The Remains of the Day
Flying Spaghetti Monster
From south eastern Australia, possible evidence that the Flying Spaghetti Monster was known to ancient peoples:
Colour-in Canberra
Urban services here in Canberra is running a competition for the opportunity to participate in painting designs on 30 traffic controller boxes around the city. Its a good idea; I hope to put in an entry. The competition was launched a few days ago with the unveiling of this first painted box by Franki Sparke. It’s at the corner of Limestone Avenue and Wakefield Avenue in Ainslie. I’ll have to go for a drive and take a look – I wonder what’s on the other side?
Manufacturing a Yellow Hound
Manufacturing a Yellow Hound is a short online film showing the process of making this cool plaster dog sculpture. The armature is bundles of foil squished into shape and joined with masking tape. The shape is then covered with plaster bandage and painted. This elephant and bee are made the same way.
I found the yellow hound at Naive Knitting where the maker, Martha Wasacz, explains how the dog came about and fitted in with her thoughts about an open source policy towards crafting. I think that’s how it works, too.
Update 2015: broken links
Quilts: Alison Horridge
Kath at red current has been blogging about the Craft & Quilt Fair held last weekend, and mentioned really liking a quilt made by Alison Horridge. Here are pictures of three more of Alison’s quilts.
Night/Baby
This is beautiful.Thanks so much, Thanks
Thanks to Jose at titereblog for pointing out to me a few weeks ago that I could put a Creative Commons licence on my photos at Flickr.
I’m reminded of Lawrence Lessig‘s free culture presentation, which has the refrain:
*Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
*The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it.
*Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past.
*Ours is less and less a free society.
Rag Rugs
A pile of rag rugs outside a shop in Tilba, NSW:
Crop Circles Photographs: Steve Alexander
Its crop circle season in England now; well, from May right through to September. Many of the beautiful photographs of crop circles, such as the one here at Milk Hill, are taken by Steve Alexander. At his site, temporarytemples, you can see images of the latest circles as they appear, as well browse back through the library of images from previous years.
There is an ongoing debate about whether the circles are man-made or paranormal. Steve writes about his feeling that some UFOs are living organisms, (native to our atmosphere but in a different reality that we might not usually be able to see), rather than pure nuts-and-bolts craft. His belief that there ‘is connection between the crop circles, the people who are drawn to the
crop circles, and the bio-forms that inhabit the crop circle locations’ is far more attractive than the ‘planks and ropes v. aliens’ argument you usually hear.
The circlemakers have an interesting site too. They track crop circle patterns as well as making some on contract. Here, for example, is a Hello Kitty pattern.
(Image reproduced with permission. Thanks, Steve)
