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Curiosity may not always kill the cat, but it can certainly "frame" it. This seems to be the mantra of this Japanese artist Fujita Satomi, who makes felt wool cat frames where cats are immortalized with their head keenly popping out of the frame. In a way, we can finally see what the bottom of the box sees when cats stick their head in it.

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About The Artwork HYBRID SOUL. Original Created: 2014 Subjects: People Materials: Canvas Styles: Abstract Expressionism Figurative Mediums: Oil Details & Dimensions Print: Giclee on Fine Art Paper Size: 8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in Size with Frame: 13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in Frame: White Ready to Hang: Yes Packaging: Ships in a Box

350/365 Today we are going to take a look at some work by Karl Blossfeldt, whose work was original for his time, and served as a tool to educate the world. I remember seeing the image above in a slide from The Barnstone Studios. It’s an excellent example that shows an arabesque (see Day 18) […]

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From Tracey Emin’s dishevelled bed to John and Yoko’s bedbound protest, we take a closer look at the different meanings ascribed to beds throughout modern and contemporary art history

Grade I-listed Harmondsworth Barn, west London, joins the likes of Stonehenge, Osborne House and parts of Hadrian's Wall in the national collection of historic sites and monuments under the guardianship of English Heritage.

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Pop Art! This piece is a beautiful white frame with a single 3D ice pop placed in the middle. You can customize the color of the pop and the sprinkles! You can purchase one and have it be a small statement piece or line up two or three together to make more of a statement on any wall you place them on. These Pops are a creative way to bring modern art into your home while still being playful and intriguing.

These fascinating pictures are some of the first ever taken of the city of Bristol. They were taken between 1850 and 1855 by photographer Hugh Owen and could fetch up to £30,000 at auction.

***THIS IS A PATTERN, NOT A FINISHED PIECE. You will receive an instant download .PDF file so that you can stitch it yourself.*** Finished piece available here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/222529896/nope-finished-framed-subversive-funny?ref=shop_home_active_1 This one is short and too the point. Nope. The word "nope" is stitched in old fashioned ornate fancy lettering in a burnt orange color. It is framed by a vintage inspired floral border in orange, peach, mint green, and blues. Designed to fit in a 6" diameter hoop when stitched on 14-count or 16-count fabric. A suitable pattern for beginners and a fast project for experienced stitchers! All patterns are © Stephanie Rohr 2010-2015 Patterns are for personal use only. Please do not share images of my pattern charts. The selling of patterns and/or finished products for profit is not permitted.

Up and out early this morning. Took a trip to the hills near Bridport, Dorset. Lovely misty conditions. This is the view from there, over chesil beach toward Portland. Even some birds in flight, which is always nice. Slipped on sheep poo on the way back to the car and buckled my knee. Ouch. Worth it tho :)

