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Our oak tree seems to be developing a lot of knopper galls. I am wondering whether I have the grip to try making ink, and/or whether anyone else I know in the UK would like some to have a go with later in the year...

I've currently got a book in the Ferens Gallery Open Exhibition (which has been closed since the start of lockdown). However they've put up an online version of the exhibion here: http://humbermuseums.com/exhibitions/ferens-2020-open-exhibition/ in which you can see my book at #117.

For my own reference.

Basic embossing how-to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7px-cKcsI6I

Stamp-making leads:
https://snapguide.com/guides/make-diy-foam-stamps-using-a-stencil/
https://all3dp.com/2/3d-print-your-own-stamps/

I've been making books. Would anyone like one? This particular set are... learning exercises. I'm quite pleased with them, they're functional and nice notebooks, but they're not up to standard for selling or exhibiting. Flaws (which may well not bother you) are: endpapers are a bit lumpy, the pages are not always nicely aligned with the covers (the green one is worst), I've not quite got the hang of marbled edges so there's a tiny bit staining to the edges of pages and there are some grey smudges in the marbled patterns. (Some pages may also be stuck together but you should be able to gently pull them apart.)

The blue one's already spoken for. Would anyone like one of the others? Free to a good home; I'm happy to post if you paypal me the postage cost.

hand-marbled notebooks

ETA: All gone!

That's copy #2 (mine, slightly rough) sat on top of copy #1 packaged up to go to the gallery tomorrow. I am celebrating with cider and gruyere and ship's biscuit (which

damerell made while I was busily measuring/cutting/punching, and which is surprisingly nice).

If you're interested in quilts or art, I visited the Festival of Quilts at the NEC yesterday and I have loads of photos of arty, quilty goodness over on Twitter: https://twitter.com/molybdomantic/status/1027489838424117248 and points forward.

"For week two, artist Oreet Ashery’s sonic performance Passing Through Metal will be staged for the first time in the UK, involving participants from Cambridge creating sound through mass knitting, accompanied by a heavy metal band."

http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/events/fig-futures/

Creative plans for the rest of the year involve the book for the Frankenstein exhibition, a scavenger hunt for Worldcon76 (both by mid-August), tidying up my craft environment while I. is away on an extended holiday, and applying to be in an art vending machine.

I just found out my proposal for Liverpool Book Arts' Frankenstein 2018 exhibition has been accepted. So excited! :-D

https://www.prescotmuseum.org.uk/event/book-art/

This sculpture is in Cambridge UK, outside the Microsoft offices, near the station:

Microsoft building art

Poll #17854 Interacting with art

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 19

Have you climbed through the pictured artwork?

Yes!
2 (10.5%)

No, for practical reasons (e.g. live too far away, not physically capable of climbing through things, severe allergy to art, always carrying too much luggage when passing, ASBO preventing climbing through artworks, &c.)
13 (68.4%)

No, for moral reasons (e.g. I don't think people should climb through artworks)
0 (0.0%)

No, for aesthetic reasons (e.g. it would look messy / ruin the artist's vision)
0 (0.0%)

No, I keep meaning to but I just haven't got round to it yet
3 (15.8%)

No, it hadn't occurred to me
5 (26.3%)

No, for no particular reason
0 (0.0%)

I got part-way through but then got stuck / had to stop for some reason
1 (5.3%)

http://elisem.livejournal.com/1869278.html
and sale:
http://elisem.livejournal.com/1917687.html

Anyone wants to join me in postage, just tell Elise so when you email. (I'm going to be away for about a week and a half so don't worry if there's radio silence from me.)

