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You people call me a ghost crab but I have never worked out why. Someone tried to tell me once but the answer was confusing. Because I am a light colour, because I am the colour of sand and you think I am well camouflaged, because I can run fast and hide in my burrow or dash into the sea if I hear your big clumsy footsteps and loud voices, because I come out at night. I was also told you think I am a scavenger.
I agreed to talk off the record today and pose for some photos so as to set things straight. Not true I only come out at night. I’m out here now, aren’t I. And if you sit down quietly here, where the sand is damp, you will see many of my relatives and neighbours. One topic we probably shouldn’t go into is the name we give you human beans. Well, you do stamp all over our homes and chase after and grab us for crab knows why! No wonder we run away from you!
I know that you sometimes confuse us with fiddler crabs, but it’s not hard to tell the difference. In fiddler crabs only the male has one claw larger than the other but with us ghost crabs we all do. We spend a lot of time cleaning our burrows and eating and probably not as much time fighting as the fiddlers. Our eyes are different too.
I showed the human bean how I eat and make small neat sand balls of the remains of my food, how I can carry bigger balls of sand when cleaning out my home, how I throw the sand a long way ( but she’s too slow to get that; we ghost crabs have competitions to see how fast we can throw sand balls and I am the current seaweed record holder), how I can hold my eyes down and make a funny face.
I wanted this human to do a photo story, some writing and a photo, some more writing and a photo to illustrate etc but the human tells me that “flickr” doesn’t do that well anymore. Oh well, I will just have to find a video photographer for my next interview.
Note from the photographer
This photo entailed considerable physical discomfort as the day before I had slipped on seaweed and fallen heavily on my posterior end. This made sitting on the sand to listen to the above very painful and errors of translation may have crept into the account. ( But my camera is Okay ; - ))))
Claire de Lune (right) interviews Mitzi Macintosh for the live webcast of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade.
Sydney Mardi Gras, Darlinghurst, 2007
Interview with me about copenhagencyclechic.com, copenhagenize.com and cykelhjelm.org in the Norweigan version of The Financial Times - Dagens Næringsliv.
I was ready for my interview.
I suppose it went alright, except when she dropped the name of someone I worked with that we had proffessional differences.
Oh well.
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Today, we had the chance to ask some questions to Karell Ste-Marie, Crafter from Québec, Canada who make all kind of gorgeous projects from recycled wooden pallets. If you think you deserve to be featured in the next interview, please, drop us an email.
Tell us a little more about you? Who you are? Where are you from?
My name is Karell, I’m from Quebec, Canada – I co-founded a software company in 1999, sold it in 2015 and today am an executive of that company.
Why do you craft?
I have always been a crafter, I’ve been crafting software for more than 25 years. I wanted to have a hobby where I could craft outside of computers. I’ve created several items from chainmail the biggest being a chainmail shirt, I’ve also made several necklaces using Byzantine weaves.
How did you learn to do wood crafts?
I am mostly self-taught. A few of my friends in construction gave me guidance. The rest I have learned from YouTube and trial/error.
How long have you been working with pallets?
I started working with Pallets around 2013.
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Why did you choose to work with pallets instead of purchased wood?
The price… In Quebec, Canada is it quite cold and trees pretty much only half of the year, which means we have to ship wood all around. Dismantling Pallets also gave me an excellent way to stay active and stay in shape.
What are your can’t-live-without essentials?
I am a technology person first, I cannot live without my phone but I am not a Facebook or texting person… I use my phone' camera to film some of my YouTube content and to find inspiration on Pinterest.
When I am out hunting for Pallets I always have some of my cordless tools just in case I need to "help something fit" so I can bring it home.
Are there any brands that are your favorites?
My cordless tools are Ryobi, other than that I tend to use Dewalt and Ridgid.
Recycled Pallet Dog Steps To Climb Onto The Bed
How would you describe your crafting style?
At the moment I am definitely a rustic type of crafter, even when I’m not working with Pallet wood.
Are there any crafters/artists/designers that you particularly look up to?
I learned about Pallets first from Izzy Swan (Think Woodworks), then from Mike Fulton (MF Woodshop). My original inspiration for woodworking is Marc Spagnuolo (The Woodwhisperer) and favorite is Alain Vaillancourt (The Woodpecker). All of them are on YouTube.
Where do you do your wood crafts? How would you describe your workspace?
I have two houses and use both garages. I am moving to the new bigger garage more and more but do not yet have electricity there. This will ultimately become my woodshop.
Where do you look for inspiration for a new woodcraft?
I watch YouTube, browse Pinterest and of course look at articles on 1001 Pallets!
When do you feel the most creative?
