Diamonds Are...
...Forever? A Girl's Best Friend? One thing is for sure, (real) diamonds are expensive. And if you do not only want to take your Breakfast at Tiffany's, with your take-out coffee in one hand and your breakfast sandwich in a paper bag in the other, wistfully looking at the window display, but actually go inside and buy yourself the real thing, you'll need: Money. Which is why I chose the - mirror-inverted - Dollar symbol to arrange these tiny blingy thingys, because it is the one universal symbol that is not only a national currency sign, but synonymous with money per se, understood everywhere and by everyone (please note: absolutely no political or other ulterior motives involved here).
So, you've already guessed so, only the bling (and the dust) is real here, the stones are not, they are #Fake. I once got a bag full of assorted Swarovski stones as a present, they come in many different shapes, colours (white, pink, purple) and sizes, and for this I've used the smallest stones from the bag. Each one is less than 3 mm / 0,118 inches in diameter, and the whole length of the Dollar sign is 3,5 cm / 1,37 inches. Since it is all about fake here, I also arranged the glass stones as an inverted Dollar symbol - the way it's done with play money: It should look kind of real, but not too real, so you won't get into trouble ;-) As for the other real thing here, the dust: "The best things in life are free...", and dust particles are always so good at faking stars, aren't they? Stardust... ;-)
Soundtracks:
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend: STRG + www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfsnebJd-BI
Diamonds Are Forever: STRG+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwbEuzJCnqI
Barret Strong: "Money" STRG+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KU34DrrPI
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Natürlich "...A Girl's Best Friend", gerne auch "...Forever" ;-) Dabei aber immer eins: teuer - sehr teuer. Wenn es denn die echten sein sollen. Hier, Ihr habt es schon erraten, ist natürlich nur das Geglitzer echt - und der Staub ist es auch. Die Steine sind aus Glas und enstammen einer ganzen Tüte voller loser Swarovski-Steine, die ich mal geschenkt bekommen habe. Für dieses spiegelverkehrte Dollarzeichen habe ich die kleinsten Steinchen (knapp unter 3 mm im Durchmesser) genommen. Warum das Dollarzeichen? Weil es das universelle Symbol für Geld schlechthin ist, das jeder kennt und jeder versteht. Und um sich die echten Steinchen leisten zu können, braucht man ganz schön viel Geld. Und warum spiegelverkehrt? Ich dachte hierbei auch an Spielgeld, das zwar schon irgendwie echt wirken soll, aber bloß nicht zu echt, damit man am Ende nicht noch Ärger bekommt ;-)
Diamonds Are...
...Forever? A Girl's Best Friend? One thing is for sure, (real) diamonds are expensive. And if you do not only want to take your Breakfast at Tiffany's, with your take-out coffee in one hand and your breakfast sandwich in a paper bag in the other, wistfully looking at the window display, but actually go inside and buy yourself the real thing, you'll need: Money. Which is why I chose the - mirror-inverted - Dollar symbol to arrange these tiny blingy thingys, because it is the one universal symbol that is not only a national currency sign, but synonymous with money per se, understood everywhere and by everyone (please note: absolutely no political or other ulterior motives involved here).
So, you've already guessed so, only the bling (and the dust) is real here, the stones are not, they are #Fake. I once got a bag full of assorted Swarovski stones as a present, they come in many different shapes, colours (white, pink, purple) and sizes, and for this I've used the smallest stones from the bag. Each one is less than 3 mm / 0,118 inches in diameter, and the whole length of the Dollar sign is 3,5 cm / 1,37 inches. Since it is all about fake here, I also arranged the glass stones as an inverted Dollar symbol - the way it's done with play money: It should look kind of real, but not too real, so you won't get into trouble ;-) As for the other real thing here, the dust: "The best things in life are free...", and dust particles are always so good at faking stars, aren't they? Stardust... ;-)
Soundtracks:
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend: STRG + www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfsnebJd-BI
Diamonds Are Forever: STRG+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwbEuzJCnqI
Barret Strong: "Money" STRG+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KU34DrrPI
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Natürlich "...A Girl's Best Friend", gerne auch "...Forever" ;-) Dabei aber immer eins: teuer - sehr teuer. Wenn es denn die echten sein sollen. Hier, Ihr habt es schon erraten, ist natürlich nur das Geglitzer echt - und der Staub ist es auch. Die Steine sind aus Glas und enstammen einer ganzen Tüte voller loser Swarovski-Steine, die ich mal geschenkt bekommen habe. Für dieses spiegelverkehrte Dollarzeichen habe ich die kleinsten Steinchen (knapp unter 3 mm im Durchmesser) genommen. Warum das Dollarzeichen? Weil es das universelle Symbol für Geld schlechthin ist, das jeder kennt und jeder versteht. Und um sich die echten Steinchen leisten zu können, braucht man ganz schön viel Geld. Und warum spiegelverkehrt? Ich dachte hierbei auch an Spielgeld, das zwar schon irgendwie echt wirken soll, aber bloß nicht zu echt, damit man am Ende nicht noch Ärger bekommt ;-)