Amazing Creative Stuff on Youtube

Young people don't need to turn to crime to prove a point, they can get creative. Today, I have some videos that can possibly jolt your creative drive. These folks did some really great work, some as a team and others by themselves. Its remarkable what hard work can accomplish. These are here, because they have received the CafféLatté Magazine© Must See 'Cause It's Completely Awesome stamp!

Amazing Bottle Cap Poker Table
TheQuestionDMI

If a team of you and your best buddies can cometogether and do something like this, you are friends for life!

Resin Jewelry-July
sjemmie79

There are countless resin jewlery artists on Youtube, but this one is simply beautiful and almost glasslike.

Beer Bottle Glass Concrete Counter Top
doninKirkland

This is something I would not mind having. It is eye-catchingly unique and looks so simple, but i am guessing it would take hours of polishing to get this sheen. A very good conversation starter that will not end.

LZF Hand Made
lzflamps

When I first saw them I was in love.

Carol Z's Recycled Bottle Lites
kayakkurt

Children would love to own these. Kayakkurt also gives you a little shot on how to bore a hole into glass bottles, remarkable stuff!

Trees, Trees, Trees
897473

Artistic Welding, and you learn a bit about metals and customizing them to your taste.

Concrete Bar With a river of Fiberoptic Sideglow Lighting
hardtopix

Fiber Optic cables are pretty versatile, but they are also expensive, when they are used for art, the results are beautiful. Hardtopix's work would really fit in with a Contemporary designed home, and of course for a bar.

Recycled Bottle Lamps
jwpeachey

Instead of having to buy a lava lamp, you can make these! One of each colour please thank you.

If these don't get you to the drawing board, keep scanning the internet you may find something really remarkable!

2012©LisaMarieBonaparte

My Greatest Movie Regret

Is not going to see Red Tails. As a black woman, I find it horrible that I did not even make an effort to show some appreciation. Its either one of many things: my inner chemistry against/for either Terrence Howard or Cuba Gooding Jr., the reaction of the general public towards an all black cast, the complaint of George Lucas when he said he had to foot the majority of the bill. ARGH! I consider myself a movie novice, I love movies, and yet I did not give this one a chance. Some of my friends who saw it said it was fantastic. I am so sorry guys my heart hurts, because I know you all put your heart and soul into this and I did not appreciate it. So I will say thank you, for having the guts to star in it, and keep those chins up in Hollywood. :-)

2012©LisaMarieBonaparte

Finally!

We are having a long weekend due to Carnival! However, I used this opportunity to finish the last three homes. Hooray!

The Tropical Family Cave

The Executive Sanctuary

The Brooklyn Influence

The second home was shown before, I simply have the back being shown. In the top picture, Tropical Family Cave, there are two vehicles I did not design. The red one does not have a name, but the suv was done by BmrCT, it was a different colour but I did it in yellow it can be found in Google Sketchup©.

2012©LisaMarieBonaparte

Parents and Children

Shutting out the little Ones
I will comment on two interesting news, because it is something that is becoming prevalent wherever we go. Yesterday, I went to the cinema to see Chronicle (which was really good! 7.5 stars out of 10!), it was a last minute invitation, and so we went for the 9:00pm movie. The movie ended at 11:30pm. Would you believe that we saw a mother a father and a baby? That's right a baby! I am not one to mind other peoples business and say, "They should..." Its funny because Chronicle is clearly not a movie for babies, or toddlers. I don't remember hearing the baby, so I guess the baby is deaf or something... Last year, I believe, we went to see another action movie and there was a screaming baby in the cinema, the movie was pretty loud and so was the baby, and never once did the mother leave and take the child out of the cinema, I paid $45 TTD ($7.14 USD), to hear a screaming pink baby ruin my experience. Cinema owners, DO NOT sell your tickets or have your ushers allow people with babies into the cinema! This was one of the reasons I stopped going to see animation in cinema. There are the crying children, and the spilled drinks and the thrown popcorn and, "Mommy I wanna pee." And the "Mommy, tell David to stop hitting me."

