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This type of image has always seemed visually very attractive to me, I know that this is not my best shot but I decided to try this in a new place and this is the result. Looking at the photograph on my computer, I realize that, it seems that I was in the very center of the road taking the photograph, that is the sense that it transmits to me when I see it ... but obviously I was on the bridge, capturing and observing the speed , the lights and that loud noise of cars, trucks, motorcycles ... that great daring of the day to day. I was there between 30 and 45 minutes ... you realize the madness of life that people in general lead, we run to all places, many of the times angry or upset with this or that ... and why ? In my opinion, not at all ... because if you stop to think calmly, everything is much simpler ... but it seems that this great inertia that we carry cannot be stopped!
I hope they are all well and I also hope they do not run as much as everyone I saw go by on this highway!
And remember:
"Speed is not an advantage in a vicious circle"
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Close your eyes,
breath deeply.
After count 3,
runs through in the tunnel!
OK? Ready?
3...2...1...Go!!!
大阪城公園
Osaka Castle Park, Japan
This is the first Go Anywhere Bag (pattern by Anna Graham) that I made for my bestie Jennifer - it finally made it's way to her this week!
The exterior fabrics are a blue chambray and a print from Patty Young's Flora & Fauna. The interior fabric is from Tula Pink's Parisville.
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A pesar del frío y del viento que apenas dejaba encuadrar la cámara hacia el mar de nubes en la cumbre de la Isla de Gran Canaria, pude realizar algunas tomas antes de proseguir con el camino, merece la pena madrugar para contemplar las primeras luces del día acariciando cada uno de los rincones del paisaje.
Derived from the earlier 35EL, the Minox 35GL was made between 1979-1981 and was reputedly the smallest full-frame 35mm camera in the world. The lens fully retracted into the body when the camera was closed, opening it again revealed the lens and activated its exposure metering system.
The Color-Minotar 35mm f2.8 lens was very sharp and the cameras small size and low weight made it easy to carry anywhere. Its ‘two-stroke’ lever wind film advancement, electronic shutter, programme/aperture priority exposure control, manual focussing without rangefinder and backlight button to increase exposure was an unusual specification. The completely detachable camera back made film loading and removal very easy.
The diminutive size, unpretentious appearance and almost silent shutter meant it could be used in places where other cameras might cause offence.
An iconic, very distinctive, quality camera.
Going through some photos and came across this shot of Sage and my Toyota..I liked it so I thought I would throw it up here...You should see how excited she gets when she knows we are going for a ride..So funny..
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Here are my show & tell items, mostly without their boxes to save space and including my illustrated jigsaw essay.
There are two small 250pc Wentworth jigsaws by Paula Nightingale and Judy Talacko. Paula Nightingale's Christmas Enthusiasm shows children playing around a pond - it is laser cut from plywood and has a wavy top edge. Judy Talacko's beach scene Seaside Scherzando is a later jigsaw cut from compressed board - both share a beautiful range of colours. At the back in a customised video box is a rare American laser-cut jigsaw, from the defunct maker GoAnywhere. It is cut in plywood but the pieces are very small, fragile and a little smoky. The jigsaws were designed to fit a novel fold-out jigsaw board and storage system which was highly portable and aimed at travellers and workers during tea and lunch breaks. The image is a famous painting at Tate Britain, showing the daughters of the artist Singer Sargent's friends at dusk in the garden with paper lanterns, 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose'. I have two other jigsaw versions of this painting - a new hand cut and a 2000pc cardboard diecut.
At the front is an advertising poster from the Opie Collection (Museum of Packaging, Advertising and Brands) cut by Howard Smeeton of HS Puzzles. This one shows a scene of an Edwardian lady handing out Peek Frean & Co Biscuits and Cakes to a line of small children at a feast or party. I waxed lyrical about Howard's cutting in my talk, particularly about a double spiral piece which seems to resemble a bicycle.
