Net Galley Challenge
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
The world of corsets
I had to title this in 80 characters. I think that would be too long a title to be effective and my mind changed the character limit to word limit.
A simple corset made ornate with its pattern of black flowers on royal purple silk polyester. A faux purple lace through casing runs along the top of the corset and down. The lace stitch in the front invokes the behind the scene connections of the eyelets and the black ribbon that holds up the corset. The channels of acrylic bones with a vertical flow enhance the wasp waist appearance. Find your waistline without a tug-of-war.
While working on this, I realised that faux bones are needed to make corsets.
A good book on the history of corsets.
Posters
A Cuban Naïve art piece with the starting point of any villa in the country. A cathedral with its four side openings of radial top door shape, ascending in size as you go down from the top. Iglesia de Nuestra senora de la soledad in Camaguey , Cuba . Vivid colours of hibiscus along with banana plants and palm trees lend a paradisical island touch balancing the somber blue skies in the background.
At first I just looked at them as paintings. Down the line I realised they were Posters. For the little that is there in a poster, still a reader can glean a lot from a poster.Two books about history of posters.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Rhyme in daily life
Earn miles or burn miles - hard on NPR regarding the American airlines and US Airways merger
Monday, December 9, 2013
Materials
Adaptive reuse - Felsenreitschule is a theatrical arena carved out of a former quarry
Coconut tiles
Steiner tunnel test
Translucent concrete
Have you seen the fabric stretched ceilings that some institutions have? They look like sails, modern art. But like other materials used in construction they have to go through tests and standards before they can be used.
This book 'Materials for Interior Environments' broadens your view of the life cycle of materials used in your construction from not just the source of where they are from but also what other resources have been spent in making it all happen. You are also encouraged to find reuse and reduce landfill with proper maintenance.
Of the materials we find everyday, we can learn a bit more, say your carpet - is it cut pile or loop? Looking at some examples you can place certain materials in a special environment like glass block wall in restaurants.
I liked the float glass process illustration in the manner of giving you a peek into each of the stages by ripping off a piece of the blackbox. The book has a lot and different kind of pictures to illustrate the concepts. Gypsum at a level invisible to the eye looks like fries.
Steiner tunnel test
Translucent concrete
Have you seen the fabric stretched ceilings that some institutions have? They look like sails, modern art. But like other materials used in construction they have to go through tests and standards before they can be used.
This book 'Materials for Interior Environments' broadens your view of the life cycle of materials used in your construction from not just the source of where they are from but also what other resources have been spent in making it all happen. You are also encouraged to find reuse and reduce landfill with proper maintenance.
Of the materials we find everyday, we can learn a bit more, say your carpet - is it cut pile or loop? Looking at some examples you can place certain materials in a special environment like glass block wall in restaurants.
I liked the float glass process illustration in the manner of giving you a peek into each of the stages by ripping off a piece of the blackbox. The book has a lot and different kind of pictures to illustrate the concepts. Gypsum at a level invisible to the eye looks like fries.
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Twelve days of christmas
A man picked many elephant figurines for his wife. We suggested that he give her an elephant doll a day. The garage seller said Twelve days of Christmas. I didnt know its significance until I came across it in The Wonderful world of plates. And then my husband told me of a related event of gifting on CBS too.
A patridge in a pear tree
A patridge in a pear tree
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Juggle like a Curator
The book ‘Creating Exhibitions’ shows all the inputs that go into creating this wow from visitors. The process and phase illustrated by Richard Cress is the key summary of the book. Wheel of dependent implementation companion is another sheet which will help you slot your experiences in the matrix of the exhibit’s mode of presentation. The authors have used lot of figures from various museums to explain the various stages involved in the making of an exhibit. With mindmaps and schedules it has a feel of a management book.
After this book, I can appreciate the long time that goes into planning and executing an exhibition. Next time I walk into a museum I will pare down the space into 2D and 3D displays, any displays that used a designers innovation in shaping up. The art pieces are their own wonder, but their installation, their framework too shape the visitor’s experience.
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