tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68695042242255759542024-03-12T23:15:59.660-05:00corey ackelmireCoreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.comBlogger742125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-84361989748398077572014-02-20T17:02:00.003-06:002014-02-20T17:02:27.347-06:00MORE sale goodies! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm listing lots of lovely copper wall pieces in <a href="http://www.coreyackelmire.etsy.com/" target="_blank">my shop</a> everyday! All 50% - it's time to move them from my house to yours! <br />
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I'm having a good ol' fashioned Clearance Sale on my copper work over in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/coreyackelmire?ref=si_shop" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a>! <br />
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Get 'em while the gettins good! I'm listing new items everyday! <br />
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A new hand-forged cocktail fork! Now available on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/130541929/hand-forged-silver-fork?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">Etsy</a>.<br />
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Silver spoon now available on <a href="http://a single, solid sterling silver hand-forged spoon. Forging (hammering) from thick silver stock is one of the most traditional methods used to make flatware. It can be a laborious process, but is one that results in a completely unique, beautiful, and functional spoon. " target="_blank">Etsy</a>!<br />
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It is solid sterling silver and hand-forged. Forging
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methods used to make flatware. It can be a laborious process, but is
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More spoons will be added in the coming weeks, so check back often! <br />
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moment, or in some accidental or some curated past, or in all of them at once.
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Made a set of teaspoons for <a href="http://brooklynglass.com/d/?q=content/brooklyn-creates" target="_blank">Brooklyn Creates</a>, an event hosted by <a href="http://bkmetalworks.com/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Metal Works</a> and <a href="http://brooklynglass.com/d/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Glass</a>. I made four of them, and they are hand-forged sterling silver, about 5" long. <br />
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<br />Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-40646592431101880182012-05-03T20:30:00.000-05:002013-03-29T09:57:19.300-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New chased copper charms I've been making. Designs are based on mourning jewelry. These are not finished yet; I think I may enamel them. Updates are forthcoming.<br />
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In the meantime, the <a href="http://artofmourning.com/" target="_blank">Art of Mourning</a> has great images of mourning jewelry.Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-91839363985632505822012-01-14T20:10:00.000-06:002013-03-29T09:58:01.252-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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More images of my charms for <a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/the_Store.html">"Charmed III; third time's the charm"</a>. The silver one is being donated to a series of charm bracelets that will be auctioned as a fundraiser for the Pittsburgh Society for Contemporary Craft.<br />
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I'm pretty pleased with them--I think they're, ahem, quite charming.<br />
<br />Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-43864027397452523282012-01-14T15:19:00.001-06:002013-03-29T09:58:24.299-05:00On their way!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This spring I was invited to participate in Pittsburgh's <a href="http://www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/the_Store.html">Society for Contemporary Craft's "Charmed III: third time's the charm" exhibition</a>. I made the enameled charms you see above. Each one is approximately 3/4" high. The charms will be available for sale in the store and on their website beginning February 3rd. </div>
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<br />Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-60840435872578097222011-12-07T11:31:00.003-06:002011-12-07T11:36:36.794-06:00Boxes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1UX8aiWP-dU/Tt-j9co5fHI/AAAAAAAAAHE/jVwNE5todJ8/s1600/12CasePhotoStorageCarrier_x.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 260px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1UX8aiWP-dU/Tt-j9co5fHI/AAAAAAAAAHE/jVwNE5todJ8/s400/12CasePhotoStorageCarrier_x.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683441530819935346" border="0" /></a>If you teach metals, and you are (like me) a little obsessive about keeping organized teaching samples of all your small metaly stuff, let me recommend these AWESOME photo storage boxes from the <a href="http://www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10025078&N=&Ntt=photo+storage">Container Store</a>.