The four remaining jigsaws are all vintage hand cuts. The newest is a 300pc Optimago which sits flat in it's beautifully designed packaging. Their cuts are rather unexciting 'wooden versions of cardboard cuts' but this image was so beautiful that I couldn't resist it. It is Happy Christmas by Danish painter Johansen Viggo (1891 also known as Silent Night). Optimago puzzles were hand-cut from plywood in the period 1980 - c2000. The company, based at 43 Perrymead St, London SW6 3SN, was founded by Beverley Cohen. The cutter was WR Kelly.
The small green jigsaw has one replacement and one piece missing. The image is Blind Man's Buff by M L Kirk, and the puzzle itself states 'copyrighted 1909'. The geometric push-fit cut is different to that of 'The Expert' and includes letters 'L', 'E' and 'F' .
M L Kirk was an Edwardian illustrator of Fairytales and Nursery Rhymes in the early 1900s.
The small pale vintage plywood jigsaw on the right shows a child holding a bunch of heather. It has 167pc, measures 7.5 x 9 in and is cut in a push-fit ribbon style quite similar to that of the Perplexity puzzle, but with thinner ribbons. The cutter is unknown - it is not a classic Peacock Hamley's cut either. A large jigsaw cut in this style would be very difficult, but one this size is manageable. The image is 'As Sweet As The Heather' by Muriel Dawson.
The last vintage jigsaw is from a classic Edwardian 'chocolate-box' image of young girls playing piggy back with their two dogs. Vintage 430pc Pick-a-Back by AJ Elsley 13x16in, cut c1920s is the most valuable of the vintage jigsaws I brought. It is a rather dark push-fit with 2 replacements and came from stgenix's collection. AJ Elsley came from a modest background and was producing animal studies when only 11. His eyesight was permanently damaged by measles which curtailed his career. He moved through South Kensington School of Art to the Royal Academy, won patronage and met Frederick Morgan with whom he collaborated for many years, painting the animals in their paintings. He succeeded Charles Burton Barber in the 1890s as the foremost painter of children and their pets but his work in WW1 meant his career was over by 1930, although he lived until 1952.
Bizarre, odd sites and scenes you can only reach in a capable Jeep vehicle. The inevitable outcome of man making inroads into the interior? Trinkets and take-aways for the tourists of course! This playful "Now, Man is Expected Anywhere" campaign for Jeep Wrangler was created by the Leo Burnett ad agency in Paris, France. Designed for international marketing campaign.
Feb 2024
For David Shearer's talk Anything But Square.
GoAnywhere had some interesting designs which were very advanced for their time.
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August 2016
This little puzzle made it into my shortlist of six GoAnywhere puzzles because of the pretty corner details and because this is a favourite painting. The shaped edge certainly added to the difficulty for me. 160pc, measuring only 6.5 x 7.5in, with six whimsies, it is laser-cut from plywood. This is quite a contrast to Grafika's 2000pc version, completed recently by Piecefull.
This is John Singer Sargent's 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose' of 1885-6 which is in the collection of Tate Britain (and also featured in the recent Sargent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, jointly organised with the NY Met, 'Sargent Portraits of Artists and Friends').
The puzzle colours are a little on the green side - the original painting is very beautiful.
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-carnation-lily-lily-...
BCD Mtg - I almost brought the jigsaw on the left to the meeting, but the image wasn't on theme. The modest puzzle on the right qualifies on both criteria - and the maker is no longer in business.
These two small jigsaws contrast in so many ways but share interesting cuts and small pieces.
On the left: Turtleteasers 295pc hand cut 8in diameter jigsaw by Ron Moore, 'Peacock Plate'. Cut from Baltic Birch 5-ply in a fully interlocking style with variants of his pinwheel which circulate in segments around his central signature turtle. It seems marvelous that anyone can cut pieces so small and evenly and the thick, chunky plywood produces serviceable, satisfying pieces. A jigsaw to keep until my eyesight or failing dexterity stops me from being able to enjoy it.