The subheading above is all mine. It is a brief article on a pizzeria's stand on having parents with children, exit the restaurant until their little ones stop misbehaving. I say, "Agreed!" Buying restaurant food is no longer something you can do on a whim, with prices of ingredients increasing, eating out is almost becoming a restaurant luxury service, and with tips and the quality of food involved, the customer has not only become king, he has become a necessity to keep these businesses from closing down. I have never had any experiences with 'feral children' in restaurants, but I have had experiences with them on busses and in NYC, subway trains. In my experience, the subways are the most dangerous. One day, I witnessed a group of three girls beating another girl, and one of the bullies were trying to throw the victim onto the train tracks, it was frightening. When some of the other passengers saw what was happening, they ran to the victims' aid, I mean, these girls were so strong that the five guys were struggling the part them, relief came only when the train conductor called the police and the NYPD showed up and took action. One of the two girls who were watching the fight, threw the victims' bag onto the tracks.

Here its a bit different. On the PTSC buses to San Fernando and Chaguanas, there is a plain clothes police to restore order, especially after secondary and primary school classes have ended. I did not observe any on the buses to Diego Martin and Petit Valley, to me they needed at least two plain clothes police officers, the children in these buses are wild. Makes me think twice about having children.


A son who is worse than Doomsday and acts as though he eats kryptonite for breakfast...

Seriously, your own mother??? The woman who gave birth to you, ate all the right stuff to breast feed you, and send you to school!?.... I will bet, that she wished that when you were born, she had a premonition that you would treat her like this and squash your little noggin while you were coming out of her, and export your body to China so that they would use you as fertilizer. You are so cold that you can be the next planet Pluto. Wow. I really can't understand how you can do this? Do you even know what its like to have a mother? Shame.

2012©LisaMarieBonaparte

Back to Art

For a while.

2012©LisaMarieBonaparte

Decisions and Implementations

Implementation is a very valuable word in this here country... the media especially uses it as a word of high regard, so I am hoping that you fine folks read this essay with an expeditiousness only unparalleled by the the book, 'the Great Gatsby'...

 ...sorry to end your violin segment, my boss just gave me something...

Decision...

I ain't gonna lie, straight hair is one of the most glamorous things you can see in shampoo and conditioner advertisements. The way how the full glossy strands move in unity to hold your gaze for just a little while longer...as your hands reach out to... touch what you don't really have...

(Entering the hair-crack/relaxer story and the bright bulb idea to go natural.) 

Lets just say I needed to save money, and my scalp from the chemical beating that I have subjected my head to since the age of 12 years. I have had a variety of styles: dry curl, S-curl, jheri-curl (never liked it), relaxer, braided, weaves, texturized, bleached red-head, bleached-blonde, jet black, crisscrossed corn-rows, lately a long, human hair wig and now, an afro. Most of the hair styling was done by my mother who trained in England to be a hair-dresser. And although she is a nurse now, I will continue to let her do my hair when she feels like it. She is the only hairdresser I would allow on my head at will. In the past, I have had a few other great hairdressers: Roxanne, Pajotte and Adolphus.

Implementation...

I am going all-natural, growing my hair, though, it is not easy. My hair was made light, straight and soft by chemicals for more than half my life, returning to my coiled natural reminds me exactly why I went to chemicals in the first place. With the change 'back to the past', I hope that I can take the challenge of effectively styling my hair, which has taken on an almost rebellious stance, textural-wise. It is dense, thick and my normal conditioners no longer do the trick of keeping my hair soft. I am now purchasing oils like shea Butter, and looking up for products that has shea butter as its main ingredient. I am glad that hot-combs, curlers and relaxers are a thing of the past. For the future, more large combs and brushes may be needed, also I hope I can find more natural products, oils, pomades and conditioners for my hair, as a result, I hope that this can also lead to better skin. 

I was born with Atopic Eczema, so my skin has a tendency of breaking out and getting scaly. No, its not contagious, it is an early indication of asthma, and steroid creams are almost the only effective defense against it. While I dream of being a dark brown, bronzed all-natural woman, I have to work on that dream, and it will take a while. I have changed my diet to include more cereals, fruits and less sugar, although I love my skittles and gummy bears! Its been two months and so far my skin has taken on a different texture, but I still get the breakouts. So next month will be focused on my eczema.

What are you doing to improve your health?

2012©LisaMarieBonaparte

Bigger Hair

There is a new section coming out in CafféLatté Magazine© called The AFRO Chronicle. It seems soon I will have to enlist contributors, there are so many sections... on a second thought maybe...

This is what the heading would look like, I tried a photoshop version, of the sub-heading graphic. I think I should put some more detail on the face, give it some dimension. Here comes the procrastination part: "I will do it later!"

2012©LisaMarieBonaparte