired again for 3 days, and then it is ready for use. Pottery takes way longer than one would think. Alittle bowl like this takes about 3 weeks to a month from start to finish. Thank you for taking a look at my blogg. Have a good day!