I’m settling in at home after a truly delightful trip to Madison Wisconsin. The people I met at the art fair there are just so… Bloomingtonian! That’s the best compliment I can give. They really appreciate art, and fiber art specifically. An enthusiastic crowd turned out this weekend and made the whole trip worthwhile. Twelve of my pieces found happy homes in Wisconsin, which made take down substantially easier. It was almost a sad sight to see the few pieces that didn’t sell nestled in one half of a big plastic tub. That definitely sounds wonderful now, but on the way back the realization that my next show (the Fourth Street Festival here in Bloomington) is less than two months away! I have to get my creative juices moving and start weaving like the wind. I guess I’m getting a little ahead of myself. In the last hours before we loaded the U-haul and drove off to Madison I desperately worked to finish my ‘Summer Salad’ piece. I’ve been really excited about this piece as new elements came together at the very end. I was poking away at tomato slices until the afternoon before we left. It wasn’t until that evening that my world slowed down enough so that I could attach the vegetables. A day or two earlier I still had a rectangular hole that I struggled to fill until I decided that button mushrooms were the missing piece I needed. I really like them, and I’m proud of how the whole piece came together. The composition feels like it has movement, which makes me happy too. Jim thought it was the most attractive piece in the booth and was sure it would sell quickly. A lot of people showed a strong, immediate connection to the piece when they saw it, which was fun to watch. At the end of the show, however, with more bare wall than art in the booth, ‘Summer Salad’ was still there! I’m secretly pleased, though, that the piece will be available for display for Fourth Street—I really wasn’t ready to give it up. Plus, I really want to show it off to my peeps here in town. I had lots of wonderful interactions with fair goers this year. One woman saw my ‘Vine Ripened Tomatoes’ from last year and really wanted it. She said she regretted not buying it all year, and luckily it didn’t sell during the year. She was delighted to be able to buy it this year. Another couple came in and clearly wanted a piece. The wife couldn’t decide which to get, so the husband sent her out of the booth and picked out the piece he was sure she really wanted. It was just an incredibly confident thing to do. They ended up with ‘The Harvest’, one of my recent pieces with a hand pulling a carrot from the earth. Another couple was looking for a wedding gift for their niece. She was an Indiana University grad with a job in a local food co-op, and they chose my ‘Best Friends Forever’ piece. It features a carrot, onion and beet in an earthy background. I think they were delighted by the name and theme of the piece, which seemed to be a perfect match for the occasion. While I was off selling art, Jim and the boys were exploring rural Wisconsin with Wendy and Duane, our hosts for the weekend. They were just terrific, making us a wonderful grilled salmon dinner with garlic scape pesto—very garlicky and tasty! The meal was followed up with a dark chocolate bread pudding. The pudding was superb warm and tasty cold the next day. Their help and care made everything about the show easy and fun. I even made a new friend in Buddy, the large white guard dog at the front of the house. And while I was busy during the show, in the morning before I got to explore a little bit of the countryside with my boys. One stop was for lunch at the Viking Café in Blanchardville. Everybody found something they liked and we all left happy. And the boys used their drink straws wrappers to channel the true Viking spirit. Thanks Wisconsin, Madison, Wendy and Duane, Buddy and Jamie, puppy friend of Buddy! I hope to see you all again next year. Until next week… Martina Celerin

Thanks to Diner Man Spencer Stewart and his blog Diner Hunter for sharing this great post from Kevin Patrick about the neglected / closed / abandoned vintage diners of New Jersey. Using the same Preservation New Jersey list of the top 10 endangered historic sites that I did as inspiration…

Crustaceans water fleas under the microscope in polarized light and dark field illumination. It wasn't digitally manipulated and these two water fleas were naturally and accidentally arranged under the cover sleep. Magnification 100X The photograph is available as a high-quality paper print. The printout has the additional narrow white margins making framing more convenient.

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Display keepsake photographs and special memories with this lovely frame.

When French photographer Jean-François Jaussaud asked an 84-year-old Louise Bourgeois for permission to photograph her at her New York home and studio, she gave him an intimidating stipulation.

Aliens Matches signed print from an illustration by Chet Phillips. Signed print with dimensions of 3.5" x 5.5" with mat and backing board that measures to 5" x 7." Fits perfectly in a 5" x 7" frame. Created to emulate a vintage matchbox art label. Created using the digital software program Painter. Please note due to computer monitors differences in colors may vary. The vivid color in your print may differ somewhat from what you see on your monitor. Shipped flat and well protected with backing board and cello bag via USPS First Class Mail. (Domestic and International.) Please allow 1 to 2 business days to print, prepare and ship your item. Domestic First Class Mail averages 3-4 days transit time. International First Class Mail varies depending on the destination. Be sure to enter your correct shipping address for purchases. In the event that Etsy and Paypal show two different addresses, the item(s) will be shipped to the Etsy address.