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/234244.html

M C Escher exhibition in Edinburgh until end of Septemberish:
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/whatson/on-now-coming-soon/the-amazing-world-of-m-c-escher/

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/232911.html

Interesting post on gaming and art: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/03/how-navigating-the-louvre-with-a-nintendo-3ds-made-me-rethink-the-future-of-gaming-art-and-virtual-reality#516545

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/225809.html

Aaaaaaa

elisem made fluorescent jewellery with built-in UV light and aaaaaaa it is going to be mine!

http://lioness.net/L/pen/penN/pUtilityPendantFluorescence/

Also, given birthdays and covetousness and the price of shipping and stuff, probably also bead club goodness: http://botmo.livejournal.com/116882.html

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/220791.html

http://www.litographs.com/ are running a temporary tattoo chain with the complete text of Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking-Glass and I was lucky enough to get a place! So here is my photo:

Through The Looking-Glass temporary tattoo

Through The Looking-Glass temporary tattoo

And here's the link to my place in the chain if you'd like to see some more photos:
http://tattoos.litographs.com/through-the-looking-glass/chapters/1/pieces/2657

They're still taking sign-ups for no-shows from the first round, if you're interested.

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/219992.html

Photos of my beautiful new pylon tattoo beneath.

( tattoo photos )

Design mostly by me, a simplified version of my pylon book. Execution by the immensely talented Michele l'Abbate of Family Business.

FAQs:
(1) about an hour plus a bit extra for tidying up
(2) yes but not so much
(3) there are actually 4 of them but I am crap at photographing the back of my own arm
(4) no it doesn't join up
(5) they use stuff like carbon paper for skin

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/206863.html

This weekend, I went to London, mostly to see

khalinche off (via a complicated process involving Italian cafes and possibly the worst club in the world). However there was also a certain amount of progress made on life goals, and I have returned with:

an appointment to get a tattoo[*]

a chocolate fish

So exciting!

We also went to see Momentum at the Barbican, a mesmerising artwork made from computer-controlled pendulums which emit light (either a ring of light out sideways, or a spotlight downwards) and hum/crackle/clang. We spent a good half hour just appreciating the patterns. Very meditative. (On until 1st June, and highly recommended: http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=15620 )

[*] FAQ:

(1) A ring of pylons round my upper arm, based on this book that I made, but much less complex: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~clareb/photos/betweenthebooks/.slide_pylons_1.JPG

(2) 4th May

(3) Here: www.thefamilybusinesstattoo.com
With this person: http://www.thefamilybusinesstattoo.com/artists/michele-labbatte/

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/203589.html

Interesting talks about mummies at the Fitz on Saturday (needs booking) and subsequent other stuff:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/museums-and-collections/collections-confidential

Arty stuff at the Orchard Park Community Centre, assorted dates:
https://twitter.com/katiehuane/status/430383584289882112/photo/1/large

Late-night museum stuff, 19 Feb:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/museums-and-collections/events/twilight-at-the-museums

Science festival programme now up:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/science-festival/booking

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/201398.html

I am attempting to achieve something concrete each week this year. This is what I did in the first week of the year:

Whilst searching for inspiration I came across the idea of a laminated book, and I have a laminator, so... A Nightmare Of Horror! is made from an old calendar of monster movie posters, which I had lying around in the hope I could make something useful from it. I cut out all the bits of picture that appealed to me and then arranged them into 5 pages roughly by colour. The pages themselves ended up arranged by size; I wanted to be able to see everything from the front of the book, so arranged the pages with the largest constituents at the back. There's an extra page at the back to provide a black background.

Here's another picture of it from the back of the main pages :-)

There are pictures of the individual pages at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~clareb/pictures/books/index.html

Crossposts: https://ceb.livejournal.com/199954.html

I dreamt about Yuletide, except that instead of fics people gave each other comics and illustrated stories. There were some lovely crossovers, e.g. things illustrated in the style of the Very Hungry Caterpillar. I was a bit sad to wake up and realise it didn't exist. Maybe I need to organise an art swap (in my copious free time).

In more successful art news, ebay and twitter have conspired to give me an excellent book idea for a tribute to Iain Banks for Worldcon.

(Also, tangentially arty, I have resolved to wear more nail varnish, as this stops me biting my nails, and have treated myself to some proper posh nail varnish to make it more likely that I will make the effort. Today I have happy-making sparkly purple-blue of *ahem* about this shade: http://the-smiling-pony.deviantart.com/art/Rarity-01-252735198)

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/198946.html

If I can ever create something half this beautiful I will be happy:
http://www.viruscomix.com/page583.html

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/196741.html

I plan to order a poster from these people: http://www.litographs.com/collections/all/
and I have a 20% discount code. Would anyone like to join me in an order?

