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• Metalcyberspace cleaning up

  metalcyberspace 2:58 am on September 11, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), Metalcyberspace (10), S.E. Sarantos

  Okay so I’ve been BUSY with other things and suddenly I realize that serious weeding needed to be done around here. It’s amazing how fast the links go bad. People change/lose their domains and page urls bring up errors. I have been checking each and every link and have been fixing & deleting the bad ones so it should be improved. Still working on a couple of sections but the artist listings A-Z, galleries, organizations, workshops, design contests, exhibitions, forums, modern pages are now clean.  As soon as I finish with the cleaning out I will start updating the new info from the hundreds (maybe even over a thousand Yikes!) of emails that I have received and haven’t yet had the chance to do. 

  Apologies to all who I have yet to respond to but things got seriously backed up and I’m all alone here typing away by myself on my ancient laptop which the letters are almost completely worn off of the keys.

  2009 will be the ten year anniversary of the launch of Metalcyberspace. I have barely scratched the surface of what I had planned on doing with it. It’s hard to believe those 10 years zipped by so quickly.
  
  Susan Sarantos
  http://www.sarantos.com
  http://www.metalcyberspace.com

   

• Metalcyberspace info

  metalcyberspace 11:40 pm on June 11, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), Metalcyberspace (10), S.E. Sarantos

  Sorry for the long time lapse on updates and responses to everyone. My sister has been in the hospital and I’ve fallen way behind in everything.  Hoping to catch up on things over the next few days.

  SES

  http://www.sarantos.com
  http://www.metalcyberspace.com

   

• Metalcyberspace & Susan Sarantos

  metalcyberspace 1:55 am on January 1, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), Metalcyberspace (10), S.E. Sarantos

  Wishes everyone a very Happy New Year in 2008!

  I’ve spent the last year sorting and organizing my studio and am now looking forward to creating new designs and jewelry renderings that have been accumulating in my sketchbooks. I still have a long way to go but at least my walls of archived files and books are starting to make more sense.  ONLY one hundred and thirty five boxes (YIKES!) of saved information yet to file away now and currently 400 binders to sort them into. Soon to be 500 since most of those are already bursting at the seams.  I’m amazed that I’ve actually read all this compiled data that I’ve been sorting through. The books, catalogs and magazines I am not even going to attempt to count. I have almost complete sets of Ornament & Metalsmith (starting with Goldsmiths Journal) Magazines. Some day I hope to scan the covers and type the contents of those to index them.

  What you may ask is all the stuff that I’m saving? Well mostly anything and everything to do with jewelry, art and design. Metalcyberspace is only the tip of the iceberg. For each and every designer I save information as I come across it into their own file. Some designers have entire binders of their own to store all the articles.  For instance there are five binders each on Cartier and Artwear Gallery (Robert Lee Morris & artists featured). Then I have theme based files so if I ever need to research anything it’s all at my fingertips. Color, texture, shapes and patterns. Animal, garden, gems and styles. People, places, history and ideas. ETCETERA….
  I wish there was some sort of computer chip that could download my brain then I would have more space and time.
  
  Susan Sarantos

   

• metalcyberspace 10:27 pm on December 8, 2007 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: art jewelry (11), Contemporary jewellery (14), Contemporary jewelry (30), fibula, jewelry artist (8), Metalcyberspace (10), metalsmith (8), metalsmiths (9), Phillip Fike, S.E. Sarantos, SNAG (4), Society of North American Goldsmiths (3), studio jewelry (6)

  

  Phillip Fike

  born July 17, 1927 – died Dec. 8, 1997

  Wow ! Has it really been ten years since my good friend Phillip Fike left this planet? I feel his presence around me all the time and it makes me think he’s still here.

  We met at my first SNAG conference in the 80’s. I remember being in a dark bar surrounded by a sea of people and being told these amazing stories of past escapades. I wish I had taped them because I can no longer remember the exact details but I will always remember them with a smile.

