the continuing conversation between art and life
Once again, our Friday Night is Health & Safety Film Night is introduced by Professor Mal Archaic. Professor Mal Archaic: Ahem, thank you, thank you. Indubitably at this time of year, we are all aware of the importance of postmen and the increased volume of mail: Christmas cards, presents, parcels etc. However - and I …
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Joe Cunningham is a quilter, who has been inspired by Gee's Bend. In a video which mixes his own amazing style, he meets, pays tribute to the women quilters at Gee's Bend and joins them in quilting. "I'm trying to be free by making quilts and it seemed to me that they had very free …
I have a large-size book of visual inspiration called "Gee's Bend: the Architecture of the Quilt". Every now and then, I feel the need to look through it again - at pictures of the giant, off-centre, off-everything, bold modern geometric shapes. Made quietly by poor women in Alabama, mostly to keep their family warm - …
Fascinating way to retell ancient history, where there are no photographs: animation. Emma Calder made this video about Boudica (sometimes called Boadiccea), the ancient British woman leader who dared to defy the Romans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcfsrfzHVw4 This video was created for Norwich Castle Museum - where you can see it displayed. If the subject matter of the …
Jazz music, clothes and animation. This blog loves a mashup of various artforms and life - worth viewing the video "Clothes" by clicking on this link which will take you to a video. (It's not possible to embed the video into the blog post due to copyright viewing restrictions) Phenomenal to think that all of this …
We examine the dangers of more efficient lunch-breaks
Kristy Glass, vlogger knitter interviews the creators of the book "I knit New York" and follows the photo shoot for this book - which is chockfull of architecture designs into knitting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDLCnsIorc Knitted designs include: 42nd and Lex (the Chrysler building) as a cardigan Interviewed: Kirsten Kapur @throughtheloops on Instagram Kathleen Dames @KathleenDames on …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsuGh7htnYs You can see her draw her iconic Stem design if you have access to BBC i-Player in the UK, at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p068mj3m For everyone else, here it is: Creative Takeaway "Ditsy-Tulip" runs a sewing vlog - here she wears an Orla Kiely fabric dress, and runs through a good range of books on …
If you have a friend who has a new year resolution to start a blog in 2019, then please recommend Problogger and Melyssa Griffin to them. Problogger "the home for those wanting to start a blog, create great content and grow their blogs and then go professional to make money blogging" has a website with tons of …
A good coffee shop is a thing of beauty, a place to read, type, meet friends, eat, chat, discuss..... here's one very handmade one in New York. https://vimeo.com/75600912 The Digital Distillery Inc shot the short promo and wrote: The owner, Yasser "Max" Habib, shares with us his story about how he conceptualized, designed—and even handcrafted …
