Friday, May 27, 2005
The Bowlie Weekender
Because I'm feeling nostalgic...
* All My Friends Are On Their Holidays (Bus Stop)
* Inside The Belly Of The Beast! (Popfest 3000)
* Ink Polaroids Of The Bowlie Weekender (Salon)
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Because I'm feeling nostalgic...
* All My Friends Are On Their Holidays (Bus Stop)
* Inside The Belly Of The Beast! (Popfest 3000)
* Ink Polaroids Of The Bowlie Weekender (Salon)
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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Laura Ellen Bacon: Nesting Vessels
Laura Ellen Bacon makes beautiful forms in willow for inside and outdoors. Go to her website's gallery for larger versions of the photos below, which do the work much better justice!
She's coming to Hove Museum from 1 July - 28 August, so I'm looking forward to seeing these works 'in the flesh'. The exhibition is new work, partly inspired by the museum's interior spaces and including suspended objects. The museum is an old house, and has lots of original features like fireplaces and high ceilings - it'll be great to see what she does with the space.
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Laura Ellen Bacon makes beautiful forms in willow for inside and outdoors. Go to her website's gallery for larger versions of the photos below, which do the work much better justice!
She's coming to Hove Museum from 1 July - 28 August, so I'm looking forward to seeing these works 'in the flesh'. The exhibition is new work, partly inspired by the museum's interior spaces and including suspended objects. The museum is an old house, and has lots of original features like fireplaces and high ceilings - it'll be great to see what she does with the space.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2005
How many lightbulbs does it take...?
An interesting conundrum covered by The Art Newspaper:
'Museums and the market are re-evaluating US Minimalist artist Dan Flavin’s sculptures made up of coloured fluorescent light tubes and bulbs arranged against plain walls... So where exactly do they go when the bulbs in his installations blow?' more...
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An interesting conundrum covered by The Art Newspaper:
'Museums and the market are re-evaluating US Minimalist artist Dan Flavin’s sculptures made up of coloured fluorescent light tubes and bulbs arranged against plain walls... So where exactly do they go when the bulbs in his installations blow?' more...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Elegance in the Blitz
I found this photo of Kirkby munitions factory workers posing around a bomb (from National Museums Liverpool's The Blitz website) intriguing - the juxtaposition between this huge lump of lethal metal and the group of well-groomed, elegant young women.
I shouldn't be surprised - if I had to work in a bomb factory, I'd still want my mascara and some great shoes. It'd probably be even more important to me if I was put in that situation.
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I found this photo of Kirkby munitions factory workers posing around a bomb (from National Museums Liverpool's The Blitz website) intriguing - the juxtaposition between this huge lump of lethal metal and the group of well-groomed, elegant young women.
I shouldn't be surprised - if I had to work in a bomb factory, I'd still want my mascara and some great shoes. It'd probably be even more important to me if I was put in that situation.
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Monday, May 23, 2005
Beautiful handmade things which have made me smile this week
* Harriet the Recycled Monster - brought into this world by Theresa at Rock, Paper, Scissors
* Hillary at Wee Wonderfuls' latest robot - an elegant ladybot in fashionable shade of green
* Samantha Bryan's magnificent 'domesticated fairies' and their flying machines (from her recent show at Leeds Craft Centre & Design Gallery)
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* Hillary at Wee Wonderfuls' latest robot - an elegant ladybot in fashionable shade of green
* Samantha Bryan's magnificent 'domesticated fairies' and their flying machines (from her recent show at Leeds Craft Centre & Design Gallery)
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Tell Laura I Love Her
A few days early, we welcome to the Clipson/Hynes clan Miss Laura Susan Hynes! 7lb 8 and about six hours of work from Mum - not bad for a first go!
Edited to add: I'll see you soon I hope - if you're a good girl I'll take you along to the Galway Arts Festival!
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A few days early, we welcome to the Clipson/Hynes clan Miss Laura Susan Hynes! 7lb 8 and about six hours of work from Mum - not bad for a first go!
Edited to add: I'll see you soon I hope - if you're a good girl I'll take you along to the Galway Arts Festival!
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'I am WARM for yo' form!'
Just seen the trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - it looks fantastic (and I was very tickled by poor Ron's expression to seeing Hermione looking all womanly in her party frock!). Empire has lots of stills from the film too, which is out November.
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Just seen the trailer for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - it looks fantastic (and I was very tickled by poor Ron's expression to seeing Hermione looking all womanly in her party frock!). Empire has lots of stills from the film too, which is out November.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Colour is its own reward
* Hew Locke at The New Art Gallery, Walsall until 26 June - including his vibrant collage sculptures, many of the Royal Family, made with materials from markets and pound stores.
* Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew, 'a spectacular sequence of organically shaped and vibrantly coloured glass sculptures set throughout Kew’s 300-acre garden landscape and inside the great glasshouses'. Mouthwatering...
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* Hew Locke at The New Art Gallery, Walsall until 26 June - including his vibrant collage sculptures, many of the Royal Family, made with materials from markets and pound stores.
* Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew, 'a spectacular sequence of organically shaped and vibrantly coloured glass sculptures set throughout Kew’s 300-acre garden landscape and inside the great glasshouses'. Mouthwatering...
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Monday, May 16, 2005
Now there's a frood who really knows where his 4-ply is...
Went to see Hitchhikers yesterday - funny, surreal stuff, though it didn't grab me quite as much as I'd hoped it would. Worth it though even just to see the five main characters turn into knitted versions of themselves. And it turns out you can buy them as well! Expect to see the knitting patterns appear on the crafty sites soon.
26.05.05 edited to add: Miss Cute Boots presents: Marvin!
