forming bobby pins out of sterling silver. 

meet oxie: 'the tiniest cat in the west'

song o' the morn. (with a clip from a favourite)

wild night pt 2...

watching the 4 part bbc documentary on queen elizabeth1(super good, btw) led me to the 

cosmati pavement (laid down in 1268) in westminster abbey. beautiful!

some great videos found on their site.

spending a wild friday night filing my taxes & watching a doc about caravaggio posted on this site that i enjoy...

saint catherine of alexandria  c.1598

saami on my mind

messing with a few hand-built pottery pieces on a nice snowy saturday with the cats 

 

looking for the film 'la bande a bonnot', as jacques brel is in it, but came across this first video...

funny stuff. as for the movie- alas, no subtitles- so i have to fill in the blanks on my own.

library pick: can't get enough of the bbc's 1978 connections series hosted by james burke.
love everything about it.

wildmen in the woodwose tapestry, 15th c.

fritz lang's metropolis

trouvelot

 2013 started with good friends & mountain waterfall hikes... niiice

leni riefenstahl, 1929

sensitive hunks in the 80's

churchill 1895

library pick: i'm 3/4 of the way through the 10 hours of 'churchill's bodyguard' 

a documentary based on the memoirs of winston churchill's bodyguard of 18 years, Walter H. Thomson. It's fascinating!

vesuvius 1760

at long last- the t-cells have gained the upper hand. feeling healthier & a little pent-up.
it's time for a social!

jan havicksz steen, 1660

javier solis

'steropes' cave' 

9"x11"

"...And again, she bore the Cyclopes, overbearing in spirit, Brontes, and Steropes and stubborn-hearted Arges, 

who gave Zeus the thunder and made the thunderbolt: in all else they were like the gods, 

but one eye only was set in the midst of their foreheads. 

And they were surnamed Cyclopes because one orbed eye was set in their foreheads. 

Strength and might and craft were in their works..."

a couple more pendants: stalactite drip and the cave ... 

(and thora-the resident cave-beast.)
these are half hammered/blackened, and half polished. simple. i like them.

and to heat things up a bit... what beats a good cumbia?

out of nowhere this song came up just as i was thinking about the relationship i need to form with this new frozen winterworld of darkness & cold...
i loved this tape as a kid, and the video makes me laugh.
i like the final scene where his bony body is silhouetted against his transparent bouffant sleeves

daniel rabel 1578-1637

just finished this turquoise ring. 

 

 

for the holiday season: a canadian television program from the 70's: the hilarious house of frightenstein

(and a spooky tune courtesy of roky)

trying my hand at more silver casting with cuttlefish bone.

i wanted to make silver 'stalactite' pendants, and felt that the natural pattern of this method lent itself perfectly... here's my first attempt:

3/4" x 1 1/2"

inspired by herzog's 'cave of forgotten dreams':

watch out for the rattler in my file pile!

fall has fallen & production is off to a start...

stay tuned for teasers of my winter works of paper/silver/clay/leather...

philip guston.

enjoying 'the story of film: an odyssey' that has been running this summer...

(and mark cousins is kinda cute!)

a book in the memory of famous russian composer alexander scriabin, 1911

 1926

1929

Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum, 1470

designed to aid in remembering the gospels by means of symbols

 

valentine greatrakes

salford factory workers, 1930 (and a song about salford)

ludwig II 'the moon king'

uh oh. where's jaz?

people on sunday, 1930

hannibal

crossed the alps with his war elephants in the second punic war