18 November, 2008 (23:58) | animation, art, photography
Sometimes I just want to sit in a room full of colour. I don’t want to focus on shapes or stories or definite things, just on what is immediate. I’ve always loved abstract art and, while I do love to make attempts at the witty and clever, I tend towards abstraction in my [...]
Tags: abstract, art, colour
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10 October, 2008 (11:08) | art, geekery, printmaking
Apocatastasis. What it means:
1) Restoration, re-establishment, renovation
2) Return to a previous condition
3) (Astronomy) Return to the same apparent position, completion of a period of revolution.
Think about it.
Now that the semester is almost over, I’m just getting around to talking about what I did in the mid-year break. Figures.
Anyway, I pretty much chose not to [...]
Tags: art, geekery, mathematics, printmaking, swap, universe
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30 September, 2008 (15:21) | art, food, printmaking
I’ve been meaning to make this post for over a month and a half, and was finally spurred into action because of another post I want to make… and because of a couple of details, I should make this one first.
Way back in August, the RMIT Printmaking Auction happened. We organise this auction every [...]
Tags: art, auction, cupcake, printmaking, rmit, vegan, yum
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24 August, 2008 (12:46) | art, craft, geekery, yarn
Remember these?
Well, the green and white Pi circles have now been frogged and turned into these…
I dyed them using the d20 die set method. As you can see in the following picture, Mr C’s 8-sided die determined the colour, the 20-sided die indicated the length in centimetres of the colour and the 10-sided die [...]
Tags: art, chaos, crochet, dice, dye, handmade, lorenz, mathematics, science, strange attractor, universe, yarn
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13 August, 2008 (00:19) | art, bookmaking, craft, geekery, printmaking
First up, the photos of the Mixtogether gift I received from Drewzel. It’s so cute! Drewzel was suffering from a case of crafter’s nerves on Saturday, which is just silly. I love it! The Monkey bag is adorable, and as an added bonus, it has a lining of owl fabric. [...]
Tags: art, auction, box, clamshell, d&d, dice, dungeons and dragons, geek, printmaking
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31 July, 2008 (00:09) | art, photography
I’ve been taking a whole bunch of photos of my latest project (any RMIT printmakers should read that as “exchange portfolio”…), with the intent of posting them here, but I never got around to it. And now I’m so close to being finished that it seems silly to post them until it’s all done.
Getting [...]
Tags: art, babel, coil, copper, cotton, fun, notions, photography, thread, whirlpool
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