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I've made these as stocking fillers for my daughter. I must love her lots to part with my vintage buttons!
The centre is a metallic button which I coloured with inks. I then added 2 outside rows of polymer clay. I also placed a Swarovski crystal in the centre.
here's my button machine in all of it's well-made glory, along with all the buttons I made last night. I'm into doing commissions (as you can see behind the button machine I have supplies for 1000 buttons!) send me some flickr mail.
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Civil Defence Button which was worn by ARP Warden from West Lothian. Button shows relief lettering "CD" surmounted by crown.
West Lothian Local Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2008.049.002.
small chair embellished with vintage buttons and jewlery. Donated to the Whitewater Valley Arts Association for their 2008 Chair-ity event.
Yellow cab with the sign, "WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT Love and Peace from John & Yoko" by John Lennon & Yoko Ono, New York City, New York
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Group Show: Art Adds (Taxicabs, NYC USA)
Soon You Can Hail an Artist as You Hail a Cab
By Carol Vogel, New York Times, 25 Dec 2009
Those moving advertisements atop taxis generally deliver not-so-subtle messages, like which airlines to fly or movies to see, who makes the sexiest blue jeans or the coolest sunglasses.
High art they most certainly are not.
But for the month of January, Show Media, a Las Vegas company that owns about half the cones adorning New York City’s taxis, has decided to give commerce a rest. Instead, roughly 500 cabs will display a different kind of message: artworks by Shirin Neshat, Alex Katz and Yoko Ono.
The project is costing Show Media about $100,000 in lost revenue, but John Amato, one of Show’s owners and a contemporary-art fan, said: “I thought it was time to take a step back. January’s a slow month. I could have cut my rates but instead I decided to hit the mute button and give something back to the city.”
He contacted the Art Production Fund, a nonprofit New York organization that presents art around the city, and asked its co-founders, Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen, to select artists. They in turn sought out Ms. Neshat, Mr. Katz and Ms. Ono, three New Yorkers known for work that can read both conceptually and physically in a confined space. (The ads measure just 14 by 48 inches.)
The project is called “Art Adds,” not just as a play on its advertising origins but also, Ms. Villareal said, because “art adds to the public’s vision.”
Each artist’s work will appear on approximately 160 cabs, and each responded to the challenge in very different ways.
Mr. Katz has taken two of his recent portraits, both of models who frequently pose for him, and put them together. One is a frontal portrait, the other the back of a woman’s head. They are set against a black background. “You can’t go wrong with black and yellow,” the artist said of the posterlike quality of the design.
Ms. Neshat, an Iranian-born artist known for her social, political and psychological commentary on women in contemporary Islamic societies, said that when she was approached about the project, her first thought was of the Pakistani- and Senegalese-born taxi drivers.
“I felt I could make work that was truly non-Western, because it’s an extension of what New York is about,” Ms. Neshat said.
She used the two sides of the so-called cones in different ways. On one there is an illustration of a handshake, the artist’s symbol of unity and solidarity. The other shows an eye decorated with a poem titled “I Feel Sorry for the Garden,” by Forough Farokhzad, a celebrated female Iranian poet. The poem itself is in Persian and written out in calligraphy in the white of the eye. “It suggests that someone is speaking to you in a language that no one can understand,” Ms. Neshat explained. “And although the poem is from the 1960s, it still resonates today.”
Ms. Ono has also drawn on a vintage idea. She used the theme “WAR IS OVER!” a slogan she and John Lennon used when they took their message of peace around the world in 1969-70, in this case displaying it in English and in sign language.
“It’s almost like a dance,” she said, “the way the message is always in motion.”
Madison Square Garden
8th Avenue & 34th Street, Manhattan,
New York City, New York
Button decided Lisa's bag was a great alternative to clothes. Especially since hers aren't finished.
She sports an egg warmer hat, and handmade merino wool felt shoes.
Button calendar made from I Love Patchwork by Rashida Coleman-Hale.
Blogged: carolyn-and-me.blogspot.com/2011/06/button-calendar.html
A super fun way to use all that adorable japanese fabric I've been hoarding--er, collecting. Check out my profile for info on where to find more of my creations online. Thanks for looking!
Macro Monday (7.6.09): “What you wanna be when you grow up?”
Mom always said, "Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else." Luckily, I'm living the dream--I was drawing when I was 4, and now I'm an Executive Creative Director in the digital world. Bigger canvases, same love of creative.
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© Steven Brisson. Do not use without permission.
"Restart Button" offered by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva, Switzerland March 6, 2009. [State Department photo]
Princess's mother-or-pearl belly button is very fancy.
(Blogged, a link to which you can find in my profile.)
Silver belly button ring with purple jewels and one clear jewel in the center. 316L surgical steel. Buy directly from the manufacturer and save money! discountfashion.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3470731