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Esme has found one of my vintage buttons and seems to be enchanted by it. Esme was handmade from coins, copper tube and copper wire. I have a feeling she may visit gardens with me because the lady who made her described her as loving nature. :)
The wooden cotton reel dates from the late 1930s - early 1950s and the glass button is from the 1930s.
These earrings, though I made them in Spring of '09, are being listed nearly a year later.
Why such a delay? Well, it's because I love them SO VERY much that I hate the thought of parting. But, I think it's time to let them go [as I stifle a sob].
The title really says it all: these birdies have long aqua dyed tail feathers, 'shark tooth' shaped blue freshwater pearls, freeform bundles of thin gauge red wire, amethyst chips, intricate seed bead work, with shots of teal, black, fuchsia, periwinkle, green-gold and yellow. I'm torn between thoughts of magnificent tropical birds and giant bins of colorful candy.
Gazing at them, I find myself wondering whether I want to cage them as pets or eat them for dessert.
My recent faux ivory collection mounted using weathered wood, black polymer clay and copper patina wire
I combined the chubby house with the bird legs and got a mobile home! I feel like a genetic scientist, hehe.
Vintage citrus colored glass bead, teal rhinestone 'ice cubes', tangerine copper wire with streaks of silver.
The title is purely figurative: it won't strip the enamel from your teeth or give you frost bite.
When fallen brach is found there is great potential in it, if is big enough will do a great turning on a lathe, this one is Oak with the bark still intact, the design is done on a scroll saw so the same design shows on both sides, first it is sliced on a band saw,
This year I got lazy with my gift giving, well most of you know Sandy was my excuse:-)
last Year I did all those gifts bellow in late October and November,
hopefully this year I will start early.
Recycling a car spare part for the copper wire and brass parts inside. The metal housing will also be sold as scrap metal.
The painted lady is wired and lights installed. Windows are set and next comes the doors. The roof still needs shingles and decisions on the foundation need to be made, but the exterior of the house is almost finished. I just love a well lit dollhouse and I will set this one on a timer, so it will come on and off after dark. I will work on the conservatory separately as I work on the interior, it too, will have a light.
I’m really enjoying this build, but it’s not been without its trials and tribulations…..there are mice in the upstairs attic space and a ghost in the upstairs tower window…..do you see her?
Antique copper with bright and deep blue, these earrings are slightly asymmetrical with an intricate network of silver-plated peacock blue, gun metal and rich brown copper wire. Woven throughout are glass beads and brass findings. A freshwater pearl dangles from segments of chain at the bottom of each earring.
Radio on a scale most people will never have come across. It measures 10m by 10m by 6m.
This is a variable-inductance coil used for tuning the aerial of the very-low-frequency (VLF) 16-kHz transmitter installed at Rugby Radio Station and operational from 1943 to 1966, together with separate transformer and variometer with supporting framework.
The framework is made of Sitka spruce, with fixings consisting of wooden dowelling and nylon nuts and bolts. Wedges used to keep the coil in place are made of wood, whilst tap point connections and cable terminals are made of metal. The support tubing or casing of the coil sidings are made of synthetic-resin-bonded paper, whilst the inner coil, a Litz wire cable, is made of enamelled copper wire.
The Rugby Tuning Coil was used to tune antenna at the station to the right frequency. When it began service on 1 January 1926, the Rugby station was the most powerful in the world. It transmitted official wireless news messages to the Empire and ships at sea worldwide - a first.
In 1928 the station was used to send a message to Mars - yes, the planet - at the request of a Dr Mansfield Robinson, a London lawyer, who believed he had been in contact with Mars. The Post Office, which operated the station, accepted the message as a commercial transaction and charged him 1s 6d per word, the same as the standard message rate. Sounds like he got a good deal! I suspect AT&T long-distance would have been a bit more expensive...LOL
The coil was also used during the Cold War as the station transmitted classified material to/from ships and submarines during the Cold War. I believe it was a key part of the nuclear firing chain for British SSBNs.
The coil was decommissioned in 2003 and now is the centrepiece in the Information Age Hall on the second floor of the Science Museum in South Kensington.
"Brazen" is an ideal adjective for this ring since it's not only shamelessly bold, impudent, saucy, & cheeky..it also happens to be made out of brass.
I hammered a 3/4 inch strip of brass into a shape that drapes around the finger with ribbon-like folds. The sculptural details atop the ribbon have an angular modern look with with hematite chips and a strand of rhinestones.
Because of the open design of the ring, it can adjust to fit any finger from a size 6 upwards.
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Lee Bontecou, American, born 1931. Welded steel, canvas, fabric, rawhide, copper wire, and soot. Made in New York with materials from an East Village laundromat. MoMA. NYC.
for the macromonday theme of junk.....
actually the inspiration came from one of my contacts but when i went back to try to find out who it was i couldn't ~sigh~ he/she had created a whole 'person' out of tiny parts from a circuit board. didn't realize how much fine motor dexterity that takes til i tried it myself ~grin~
yea, i found it !!!..it was cole ewert and this is his creation-- cool, huh?
The Rick Mercer Report link below fits Calgary so perfectly, lol!
We are still in a deepfreeze - windchill dropped to -42C the other night! Today, 5 January 2022, our temperature is -25°C
(windchill -31°C) at 4:00 pm. Sunrise is at 8:38 am and sunset is at 4:44 pm. A few more days, and the forecast so far is for much milder weather for at least a week More snow, though.
