Morgan Colt - Phillips Mill Barn - ca. 1920
Morgan Colt (11 September 1876 – 12 June 1926) was an architect, traditional furniture craftsman and impressionist painter. Much of his work has been destroyed.
Paul Klee (Swiss: 1879-1940), Area of High Spirits,1937. Charcoal and sanguine on cotton
Anonymous asked:
How are you at cooking?
i don’t even eat human food, so cooking knowledge isn’t that important for me.
also….
it’s kind of hazardous for me
Slowly Moving / ceramics installation - Karin Lehmanns
Orkney Hood
The Orkney Hood gives a fascinating glimpse into Iron Age fashion. The herringbone twill weave mixes sophisticated Danish elements with simpler sections made from the brown wool of the Orkney moorit sheep. Experts think it’s a Viking garment remade by Scottish weavers; an early example of a global design being recycled locally.
To read: Jacqui Wood “The Orkney Hood and an ancient re-cycled textile” [PDF]
Freedom Cove is a magnificently constructed and colourful off-grid float-home and garden, only accessible by boat. If your ambition is to go off grid, Wayne and Catherine —along with their two kids— have more or less developed the perfect system.Their floating home and garden system includes about twelve platforms, supporting a number of wooden structures, living spaces, and greenhouses—all interconnected through a wooden pathway system. The electricity is largely supplied through solar panels and photovoltaic energy generators. The numerous greenhouses produce veggies and fruit all year round, allowing Wayne and Catherine to be completely self-sustainable. In fact, this system has been sustaining itself for the last 20 years. The two are also respected artists within their surrounding community.
Source: voiceofnature
I stumbled on these pieces by Katie Holten on a cool new (to me) blog called BLDG BLOG which was recently about Holten’s About Trees. HOlten designed a typface, each letter represented by a tree species. From the blog’s author, Geoff Manaugh:
It is essentially an edited compilation of texts about, yes, trees, but also about forests, landscapes of the anthropocene, unkempt wildness, altered ecosystems, and, more broadly speaking, the idea of nature itself. …
This has been put to good use, re-setting the existing texts using this new font—with the delightful effect of seeing the work of Jorge Luis Borges transcribed, in effect, into trees. This has the awesome implication that someone could actually plant this: a typographic forestry of Borges translations. …
Given all the urban parks, hedge mazes, and scientifically accurate themed gardens of the world…surely there is room for a kind of translation landscape? Stories and fables—koans, slogans, poems, wisecracks—planted as cryptoforests, literary labyrinths you could somehow, impossibly, read provided you know what each species is meant to signify.
I really, really love that idea. Orchards, not of fruit, but of words. Where a knowledge of specific and literal trees would guide you to more symbolic, metaphorical significance of those trees.
There’s a last really lovely bit from Manaugh:
In fact, recall the myth of Odin discovering the Nordic runes: hanging upside-down from a tree and mistaking, in the especially complicated carpet of roots sprawled out beneath him, the beginnings of a new typeface, an arboreal symbol system that could be written down and shared with others. Runes came from roots—and, as Holten implies, every tree contains a library.
Source: bldgblog.blogspot.ca
Nature inspired embroidery from James Merry
Discovered today and fell in love with James Merry’s embroidery and illustrations (for Björk among others).
bjork collaborator james merry’s incredible embroidery creations via i-D From a moth-goth mask for the Icelandic pop queen to a glacier flower embroidered on the Nike swoosh, the common thread within this artist’s work is transformation.
“Lucie Burgess, associate director for digital libraries at the Bodleian Libraries, said: “Digital.Bodleian will bring together the riches of the Bodleian’s digitization programme over the last 20 years and will allow people to discover our unique collections through a single, innovative interface.” - BBC
Pooh sticks, by Lenny
I’m completely enchanted by these :-) He has quite a collection of little water craft in this Flickr album. As a matter of fact, he has a number of intriguing makes in his photostream. Lenny is one imaginative guy, who also happens to have a blog.
Source: Flickr / lenny_meriel
Installation art by Riitta Päiväläinen
Riitta Päiväläinen is an artist who born in Maaninka in 1969. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
She is known for her temporary site-specific installations in nature, consisting of second-hand clothing and flea market fabrics arranged in familiar shapes or abstract patterns within the landscape and captured in color photographs. The main interest of the artist has been “the unwritten history” – the history that you cannot find in library books, official files or archives, but can be felt in the rip of a coat or in the arm worn thin on an armchair.
For me, a piece of clothing represents, above all, its former wearer. It tells you that somebody has been present. However, the person who wore it is now gone. The faded colors and tears in the fabric show the signs of the time passed. By freezing the garment or letting the wind fill it with air, I am able to create a sculptural space, which reminds me of its former user. This “Imaginary Meeting” represents, for me, the subtle distinction between absence and presence.
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posted by Margaret
Source: crossconnectmag