All I want is to enter my house justified

DAMP rainbow candle

Structural Integrity at Next Wave

there has been too much going on, time to slow down

Went to Cinematheque tonight to see Kurosawa's Rashomon. Everything slows down.

patterns

from the wardrobe

Craft night

                                             Mary McLean


I've been going to craft night at my friend Julie's house for the last year or two. I can't actually remember when we began, perhaps it's been even longer than that. Julie does beautiful embroideries and everyone else bumbles along with some crafty idea. Nathan plays selections from his excellent record collection or some field recording he made overseas or Will Arnett's sex tape. I knitted a toy kangaroo that I never sewed up and now I'm making a quilt. It's a slow, slow process. I'm hand sewing because I want to be able to talk to people, not sit behind a sewing machine.

I've always loved old quilts but I knew more about the American tradition than the Australian one. I knew about the Wagga quilts and I'd vaguely heard about the National Quilt Register but have fortunately now found their website. Some of the featured quilts are in national collections but others are in private hands. The private quilts aren't photographed well a lot of the time but that is part of the charm. They are on beds, hanging on the line, unfolded from linen cupboards. And the stories that accompany them can be very moving. For starters read Margery Smith:

and Doreen Carter:

It makes me appreciate the time it takes to slowly sew my own quilt in the company of good friends.

http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/nqr/index.php

Frances Glessner Lee

I've been cleaning up my study and came across an article about Frances Glessner Lee from The Harvard Magazine that I copied when I was studying animation and making models. The crime scenes are based on actual cases and are no less sad for being dollhouse size recreations. These eerie photographs of the forensic miniatures are by Corrine May Botz.  

Here is another article on the Nutshell Studies:

Frances Glessner Lee and Nutshell Collection

Nuts to you

The Candler Arts blog is a bit of a goldmine and I am a follower but I still somehow managed to miss this nutty family until now. I'll have to take a photo of my walnut friends and post that here as well.

http://candlerarts.blogspot.com/2009/12/family-portrait.html

Dave Graney on the Tote Hotel

The Tote Hotel, Collingwood closes today. I find this state of affairs very sad indeed.

I tip my hat to Dave Graney who channelled the sheer frustration that all Tote locals feel on his blog. I'm a fan of Dave's turn of phrase and I love these angry letters to the government.

I found these photos of yesterday's last drinks on a website called The Vine. Taken by a fella called Marcus.

Musée Barbier-Mueller

 

     

 

From the South Seas collection at Musée Barbier-Mueller.

Go to their website and have a look at the whole collection...just incredible.

Musée Barbier-Mueller