First Contact
“For humans, touch can connect you to an object in a very personal way. It makes it seem more real.”
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Jewellery in the 1st Person Plural
A short collection of images from a recent Jewellery Social Club event that we held in Belfast earlier this year.
Both the Jewellery Social Club and Jewellery in the 1st Person Plural explore jewellery's unique place within the culturally-mutual social interaction of gift-giving and gift-receiving.
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The Jewellery Social Club
will hold its next event on the 9th Febuary 2012 in Belfast- Northen Ireland
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Sorry, but
I hate the premise for these sort of exhibitions/commissions, artist exploring their 'whimsical' and 'fun' side by making jewellery. Sometimes the pieces are good, but sometimes they are not good examples of art jewellery. Picasso- yes, Kapoor - no!
http://collections.madmuseum.org/html/exhibitions/536.html
Bijoux sans Frontières
It's been a while since I have written anything jewellery related- so thanks to Art Jewelry Forum for asking me to put pen to paper.
Click on the link below
http://www.artjewelryforum.org/blog/2011/11/28/bijoux-sans-frontieres/
old train tickets
There’s no doubt that electronic ticketing in the form of the Oyster card is convenient and will have its fans; but sometimes I can’t help reminiscing the days when train tickets were made of cardboard, especially the ones that you would have to tear in half, giving one half to the ticket collector at the start of your journey, and surrendering the other half to the ticket collector at your destination (like the one in the bottom left hand side of the photo).
The introduction of electronic ticket barriers changed much about the city’s underground stations as I remember them in the late 1970s and early 80s.
A not uncommon sight was some one trying to do a ‘runner’ at the destination station of their journey. The exit of Ealing Broadway station would usually trip them up, literally. A sprint start was desirable to ensure a guaranteed get-away from a ticket collector, if they gave chase- and they often did. But the distance between the ticket collector and the stairs leading out to the pavement is short, and runners (but not in the Logan’s Run sense of the word!) would often misjudge their change of stride from a sprint to running up a flight of stairs and fall and get caught.
(Trying to find the exact photo credit- image originally from ebay.)
the child hides in the light
It was as a teenager that I had first heard of the inscriptions that could be found on first
pressings in the run out area of vinyl records. So every time I bought a record, it was one
of the first things that I would look for.
"The child hides in the light" supposedly written by Kate Bush herself on
Man with The Child in his Eyes, 7 inch vinyl -A side.
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