Jun. 2, 2012
Finished pillows witing to be listed! (Taken with instagram)
Pairing the Mandalas with their backing fabric! (Taken with instagram)
Jun. 1, 2012
Making the filler-pillows. They go inside of the photo-printed pillowcases et Voila! Fluffy goodness. (Taken with instagram)
Jun. 1, 2012
The Mandalas: A walk through my process. :)
So I’ve rec’d the fabric order of the Mandalas- what does that mean aside from super cool pillows going up on Etsy this weekend? What ARE Mandalas, why should you buy one, how did I make them and WHY do I make them? Read on.
WHY and WHAT: I stumbled across manadalas when I was a young girl. I’ve always had an affinity to the visual arts, and creating color palettes and fonts, &c. I had a coloring book of mandalas and loved climbing through the geometric shapes with my colors and being mesmerized at the patterns and possibilities.
Fast Forward about 15 years. I’m a photographer, and in the process of looking for a more tactile experience with my photography on both a commerce but a creative level- I was roaming the interwebs one night and reading about all the hippy stuff I like, stumbled across some really lovely handmade mandalas, which made me think immediately: I WANNA DO THAT.
MORE IMPORTANTLY: How Can I Get that on a Pillow??
But wait! Why in the world would I even want to make one, or even include it in the EternalSoulshine Photographic Home Decor line?? What IS a mandala??
Well:
“The word “mandala” is from the classical Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated to mean “circle,” a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself—a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds.
Describing both material and non-material realities, the mandala appears in all aspects of life: the celestial circles we call earth, sun, and moon, as well as conceptual circles of friends, family, and community.”
-from http://www.mandalaproject.org/what/main.html
SO HOW?? I use my photography. Essentially a make a selection of my photography and it is mirrored like a kaleidoscope.
The colored photography makes beautiful mandalas, but one of my favorite things is to use a black and white photo and hand-color scenes into the mandala.
It’s like weaving all sorts of good juju into the making of the mandala, so that when its new owner looks into it, all sorts of good, restorative juju is sent back to you. (more “why”, I suppose…)
I think that about covers it all. Here’s some examples, and if you think they look great on the computer, just wait until you see them in person, in fabric. I was exceedingly excited when I saw them!
The two I’ve included are Forest Kin- a black and white mandala I hand painted little scenes of forest elf and guardians, birds and sages. The color is the Friendship mandala- so named because it was a photo originally of two chair and an outdoor cafe table.
Ok- enough writing, I have to get to sewing!
(Source: carlyoneil.com)
May. 30, 2012
The lovely Freya Gallows. There’s more of the brand new additions to Dissolved Girl on Eternal Soulshine of the Jilted Generation blog….
I was also thinkin’ it’d look really nice on….
(Source: carlyoneil.com)
May. 30, 2012
I feel that photography is becoming like T.V. Many people just want a graphic, easy image.
However, this practice often leaves the “quiet pictures” out in the cold.
To me, “quiet pictures” are like crossword puzzles.
But some people do not like crossword puzzles because it forces them to think.
— James Keivorn (via largeformatguy)
May. 28, 2012
Guess what started making an appearance on the Etsy? My Home Decor line using my photography as the fabrics, Photographic Home Decor. Pretty neat right?! I just have some small accent pillows up- the “good” prototypes. Larger come soon, along with other textiles. Yay!
In fact- I’ll be uploading two more little accent pillows today!
(Source: carlyoneil.com)
May. 23, 2012
May. 22, 2012
I wonder…
Will we look back at today’s photography with the same whimsy and nostalgia as we can those like Elliot Erwitt, Robert Frank, Walker Evans?
May. 22, 2012
Rockstar (no, really) Ted Wulfers.
We shot extensively in New Orleans the days following Jazzfest for the upcoming video for “Think of the Good Times”— off the not-yet-but-almost-time-to-be-released (!!!) new album, Lucky No. 7
(Source: carlyrocksphotography.com)
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Sweet stalker of my senses, siren's song, stinging strait to a selective ear. Shallow water send off- watching clouds illuminate character. Baptism in fe-linear light, revolt against rigor in heart and deterge duty to self. Swan dive straight toward eternal incendiary incentive. Match strike flash. Quickstep into the quicksilver squalls. Voyage to the stars by way of slivered luminescence. Stumble into foreign shoes to satisfy a bravery blazing in shadowed sadness. Pinging pivotal momentum, being called to challenge and dissuade, transmutation pains the pious, creating a halo effect of resurrection when pulled through to the other side.
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www.CarlyONeil.com
carly@CarlyONeil.com
(ALL photography, unless otherwise noted is by the above, and (c). )
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Sweet stalker of my senses, siren's song, stinging strait to a selective ear. Shallow water send off- watching clouds illuminate character. Baptism in fe-linear light, revolt against rigor in heart and deterge duty to self. Swan dive straight toward eternal incendiary incentive. Match strike flash. Quickstep into the quicksilver squalls. Voyage to the stars by way of slivered luminescence. Stumble into foreign shoes to satisfy a bravery blazing in shadowed sadness. Pinging pivotal momentum, being called to challenge and dissuade, transmutation pains the pious, creating a halo effect of resurrection when pulled through to the other side.
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