On the right: GoAnywhere 180pc laser-cut plywood jigsaw. This is a semi-interlocking whimsy cut, but a number of the pieces form a puzle-in-puzzle and assemble to fill a bear outline (given as a life-sized template with one piece shown). The top edge drop-out detail adds a flourish. This is a very well designed budget wooden jigsaw, and if the pieces feel more fragile (and had to be wiped free of charcoal dust with a microfibre duster) they allowed people of more modest means to sample the delights of wooden jigsaws. I very much regret that the firm seems to have gone out of business - and would have loved to have tried larger jigsaws by these designers.
This little puzzle made it into my shortlist of six GoAnywhere puzzles because of the pretty corner details and because this is a favourite painting. 160pc, measuring only 6.5 x 7.5in, with six whimsies, it is laser-cut from plywood. This is quite a contrast to Grafika's 2000pc version, completed recently by Piecefull. The rear shows the nice colour of the ply backing and the extensive deadend cutting detailing on the whimsies. The shaped edge certainly added to the difficulty for me.
This is John Singer Sargent's 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose' of 1885-6 which is in the collection of Tate Britain (and also featured in the recent Sargent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, jointly organised with the NY Met, 'Sargent Portraits of Artists and Friends').
This was Piecefull's extract from Wikipedia:
"The painting depicts two small children dressed in white who are lighting paper lanterns as day turns to evening; they are in a garden strewn with pink roses, accents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies (possibly the Japanese mountain lily, Lilium auratum) behind them. The painting is dominated by green foliage, with no horizon or other horizontal line to give a sense of depth. The viewer seems to be on a level with the children but also looking down on them. The two subjects of the painting are the daughters of the illustrator Frederick Barnard – a friend of Sargent's. Dolly, left, was 11 years-old and Polly, right, 7 years-old; they were chosen for their blonde hair, replacing Sargent's original model, Francis Davis Millet's 5-year-old daughter, dark-haired Katherine. The title comes from the refrain of a popular song "Ye Shepherds Tell Me" by Joseph Mazzinghi, a pastoral glee for a trio of male voices, which mentions Flora wearing "A wreath around her head, around her head she wore, Carnation, lily, lily, rose." (from Wikipedia)"
Post Script November 2023
A jigsaw ideally suited to the theme of 'Light & Dark', and here on its own account, but also representing a hand-cut of the same image by Heather Prydderch and a 2000pc Grafika cardboard jigsaw, both not yet assembled.
The GoAnywhere concept also belongs to the theme for the January 2024 virtual meeting - Extremes - Jigsaws Great & Small. The 2000pc Grafika cardboard jigsaw would count as large for me too!
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2016
This little puzzle made it into my shortlist of six GoAnywhere puzzles because of the pretty corner details and because this is a favourite painting. The shaped edge certainly added to the difficulty for me. 160pc, measuring only 6.5 x 7.5in, with six whimsies, it is laser-cut from plywood. This is quite a contrast to Grafika's 2000pc version, completed recently by Piecefull.
This is John Singer Sargent's 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose' of 1885-6 which is in the collection of Tate Britain (and also featured in the recent Sargent exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, jointly organised with the NY Met, 'Sargent Portraits of Artists and Friends').
The puzzle colours are a little on the green side - the original painting is very beautiful.
www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-carnation-lily-lily-...
This ex military Jeep obviously belonging to some enthusiast was parked up at the reservoir where I walk Millie my dog after work on week days .This vehicle looks all very smart and enticed me to get the camera out .........
Brisbane .
Little different strategy - not showing a vehicle in the advertisement.
International ad for the Jeep brand created by the Leo Burnett agency in Paris, France.
Pentax Espio Mini
Pentax Lens 32mm f3.5
Fujifilm C200
ars-imago C-41 kit in Jobo1520
Essential film holder
Negative Lab Pro
This is the first Go Anywhere Bag (pattern by Anna Graham) that I made for my bestie Jennifer - it finally made it's way to her this week!