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Went to see Hitchhikers yesterday - funny, surreal stuff, though it didn't grab me quite as much as I'd hoped it would. Worth it though even just to see the five main characters turn into knitted versions of themselves. And it turns out you can buy them as well! Expect to see the knitting patterns appear on the crafty sites soon.
26.05.05 edited to add: Miss Cute Boots presents: Marvin!
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
'I see you on the street - you kiss my cheek, my knees go weak
It's clear you've got nothing to lose, while I'm losing sleep'
Oh my, I'm smitten. Again. The first MP3 from the new Laura Cantrell album 'Humming By The Flowered Vine', '14th Street' is now available from Laura's page on the Matador Records site. It's an everyday day tale of unrequited love, by Emily Spray:
'To a lot of New Yorkers, 14th Street is the unofficial divide between uptown and downtown. I personally love 14th street – the Salvation Army, Union Square, the L train running just below. I think this song also perfectly sums up the moment when you see someone you’re obsessed with on the street and decide whether it’s worth it to say hello or stay safely in the background. I’ve known Emily, a Portland, Oregon native, for many years and really appreciate the New York moment she captured in this song.'
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It's clear you've got nothing to lose, while I'm losing sleep'
Oh my, I'm smitten. Again. The first MP3 from the new Laura Cantrell album 'Humming By The Flowered Vine', '14th Street' is now available from Laura's page on the Matador Records site. It's an everyday day tale of unrequited love, by Emily Spray:
'To a lot of New Yorkers, 14th Street is the unofficial divide between uptown and downtown. I personally love 14th street – the Salvation Army, Union Square, the L train running just below. I think this song also perfectly sums up the moment when you see someone you’re obsessed with on the street and decide whether it’s worth it to say hello or stay safely in the background. I’ve known Emily, a Portland, Oregon native, for many years and really appreciate the New York moment she captured in this song.'
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Couturier to the Queen honoured with English Heritage Blue Plaque
'Sir Norman Hartnell will be remembered with an English Heritage Blue Plaque which is due to be unveiled at 11am this morning at 26 Bruton Street, W1, where he lived and worked from 1935 to his death at the age of 78, in 1979.
First commissioned by the Royal Family in 1935, Hartnell dressed Queen Elizabeth (the late Queen Mother) and Queen Elizabeth II as well as all the stars of the Twenties including Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor. One of his most famous commissions came in 1938, when Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's own mother, the Countess of Strathmore, died just five days before her daughter's State visit to France with King George VI. Hartnell had to recreate her entire wardrobe in white – historically a Royal mourning colour – in just three weeks. Having created the reigning Queen's wedding dress in 1947, he was appointed MBE in 1953 when he made her Coronation dress and in 1977 became the first couturier to receive a knighthood.
The plaque will be unveiled today by Kenneth Partridge, who designed the interior of Hartnell's Bruton Street store, and Oscar-winning costume designer Julie Harris, who worked with him.' (Vogue)
Edited to add: The 'White Wardrobe' designed for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother by Norman Hartnell will be the centrepiece of a special exhibition at the 2005 Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace (30 July - 27 September 2005).
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'Sir Norman Hartnell will be remembered with an English Heritage Blue Plaque which is due to be unveiled at 11am this morning at 26 Bruton Street, W1, where he lived and worked from 1935 to his death at the age of 78, in 1979.
First commissioned by the Royal Family in 1935, Hartnell dressed Queen Elizabeth (the late Queen Mother) and Queen Elizabeth II as well as all the stars of the Twenties including Marlene Dietrich, Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor. One of his most famous commissions came in 1938, when Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's own mother, the Countess of Strathmore, died just five days before her daughter's State visit to France with King George VI. Hartnell had to recreate her entire wardrobe in white – historically a Royal mourning colour – in just three weeks. Having created the reigning Queen's wedding dress in 1947, he was appointed MBE in 1953 when he made her Coronation dress and in 1977 became the first couturier to receive a knighthood.
The plaque will be unveiled today by Kenneth Partridge, who designed the interior of Hartnell's Bruton Street store, and Oscar-winning costume designer Julie Harris, who worked with him.' (Vogue)
Edited to add: The 'White Wardrobe' designed for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother by Norman Hartnell will be the centrepiece of a special exhibition at the 2005 Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace (30 July - 27 September 2005).
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK
I had to flag up this gorgeous pincushion, part of the Barbican Art Gallery's current exhibition, organised by Alan Kane and Jeremy Deller.
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I had to flag up this gorgeous pincushion, part of the Barbican Art Gallery's current exhibition, organised by Alan Kane and Jeremy Deller.
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Monday, May 09, 2005
Sunday, May 08, 2005
The Giant Zip Pond
If I ever have a garden I want one of these! By British sculptor Mark R Hall.
His 'conker' pieces are lovely too - they remind me of a couple of conker-inspired handbags I've seen in Crafts - a metal one by Emily Jo Gibbs and another, a green fabric one whose maker's name eludes me but was on the cover of one issue.
25.05.05 - edited to add: Just spotted this photo on my work website of a maquette by Lisa Broughton, which looks conker-shaped to me!
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If I ever have a garden I want one of these! By British sculptor Mark R Hall.
His 'conker' pieces are lovely too - they remind me of a couple of conker-inspired handbags I've seen in Crafts - a metal one by Emily Jo Gibbs and another, a green fabric one whose maker's name eludes me but was on the cover of one issue.
25.05.05 - edited to add: Just spotted this photo on my work website of a maquette by Lisa Broughton, which looks conker-shaped to me!
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Saturday, May 07, 2005
Quick! Last Chance To See Knit 2 Together At The Crafts Council
If you're into knitting and near London, don't miss this show. If you can't make it, here's my review.
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If you're into knitting and near London, don't miss this show. If you can't make it, here's my review.
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