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Clip My Wings
Pause, rewind. Sewing is a different process to knitting. So far I have traced the pattern, worked up a toile (muslin) and discovered that I need to move the bust darts higher as well as doing a FBA. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Craft, linkage, Literature, Sewing, sewing
Tagged books, Literature, Photography, Print Culture, youtube
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In Edinburgh
In Copenhagen, the Nørrebro neighbourhood is my favourite. It is bohemian, multicultural and vibrant. The streets are filled with small ‘ethnic’ eateries catering for small immigrant groups and niche culinary interests. My taste buds really came off age when I … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Gray, Art, food, Personal, Scotland
Tagged Art, food, History, love, personal stuff, Print Culture
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Fingerprints
This will require a bit of back-story, but not much. Alasdair Gray is a Glaswegian writer and artist. I once spent a lot of time looking at how he imagines and uses the Book as a material object. Somewhere in … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Gray, Art, Personal
Tagged Alasdair Gray, Glasgow, love, paratextuality, personal stuff, Print Culture, self, texts and words
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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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Work As If You Live in the Early Days of a Better Nation
I do not know how many of you have read Alasdair Gray’s excellent dystopian novel, Lanark: a Life in Four Books? It takes place partly in Glasgow and partly in an imaginary Glasgow, known as Unthank. In Unthank the characters … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Gray, Literature
Tagged Alasdair Gray, Art, bibliomania, Literature, love, Personal, Print Culture, reading, Scotland
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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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A Beautiful Day
It’s going to be a beautiful day so the bluebirds sing. I have booked myself a short, but much-needed flight home to Denmark in May. I need to spend time with the Danish part of myself, I have decided. Going … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Gray, Art, Books 2009, Denmark, Film, History, Knitting, linkage, Literature, Music, Personal, Popular Culture, Science, typography
Tagged Alasdair Gray, Art, books, Crafty, Denmark, family, people power, politics, Print Culture, youtube
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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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