The exterior fabrics are a blue chambray and a print from Patty Young's Flora & Fauna. The interior fabric is from Tula Pink's Parisville.
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BCD Meeting - a beautiful place and fascinating cut in a small, modest laser-cut jigsaw.
Laser-cut plywood jigsaw, Go-Anywhere 180pc Morning in the Pine Forest by Ivan Shishkin, a puzzle-in-puzzle jigsaw, c2012. A small jigsaw with three whimsies and a dropout feature in the centre of the top margin.
The puzzle-in-puzzle concept: after finishing the puzzle select 18 pieces to make up the outline of the bear on the paper template. One piece is marked as a starter.
Last time I did one of these I assembled the puzzle, flipped it over and removed pieces (mirror-imaged) to complete the template. This time I decided to make up the template first then assemble the main puzzle leaving holes for those pieces used for the secondary puzzle. This discipline, and the bear drop-out detail on the top edge, made the main puzzle more difficult. I have only one Go-Anywhere puzzle left now, and I think the firm is no longer trading.
BCD Virtual Meeting Jan 2024 'Extremes - Jigsaws Great & Small'.
Small but challenging - and extreme.
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2016: BCD Mtg - I defy anyone to think that this cut is not fascinating.
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An extremely difficult laser-cut plywood jigsaw. I don't time myself, because that's not what jigsaws are about for me, but this little puzzle is at least as difficult as a 250pc Wentworth tessellation or difficult 500pc whimsy puzzle.
I completed it without the image, and having forgotten that it was square, so that all I had to guide me was the subtle tones and striping and the size/shapes of the lugs/holes. Highly recommended for the experienced and determined.
One of the pieces had snapped across a very narrow neck within the packaging. Disassemble with care.
BCD Mtg - I wanted to include this in the album because I had mentioned the jigsaw in a recent piece in the BCD magazine, but only a picture of the puzzle-in-puzzle Tang horse had been included.
The small 141pc laser-cut plywood puzzle by GoAnywhere, which has five oriental-themed whimsies, split corners and a subtle curve to the top edge (making the top corners less than 90 degrees).They class it as a level 3+ puzzle, because it has a second puzzle within it - 19 random pieces in this puzzle fit together to form the outline of a Tang Dynasty style horse.
The image is the centre of a large piece of Chinese export porcelain dating from the mid 19th century. It is in the Rose Medallion style with beautiful and intricate decoration.
One of the figurals is a Chinese character that is used in both China and Japan. In Mandarin it means “patience.” In Japanese, “perseverance”.
I should add that the pieces of GoAnywhere puzzles are quite small - assembled puzzle is a little under 9 x 6in. The puzzles are laser cut and the bag containing this puzzle was quite grey with charred-dust, as were my finger tips when I'd finished. Perhaps the extraction on the packing machine wasn't working properly when it was packed. Not a problem really.
My summer tote. Made with Noodlehead's Go Anywhere bag pattern. It has outside pockets, an interior slip pocket, an interior zip pocket, a key fob and two magnetic snap closures.
Laser-cut plywood jigsaw, Go-Anywhere 180pc Morning in the Pine Forest by Ivan Shishkin, a puzzle-in-puzzle jigsaw, c2013. A small jigsaw, 21.5 x 14.7cm, with four whimsies (I missed the maple leaf) and a dropout feature in the centre of the top margin. You can see the assembled secondary puzzle and its template.
The puzzle-in-puzzle concept: after finishing the puzzle select 18 pieces to make up the outline of the bear on the paper template. One piece is marked as a starter.
Last time I did one of these I assembled the puzzle, flipped it over and removed pieces (mirror-imaged) to complete the template. This time I decided to make up the template first then assemble the main puzzle leaving holes for those pieces used for the secondary puzzle. This discipline, and the bear drop-out detail on the top edge, made the main puzzle more difficult.