<br />Yes, they're pricey, but now the samples for my entire beginning Jewelry/Metals class are organized into this one, portable, box. And I <span style="font-style: italic;">love</span> being organized.<br /><br />Plus, they're made in the USA.Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-61925239323668278392011-12-04T21:13:00.003-06:002013-03-29T10:01:41.479-05:00San Antonio at Christmas<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sl5aP9ypOW4/Ttw4qFj4hiI/AAAAAAAAAGs/RaIE5w_yPQY/s1600/san%2Bantonio1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="299" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682479125533066786" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sl5aP9ypOW4/Ttw4qFj4hiI/AAAAAAAAAGs/RaIE5w_yPQY/s400/san%2Bantonio1.jpg" style="display: block; height: 299px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a>lights on the trees along the Riverwalk in San Antonio.<br />
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We went to San Anton last week for the opening of <span style="font-style: italic;">La Noche del Brooche</span>; an invitational exhibition of brooches at Equinox Gallery. N and I both had brooches in it, and you can see all the brooches in the show <a href="http://www.alejandrosifuentes.com/nochebroche.html">here</a>.Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-4182598585932928612011-11-07T18:07:00.005-06:002013-03-29T10:02:35.040-05:00Back in the saddle...I hopeIt would be an understatement to say that I have been struggling to work in the studio after Italy.<br />
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First, it was because we moved over the summer, and I have a hard time getting motivated when my life is in upheaval. The other part of my problem is that I don't have a proper work space at the moment; I'm working out of our bedroom, which is not ideal.<br />
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But really the problem was not knowing what to make. I'm tired of my old work and really don't want to work with plastic for a while, so I've been searching for a new source of inspiration. The most inspiring thing I've seen this past year was the amulet collection at the National Archeological Museum in Perugia, Italy, which I <a href="http://coreyackelmire.blogspot.com/2011/03/amulets.html">mentioned on this blog in March</a>.<br />
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You'd be hard-pressed to find the jeweler or metalsmith who isn't at least partially interested in amulets, but contemporary versions are often so <b></b>cliché that I have typically avoided them like the plague.<br />
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And I'm still avoiding them. I am not making amulets.<br />
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I have finally started a project partially inspired by the sense of fragility and vulnerability of those amulets, however. My goal is to make at least 100 copper quatrefoil charms that will be altered using some simple, straight-forward method. I plan to enamel them and hang them on a handmade safety-pin.<br />
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Time will tell if these pins have the feeling I want, but so far, I'm enjoying it and keeping busy. Which is good.<br />
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And the reason for that, I believe, is that art, at its fullest capacity, makes us attentive.<br /><br />...I also believe, curiously, that beauty, which is very often something we confuse with art, is merely a mechanism to move us towards attentiveness. You realize we all have a genetic capacity and need to experience beauty, but beauty is not the ultimate justification for art. It is merely the device by which we are led to attentiveness.”<br /><br />-<a href="http://miltonglaser.com/">Milton Glaser</a>Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-64528012729936488182011-10-08T19:37:00.006-05:002011-10-08T19:51:25.329-05:00Charles W. CushmanToday <a href="http://kirtsy.com/">Kirtsy.com</a> posted a selection of photos taken by Charles W. Cushman. He donated over 14,500 photographs taken on Kodachrome slide film between 1938 and 1960 to Indiana University and the entire (at least it seems like the entire) collection is browse-able <a href="http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp">online</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ovgyh67HXJw/TpDt32JX1TI/AAAAAAAAAFs/ExA2rVqWUpw/s1600/San%2BFrancisco%2BCushman.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ovgyh67HXJw/TpDt32JX1TI/AAAAAAAAAFs/ExA2rVqWUpw/s320/San%2BFrancisco%2BCushman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661286275288126770" border="0" /></a>The photos are so clear and colorful. There are genre headings, like <a href="http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/result.do?query=genre:%22Night+photographs%22&page=1&pagesize=20&display=thumbcap">Night Photos</a>, where I found the above photo of San Francisco taken on July 4, 1940.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_k_kToI2ySE/TpDtcPDagrI/AAAAAAAAAFk/MB-iO8dgU10/s1600/Tall%2BCorn%2BCushman.