today...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Monday, 29 June 2009
Neglected Cinema: I Start Counting
Endearing scene from David Greene's great 1969 coming-of-age study/thriller:
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Latest rings
Fine silver hand made wedding rings; made using silverclay.
This can be worked with like clay and when fired it sinters into
fine (.999) silver.
The top ring has been formed using silver wire as an armature;
I then work silver clay paste in and around this structure and torch fire it.
Then a shorter length of wire is twisted around the top part of the ring;
this is then filled in, shaped and worked over again with more silver clay paste.
The larger ring in the foreground is made using a syringe to pipe clay slip over a dry base.
Multiple firings with a torch and much shaping and refining follows;
("oil paste type" is used over fired silver). The rings are kiln-fired for strength
and then burnished using hand tools; the larger ring is also oxidized
with liver of sulphur solution to bring the contours
of the upper part of the ring into greater relief.
More photos of my jewellery work here:
More information about metal clay here:
Monday, 22 June 2009
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Vintage Find: Cocktails To Go
from Day Dream Crafts, on Artfire:
http://wwww.artfire.com/
modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=187824
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Monday, 8 June 2009
It seemed so obvious afterwards.
"A broccoli poodle*?" everyone said. "Why, naturally."
By Saxton Freymann.
*A tiny and therefore terrifying specimen. I was bitten by a small poodle as an infant. I still have the scar - on my face (I was probably winding it up, i'll admit) But I used to romp with a quite charming large untopiarised apricot beast as a kid.
Sunday, 7 June 2009
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Neglected cinema: Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Here's a brief review from Channel Four's website:
Not so much a whodunnit as a 'did they actually do it?', this posh school chiller is full of intriguing twists and turns.
Unfairly neglected British psychological horror, in which Hemmings' jittery schoolteacher is informed by his new charges that they killed his predecessor - and that he'll suffer the same fate if he doesn't dole out the right kind of marks.
It's Anderson's If... retold from the point of view of the masters, with a gaggle of stuffy character actors in the staff-room roles (Lott, Wilmer) and a register-full of potentially murderous schoolboys - with absurd names like Blisterine, Bungabine, Cloistermouth and Cuthbun. You may have to wait until after the closing credits to find out who-what-if theydunit.
It's Anderson's If... retold from the point of view of the masters, with a gaggle of stuffy character actors in the staff-room roles (Lott, Wilmer) and a register-full of potentially murderous schoolboys - with absurd names like Blisterine, Bungabine, Cloistermouth and Cuthbun. You may have to wait until after the closing credits to find out who-what-if theydunit.
I'd love to see this film get the proper release it deserves. It's (temporarily, no doubt) viewable in episodes here:
Vintage Find: 1920s Woollen Swimming Costume
from Uniquely Vintage (ebay):
That's right. A woolly swimsuit.
The current local weather may be confusing me...
The New Copper Metal Clay
UK stockist:
Hadar Jacobson's metal clay powders:
http://store.artinsilver.com/coclpo1.html
flickr copper clay photostream:
Friday, 5 June 2009
Vintage Find:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23073635
I'm surprised that this coat from Faithfull Vintage
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6430488
hasn't been snapped up yet! It's "L/XL" too, which seems a bit of a rarity in the vintage world (grump!) V frustrating for us not-so-little birds :-)
Thursday, 4 June 2009
Green Metropolis - Where Books Grow Trees
A great place to buy and sell books,
where a percentage of the sale goes to
the (UK) Woodlands Trust.
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