I am an executive and boss during the week… I am a woodworking during the weekend…
We live in such a mass-produced, buy-it-now society. Why should people continue to make things by hand?
Mass production makes you dependent on someone else’s; it causes you to become dependent on those companies. While it would be unrealistic to be able to be completely independent (some people are able to do it) I like to keep some basic skills as they just help me save money.
What is your favorite medium to work in (other than pallets)?
I like to use firewood quite a bit; I have managed to turn some logs into planks. I have done this using a chainsaw and a bandsaw – the bandsaw is my favorite approach. Otherwise I’ll get some rough wood from different stores which I run through the jointer and planer.
What are your tips for people who'd like to start crafting?
Start with a nice kit of cordless tools: circular saw, reciprocating saw and drill… That is really all you need. Anything else you go out and purchase will be a luxury and is difficult to justify… Learn to read pallet codes, 1001Pallets has an excellent article on this. Pick a simple straightforward project and just do it. Accept failure and just try again, success comes from keeping on your craft and not giving up.
What are your most important safety tips when woodworking? Have you ever had any injuries or close calls?
I have experienced kickback on the table saw where a plank flew in my lower abdomen; I have run nails through both my planer and jointer and seen wood explode in the process… I have seen a friend of mine use the wrong side of a table disc sander and end up in the hospital with non-permanent consequences. You should slowly raise the bar and only do things that you are comfortable doing. I find that people are more levelheaded when they are working alone… Do not try to impress anyone, focus on your goal, which is to get the job done safely. Always wear gloves when handling a pallet, you have no idea what it feels like to have a splinter in your good hand and not be able to get it out until your wife comes home from spending the weekend at her mother’s…
What is your guilty pleasure?
I love a good beer… Too much beer and power tools don’t mix… Ever since I bought myself a new table saw I find that I can use it without any beer in my system which I have mixed feelings about… My old table saw was terrifying and I’d use it only as a last resort.
What are some of your other hobbies or favorite things to do (other than crafting)?
I am a YouTube content provider. I like to do pretty much everything myself. I also have brewed beer, brewed wine, made a chainmail shirt, made chainmail necklaces (for my family only) and try to educate my kids about financial intelligence (which they don’t teach in school).
What are some of your best tips for breaking down, prepping, and cleaning pallets before you build with them? Do you have a specific tool you use, or a technique for cleaning the boards/removing nails, etc.?
As you can easily see from my videos, my favorite tools are the Pallet buster and the air punch. The pallet buster will break down those pallets into nice planks without splitting (if it’s not below freezing and you go at a certain speed) and the air punch will allow to remove nails from boards at around 1 nail per 2 seconds.
Have you designed any special tools or jigs for wood crafts?
I have made the same basic things that most woodworkers will do, nothing of significance or special. Wood track saw for cutting straight lines and a table saw sled – those types of things. I have made my own wood cart (you can see it at the end of one of my videos) and my own bench (the bench was not made from pallet wood).
What are some wood working skills you really want to learn?
Given the beautiful types of woods (and colors), you can get from pallets I would love to do intarsia but am nowhere near that yet.
What is the one project you’re the proudest of so far?
2 years ago, I made some wood wall sconces for my mother. Using a birch firewood log that I cut it into planks I created her Christmas present. I included the candleholders for her and she absolutely loved it. The lines in the wood and the amount of time I spent on it made the piece simply awesome.
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Editor’s Note: Thank you for your time and for sharing your story with us, and with our fellow Crafters. Your work is beautiful and inspiring to all of us, and we truly look forward to more from you in the future! Keep those gorgeous pieces coming!
Thanks Karell for this interview :)
To find more on Karell:
Karell profile on 1001Pallets
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I was recently asked to do an interview with Jeremiah Nichols on "Creative Photography With Kids: An Interview With Ann Texter"... about taking and making photographs with Grace... here is the link if you want to take a look. :)
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Wildlife biologist Colleen Grant with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Ventura shares one of the "quirky" reasons she decided to pursue a career in science.
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St Margaret, Stratton Strawless, Norfolk
Sometimes I visit a church and I know I will never come back. And at other times I realise it is only the first of many visits. Fortunately, Stratton Strawless lies on my main flightpath into Norwich if I have been cycling in north Norfolk, and so it was on the best day so far of 2018 that I came back again.
In an interview on BBC Radio Suffolk a few years ago I was asked, rather sneakily I thought, which were the best - Norfolk churches or Suffolk churches? Without too much hesitation I hope, I observed that Norfolk had the best big churches, but Suffolk the prettiest small churches, which is true in a general kind of way, although it doesn't account for the likes of vast, wonderful Blythburgh in Suffolk, or the lovely little church at Horsey on the Broads, not to mention lots of others. I suppose that it is generally accepted that Suffolk is the prettier county, and its little churches are an adornment to its rolling landscape of fields and copses, but much of Norfolk is pretty too. But Norfolk is big, and places can become hidden. If Suffolk has the big skies, then Norfolk has the breadth of the land, breathtaking in its sweep across the vastness of England's fourth largest county.