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 219px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_k_kToI2ySE/TpDtcPDagrI/AAAAAAAAAFk/MB-iO8dgU10/s320/Tall%2BCorn%2BCushman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661285800937685682" border="0" /></a>And subject headings like <a href="http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/results/result.do?query=subject:%22Dirt+roads%22&page=1&pagesize=20&display=thumbcap">dirt roads</a>, where I found the above: a corn field in Indiana in 1938.<br /><br />If you have a couple minutes, or a couple hours, to kill online, I highly recommend taking a look.Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-51457878369998886272011-09-26T12:20:00.006-05:002011-09-26T12:28:20.269-05:00Baking AffirmationAfter 3 pathetic attempts at making flaky homemade biscuits over the summer, I really needed some success in the kitchen. My most recent crappy biscuits were over the weekend, which means I had buttermilk on hand and nothing to do with it.<br /><br />Add buttermilk to the need to bake something that doesn't suck and you get scones!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rllPPLe4eGI/ToC07TzZX4I/AAAAAAAAAFM/al-YLu8tYYA/s1600/IMG_6458.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rllPPLe4eGI/ToC07TzZX4I/AAAAAAAAAFM/al-YLu8tYYA/s320/IMG_6458.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656720062998470530" border="0" /></a>I found this basic recipe for <a href="http://www.joyofbaking.com/SconesCoffeehouse.html">Coffeehouse Scones</a> and switched the white sugar for brown sugar, added a cup of chopped toasted pecans, a splash of cinnamon, and a generous handful of chocolate chips. <br /><br />And they are fantastic.Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-83035679879803384822011-09-24T17:33:00.004-05:002011-09-24T17:41:50.954-05:00Not a necklace person?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lw1m-_UE84c/Tn5bnwBBQeI/AAAAAAAAAFE/vyAzbPEUSpo/s1600/pillowbrooch7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lw1m-_UE84c/Tn5bnwBBQeI/AAAAAAAAAFE/vyAzbPEUSpo/s320/pillowbrooch7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656058920486126050" border="0" /></a>I'm not really either. <br /><br />Well, sometimes I am--it comes in fits and spurts. <br /><br />But right now I'm into brooches. They're feminine, vintage-e, and they make me feel artsy. This is a new brooch I just posted in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/82475157/sterling-silver-quatrefoil-pillow-brooch">shop</a>. Check it out!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9KoUS1RmM1w/Tn5bVu5yC0I/AAAAAAAAAE0/NxM5saB9_-M/s1600/pillowbrooch6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9KoUS1RmM1w/Tn5bVu5yC0I/AAAAAAAAAE0/NxM5saB9_-M/s320/pillowbrooch6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656058610949688130" border="0" /></a>Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-63814547302494632752011-08-09T17:49:00.004-05:002011-08-09T17:58:10.197-05:00More Austin fun.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q71jkxv2m_c/TkG5msbAq4I/AAAAAAAAAEY/lpWJWIJGtg8/s1600/257.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q71jkxv2m_c/TkG5msbAq4I/AAAAAAAAAEY/lpWJWIJGtg8/s320/257.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638992282855189378" border="0" /></a>Sunday morning we had brunch at <a href="http://hotdogscoldbeer.com/">Frank</a> in downtown Austin. Their specialty is all-things pork, especially bacon, and hot dogs.
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tnwl82lIe14/TkG5wgbIkJI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Lz4WihvAFBY/s1600/268.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 239px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tnwl82lIe14/TkG5wgbIkJI/AAAAAAAAAEg/Lz4WihvAFBY/s320/268.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638992451433173138" border="0" /></a>They had a great selection of drinks featuring, you guessed it, bacon infused liquors.
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<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S-HWeUsH16I/TkG5-TfAS5I/AAAAAAAAAEo/ikKG_Mq7WfY/s1600/271.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S-HWeUsH16I/TkG5-TfAS5I/AAAAAAAAAEo/ikKG_Mq7WfY/s320/271.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638992688477916050" border="0" /></a>As this was brunch, a bloody Mary seemed in order and Frank did not disappoint. Their bloody Mary is made with bacon-infused vodka, a full strip of bacon IN the drink, and a beer chaser. Delish!
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<br />Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-10366551161910450972011-08-08T20:49:00.003-05:002011-08-08T20:59:09.667-05:00Just the sort of thing you'd expect to do in Austin.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LxcE7x74p_w/TkCSjCD23nI/AAAAAAAAAEA/M7P5d4fZ_8A/s1600/254.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LxcE7x74p_w/TkCSjCD23nI/AAAAAAAAAEA/M7P5d4fZ_8A/s320/254.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5638667864013987442" border="0" /></a>This weekend, N and I went to Austin to visit N's brother who just moved into a new house. Saturday night we went to the <a href="http://www.texasrollergirls.org/">Austin Texas Roller Derby</a> championship bout. It was our first roller derby and we both really enjoyed it.
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<br />The <a href="http://www.texasrollergirls.org/teams-staff/hustlers/">Hustlers </a>upset the <a href="http://www.texasrollergirls.org/teams-staff/hotrod-honeys/">Hotrod Honeys</a> for 1st place.
