I'm a jewellery designer based in London. Born in Japan: following art college, I worked for a decade as a contract designer to fashion jewellery manufacturers. After moving to London I began creating jewellery according to my own style and taste. My first lens is about my work at www.squidoo.com/kotomi-jewelry Main website : kotomijewellery.web.fc2.com/ Japanese agent : www.pictraco.com/kotomi/start.htm Etsy Shop : kotomijewellery.etsy. ... http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Kotomi Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:23:27 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.squidoo.com/kotomi-jewelry Jewellery to remind you of earlier epoques. You recall... sometime, somewhere... you saw, or touched, or maybe wore these. You know that your spirit seems to realise this. -------- I have always been drawn to something historical. Images from an ancient time speak to me. And stones, beads, all those materials are waiting to be discovered and to be made into something through which they can recall their memories. Reminiscences of earth, civilization, epoque, human beings... arts Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:56:26 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/byzantine-istanbul Many tourists visit Istanbul every year. Everyone would captures different elements of this city. It is vast as well as "deep". Layer upon layer... it has millefeuilles of cultures and civilizations. As a jewellery designer myself, I have always been drawn to decorative elements, especially, Byzantine- medieval style... (please visit my jewellery lens squidoo.com/kotomi-jewelry) My trip to Istanbul (March 2008) was a pilgrimage to the Byzantine aesthetics... arts Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:03:38 -0600 http://www.squidoo.com/bauhausvideoshowcase More than a quarter of a century ago, in Northampton, U.K., a certain rock band appeared: Peter Murphy (vocals), Daniel Ash (guitar), Kevin Haskins (drums) and David J (bass); they called themselves "Bauhaus", and the first "Gothic" band, in the history of rock, was born. music Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:41:21 -0600