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Not a lot of updates here lately. I've been doing some small things, but either forgot to shoot them before passing them on, or been too lazy. I guess that's what happens when you get more experienced, you're not so attached to your work anymore, just instead enjoying the process. So maybe I AM growing up a bit. But they won't make an adult out of me :D

Still working, still enjoying the job, altough for the first time this winter I have felt like I needed more time for my own. Well, been just trying to rest a lot,meditate, and get back to lucid dreaming & astral projection. Hell, they can take my days, but the nights are my own always :) Now reading about tibetan dream yoga for example, and altough I have some problems with buddhism and the whole escape from samsara thing, it's interesting, especially the part about doing spiritual practice in dreams.

I'm taking evening classes in water colours, it helps me to keep practicing that, altough on my own time music wins usually, so haven't painted at home yet at all.

The new album is finally out, streamable for free and listenable: [link]
A beautiful double CD is available for a very reasonable price too, in special ecological packcaging.

Been doing some etching tests, and playing around with ferrous sulphide. Good for mild steel, but my first try with stainless didn't work at all. I'm welcoming any ideas to etch stainless! I saw somebody in the net used plain table salt, but the resolution wasn't that good.

Also wanting to get into electronics to start building analog music hardware, but the threshold is mile high for me :/

I'm hoping to have some more energy now that the days are getting longer, and have motivation to stay after work to do some of my own stuff here, I have a number of interesting projects in mind. Like making some simple gamelan-like instruments for a certain french musician whose music I just happen to love, and finally try to fix that theorbed bass guitar lute I have had laying around for a few years now... Also would be good to do more blacksmithing, but right now all my other more experimental projects feel more interesting.

Anyway. Waiting for summer, but trying to enjoy the now too. It's not use wasting your conscious life living in the past or the future!
  • Mood: Optimism
  • Listening to: random reggae & ska
  • Reading: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrio
  • Playing: Mass Effect 2
  • Eating: dumpstered foodsies
  • Drinking: Chaga with ginger and red bush.

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~taika-kim
Kim Åke
Artist | Professional | Artisan Crafts
Finland
I am a teacher of metal crafts now, previously studied historical crafts for two years, and have degree in metal arts. (and very much unconnected, a bachelor in environmental sciences from the 'uni)

I am interested in traditional, low-cost, simple ways of working with local materials. (hey, don't ask me where my iron and coke comes from...)

I admire the whole arts & crafts movement a lot, William Morris and John Ruskin were very wise men, whose words still ring very true to me to day. I also love the aesthetics of the whole art nouveau movement in general.

I am immensely interested in ecological issues and questions. Trying to be vegan, gathering as much as I have energy for, dumpstering (urban gathering?) & so on. Always using as much recycled materials as possible, even though it's not always visually evident.

Also a trance musician for 12 years or so, been gigging all over, but more of that on the Aavepyora page.

Music: old folk rock/prog, oldschool goa, newer "acid folk"

Books: mostly connected to art, do read some fantasy every now and then.

Dreaming of some peaceful artisan crafts utopia in the countryside with everlasting summer afternoons... Travels with friends to all the wildest places on earth, seeing all that this wonderful universe has to offer for the free. (yes, I'm a healthy white European young male, so that makes me pretty privileged, I know...)

Very interested in dreams, used to practice lucid dreaming, but fell out of the practice like 10 years ago or so.

Don't smoke, drink, use drugs, and never did. I don't believe they're my way, I hope to refine my soul in the slow, sometimes also painful way. I think of it like walking up a mountain. Halfway up you will curse your backpack and hope you took the truck with the others, but on the summit you will feel that special something that the others are missing...

I'm not a big one for isms, but I feel happy with anarchists, feminists, socialists, and that usual crowd of glowing individuals who genuinely care about making this world a better and more just place.

Yes, you can call me a hippie, so do the others always :P
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~the-new-Shadow Dec 13, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thanks for the :+fav: :)
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Mood: Joy ~El-Barbudo96 Dec 13, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thanks very much for addding me into your favourites!
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~NightPhoenixArt Dec 10, 2012   General Artist
your work is truly inspiring. I am very very impressed
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*Aikya Nov 6, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I'm glad you like my art :) Yours is very inspiring also!
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~isolatedreality Nov 5, 2012  Professional Artisan Crafter
thanks for the support: [link]
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~NumbPigeon Aug 23, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Hey hippie, haven't been around lately as I moved the family out of gang territory and into a small arts and crafts oriented village (you would probably dig it). Your stuff looks better than ever and the knife you sent me is way cool. Did you get any interesting comments on the cov art? Good or bad I'd love to hear.
Later-
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~taika-kim Oct 11, 2012  Professional Artisan Crafter
Wow, that sounds so cool. One day I will make a big USA road trip, and I will see the place :) No, didn't get any comments, never did for any of the graphics on any album, I guess people only want to talk music with me :P I recently made finally a double album where there was a remixed version of the Kotiin haltiakansan luo, with your gfx printed inside the sleeves, otherwise the case had my own stuff.. Throw me with an address, I'll send you a few.
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~NumbPigeon Oct 13, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
That would be fantastic, thanks. Toss it to: 209 E. Eucalyptus St. Ojai, CA 93023 USA
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~taika-kim Nov 4, 2012  Professional Artisan Crafter
Yup, will as soon as I have the new pressing done, there was an error in the master so I have to press the first CD again :/
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Hi Taika-kim! You've a nive gallery, your job is perfect and you've many many talent...A big artisan of the forge...Big up!!! :hug:
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