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<br />Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-26806332145273285012011-08-03T16:37:00.003-05:002011-08-03T16:42:05.578-05:00Busy bees<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hWc0IvRVHhY/Tjm_1EUKcZI/AAAAAAAAAD4/uQnBY2U19j4/s1600/IMG_6292.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hWc0IvRVHhY/Tjm_1EUKcZI/AAAAAAAAAD4/uQnBY2U19j4/s320/IMG_6292.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636747327043170706" border="0" /></a>Last weekend N and I made an ottoman out of a salvaged piece of foam my mom gave us and some legs from the hardware store. Also made a couple throw pillows for the couch to match it. We, and the cats, are enjoying them.Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-47356894004965694212011-07-30T14:09:00.004-05:002011-07-30T14:16:53.820-05:00I love him.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3X0xvt3NR2M/TjRXQxgZewI/AAAAAAAAADw/yA2S75CCUs8/s1600/238.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 239px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3X0xvt3NR2M/TjRXQxgZewI/AAAAAAAAADw/yA2S75CCUs8/s320/238.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635224979426081538" border="0" /></a>This is a <a href="http://www.forafricanart.com/Yaka_ep_43-1.html">Yaka</a> owl mask from the Democratic Republic of Congo (20th cent.) at the <a href="http://www.menil.org">Menil Collection</a> here in Houston. He's adorable.Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15156143428798340642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-27363881048719020162011-07-17T20:26:00.002-05:002011-07-17T20:33:58.983-05:00If you ever had a reason to go to Marfa, TX...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1XLQTTYJL6w/TiOL9Eli02I/AAAAAAAACYs/HOcjbn1BH2U/s1600/marfatx2.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1XLQTTYJL6w/TiOL9Eli02I/AAAAAAAACYs/HOcjbn1BH2U/s400/marfatx2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630497840462746466" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jyFjPQCD0JM/TiOL9BlZyzI/AAAAAAAACY0/VKSXOjH0sWg/s1600/marfatx.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jyFjPQCD0JM/TiOL9BlZyzI/AAAAAAAACY0/VKSXOjH0sWg/s400/marfatx.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630497839656848178" border="0" /></a>the <a href="http://thunderbirdmarfa.com/">Thunderbird </a>looks like a really nice hotel.<br /><br />Found on <a href="http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2011/07/sunday-reading-boutique-hotel-style.html">Poppytalk</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-89305023775818802772011-07-15T17:09:00.009-05:002011-07-30T14:20:16.590-05:00Charles LeDray<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRpSbgPKTM/TiC6xlg_a6I/AAAAAAAACYc/_EX6YxczbHI/s1600/Ledray_1443925c.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hmRpSbgPKTM/TiC6xlg_a6I/AAAAAAAACYc/_EX6YxczbHI/s400/Ledray_1443925c.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629704895259962274" border="0" /></a>Undoubtedly among my favorite artists <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_LeDray">Charles LeDray</a> currently has a retrospective on view at the <a href="http://www.mfah.org/">Houston Museum of Fine Arts</a> and N and I went to see it last week.<br />One of my favorite works in the show is his installation "<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/5835407/Charles-LeDrays-Mens-Suits.html">Mens Suits</a>." It features 3 vignettes of a used clothing store in miniature. The first area (above) is the receiving/basement room where the clothes come in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oq46Lhi6aTQ/TiC7yqREI8I/AAAAAAAACYk/1NMgzmqmFHc/s1600/ledray_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oq46Lhi6aTQ/TiC7yqREI8I/AAAAAAAACYk/1NMgzmqmFHc/s400/ledray_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629706013226836930" border="0" /></a>And there are 2 display rooms; each room features an authentic drop ceiling, complete with dust on top, and a shabby, hand-made linoleum floor.<br /><br />Reviews of LeDray's work usually focus on how amazing it is that he actually makes every part of the work, all the tiny clothes with working zippers and buttons, etc., and that is spectacular. But as a person trained in the crafts good craftsmanship and skill are not such novelties to me. His detail is impressive, but not the most impressive part.<br /><br />This installation was so poignant and sad, mostly because of the scale. Most of us have been to dreary stores, but seeing it on this scale and looking down on it makes you think about the fictional lives of those tiny clothes and the people who discarded them and the people who will buy them. Like the reviewer in the above linked-to review says, "(LeDray) looks with infinite compassion on the belongings of the dispossessed and the down and out, the downside of the American dream."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-47592766140351834572011-07-07T18:35:00.003-05:002011-07-12T18:11:27.012-05:00A Commission<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QkPxsjxmnZ4/ThZDG-GPAuI/AAAAAAAACYA/Sbz71x3hHBw/s1600/IMG_6288.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QkPxsjxmnZ4/ThZDG-GPAuI/AAAAAAAACYA/Sbz71x3hHBw/s400/IMG_6288.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5626758571473437410" border="0" /></a>I received a commission this summer to reset a faceted blue topaz in a similar fashion to this style of <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/49523994/bubble-ring">ring</a> I made.<br /><br />I was a little nervous about it because the stone has a fancy cut, and setting faceted stones is not something that was much covered in my training, which means it has taken some trial and error for me to learn how to do it.<br /><br />I would have to say that I'm pretty pleased with how it came out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6869504224225575954.post-31553419996314413842011-06-15T16:41:00.001-05:002011-06-15T16:43:13.693-05:00Last Venice photo<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-seOfaR7AwgE/TfknJMIwXSI/AAAAAAAACX4/KKWS_0DM-RQ/s1600/venice9.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-seOfaR7AwgE/TfknJMIwXSI/AAAAAAAACX4/KKWS_0DM-RQ/s400/venice9.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618565048951659810" border="0" /></a>an image into a canal.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0