August 27th, 2010
Wednesday, we went along to the Tate Modern to see a couple of exhibitions, namely “Exposed – Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera” and “Francis Alÿs – A Story of Deception” – both worth going to see. I only knew of one work by Francis Alÿs but I’d never seen it, so this exhibition was a great surprise to me, whereas the Exposed exhibition simply brought together a lot of work I’d already seen before but within separate exhibitions, books and documentaries.
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August 27th, 2010
On the Tuesday we immersed ourselves in exhibitions again and headed first for the British Library for the map exhibition entitled ‘Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art’ which brings together 80 of the largest, most impressive and beautiful maps ever made, from 200 AD to the present day.
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August 27th, 2010
We’ve been wanting to go back to the Natural History Museum since we saw the recent series on the TV. We were both taken to the NHM when we were kids and have never been back since. Lots of fond memories of the Blue Whale and the dinosaurs and I have a very clear memory of a volcano simulator. We couldn’t wait to get there and start exploring.
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August 25th, 2010
We had a glorious day of sunshine today and spent most of our time in the garden with the kids playing with the dog, playing badminton, volleyball and jumping on the trampoline.
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August 24th, 2010
I apologise for the lack of activity on this blog for a while but I’ve been on a bit of a digital detox. Last week we unplugged ourselves from our daily routine of internet and work and headed down south with the dog. We drove down to Woodhall Spa to stay with Morag, Matt, Emma and James and leave the dog with them whilst we then headed onto London for some time to ourselves.
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August 24th, 2010
A while back I went to see the exhibition held at Coburg House Studios and I’ve just not had the time to post up some pictures I took of the lovely work I saw.
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August 13th, 2010
I’d never heard of the artist Ran Hwang until today – I was using the new Google image search facility – which I absolutely love as it’s just so organic now – and just happened upon an image of some of her work. I clicked through to her website and was amazed. She uses buttons and pins and large expanses of wall and creates the most amazing images. I guess it could be a modern day take on pointillism in that when you see the work up close, it just looks like a load of dots, but when you stand back and your eyes adjust, the dots merge to form birds and cherry blossom etc.
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Friday Finds
August 9th, 2010
Just before I get stuck into a project that I’m going to be immersed in for the next three days I thought I would have a few minutes online of vintage button therapy and here are a few images I want to share with you…
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August 9th, 2010
We went fishing with Dan recently and I loved it so much that I want to buy myself a new spinning rod and start fishing off the rocks in Kinghorn and further up the coast on a regular basis. We drove up to Elie very early on a Sunday morning and fished off the rock there.
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August 7th, 2010
I popped over to Edinburgh today and dropped off some new funky colourful button jewellery and hair accessories at Concrete Wardrobe. These will complement the buttons bracelets and hair bobbles already in stock. So if you happen to be on Broughton Street, pop in a have a look.
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August 6th, 2010
In collaboration with King Creosote and the Fence Collective the lovely Kirsty of Lovely Pigeon is setting up a pop up shop and creative extravaganza for the duration of the Haar Festival which runs from the 14th-22nd August. The HaarShop will feature work from lots of local and a few non-local artists and creatives. Kirsty got in touch with me a while back and asked me to contribute some of my Milomade creations to sell and I was more than happy to oblige.
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August 6th, 2010
The Pittenweem Arts Festival starts tomorrow [7th August] and runs until the 15th August. Tonight is the preview night so why not pop along from 7-9pm and have a drink and get a sneak preview of the work on display?
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August 2nd, 2010
I’m off to London in a few weeks for the first time in very many years. I’m really looking forward to it as it’s our very own ’staycation’ as we’re a bit skint and can’t afford to anywhere abroad this year. We’re going to do a Scottish ’staycation’ when we get back too. It’s all very exciting and I love the idea of exploring what is on our own doorstep.
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