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Each year, Gallery Route One in Point Reyes invites over a hundred artists to create unique works of art using a wooden box.
Here are the inspiring artworks they created this year: they range in style from whimsical to poignant and thought-provoking. These photos were taken on closing day, when the gallery organized a live auction for each of this year’s 150 boxes. The proceeds support the gallery’s exhibits and community programs.
Two of the boxes were created by members of our art community: Howard Rheingold (a.k.a. Dr. Rindbrain) contributed an illuminated box called ‘Magical’, while Geo Monley and Meryl Rubenstein made ‘Les Puzzles.’
Members of ‘Pataphysical Studios came to cheer for their peers -- Dr. Really was the highest bidder for Dr. Rindbrain’s piece, which was thus kept in the family. After the show, we all went to Stellina to celebrate over a nice dinner.
About the Box Show:
View more of my Box Show photos:
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Watch a video of the Box Show:
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The box is more of a point of sale piece but part of the crisis direct mail.
The statement has power and gets straight to the point which was intended for the target audience.
Food, A bed and shelter are all human necessities so the idea is to us peoples emotions to help them to reflect on there lives.
Shelter for you and me is a house but if you ar e homeless then all you have for shelter is a box.
The Box is intended to bee left in places where people could walk past and tear away one of the contact strips on the box.
My own hand drawn copy of the track layout/ illuminated diagram that was at Carterhouse Junction Widnes in 1987.
This is not my photo
This photo is used for editing with kind permission for Craig from "Portraits from Craig"
Original can be found here:
flickr.com/photos/digital_reflection_2/2042034728/?addedc...
There are only 161 boxes in the country with the Edward VIII cypher, this one in Winchester could do with a bit of tender care.
Cliburn signal box - one of nine on the route - looked after the adjacent level crossing and controlled access into a goods yard which boasted cattle pens and coal handling facilities. There was only a single running line, serving a platform on the Down side. This accommodated the main building, next to which was the station master's house.
Closure came to Cliburn in September 1956 although through trains continued, requiring the signal box to remain open. But the route succumbed on the same day as Stainmore: 22nd January 1962.
The signal box immediately entered a period of decline; its windows smashed and innards gutted. Some repair work was undertaken in the 1970s but 2012 saw its complete refurbishment, opening as a self-catering holiday let with an extension to the rear.
Red mosaic box including: glass, marbles, semi-precious stones, beads, shards, pebbles, nuggets, glass jewels, butterfies, ladybirds etc.
Wood base, painted inside and bottom and lined in red velvet.
A custom piece for Heike.
I only need five more blocks, but I think I may start to arrange these a bit so I can see how much white I want in those last five blocks. I got a kick out of the blocks on the top right...just a half inch square surrounded by white :)
Boxes stamped with Yellow Owl Workshop's Cityscape set. Very happy-making.
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A view of the signals and signal boxes looking north from Leicester station. It doesn't look like this any more!
What's in the box then?
Answer: A Canon Speedlite 430EX, a bowl of warm water and some dry ice pellets. The Speedlite was triggered wirelessly and was positioned behind the bowl of warm water.
I had to move quickly with this shot due to the high levels of humidity accumulating in the suitcase. My poor flashgun seems to have survived though.
Eastern Box turtle feeding on peanut scraps falling from one of my backyard bird feeders. Photo taken with my phone for a change.
Backyard, Cary, North Carolina
We have some Irish friends, who think Cape Cod is just about all right, particularly Provincetown. We are much of their opinion. But they never go there without being entirely grossed out by all the salt water taffy. Taffy, pronounced with an aggressively flat æ digraph, is a soft, sticky candy that is always sold wrapped up in a twist of wax paper, to protect it, presumably, from the moist sea air. I haven't been anywhere, on either coast, where it isn't made and sold as a necessary part of the shore experience. I don't think the tourists would ever go home, if it wasn't for this stuff, ripping out their fillings.