Crossposts: http://ceb.livejournal.com/195613.html

How cool is this!

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/

I have just parcelled up my entry for the 4th Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize and Exhibition (a copy of Pylons).

This is about the only useful thing I've managed this week...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I've gone with a variation on something

stephdiary suggested: interleaves.org.uk (for books) and interweaves.org.uk (for jewellery).

Other things arriving today:

clinic appointment YAY!

lots of assorted ebay presents for E'con/Worldcon jewellery next year

payment for fivemack's commission in the form of pieces of 2

ribbon with space invaders on it

1) Epidemiology

This is mostly what I have been doing for the past 6 months. Particularly during May, which didn't really have room for anything else in it (goths aside). Exams were last month and were exhausting - apparently I'm not as young as I was 13 years ago. I think I acquitted myself well though. This month involved finishing off lactures and two assignments for the remaining module. I now have one thing remaining, which is the assessed assignment for this module (due end of August, so things can slow down a bit).

2) Brains

Currently suffering from wonky vision in my left eye (and not much else, that's about it for brokenness at the present). Still waiting for a bloody referral. Eye investigation included a trip to the optician last week. Am now persuaded I ought to have glasses, especially if wonkiness doesn't go away. Annoyingly this is not the best week to decide this, as

bjh21 and

stephdiary are both away which greatly impairs frame shopping. Also I have a referral to the eye clinic for a proper hardcore retinal scan, and am wondering whether to start an Addenbrooke's clinic bingo card...

3) Music

As supplied by, variously, Last July, Public Service Broadcasting, Whitby, and Leipzig. I will tell you about my latest obsession but they cannot be contained in a post which already holds so many other things.

4) Making stuff

A bit limited, but I have managed the odd thing or two, and even a book (and a pigeon). I must update my galleries and then post about these...

Have decided I'm never going to get round to my remaining cross-stitch kits, so onto ebay with them. (http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/ceb28/m.html if you're interested.) (ETA: also boots.) ETA again: if you bid for any of these and would like to collect from me in person, let me know and I'll add a free collection option to the postage.

I have a lovely V&A Viking boat cross-stitch cushion cover that I'm never going to finish - would anyone like to give it a good home? It's about 1/3 done, all the necessary bits are there and the threads are still neatly sorted. It's 14-count aida so easy on the eyes.

The finished thing looks like this:
viking boat cross-stitch kit

And it's about this finished (and this crumpled):
viking boat cross-stitch kit

They've sold my book! eeeeeee! Someone thought it was cool enough to buy! I should go and get a Proper Artist hat with the proceeds :-)

A few months ago, the lights under the Long Road busway bridge stopped working. Someone has responded with this rather lovely piece of graffiti...

( images )

Yesterday I visited Norwich, city of treats, to deliver my latest book to an art exhibition there (PLUG: http://www.assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk/index.php5/en/arts/artshow - book photos to follow) and incidentally to visit my favourite book shop (PLUG: http://www.thebookhive.co.uk/ - whenever I go there I want pretty much everything in the shop). I adore Norwich but it is bad for my wallet. I returned with three shiny new books, starry ribbon, a belt, a spiky headband, and lavender chocolate. Also some of the best sundogs I've ever seen on the train ride back.

I will probably be visiting again on 4th May, to see the exhibition I'm in, and also http://turnthepage.org.uk/, and for more book shopping, and general wandering around lovely lovely Norwich, if anyone feels like joining me. (And if you need further incentive, the co-op at Norwich station has cuddly garlic!)

Masters course lectures are getting longer and longer... In the first couple of modules they took an hour per lecture, or maybe 2 for the longer ones. This module I keep being greeted with "expect this session to take 8 hours". There's a 12 hour one yet to come. They do suggest stopping points, but it's a lot more work than I was expecting.

Current art project is going to involve punching 972 holes, since the printer registration is imperfect and I can't see a way of lining up multiple sheets at once. Have set myself a quota of 60 holes per day.

Why does banana bread always take so long to bake?

