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Some real leaps in my bobbin lace learning happening! In this sample: a winding tape with (not very good) joins back to itself, plus added beads. Lots and lots still to learn … 🧶
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Just a block away from that previous photo I posted!
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Photo of the day 📍The Rockaways, NYC
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Great music, extraordinary playing!
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I’ve started on a big tatting project, and I’ve realized I can just about finish one sample per day. It’s a good feeling! … to be stretched but also find out what’s doable. 🖼️ 🧶
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Picking back up with learning bobbin lace 🎨🧶
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Really enjoyed listening to the Tuva Halse Quintet these last couple weeks … that trumpet/violin blend!! 👌 Another gem from Bandcamp’s monthly “best of” posts.
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Wow, the last 2 minutes of this video! I love the way these musicians work together (and can’t wait for them to come back to US on tour sometime)
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Anyone have advice about a good color desktop printer? Looking for fairly high quality, to print out things like cards, zines, and booklets. Older/“dumber” models preferable because I’d like one without its own app, AI features, etc. if possible 😑
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the tatted postage experiment begins … 🧶🖼️
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🎵 Listening: Air for Violin and Piano by Aaron Jay Kernis.
Really happy to rediscover this today. For me, it’s in a sweet spot of twentieth-century Classical music where every beautiful chord feels hard-won. But really, what a wistful and beautiful piece!
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A pile of tatting. 🧶
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Wow!! This wood carving! www.julienfeller.com
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One of today’s best finds at the Met: a box made mostly from thin translucent panels of amber. (!!!) Just incredible. (Didn’t get any more details about where/when it was made, unfortunately, but somewhere in Northern Europe, at least a hundred years ago)
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Tatting update 🧶 (following this fantastic pattern by Robin Perfetti)
A few years in, this album still holds up! Such fun, joyous tracks 😌
I’m quite pleased with how this plastic heat-bending job turned out! (The pieces aren’t finished yet, but this was the major roadblock step) 🎨
While I’m thinking about less-famous paintings, here’s my favorite John Singer Sargent painting (and also one of my favorite landscapes ever) 🎨
Simplon Pass, 1911, at the US National Gallery of Art
I’ve already thought that Edvard Munch gets short shrift when people only know him for The Scream, but yesterday I was introduced to yet another (really beautiful) facet of his work 🎨
h/t Robin Sloan’s fabulous newsletter
A pretty remarkable article:
Commute
Petals fallen onto the plants below them feels like a natural version of abstraction … at least to this abstract painter!
golden moment in downtown Brooklyn
Whew, doing this with thick wire is another level! 🎨🎨
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