I sometimes think that our Irish friends take exception to the pronunciation of the word, perhaps thinking it's a Yankee mangling of the insular English word, toffee. Indeed, we have toffee, too, but it's a different animal, entirely. Maybe they resent the use of a word that is a tribal slur in England for the Welsh. Hard to say. They might not have a taste for it. I mean, they actually eat and enjoy Turkish delight, which is just nasty.
Oh, yes, this box suggests a piece of salt water taffy to me. I'm highly impressionable and maybe a little impressionistic.
My recently acquired Japanese Sankyo music box 72N 3Airs (72 notes 3 songs)
This glass model is made by the Japanese Music Box Company, NIDEC
It plays 72notes 3 songs by FF Chopin :
polonaise
tristesse
fantasie impromptu op.66
Japan is the only Asian country which manufacture high end mechanical winding music box.
These damn things have always fascinate me. It's interesting to see how the pins on the cylinder pluck the tuned comb as it rotates sounding out the beautifully resonant notes.
By arranging the pins and fashioning the comb teeth to reproduce specific notations in the musical scale it could made to produce an endless array of tunes very much like a mechanical piano. Brilliant idea. These are the great grand father of the record player and CD player.
Another design is by using a rotating disc with specifically cut hooks which strike a star wheel to produce the required musical tones. Both design are mechanical marvels.
I love them all
It is wednesday, i spent some time sculpting the egg then we worked together with my youngest son. The finished box IRL only.
A lovely Topper Made by persons unknown decorated the post-box outside the Post Office in Swanage, Dorset.
The sides of this box are a single plank of wood, almost certainly cedar, that was bent in three places.
How was this done? Well, once the maker had fashioned a plank to tolerances that might challenge a modern furniture maker, the maker cut a groove widthwise across the plank at each of the intended corners. Considerable skill and craftsmanship went into planning the shape of the cut and executing the plan. The groove was deep, but it did not go all the way through the plank. Then the wood was steamed to soften it. When the wood was soft enough, the plank was bent 90 degrees at each of the grooves until the two ends of the plank met. Voilà , a bentwood box!
I'd assume the ends of the plank were fastened to each other right away and, if it were me, I'd attach the bottom promptly to prevent warping.
As for the art, the images are highly stylized animals common to the coastal environment. The iconography also included what some Europeans would call "mythical" creatures, though the First Nations people probably thought of them in different terms.
The selection and combination of images communicated complex and important information about the box's owner and the owner's family and clan.
If you want to study this subject deeply, read The Transforming Image: Painted Arts of Northwest Coast First Nations, by Bill McClellan and Karen Duffek, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver/Tornonto, University of Washington Press, Seattle (2000).
The Canadian Encyclopedia provides the following information about the Tsimshian peoples:
"The term Tsimshian (Tsim-she-yan, meaning "People of the Skeena") is often broadly applied to all those northern BC Indian groups speaking languages of the Tsimshian language family: NISHGA (or Nisga'a), GITKSAN and the Coast Tsimshian. The latter, sometimes referred to as the Tsimshian Proper, included groups along the lower Skeena River from the Kitselas Canyon and Kitsumkalum (near Terrace) and the adjacent coast south to Milbanke Sound, including Port Simpson, Metlakatla (in the Prince Rupert area), Kitkatla, Hartley Bay and Kitasu. The population of this latter group is 6569 (1996c)."
"In 1887, a group of 825 Tsimshians following missionary William Duncan moved to a site near Ketchikan, Alaska, where they founded the settlement of New Metlakatla. Archaeological excavations in the harbour at Prince Rupert have unearthed the remains of cedar plankhouse villages that date back 5000 years; thus, the Tsimshians claim one of the oldest continuous cultural heritages in the New World. Tsimshian groups are also generally held to be related historically to the Penutian peoples of Oregon and California."
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Pa...
(Capitalized terms in the foregoing quotes are topic links within the online Canadian Encyclopedia. The links are not active here.)
In the collection of the Museum of Northern BC, Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
I've complied with restrictions on the use of flash, and taken photos only when permitted by the museum.
LE Briar Rose with all the box covers removed. She is attached to the free standing backing cardboard.