The day before yesterday, I finally took my car for a drive in the city. First time since I got it back on 28 December 2021. Most days have been brutally cold, so it was more pleasant to stay home in the warm. I had only done three walks since 1 October 2021, so I definitely needed some fresh air and exercise. The pain caused by the T-boned car accident has lessened by now, so I wanted to see how well, or otherwise, my body would deal with a walk. Lower back pain was frustrating, especially as I had not had this the last few years. Still managed the 5 km walk at Carburn Park, that took about two and a half hours. No sign of the sun, so overcast, cold (around -21C excluding any windchill) and misty. Someone else who was visiting the park at the same time posted that it was -33C with the windchill. Not surprising, it was almost impossible to take photos, as my camera lens had a layer of ice on it, but that was OK, as I spent the morning with half a dozen of some of my favourite people, (who are very careful about Covid).
Especially because I have barely been out for so long, a few of the bird sightings were very welcome. A highlight was seeing a female Ring-necked Pheasant lying up on a tree branch. A Dipper was also a treat and there were several Swans on the river, Everywhere was coated in hoarfrost, which looked so beautiful. So glad I pushed myself out the front door. That is, until I woke up the next morning, barely able to move!
One single long exposure. No photoedition : straight out of the camera except for contrast/crop.
Model: Vincent Gerber
Light painting session with Tribal Lotta, Mélisa Lefèbvre, Vincent Gerber, Arnaud LEGROS
An intricate antique glass model of a Portuguese Man-of-War (Physalia arethusa)
The 'float' is about 55mm wide by 90mm long. Total height: 240mm. There are about two hundred tentacles made of thin coloured glass, supported and attached by fine copper wires.
See a magnified version of this image, or discover more about this remarkable collection
Model cywrain o chwysigen fôr (Physalia arethusa)
Mae'r 'arnofyn' yn mesur rhyw 55mm o led a 90mm o hyd. Uchder cyfan: 240mm. Ceir rhyw ddau gant o dentaclau wedi'u gwneud o wydr lliw, main. Cânt eu dal a'u cynnal gan wifrau copr main.
A very old (at least 3 upgrades ago) PC Motherboard, that I've kept purely because it has these rather nice copper-wire wrapped thingies on it, and I've deliberately not cleaned it up, so that all the dust and debris it has collected since it was last used adds to the grunge...
Copper wrapped and twisted into hooks and curls accents this beautiful butterfly pendent, with a gorgeously hued orange Carnelian cabochon and a just the right touch of sky blue Turquoise sets the mood for mystery and intrigue. The old legends and lore depicting the magical butterfly was the inspiration for this very bold yet elegant piece. The large pendent is suspended on a hand wrapped linked chain of copper, that was pounded and shaped.
The legend goes that those who believe in self transformation calls upon the fragile free fluttering Monarch butterfly. In which if one's true inner will is strong it will fly into your dreams and help you to transform your life and become the radiant soul that you are"
Pedant width: 4"
Pendant height: 3"
Colors: copper, carnelian orange, sky blue turquoise, patina green
Metal: copper wire
Focal Pendant: Resin Butterfly
Focal Bead: Metal & enamel
Technique: Wire wrapping
Style: cultural chic
Influence: Asian, Egyptian, and Native lore
I'm the first to admit my imagination is often in conflict with the practical element of jewelry design .
Just to be sure my pieces are "balanced " I wear them for several hours to determine comfort and "wearability ".
Surprisingly this piece passed with flying colors . It's very light and stays in place perfectly !
Maybe not a good choice for wearing under a heavy winter coat .
But , I plan to wear it to my daughter's college graduation in May !
I think it will be perfect !
Thank you ABS for the inspiration!!!
m.e . : )
Cold forged recycled copper (not the chain) and a prasiolite briolette. Loopy part is 5 inches wide x 4.5 inches tall.
LOOP DE LOOP
Johnny Thunder
Here we go loop de loop
Here we go loop de li
Here we go loop de loop
On a saturday night
川辺ナホさんの作品。床の黒いのは全部炭の粉。その上から金粉？オレンジ色の粉？が振ってあった。
Photo taken at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Higashi ward, Nagoya city, Aichi pref.
Written in 1920 by Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" is a favorite poem of mine:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
The necklace is made of recycled copper, Swarovski crystals, and clear quartz chunks; 5.5" wide x 2.5" high.
Based on my Horton’s Clover necklace.
I loved the round clovers I made in the Horton necklaces so much, so I decided to let them evolve.
my daughter "borrowed" my July ABS entry !!!
I was so please to see how it moved when she wore it !
I blogged about it this week . m.e . :D
Lee Bontecou is an American artist who was born 15 January 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island. She attended the Art Students League of New York from 1952 to 1955, where she studied with the sculptor William Zorach. She received a Fulbright scholarship to study in Rome in 1957-1958 and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 1959. From the 1970s until 1991 she taught at Brooklyn College.
She is best known for the sculptures she created in 1959 and the 1960s, which challenged artistic conventions of both materials and presentation by hanging on the wall like a painting. They consist of welded steel frames covered with recycled canvas (such as conveyor belts or mail sacks) and other found objects. Her best constructions are at once mechanistic and organic, abstract but evocative of the brutality of war. Art critic Arthur Danto describes them as "fierce", reminiscent of 17th-century scientist Robert Hooke's Micrographia, lying "at the intersection of magnified insects, battle masks, and armored chariots...”. She exhibited at Leo Castelli's art gallery in the 1960s, and one of the largest examples of her work is located in the lobby of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. (WIKIPEDIA)
An old 'Contactor Panel' in an abandoned industrial building.
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