Norfolk is big enough to have regions - the Marshland, the Breckland, the Broads, and so on - and separating the Broads from the western part of north Norfolk is a belt of secretive woodland. I had become used to travelling through it on the way from Norwich to Aylsham, and had often seen the little handmade sign pointing down a way through the woods to a church. Welcome! it said. Open every day!
To come in spring made a change, for I was often cycling in north Norfolk as the summer began to fade. My first visit had been almost ten years previously on a beautiful day in mid-October 2008, when Mother Nature seemed to have forgotten that she was supposed to be getting on with autumn and putting Norfolk to bed, and instead had let the bright sun run riot in a cloudless sky. I was with friends, fellow church-explorers Peter Stephens and Tom Muckley. We had been to Ringland, and a succession of less well-known parishes to the north-east of Norwich with confusingly similar names to each other. Now we were heading through the woods, and not for the first time that day I felt a mounting anticipation.
Stratton Strawless - Stratton meaning an enclosure by a Roman road, Strawless probably meaning exactly that, without straw - is about halfway between Norwich and Aylsham, but feels much more remote. We headed up on the back road from Hainford. The long lane narrowed, and then at a bend the hedges opened up, and there St Margaret was, a long, low church huddled beneath a squat tower in a narrow graveyard. The tower is clearly late Medieval, and was probably never finished. The east window tracery, of a century or so earlier, is beautiful. The little south aisle has elegant 17th Century details. We opened the gate, and wandered along the south side of the church. The sun gleamed on on the windows of what really is the tiniest of aisles. We felt the warmth of it on our backs, and it really did seem incredible that the year was almost over.
The south door was wedged open, but we resisted going in. Instead, we wandered around to the tower, and there, to the west of the aisle, were the tombs and memorials of the family most strongly associated with this church, the Marshams. Strictly speaking, these ones are to their less significant members, because the famous ones are inside in the aisle, but it is a very picturesque little spot. Walking around to the north side, we found that the north door was also wedged open. Beyond the gloom inside we could see the fierce sunlight bursting through the open south doorway.
And so we stepped inside. At first, the interior is quite unfamiliar. This is because of an angled partition across the church which divides off a vestibule at the back of the nave and aisle. It runs level with the westernmost bay of the south arcade, but cuts back around the font, with three doorways into the nave, two at angles and one from behind the font into the base of the tower. It is probably a 17th Century idiosyncracy, put in place at the same time the aisle was rebuilt as the Marsham mausoleum. Walking across it to the south, we turned, and were inside the south aisle, home of the Marshams. Their two considerable monuments are set against the south and east walls. That to the south is to Henry and Anne Marsham and their family. Henry died in 1678, and is dressed in the full splendour of the Restoration. His teenage son son Henry kneels between them, and his splendid inscription reads:
Brave Soule
Thou wert too quick and large to staye
Within thy little house of clay.
Such early manly parts (which ev'n
At twelve did speak thee XXXVII)
Presag'd that one so grave, so good,
Would misse life's common period
And heav'n must be obey'd. Was found
Thourt ripe for that and now art crown'd
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Down in one corner, a detail so shocking that at first it is at first difficult to take in, is another child, a baby: rigid and upright, but bound tightly in swaddling clothes. He shares an inscription with his mother, who died in childbirth:
Here lie a vertuous son and mother
who dy'd in kindness to each other:
Death seaz'd him first, when she him freed
By yeilding up her self in's stead,
Which was no sooner done, but hee
Dyes too to keep her companie.
This thou'lt think unhappie fate
To two such heires of fayre estate,
But twas not: for they did forgoe
A state for life; 'n reversion too
to gaine possession of a fee
In rich and Blessed Aeternitie.
The aisle is not very wide, and so there is a sleight of hand about the way the sculptor has rendered them facing outwards at prayer - or, more accurately, a sleight of foot, because, as Sam Mortlock observes, the effect is of a family of amputees. Topping even this curiosity is the monument to Thomas Marsham, at the east end of the aisle. Thomas died in 1638, on the other side of the great Commonwealth divide, and while his memorial shows more evidence of Puritan influence, with its emphasis on death and judgement and the transitory nature of existence, it is also spectacular in its own way. Marsham lounges in his graveshroud on a comfy cushion, raising his head in response to the last trump being sounded above his head. Beneath him is the extraordinary prospect of a charnel cage, filled with his skull and bones, and those of his ancestors. It takes you a moment to realise that they are not in fact real, but finely carved from alabaster. You can see similar works at South Acre and Norwich St Andrew.
