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Category Archives: Print Culture
Word Tree
Choppy seas recently. I’m not going into the details, but choppy seas. And so I’m making a Word Tree. A Word Tree is a very basic idea. You cut out small leaves from brightly coloured paper, you write down positive … Continue reading
Posted in linkage, Literature, Personal, Print Culture
Tagged academia, boo-hiss, love, self
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On Frocks & Books
A few things to tide things over.. With a few modifications, this is how I’d like to live. I would not sort my books by colour (in fact, it is a pet-peeve of mine), I would tone down the pattern-upon-pattern … Continue reading
Warm and Fuzzy In Several Ways
For some odd reason I keep going back to the idea of a knitted dress. I found a machine-knitted dress in Monsoon (British clothes shop) which I absolutely loved (apart from the fibre make-up) and then I saw some jaw-dropping … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Knitting, Print Culture, Purls, Scotland
Tagged Glasgow, love, Print Culture
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Reading the Past
The economic recession has claimed many victims. The first phase saw people losing jobs, companies going bankrupt and banks folding. Experts say that this first wave is over. Signs of economic growth are visible in the financial sectors. We are … Continue reading
Posted in History, Print Culture
Tagged academia, boo-hiss, politics, Print Culture, real life, texts and words
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Linkage
Link dump day! + Europe, Explained: a nice map which summarises it all for confused non-Europeans. + Puppets need puppets too. + Vegetarian-friendly roadkill carpet + The prettiest yarn shop in Denmark? I like my yarn shops over-stuffed, but if … Continue reading
Posted in Craft, Denmark, Film, History, humour, Language, linkage, Literature, Music, Popular Culture, Print Culture, shopping
Tagged bibliomania, Craft, esc, Film, geek, wtf, youtube
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Behaving as the Wind Behaves
Let the Right One In was a much better film than book. Everything which was overegging the book-pudding had been removed in the film: neverending subplots, irrelevant and distracting characters, and immense wordiness. The film was sparse, beautifully shot, and … Continue reading
Posted in Craft, Film, Knitting, Print Culture, yarn
Tagged Film, Print Culture, sweden
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Gifted
This is the week of receiving gifts, it seems. When Kirsten Marie visited, she offered to make me some bling out of materials we bought at The Bead Company. I don’t wear much jewellery, but I do appreciate handmade things. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Craft, Print Culture, shopping, typography
Tagged bibliomania, bling, friends, lettering, love
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Into the Woods
Yes, I know I said stuff about knitting with grey wool. The phrases “never again”, “not in the winter months” and “I need colour!!!!!” may have passed my lips. But I’ve changed my mind. The pattern is Norwegian Woods by … Continue reading
Posted in Craft, Knitting, linkage, Personal, Photography, Print Culture, typography
Tagged Glasgow, images, Photography, poetry, snow, texts and words
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Visual Words
In my handwritten note I alluded briefly to the idea of handwriting possessing “presence” and printing having only “absence”. In its infancy printing was known as “artificial writing” – the implication being that handwriting = natural, printing = artifice, obviously. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Print Culture, typography
Tagged Art, bibliomania, books, geek, love, Print Culture, texts and words
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Handwritten
Posted in Blogging, Personal, Print Culture
Tagged academia, blog geek, Blogging, Print Culture, texts and words
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