Things in Cambridge:

The excellent calligraphy exhibition at the Fitz has been extended until 17th Feb. I highly recommend it:
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/article.html?3550

And they have an exhibition of Quentin Blake's recent work starting on 12th Feb:
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/article.html?3680

Soviet art at the UL until 6th April:
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Cooke/

And the Cambridge Science Festival programme is now up:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival/
Booking for bookable things opens 4th Feb.

Things in London:

Crime fiction at the BL until 12th May:
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/murder/index.html

Propaganda at the BL from 17th May:
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/propaganda/index.html

Death at the Wellcome Trust until 14th Feb:
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/death-a-self-portrait.aspx

I've been accepted for another art show! The Norwich lot want me back again, for their open exhibition next April/May: http://www.assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk/index.php5/en/arts/artshow
Audience participation: I plan to make a transparent book of Conway's Game Of Life, with each page being a state. The idea is that as you look through it you ought to be able to see the grid evolving off into the misty future. I was mentioning this to people at the pub yesterday, and lots of you had good ideas which I've now forgotten. I'm after suggestions for interesting Game things to print; I'm aiming for maybe 100-150 states (though open to fewer or maybe even more if there's a really cool idea, though transparencies are pricey); no larger than A4, so grid size compatible with seeing something interesting at a sensible resolution at that size; undecided as to whether the pattern should repeat; must look interesting whilst it's doing it :-).

Current book project is almost done and should be at the photographing stage next week.

I'm doing a masters! In epidemiology, with the <finest-Victorian-explorer-accent>London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine</f-V-e-a>. They're terribly well organised. I have spent the last 2 weeks trying to force some stats back into my head.

Last week I went to Copenhagen for work and had a lovely few days full of useful meetings and sightseeing (though I managed to go when everywhere was shut, curses).

In addition, people have been plying me with presents, and tomorrow I'm going flint knapping, about which I am LUDICROUSLY EXCITED.

This post is part of the The Library of Lost Books - a project to convert books saved from a library pulp pile into an art exhibition. To fund the exhibition, the Library is selling memberships (for a modest fee) which get you, among other things, access to a members' only blog with contributions from the artists. If you find these posts interesting then please consider joining the Library to see what all the other artists have to say. More details at http://thelibraryoflostbooks.blogspot.co.uk/

The first thing I've been doing with my books is to save them from the pulp pile in another way, by preparing them to add to the wonderful Project Gutenberg. Before I change them beyond recognition I want to make the original text available for anyone interested to read. In case you haven't heard of PG: it's a volunteer-produced repository of (mostly) out of copyright books converted into e-books, 40000 of them, free to download.

For many years I have been a contributor to the largest supplier of these e-books - Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders. Back in the early days of PG, e-books were created by devoted individual contributors. PGDP spread the workload - and allowed many more people to contribute - by creating an interface to allow lots of people to do a little bit of work on the same book. You sign up (and I would encourage you to do so :-), choose a book, and are given a page to check. And then, if you like, another... As a way to waste time on the internet it's fantastic - highly addictive, a great community, and useful at the same time!

Of course there is a lot of work involved in getting a book ready to go through the site. Over the past month I have been installing hardware and software to make my scanner run, checking copyright status, scanning the books, splitting and tidying up the scans, finding an OCR engine, making it work in German, OCRing, making nice copies of the figures, and filling in information for the proofreaders. Now, however, everything is ready to roll. If you'd like to get involved then hop along to http://www.pgdp.net and look out for Botticelli and Andrea del Sarto.

A page and a half fell out of Botticelli whilst I was scanning it. I may need to see if I can make it a bit more cohesive...

A lovely Eastercon, excellent programming and a lot of new faces on panels. I had a fantastically successful art show; I sold 9 of the 12 pieces I took and have come back with more money than I started with (by £2.30 which I will have to spend on a congratulatory treat, any suggestions?). If you commented about things you'd like to buy or commission then I'll be in touch in the next couple of days to discuss.

However all this is eclipsed by the news that I had my application to the Library of Lost Books accepted. I am really very excited! http://thelibraryoflostbooks.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-project.html

In August I'm going to be an exhibiting an artist's book at the Assembly House in Norwich, as part of their first annual open art show.

I wasn't really expecting that to work!

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