Thomas Marsham's is the only reclining effigy that I have seen which has designer stubble. We know he had the memorial made before he died; did he perhaps think that his likeness looked too effeminate, and asked them to alter it?
The most famous of the Stratton Strawless Marshams was Robert Marsham, whose life spanned all but a handful of the years of the 18th Century. He effectively invented the Science of Phenology, the practice of meticulously recording and predicting the passage and effects of the seasons. He was also responsible for planting the woodlands on the Marsham estate, which survive today.
If the Marsham memorials were all there was to Stratton Strawless, it would still be worth going out of your way to visit, but there is much more. So far, we have not touched on the medieval life of this place, but here also in the south aisle is the 13th Century effigy of a woman wearing a wimple. She lies on her back, and the stone of the memorial is black. Not surprisingly, she is known as the Black Abbess, although this is certainly inaccurate, because she is holding a heart in her hand, which suggests that her husband died abroad, probably on a crusade.
There is also a hint in the south aisle of Stratton Strawless's greatest treasure. This is one of the best sequences of medieval glass in Norfolk. There are just fragments here; part of a Bishop, and an intriguing shield depicting a round-towered church, which is probably later and continental. But the best of the glass here is in the nave. A long wooden screen separates the aisle from the nave, so you must go back into the west of the church and enter behind the font to see it. It has all been reset in windows on the north side of the church - fortunately, the lack of a clerestory above the arcade on the south side meant that the strong autumn sun did not stop us photographing it.
There are survivals of four main subjects. Firstly, the four evangelists,Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It is unusual to find all four surviving from the same 15th Century set, and delightful to note that St Luke is depicted as a painter - traditionally, he painted the first icon, a portrait of the Blessed Virgin. Mark, Luke and John all have their mythical beast symbols seated at their feet. Secondly and thirdly, the Annunciation and the Coronation of the Blessed virgin. These two pairings, of Mary with the angel Gabriel, and then with her son crowning her the Queen of Heaven, must surely always have been intended to be seen together. Lastly, just two female martyr Saints, St Helen and St Catherine, looking similar to their counterparts at Salle. Presumably, there were once many more.
A bit further east is Stratton Strawless's single most famous feature, the angel head. This is so perfect that it has appeared in many books as a fine example of 15th Century Norwich School glass. About twenty years ago it formed the centrepiece of an exhibition at the University of East Anglia, but it was felt too important to be returned to the church without a proper restoration of its setting. This took several years, but you see it today in all its glory. In front of it, and almost filling the little nave, is one of the county's largest chandeliers, said to be Russian in origin. Mortlock thought it was probably 17th or 18th century. Perhaps it arrived here from a Russian cathedral after the Revolution. Beyond, in the chancel, a lovely modern Blessed Virgin and child set in the clear glass beneath the Decorated tracery is the icing on the cake of this, one of the loveliest of all Norfolk church interiors.
If Stratton Strawless were merely lovely, then that, of course, would be enough. That it is also of outstanding artistic and historical importance is a bonus. But there is even more to it than that, for this is certainly one of the most welcoming of all English churches. On my first visit, as I say, we found both the north and south doors wedged open. In this, the tercentenary year of the birth of Robert Marsham, you might think this was simply because of the exhibition detailing his life, which had been set up in the nave. But this is always a church which is keen to welcome visitors.
On a table in the south aisle is an electric kettle, teabags, coffee, squash and a bottle of fresh water, a tin of biscuits and cakes, and the length of the south aisle has shelves of second-hand books and locally made jam for sale. Notices make it clear quite how glad the parish is that you made the effort to pay them a visit. It is outstanding hospitality, and made me so glad that I had come here.
On this day in spring 2018 I was keen to head on to my train at Norwich station. I popped in my headphones, listening to my beloved Cambridge United roll Port Vale over 5-0, but not without a memory of that Autumn day of nearly ten years before. I recalled how, outside, on one of the Marsham tombs, a robin had cocked his head and watched us as we left the south doorway. We walked back through the churchyard to the car chatting about nothing in particular, but we did not know of course that it would be the last time we would see Tom, for when the year had turned he would be dead. Off in the hedge, a blackbird piped ardently, if a little sadly. He knew that the days were getting shorter, and that all too soon Robert Marsham's trees would shed their leaves. Then the storms would come, and within a few short weeks East Anglia would be in the grip of an icy, sub-zero winter, the hardest for years. But until then the unexpected sun gladdened his heart, as it did ours.
French Radio RFI interviews Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, during his official visit to Paris, France. 1 December 2021
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