  For those too young to have met him, Phillip was a founding member of SNAG and the person who came up with the acronym SNAG (the Society of North American Goldsmiths).

  He would make fabulous fibulae which is an ancient form of a brooch. The types that the Romans and Greeks would use to fasten their garments. He was an expert with Niello. He was a professor at Wayne State University in Michigan from 1953-1997.

  When I told him that I was running for the SNAG Board, he grabbed my hand strongly, would not let go, then thanked me and told me that I understood and represented the spirit of the original Society of North American Goldsmiths. Michael Good told me the same at Tavern on the Green in NY at WJA. I was honored that they felt that way about me. I won the election and served on it from 1994-1998.

  It saddens me to know that a new generation of metalsmiths will never have the chance to experience firsthand the great man Phillip Fike.

  I do have a page in progress.  I need to add a few photos and more information. Just have not been able to scan them yet. If people have info and stories I would love to hear from them.

  Susan Sarantos

   

• Back from New York City

  metalcyberspace 3:20 pm on October 9, 2007 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), Metalcyberspace (10), S.E. Sarantos

  Just returned from a fantastic 2 day conference in New York City planned by Adornment’s Elyse Karlin (A Place in Time: Jewelry within the Context of the Decorative Arts). If you can make it to any of these in the future it is well worth the effort. Luckily, I am close enough to be able to take the train to NY. Subscribe to Adornment either way!

  The first night had dinner with the conference host & most of the speakers and the second night with long time friends Ornament Magazine’s Robert K. Liu & Carolyn Benesh and jewelry artist Jan Yager.  

  Jeannine Falino did double duty filling in for one speaker who could not make it as well as her own scheduled talk about the work of Daniel Brush. Seeing close details of his work blown up on a huge slide screen was amazing.

  Elyse gave a great talk about Medusa who I have always had a fondness for. Must be the hair thing. I have to dig up and scan an old Halloween image of me dressed up as her to send along.

  Ruthie Katzenstein spoke about her great-grandfather Meyer D. Rothschild (fine jeweler, gemologist/author, attorney, entrepreneur, fisherman, humanitarian). Remember his name. You will be hearing more about this fascinating man. I would love to see a book written about him after listening to her stories and looking at the all the photos.

  See you there next year!

   

• Tweaking

  metalcyberspace 1:56 am on April 1, 2007 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), Metalcyberspace (10), S.E. Sarantos

  Thanks for all the suggestions.

  I’ve tweaked a few things to make this more user friendly. I think it would be best to keep the main information on the website and use the blog for immediate info. I’ve added direct links to the coinciding pages on the side menu.

   

• Metalcyberspace book store

  metalcyberspace 5:36 am on March 30, 2007 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), jewelry books (2), Metalcyberspace (10), S.E. Sarantos

  If you shop at Powell’s and want to help out Metalcyberspace, I have signed up as an associate.
  
  When you order access via any book links Metalcyberspace books
  It costs you nothing extra and helps me finance things when you do.
  Thanks so much!

   

• Welcome!

  metalcyberspace 1:25 am on March 30, 2007 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: art jewelry (11), Contemporary jewellery (14), Contemporary jewelry (30), Metalcyberspace (10), metalsmithing (14), metalsmiths (9), S.E. Sarantos, studio jewelry (6)

  Please join me in making Metalcyberspace more interactive. I will also be updating the website with the information as it comes in to the blog.

  This blog is hosted on my webhost server and if it hogs up too much bandwidth it’s going to disappear so if you link please link direct to Metalcyberspace main page too just in case. Also, Metalcyberspace is trademarked as a single word so please list it as one word instead of metal cyberspace or metal cyber space.

  When posting images please don’t hot link to other’s copyrighted designs without permission that results in stealing their bandwidth. Link to images from your own server.

  Enjoy!
  SES
  Susan Sarantos
  http://www.sarantos.com
  http://www.metalcyberspace.com

  blog at http://metalcyberspace.com/blog