Daylight floor lamp

I thought I'd posted this back in February but I just found it as a draft.

I have a daylight bulb in my studio but I've been wanting a floor lamp for when I'm working downstairs in the living room but they've been expensive.  I googled  and found this one half price for £35.99 so I chanced getting one.  I had to wait a few weeks though for new stock to come in.





It took a while to put together but well worth it.  It's a lot easier to match colours than by the long life bulb I usually sew by in the living room.

Flash mob.......

..... I'd not heard of these (only the ones for a certain mobile phone company) before Pat at Altering Thoughts blogged about one on the metro in Copenhagen so I googled them.  Brilliant what a great way to cheer people up.

LIPA (Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts) did something last year at Liverpool One using music and dance.

Sea Odyssey Day Two

As promised photos from day two.

It poured with rain not long after I got to the park but luckily it stopped and anyway Giant Uncle was late waking up but once they put his diving helmet back on he went for a walk in to town.

This will give you an idea of how tall he was he towers over the crowd.

The Lilliputians that control him are amazing.  The man with the megaphone is shouting in french but also english because some are from Liverpool - left leg up, right leg up then they grab the rope and literally fling themselves off the side.  Then climb on at the back to wait there turn again.   No wonder they need a siesta in the afternoon they must be absolutely knackered by then.

After a look around the Stanley Park festival I went into town to see more. Here's Giant Uncle having his siesta in front of St George's Hall.

One of the good points about the day was NO CARS!!!!!  You can't usually walk here so I managed to get a few good photos of St George's Hall from this vantage point.

I went down to the Pier Head where the little girl was having an afternoon nap but I couldn't get close enough there where so many people I felt hemmed in so had to turn back but managed to get this one when I held me camera up over the crowd, you can see how many where there. Everyone was very well behaved but to be honest I think there should have been better crowd control around here.

She was sat in a deckchair with a radio beside her.

I managed to get some photos of the dog he came right in front of us.

 

I should have been further up because she stopped to do some exercises so I only got a view of her back as she did them.

I was going to go down to Kings Dock for when she met up with her Uncle but it was so crowded where I was walking beside Port of Liverpool Building one of the buildings known as the Three Graces that I didn't realize there was a step down and the next moment I was flat on the floor.  I didn't do any damage luckily just came down heavy on my right leg but it shook me up for a while. You feel such a fool as well but there where lots of good samaritans around to help me up.  When I saw the crowds I decided to come home which was a shame because I believe it was very emotional when they finally met up at Kings Dock.


Hope you have enjoyed my photos of this once in a lifetime event.  Thank you Jean-Luc Courcoult, Royal De Luxe and everyone that was involved in bringing this truly amazing and inspirational piece of street theatre to my home city.  It has truly brought the city together and put a smile on all our faces from the youngest to the oldest and will live in our hearts and memories for years to come Merci beaucoup.

Sea Odyssey Day One

I ache all over after spending yesterday and today following the Giants in Liverpool.  What can I say but WOW Absolutely outstanding.

Friday 20th April

This extravaganza of street theatre started in Stanley Park close to where I live when a little girl woke up and started her journey around Liverpool looking for her Uncle.

First though she had a shower - this was as close as I could get because it was so crowded, an estimated 15,000.

Her pet dog Xolo pronounced Cho-Lo led the way.

 After she left the park she went on a boat ride

 and so she didn't get wet she wore a bright yellow mac and hat.

In the evening her Uncle who had come out of one of the docks down by the Mersey arrived to spend the night in Stanley Park.  Unfortunately he was an hour early so I missed him arriving and they where just taking his helmet of and settling him down for the night.

You wouldn't believe how many people stayed around just to watch him sleep, he snored as well.

 You must think I'm mad talking as if they are real but if you had seen them you would begin to believe that they aren't marionnettes because the Lilliputians that operate them make them so human.

Come back tomorrow and I'll post about Day Two.

Update - I took some short film on my compact camera but I need to find out how to edit and put it on here so to be going on with here's one I found on YouTube of the little Girl dancing before she went to bed last night.

March update

After quite a few set backs I've finally sent Assignment 3 of my degree module to my tutor.  I thought I was never going to get it done.  If you want to see what I did for Reveal and Conceal have a look here.  Now it is on to the part of the Module that I've not really been looking forward to.  I've got to write a 2,000 word essay on one of the artists/designers I've been researching, gulp!!!!

I finished Module 2 of Creative Sketchbooks a few weeks ago and got really good feedback from Linda.

Here's a couple of the pages I did.  Now it's on to monoprinting and block printing.

I hate the energy saving bulbs we use now, they are awful to sew by so  I bought myself a daylight lamp a few weeks ago.  I have a daylight bulb in my studio but I wanted the lamp for the living room so I can sit and sew while I watch tv.  It stands right next to my chair and I can move the arm to just where I want it, the colours are so much better with the lamp than with the main light.


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Creative Sketchbooks review

Mandi left a comment asking if I've liked Design Matters Creative Sketchbooks course.  I can honestly say YES! I've never really been sure what to put in my sketchbooks for my degree course.  I've found that this course has helped me get out of  my comfort zone and be less precious about my sketchbook.

I won a set of Derwent Inktense pencils earlier this week so I used them to add colour to one of the black and white drawing from Module 1.

I'll probably do more work on this next page when I get to module 3 and learn more techniques.

Untitled......

.... check out this new online showcase for OCA students.  I'm so chuffed to be included in the Textiles section.  It's the first time I've been referred to as an Artist.

Module 1....

...I've finished Module 1 of Linda and Laura's Creative Sketchbooks course.   Anyone interested in doing this course enrollments will open again on Monday 23rd January 2012.

Here's a couple more pages from my sketchbook as a taster.

Now on to Module 2 and COLOUR