I purchased the Aurora Limited Edition doll on her release day, Saturday March 16, 2019, from my local Disney Store. They had 16 dolls, and only about half sold at store opening. My doll's edition number is #1269 of 4500, exactly 1000 more than that of my Aurora and Phillip wedding doll set. She commemorates the 60th anniversary of Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
She is dressed as Briar Rose, and has a forest scene in the background art of the box. She has a little owl in one hand and a basket in the other. Her golden blonde hair has her signature curl in front of her front bangs, and waist length hair with curls at the ends. She has violet eyes glancing to her right and coral lips in a open mouthed smile. She has long curvy eyelashes. She has a pink shawl around her shoulders and arms. It has a brocade pattern on one side and gold embroidery on the other, and gold tassels at the ends. I untacked the ends from her skirt, but left them tacked to the sleeves of her blouse to prevent the shawl from falling off. She has a black satin bodice with fake laces in front of gold embroidery in the center panel. Her blouse is actually part of her bodice, and has sleeves down to her elbows, with flared ends tied with golden strings. Her skirt is made of dark magenta satin that is pleated in the front and is asymmetrical. Under that there are two layers of pink tulle and one layer of white tulle, and then a layer of light pink tulle with a lace border. These under skirts are sewn in the back to the outer skirt. Finally there is a half length stiff tulle petticoat. The lower lace underskirt is floor length in the back, but is higher and is slanted in the front, revealing her legs and feet. She has fixed angle feet with no ankle joints. She is wearing black flats with a small bow decoration in front, and a black satin bow around her ankles. She has dark magenta painted on panties, that match the color of her outer skirt.
Although her outfit's colors aren't film accurate, it is very pretty and well made. Her face is gorgeous, and although her lips are coral rather than red, at least they aren't the pink color of previous LE Aurora dolls. I like the doll very much. She is also a very good match for the Rags Snow White LE doll from 2017.
There are now a total of eight Aurora Limited Edition 17 inch dolls released by Disney. That includes the pink and blue Disney Store dolls (2014), the pink and blue Harrods dolls (2014), the blue and pink Disney Parks dolls (2015 and 2018), Disney Store Briar Rose (2019) and Disney Store Wedding Aurora (2019). That is two more than the number of Snow White, Elsa and Anna dolls. There is also speculation that there will be a Saks Aurora doll released late this year.
Aurora Limited Edition Doll - Sleeping Beauty 60th Anniversary - 17''
US Disney Store (Shop Disney)
Released Online and In Stores 2019-03-16
Sold out online 2019-03-16
The Aurora (Briar Rose) LE Doll initially sold out online at about 7 am PDT on release day (Saturday March 16, 2019), but still had the Add to Bag button. However people were still occasionally able to add to their bag and checkout the doll afterwards. By about 7:30 pm it showed the grey Sold Out label in place of the Add to Bag button. The doll might still be available in some stores in Canada and the United States.
$119.95
Item No. 6003040900721P
The Disney store proudly presents our Sleeping Beauty 60th Anniversary Limited Edition doll. Delicately costumed as ''Briar Rose,'' Princess Aurora is a romantic woodland vision found only Once Upon a Dream.
Safety
âš WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.
Magic in the details
Please Note: Purchase of this item is limited to 1 per Household.
• Worldwide Limited Edition of 4500
• Includes Certificate of Authenticity
• Aurora is costumed as ''Briar Rose'' while in hiding from Maleficent at the Woodcutter's Cottage, deep in the forest
• Satin skirt, corset with crossties, and headband
• Embroidered, golden floral filigree detailing
• Sparkling rhinestone studs
• Peasant blouse with ruffled collar and cuffs
• Brocade shawl with metallic gold tassels
• Fine mesh underskirts with floral lace detailing
• Molded shoes
• Berry basket accessory
• Bluebird friend
• Beautifully styled hair with shimmering golden highlights
• Rooted eyelashes
• Fully poseable
• Display stand included
• Comes in elegant window display packaging with rose gold foil filigree
• Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959)
The bare necessities
• Ages 6+
• Plastic /polyester
• 17'' H
• Imported