I have only one of my six Go-Anywhere puzzles left now, and I think the firm is no longer trading. (This jigsaw was done next.)
The assembled puzzle-in-puzzle, a Tang dynasty horse made of 19 random pieces of the puzzle, completed on the template which shows the exterior outline and one piece.
The 141pc laser-cut plywood puzzle by GoAnywhere, has split corners and a subtle curve to the top edge. They class it as a level 3+ puzzle, because it has a second puzzle within it. Goanywhere currently have 14 puzzles like this, with inner puzzles. Sometimes the puzzles form a solid shape like this, sometimes they just assemble an edge with the outline of the shape inside (more difficult I think).
I decided to leave the main jigsaw intact and remove pieces from it whilst assembling the horse. To make it easier to identify the piece shapes without the distracting pattern, I turned the puzzle over, which meant that I had to reverse the shapes needed in my head (something I'm not very good at).
The image is the centre of a large piece of Chinese export porcelain dating from the mid 19th century. It is in the Rose Medallion style with beautiful and intricate decoration. One of the whimsies is a Chinese character that is used in both China and Japan. In Mandarin it means “patience.”; in Japanese, “perseverance”.
A few days later I did the mini-puzzle again, with all the pieces known, but without the template. I have packed the pieces away separately, and next time I will do the mini-puzzle first, then assemble the main puzzle, then try to find the mini puzzle pieces with the puzzle face up.
Toyota HiLux HL3 Dual Cab D-4D 170 4WD EcoBurst GoAnywhere Surefoot LightStorm Multi Cargo Rock Crusher SS Sport Superwide Familysafe Deluxe HiBoy Mk III
Mission Bay, Motutere - 2015
"Were we're going, we don't need roads…" not quite a DMC Delorean, but our trusty steed - the red CR-V. But it'll still keep going when the road doesn't! it's comfy, easy to drive, gives a great view of what you drive through, and is full of dog hairs! What more did we need?
(Not a painting but I think these paperweights are works of art, so I've included the photo in the Artistic Puzzles group pool.)
This Goanywhere jigsaw, Paperweights with Triple Spiral, has 'more than 100pc' and 'over 25 triple-spiral pieces for a challenging" jigsaw puzzle', graded as difficulty 4 on the maker's scale of 1-5. (I will count the pieces when I put it away.)
I have always loved paperweights and the cut looked intriguing, with its triskelion spirals and shaped-edge dropouts - this easily won a place on my top five Goanywhere designs and into first jigsaw order.
It was very enjoyable and I would love to do a larger jigsaw with this cut. The puzzle was probably about the same level of difficulty as Chaos Firebird - the image being easier.
I completed it (without the box) by starting to build islands of colour, until they could be linked together and the size and organisation of the image became apparent. It would be a harder and a different experience to start with the edges (because although some edges are recognisable they can only be linked by using internal pieces).
I enjoyed these two puzzles a lot - and if the company traded up to larger piece-count jigsaws I would be regularly beating a path to their doors (in spite of the inconvenience of an ocean and a customs regime adding their unwelcome mark-up to the transaction).
The rear of the puzzle, whimsies and puzzle-in-puzzle pieces out, with the assemble Tang Horse.
The 141pc laser-cut plywood puzzle by GoAnywhere, has split corners and a subtle curve to the top edge.They class it as a level 3+ puzzle, because it has a second puzzle within it - 19 random pieces in this puzzle fit together to form the outline of a Tang Dynasty style horse. I decided to leave the puzzle intact and remove pieces from it whilst assembling the horse. To make it easier to identify the piece shapes without the distracting pattern, I turned the puzzle over, which meant that I had to reverse the shapes needed in my head (something I'm not very good at).
The image is the centre of a large piece of Chinese export porcelain dating from the mid 19th century. It is in the Rose Medallion style with beautiful and intricate decoration.
One of the oriental whimsies is a Chinese character that is used in both China and Japan. In Mandarin it means “patience.”; in Japanese, “perseverance”.
