Saturday, April 10, 2010

MetaCreative Magazine - all issues to date!



MetaCreative Magazine was a free, full color, digital quarterly magazine featuring metaphysically infused art and culture. It was published from 2007-2010

11 back issues are online for your viewing on both Issuu and Scribd:

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Myka Jelina Interview by: Mystikka Jade

From the July/Aug 2007 issue of MetaCreative Magazine - An interview with Gothic Fantasy Artist Myka Jelina. (Interview by: Mystikka Jade)

Myka Jelina is a modern gothic fantasy artist who's paintings of edgy, unique fairies are sold in stores such as Hot Topic. Myka also has her own line of fragrances, jewelry and more.





If you had to label your art, what would you call it?

Modern Gothic Fantasy

Tell us a little bit about Myka Jelina the person. Are you shy or outgoing?

First off, I truly have a hard time talking about myself. If there is something in which I feel needs expressed. I tend use art to express myself. You might better understand more about me the person through my art.

What other interests do you have besides art?

I enjoy singing and playing music. I have been singing since I was three. I have been in several bands over the years and am currently working on an album with my business partner. I also adore animals of all kinds and if I wasn't involved so deeply in art and music I would have loved to work in a zoo.

What are your earliest memories of creating art?

Well...at age three I was struck by a car on a big-wheel. Obviously, I could have been killed, but because I was so young my bones were still soft and only my ankle was broken. Other than that just a view bumps and bruises. My mom painted characters on my cast (picture attached) to make me feel better, and it did, which inspired me soon after to began drawing my own characters that can make others feel better too.

Could you tell me more about your art?

My art is my attempt at sharing with others, in a fixed form, an ever changing world of harmony and beauty that is often-times lost and even forgotten in the hustle of our modern world. I would like my work to help people stop and appreciate the unbelievable world that is waiting to reveal itself.

How do you stay inspired to create new work?

My own creative impulse inspires me. I am an artist. It is not something I choose to do. Inspiration keeps coming until it overflows into the rest of the world. I do not stop and question it. People often say my art inspires them, and that also is an inspiration.

Please describe one of your art techniques, a tip or trick you'd like to share.

I don't know if this is a tip or trick, but the first panels I painted on I made. I used a plywood or masonite panel, cut it to size and made gesso from latex paint and plaster of paris. I then gessoed a piece of muslin to the board wrapping it around the corners. After that dried I applied two to three layers of gesso, sanding between each layer. It made a very solid, smooth surface. I prefer acrylic paints but I also like the extended drying time of oils, it seemed like making panels and using an extending medium added to my paints allowed for a longer amount of blending time.

Many artists aspire to reach your level of success. Can you give our artists some suggestions about how to achieve their artistic goals? Also ,do you have any marketing advice for artists?

I can try. Set aside different times for each activity. Some people really can do everything and thrive but if your artistic drive starts to suffer take a break, read a book or consider finding someone to help with the non-artistic aspects of your work. Magic lives in the non distracted imagination. Take that magic and use it to create personal "style". There are so many people in the world that almost no matter what you are doing, if your heart is in the right place, you will find that there is a group of people who have been waiting to fall in love with what you have created, you just hadn't shown them yet...and never give up.

What's your latest news?

There's always something new going on. A few weeks ago two new shirts went into Hot Topic. A new bottle of perfume, "Twilight Moon", was just released this week in Hot Topic as well. Two new air fresheners and two rubber embossed keychains were just added to the line and are going into Target and Hot Topic. I also have 5 new paintings in the works as well as a new set of tattoo flash to be released over the next few weeks.

Where can our readers find your art?

You can find my work at the free online gallery on my website (address link below). I also sale my work on e-bay as well as a few online stores (link below). You can also find many Myka Jelina brand products at Hot Topic, Hastings, Target, and lots of mom and pop shops worldwide. Feel free to join the Myka Jelina Art mailing list to be updated on new originals and new product releases.


Myka Jelina links:

For licensing, wholesale or just general info contact myka@mykajelina.com


Ebay ID: Myka_Jelina
Ebay store (originals, printable tattoo flash, prints etc): http://stores.ebay.com/Myka-Jelina-Art


Cafe Press Store: (cloths, postage stamps, postcard, stickers, mouse-pads and much more)

Zazzle Store: (throw pillow, tile boxes and coaster, cloths, wall clocks, stationary, and much more)





Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Mystikka interviews legendary psychic and author Sylvia Browne

Sylvia Browne is the #1 New York Times best-selling author and world-famous psychic medium who appeared on The Montel Williams Show for years and Larry King Live, as well as making countless other media and public appearances. With her down-to-earth personality and great sense of humor, Sylvia thrills audiences on her lecture tours and still has time to write numerous immensely popular books. She has a master’s degree in English literature and plans to write as long as she can hold a pen.


Sylvia is the president of the Sylvia Browne Corporation; and is the founder of her church, the Society of Novus Spiritus, located in Campbell, California.


Mystikka Jade: First, I wanted to ask you about one of your latest books, ‘Mystical Traveler.’ What exactly is a mystical traveler? What is the difference between that and a mission-life entity, which you also speak about in the book?


Sylvia Browne: Well, most of us are mission life entities. I mean, we come down here on a specific mission. There are certainly people that are more driven than others, who like to create something like Oprah has, or some bigger thing, like to work for animals.


But a mystical traveler is someone who gives up his or her will totally to God. In other words, you don’t have any free will choice anymore. So you decide to take on all the keys; the fortitude, the mercy, honesty, loyalty and gratitude. But there are a lot of plusses with that. You get psychic and healing ability, more levity, infused knowledge and greater intelligence. But you really have to take the oath.


I’ve talked to so many people before I wrote the book, and people would say to me, ‘There’s something more inside of me that I want to do to gain higher intelligence or higher spirituality.’ And that’s the person who is really a candidate for a mystical traveler.


Mystikka: Wow! It sounds to me like, when you’re describing a mystical traveler, that it’s someone who has no ego. Do you feel that a mystical traveler is someone who has eliminated the ego, or do they still struggle with it?


Sylvia: You know, all my life, I’ve heard this word ‘ego.’ And not because you asked me, but it makes me crazy. I am who I am. I am Sylvia. And, ‘ego’ taken from the Greek is ‘I am.’ If you know who you are, you’re happy with who you are, and you know you’re doing God’s work, you don’t have to worry about ego.


Mystikka: I guess where I am coming from when I use the word ‘ego’ is more to describe the side of ourselves that is based in fear or the dark side… So concerned with image that we often will overlook the greater picture of things…


Sylvia: Oh yeah but see, the more you get out with people the more you lose that. That’s too self- centered. It’s like, so many psychics are afraid to be wrong. And I say, well good Lord! Anyone who has any brain cells is going to be wrong.


I even said to John Edwards, ‘Don’t get caught up in your own press releases!’


Mystikka: (Laughs) Right! That’s a good one.


Sylvia: The bigger you are and the more you’re doing, the less time you have to think about yourself, or how you look, or what you’re doing or what you’re saying. I go out on stage and say ‘God, hit it!’ That’s all.


Mystikka: Or we have less time to be concerned about what other people are saying.


You can read the rest of this interview and much more in the Spring 2009 issue of MetaCreative Magazine! Check it out in PDF format on:


http://mystikka.com/spring09.pdf




or see the flash version here: