After I had designed my jump, I told my sister about it.
She said "What... Are you going to crochet it?"
I replied "Not quite..."
My Clones Doiley
Photoshop'd
into a Horse Jump!!
Showing posts with label plain old crazy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plain old crazy. Show all posts
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Crocheted Horse Jump??!!
Some months ago, the RDS annowanced a competition Show Jump Design Competition for the famous Dublin Horse Show. I decided to enter something. We used to go to the Horse Show all the time as kids, but was more interested in the food fair: the cubes of cheese, the burger bites and the Coke/Pepsi Challange than the horses...
After I had designed my jump, I told my sister about it.
She said "What... Are you going to crochet it?"
I replied "Not quite..."
Photoshop'd
into a Horse Jump!!
After I had designed my jump, I told my sister about it.
She said "What... Are you going to crochet it?"
I replied "Not quite..."
Photoshop'd
into a Horse Jump!!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Joseph Albers in Lisburn!
I've just heard there is a Joseph Albers exhibition on in Lisburn! I have never seen an exhibition of his, and its of Silk-Screened prints, which I do like....I have his book, Interaction of Colour, which I enjoyed. Yet I read it with a kind of, HA!
This new way of looking, is actually a re-working of a lot of very old textile techniques, of dyeing and colour blending for Tapestry..Lucky for him his wife was a textile genius. Anni Albers was behind the incredibly successful textile workshops at the Bauhaus School. The only financially successful workshop, I might add. So, I reckon, its the great woman behind the man syndrome...
Now I've just checked a route planner, which according to the AA Ireland, is 280.00 miles away, roughly 5 hr 55 min, without pee stops, food stops, tractors, road works, etc...
It probably isn't worth a 6/7/8 hour drive, but it is tempting because its history in the making. I'm a big fan of the whole Bauhaus scene (the art movement not the band. Still you cant beat, Bela Lugosi's Dead...). Klee has a special place in my heart, as does Kandinsky....
I used to move house every couple of years, even months at one stage of my life. And now I have been living in the same place for a few years, and the same County for several more, my hobo tendencies are starting to get a bit rattled. I'm like that girl in the book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: that starts to hitch-hike around the room because shes going mad living in the same spot.
I do feel like hopping in the car and taking off, but maybe I should find something a bit closer to home...In fact I should be working on several projects but feel a bit lackadaisical at the moment.
And now for something completely different...Psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain
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This new way of looking, is actually a re-working of a lot of very old textile techniques, of dyeing and colour blending for Tapestry..Lucky for him his wife was a textile genius. Anni Albers was behind the incredibly successful textile workshops at the Bauhaus School. The only financially successful workshop, I might add. So, I reckon, its the great woman behind the man syndrome...
Now I've just checked a route planner, which according to the AA Ireland, is 280.00 miles away, roughly 5 hr 55 min, without pee stops, food stops, tractors, road works, etc...
It probably isn't worth a 6/7/8 hour drive, but it is tempting because its history in the making. I'm a big fan of the whole Bauhaus scene (the art movement not the band. Still you cant beat, Bela Lugosi's Dead...). Klee has a special place in my heart, as does Kandinsky....
I used to move house every couple of years, even months at one stage of my life. And now I have been living in the same place for a few years, and the same County for several more, my hobo tendencies are starting to get a bit rattled. I'm like that girl in the book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: that starts to hitch-hike around the room because shes going mad living in the same spot.
I do feel like hopping in the car and taking off, but maybe I should find something a bit closer to home...In fact I should be working on several projects but feel a bit lackadaisical at the moment.
- I have to make a kids knitted cable cardigan for someone...
- I have to try get something together for the Crochet Liberation Fronts Second Ever Book
- I have to go to Galway to collect my inkle looms (again sorry, I haven't done it sooner)
- I have to start my bloody Etsy shop!
- I have to sort my workroom, its a mess
- I have to start thinking of ideas for the latest Cork Textile Network exhibition...
- what else...tidy the garden, start getting my early spuds together for planting, make something for my ma's approaching birthday, take-over the world....(na na na na na na you cant help doing the theme tune to Pinky and the Brain after that one..I used to have it as a ring tone on my phone..)
And now for something completely different...Psychiatrist Dr Karen Norberg, of National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spent a year knitting an anatomically correct replica of the human brain
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Friday, September 26, 2008
The Sheep Market
This was mentioned on the latest Innocent Smoothie newsletter. There are some crazy things going on out there...here's one of them The Sheep Market
10,000 sheep were drawn by on-line workers. Each worker was paid $0.02 per sheep. You can then buy a one of a kind plate block of 20 (sheep) lickable adhesive stamps with a Certificate of Authenticity for only $20.
Is this crazy or wat????????
10,000 sheep were drawn by on-line workers. Each worker was paid $0.02 per sheep. You can then buy a one of a kind plate block of 20 (sheep) lickable adhesive stamps with a Certificate of Authenticity for only $20.
Is this crazy or wat????????
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