The front of the puzzle, whimsies and puzzle-in-puzzle pieces out. The rear of the horse showing the patchwork of wood grain. One of these is a Chinese character that is used in both China and Japan. In Mandarin it means “patience.”; in Japanese, “perseverance”.
The 141pc laser-cut plywood puzzle by GoAnywhere, has split corners and a subtle curve to the top edge.They class it as a level 3+ puzzle, because it has a second puzzle within it - 19 random pieces in this puzzle fit together to form the outline of a Tang Dynasty style horse. I decided to leave the puzzle intact and remove pieces from it whilst assembling the horse. To make it easier to identify the piece shapes without the distracting pattern, I turned the puzzle over, which meant that I had to reverse the shapes needed in my head (something I'm not very good at).
The image is the centre of a large piece of Chinese export porcelain dating from the mid 19th century. It is in the Rose Medallion style with beautiful and intricate decoration.
Jan 2024 Update for Show & Tell for the theme Jigsaw Extremes - Great & Small
The short-lived American GoAnywhere brand (founded in 2009) was ahead of its time, and included many quirky cutting concepts. It was the first brand I saw using puzzle-in-puzzles. I managed to buy six before it disappeared. The video-case packaging is laughable, but it can be stored very efficiently. The plastic bag shows how sooty the plywood pieces were – they are small and a bit fragile.
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Jan 2014
This small jigsaw is of a lacy pattern inspired by celtic knotwork patterns. It is probably the most difficult jigsaw that the American firm does (rated 5+).
The pieces were very small, of laser-cut plywood, and one had been broken (across a very thin neck) within the bag. (The blackening of the bag is due to charred dust from the laser cutting process.)
The box image is only notional - the colour and pattern on the puzzle are not necessarily that on the box. (I didn't look at the box so this wasn't a problem.) Actually my puzzle had the pattern shown on their website - green with a very subtle striped shading - for which I was very thankful.
The rear of the puzzle, whimsies out. One of these is a Chinese character that is used in both China and Japan. In Mandarin it means “patience.”; in Japanese, “perseverance”.
The 141pc laser-cut plywood puzzle by GoAnywhere, has split corners and a subtle curve to the top edge.They class it as a level 3+ puzzle, because it has a second puzzle within it - 19 random pieces in this puzzle fit together to form the outline of a Tang Dynasty style horse. I decided to leave the puzzle intact and remove pieces from it whilst assembling the horse. To make it easier to identify the piece shapes without the distracting pattern, I turned the puzzle over, which meant that I had to reverse the shapes needed in my head (something I'm not very good at).
The image is the centre of a large piece of Chinese export porcelain dating from the mid 19th century. It is in the Rose Medallion style with beautiful and intricate decoration.
The rear of the small puzzle and the puzzle-in-puzzle template. The 141pc laser-cut plywood puzzle by GoAnywhere, which has five oriental-themed whimsies, split corners and a subtle curve to the top edge (making the top corners less than 90 degrees).They class it as a level 3+ puzzle, because it has a second puzzle within it - 19 random pieces in this puzzle fit together to form the outline of a Tang Dynasty style horse. The whimsies did not make the puzzle much easier, since most had quite smooth outlines - only pieces next to the serrated edge of the fan were very distinctive.
The image is the centre of a large piece of Chinese export porcelain dating from the mid 19th century. It is in the Rose Medallion style with beautiful and intricate decoration.
One of the figurals is a Chinese character that is used in both China and Japan. In Mandarin it means “patience.” In Japanese, “perseverance”.
This small jigsaw is of a lacy pattern inspired by celtic knotwork patterns. It is probably the most difficult jigsaw that the American firm does (rated 5+), and the image is only notional - the colour and pattern on the puzzle are not necessarily that on the box. I didn't look at the box so this wasn't a problem.
Actually my puzzle had the pattern shown on their website - green with a very subtle striped shading - for which I was very thankful.