Jim, I'm glad that you like the site. :) He has hundreds of photos, and they are good ones, to back up his assertions. (I differ with him on small points such as whether the swirly carvings on the phallic stones indicate semen... it might, but the celts put swirls on EVERYTHING.) The phallic stones are just a small part of the site. I'm more interested in the archeoastronomical alignments of the various circles, but he has a decent selection of all sorts of arrangements. Did you know that there are people building stone circles now? One of my colleagues built a small one on his property in the mountains and another friend loaned me a book showcasing some truly nice modern accomplishments in rock-raising I also like the way he balances art and archeology... yes this is pretty, but it must also be authentic... Newgrange being a case in point. On one hand, I'm glad that restoration and preservation is being done, because then folks treasure their heritage instead of letting it be turned into fences and bits of other buildings. (Maybe they just treasure the tourist dollars, but the fact that someone will come from the far side of the planet ought to indicate that there is worth in the old stones.) OTOH, I have seen too many instances where the restorers make things too clean and too modern and too unlikely just to fit their preconceived notions of how a place was built and used. while sharing sources of inspiration... An artist named Jim Fitzpatrick does an interesting job with his Irish heritage. (I'm thinking of a line from a song "...the blood of the druids that never will rest.") He is retelling and piecing together the legends. There are bits of Art Nouveau, Japonisserie, and Comicart permeating his work, but the Celtic spirit behind the stories shines clear. You might want to take a peek if you aren't already familiar with him. I think the first one was The Book of Conquests. (The first battle of Moy Tura.) Jewelry has weight and slipperiness against the skin. When looking at some incredible bronze statues from India(? - a museum exhibit years ago) I was amused that the waist-long necklaces draped very artistically, but they drooped both front and back without being balanced to do so. I don't think those old gods had superglue or moustache adhesive, so don't know how they'd have kept their jewelry in place... spirit gum? The various chains and easypose technology probably offer the best hints as to how to go about modeling something like that. If you were to go to the effort to learn to model that fluidity in a piece of jewelry, I'd suggest not doing the opera strand of pearls (since they exist in Poser) but something ethnic or original. You might even start with a drinking/hunting horn or some other piece which isn't really classified as jewelry but was decorated and worn proudly. Carolly