Here’s a new candlestick I’ve just knocked up. . . Rather old fashioned / Victorian in looks, it’s maybe the sort of thing that The Steampunk Home might favour?
Made from the shaft from an old lamp-stand, a circular bit of wooden off-cut for the base, a worn out cutting disk and length of blunt drill bit [...]
Archive for April, 2009
New ‘Victorian’ candlestick
Posted in Visual art, tagged candle, candlestick, steampunk, steampunk home, victorian on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The notebooks of Ross Lovegrove
Posted in Design/Creative, tagged design, industrial design, Kraft, notebooks, Paperchase, Ross Lovegrove, The Times, The Times Magazine on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this snippet in The Times Magazine supplement the other day (a friend gets it, not me honest!) about the fantastic designer Ross Lovegrove…
Despite him being a truly wonderful designer and the piece being a very interesting and informative article, the bit that did make me doubt my own sanity was the paragraph in [...]
Navaro on-stage photo
Posted in Music, tagged lighting, MTV, Music, navaro, stage on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a shot of a gig Navaro did on the Bank Holiday Monday just gone.
Nothing much to say (although it was unexpectedly good gig!) – I just really liked the composition of the shot. The stage / lighting makes us look like we’re on MTV!?
(Thanks to SR for the photo. . .)
Peculiar Percussion Range #2
Posted in Music, tagged drills, drum stick, percussion on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my life-long quest for interesting things that make musical noises, I’ve been getting a bit obsessed with strange items of home-made percussion recently. I’ve no idea why this has happened, as I’m a dyed-in-the-wool string player – still it’s always good to appreciate new things in life, I guess!
Anyway, the following is made from a [...]
Trade Descriptions Act violation?
Posted in Stuff on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happyland – it wasn’t!
I was there on a recent rip away and felt no discernible improvement in my mood whatsoever!
Woodstore Number 1
Posted in Stuff, tagged chainsaw, wood, wooden horse, woodstore on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I made this the other week (in return for a fabulous roast Sunday lunch!) for a friends’ collection of fire wood / logs:
All the wood used for The Store was found in skips/recycled – I even tried using recycled nails for the project. And all made in one afternoon, with the help of regular breaks for cups [...]