Wheatley is my current project (at least at the time of writing this post). I've been working on him since April. I'll post the progress so far, then edit as I keep going. I had plans to cosplay as Edward Elric this year at Dragon*con. Building the arm seemed like fun and I always enjoy seeing good Edward costumes. Then Portal 2 came out. And I played it. And everything changed. The decision that I had to build Wheatley was pretty instant and Edward was tossed out. I wasn't the only one to overhaul cosplay plans thanks to that game. My good friend scrapped her cosplay plans in favor of GLaDOS, while her husband is going to be dressed up as Cave Johnson. I'm super excited. Currently my plans are to dress up as Chell and carry Wheatley instead of the gun. Another friend generously volunteered to make Chell's Portal 2 jumpsuit for me, since I'm sewing-incapable and won't have enough time to get it sorted out after getting Wheatley done. I will be making the boots though, which I'll make another post for if those manage to work out. Anyway. Wheatley. I decided I wanted a Wheatley prop that actually does things, so I'm building this guy as a puppet, making use of the very convenient hole in his back. I started out with lots of idea sketches on how to get this to work. Some ideas were good, others not so much. But that's how it goes! I did a lot of research on prop methods and ended up following a lot of techniques from the wonderful Volpin Props. Appropriately, I used a lot of the methods from his first Portal gun build. In retrospect, it might not have been super wise to try to apply them all to Wheatley, but I didn't know what else to do. First I started out with a block of florist's foam which I glued into a cube, then cut and sanded into a ball; a process that's a lot harder than I figured it'd be. As you can see there, I drew on the details. Then I used my dremel to carve them out. This was followed up by coating the ball in Wonderflex. This stuff is fantastic. I have a feeling it's going to become a staple of my cosplay projects from now on. For those not familiar, it's a plastic-like substance that comes in a rolled sheet. You heat it up with a heat gun and it becomes soft. You mold it into whatever shape you want, then let it cool and it becomes rock hard. Amazing stuff. Wonderflex was followed up with Apoxie Sculpt, which I globbed on, shaped, let cure, then carved with the dremel. As you can see there, I was trying to achieve hard edges and add detail. This was a learning process. A really pathetic learning process, honestly. I had no idea what I was doing at all. I sanded and redid all the apoxie on Wheatley over and over again. Each time I got a better handle on what I was doing and understanding how this stuff works, but it took a lot longer than it probably should have. Once I'd done about half of the apoxie work I moved on to cutting Wheatley in half and hollowing him out. The inside was then carefully coated in Wonderflex so the two halves could still fit back together. After he was hollowed and pieced back together, I worked on the raised area that frames the hole on his front. I'm not sure how many times I sanded it off and remade it, but it was a lot. My shakey hands and lack of appropriate tools kept conspiring against me to make the frame rough, imperfect and uneven. Here's one of those attempts: It was too large and too rough. The picture doesn't show quite how bad it was. The worst problem was that the circle wasn't perfect. Not a big problem when you're just looking at it like that, but once his circular eyeplate was occupying that space, it was going to be a serious issue. I did a lot of brainstorming trying to figure out a way to make a perfect circle. I started searching "plastic hoop" on eBay one night and dozens of embroidery hoop listings popped up. They come in a wide range of sizes, including the one I needed. The back hole didn't need the perfect raised edge that the front hole needed, but I put a second embroidery hoop in there just for the sake of the perfect circle. The side holes don't have hoops so they aren't completely perfect, but I'm less worried about them. While working on the hoops, I was also making progress on the eye plate. It wasn't completely finished, but at least you could tell what it was. I also started work on the handles. I ordered a sheet of thick ABS plastic for the side pieces. Much like Wolf's badges, I decided to recreate high res versions of certain Wheatley parts in Photoshop. His eye, Aperture logo and sticker were remade in the highest quality I could manage. Honestly the quality is a little too high. They're 300dpi and some of the detail was lost when they were printed. I'm still satisfied with how they turned out, though. Once I had Wheatley's shell, eye plate and eyelids squared away, I coated them in high build primer, as per Volpin's Portal gun method. It worked out really well. That stuff is super handy. There were a couple rough spots, but since I'm building damaged Wheatley it's not a problem. Last week Wheatley saw some light coats of white paint. Over the weekend I added details with Model Magic acrylic. The next day I mussed up his pristine finish with a long weathering session using both Model Magic acrylic and watered down Basic acrylic. Did my best to match most of the damage on the Wheatley model. It's not spot-on, but I think it should work well enough. And that's where we are now! I'll be editing this post with updates, so stay tuned. UPDATE: Monday, July 25, 2011 Bit more progress to share! I finally added the details to Wheatley's faceplate. Got the sticker, decal and dots put on. I also added some more weathering because I needed to adjust the heights of the three scratches on the left. The additional weathering turned out darker than I liked so recently I darkened a few other things on the faceplate to distract from that. This picture doesn't show that additional darkening. Work on the handles has finally turned in my favor. I've been struggling with getting the proper curved center section for months. Curving the various kinds of plastic I've been using wasn't the problem, but joining those curved pieces securely to the straight pieces was proving impossible. Long sticks like that just provide too much torque for any glue to contend with. In the end I made use of thin pipe which is unfortunately a bit thicker than Wheatley's handles should be, but allowed me a hollow space to stuff with Apoxie sculpt at the joined sections, which made a very secure hold. For attaching the black side pieces to Wheatley, I had the idea at work one day while staring at my Eve figure, whose arms and head are held on with magnets, that attaching the handles to Wheatley with magnets would be the best solution for making them positionable and removable whenever I need to open Wheatley up. You can see the magnets in the progress pic above. Unfortunately they're not completely accurate to Wheatley's design, thanks to a lack of planning on my part back when I cleared those channels, but they should be close enough. My current focus is his eye, which bit by bit is coming together. You can actually still see the details on it when it's lit up, but convincing my little point-and-shoot to show that was just impossible. And that's it for now! More updates when I make more progress. =) UPDATE: Monday, August 8, 2011 Update time! Sadly all of the plans for Wheatley's eye didn't work out as anticipated. I wanted his eye light to be able to move inside the eye plate, but the bike brake cable design I'd worked out just couldn't cut it in such a cramped space. In the end I just glued the eye right into the rig. This is the puppeting rig. Though his eye light doesn't move any more, it still allows full movement of the eyeplate and eyelids. A lot of fussing and bad language later and the eye rig has been painted and installed. At long last Wheatley has a face! All that left were the electronic bits. I spent most of the day yesterday constructing Wheatley's controls and what I've decided to call his brain. The sound module holding his quotes is from the wonderful Replica Props. Radio Shack must love me. The audio buttons alone account for a ton of wires. Ten buttons and pos/neg to each means before you even start counting things like amp, speaker, audio chip and his LEDs, there's 20 wires snaking around in there taking up space. Unfortunately the space they're taking up is the spot I'd chosen for his speaker. Said speaker should be arriving this evening (I had to order a new one.. the first one was too big) so I'll be doing some fussing tonight to make it all fit. That means that the next update should be of the finished product! Hoorjay!! UPDATE: Monday, August 10, 2011 Done! At long last!! Had a fun little photo shoot last night. Here are the end results! I also shot a video of his puppet rig at work. The movement's a little rough and he was being kind of squeaky, so I may shoot a better video later.

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1. This miniature artist Discover more on A House of Wonders found via This isn’t Happiness. 2. East Berlin Factory Girls In 1984, the German photographer Helga Paris spent several weeks at a state-owned clothing factory in East Berlin capturing female employees and their ‘unforeseen beauty’. More photos found on The Guardian. 3. These handbags…

Fellow papermaker Kym Frame is holding an exhibition 'Women Afoot' at Graydon Gallery from 4-9 March. The exhibition will be opened on Friday 7 March 6pm by Janet De Boer. Kym says "Women Afoot presents the work of local artist Kym Frame and the contribution of over 100 outstanding Queensland women from all walks of life. The exhibition features more than 200 individual pieces of sculpture made from handmade paper. The sculptures and the voices of the women themselves, share their experiences and messages for each other. Together, they enable women to stand together both literally and metaphorically in support of one another. All proceeds from the exhibition go to the Second Chance Programme Fundraising group, placing women beyond homelessness." This is a great opportunity to see Kym's work and the diversity of the medium of handmade paper. I'll be at the opening, might see you there! Graydon Gallery 29 Merthyr Road New Farm 10am - 6pm dialy 4 - 9 March Kym Frame 0406 748 476

I have no idea how I haven’t heard about New Orleans native, Zoe Williams, until this week – needlefelting to the limit, I love it. I must get 50 or 75 newsletters a day and there are s…