tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46838017396977870972024-03-16T19:47:40.002-07:00Dioramas and Clever ThingsTom Casesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06172037072199773219noreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683801739697787097.post-28076576315143396882020-10-22T08:56:00.004-07:002020-10-22T11:29:00.202-07:00<p style="text-align: center;">James Randi (1928-2020)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--1ICV54Qdjo/X5HPTSFnTZI/AAAAAAAAMLw/gPyOD46LTlAdPihU_NkpqMwdqQ-a5s5sACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/IMG_3247.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="938" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--1ICV54Qdjo/X5HPTSFnTZI/AAAAAAAAMLw/gPyOD46LTlAdPihU_NkpqMwdqQ-a5s5sACLcBGAsYHQ/w469-h640/IMG_3247.jpeg" width="469" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">This past Tuesday, October 20, we lost one of the great defenders of the skeptical mind. James Randi, also known by his stage name The Amazing Randi, was a stage magician (amongst other things) who devoted much of his life to debunking pseudo-science including spoon-bending and the paranormal. He touched many lives and was an inspiration to many in the LGBTQ community when he came out in his 80s. I had the opportunity to meet him at the 2017 North Eastern Conference on Science and Skepticism. We spoke briefly about Hitchens, whom he greatly respected. For more on that event, see <a href="https://provokinghitchens.com/2017/07/03/the-amazing-randi-at-the-2017-necss/" target="_blank">the posting I did at the time</a> as well as his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/obituaries/james-randi-dead.html" target="_blank">NYT Obituary</a> and the 2014 documentary <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2246565/" target="_blank">An Honest Liar</a>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2KnqaTZxwig/X5GrI8BteaI/AAAAAAAAMLQ/1r8HWLDcro06rTgZ9zg7lmrnZWrHkAkowCLcBGAsYHQ/s1022/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-22%2Bat%2B11.29.47%2BAM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="984" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2KnqaTZxwig/X5GrI8BteaI/AAAAAAAAMLQ/1r8HWLDcro06rTgZ9zg7lmrnZWrHkAkowCLcBGAsYHQ/w385-h400/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-10-22%2Bat%2B11.29.47%2BAM.png" width="385" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Tom Casesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06172037072199773219noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683801739697787097.post-68518550598576649222019-09-24T14:14:00.000-07:002019-09-27T07:23:10.085-07:00Gulliver's Gate - a miniature world in Manhattan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tom Casesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06172037072199773219noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683801739697787097.post-25832161685588579582018-02-19T09:27:00.002-08:002018-02-19T09:27:49.898-08:00All You Need is......John Lennon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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These are pretty good figurines of John Lennon, done in conjunction with the Lennon Estate and with Yoko Ono. Comes with multiple outfits. 1:6 scale, $299, from <a href="https://molecule8.com/product/john-lennon/">Molecule8</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is genuinely unique. It is a demonstration kit to teach Scouting skills. It was produced as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Scout_Service_Project">Eagle Project</a>. I like the concept and the individual pieces, but also the look and scale of the whole unit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><b>Early 20th Century Boy Scout Campfire Teaching Tool/Eagle Scout Project</b></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><br style="font-family: Arial;" /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Contains approximately 14 different handmade recreations of camp fire set up.</span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Has 2 drawers that contain examples of fire starters found in the wilderness.</span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">1 drawer has flash cards used to study map keys, aerial keys, and the different badges.</span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Each campfire unit is approximately 4"x5" some are a little larger or smaller. </span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">The box dimensions are approximately 20.5" x 23.5" x 8.5"</span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Some pieces have come loose with age. Verify pictures for condition of item</span><br style="font-family: Arial;" /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Contact us for pickup or shipping arrangements.</span></span></div>
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Since 2011, Tatsuya Tanaka has been creating miniature dioramas from ordinary household items (and often from food, which seems like a growing genre within the art). His work has gained great popularity recently with an annual <a href="http://miniature-calendar.com/">calendar</a>, and now a <a href="http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2017/07/06/tatsuya-tanakas-miniature-wonders-coming-to-print/">photo book</a>. Check out these outstanding pieces.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An Historically Accurate 19th Century Photo Studio Built in 1:12 Scale by<span class="post-date" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f8f8f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://katesierzputowski.com/" rel="author external" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8f8f8f; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Visit Kate Sierzputowski’s website">Kate Sierzputowski</a> on May 13, 2016</span></span></h1>
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Turkey-based artist <a href="https://www.behance.net/Alamedy_Diorama" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d9121; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ali Alamedy</a> had been building miniature sets for seven years when he came across documentation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Miner" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5d9121; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Charles Miner</a>'s photography studio from the early 1900s. Inspired by the way sunlight was used to illuminate studio sets, Alamedy decided to build his own version in 1:12 scale. The project took him over nine months, using hundreds of feet of wood, and building more than 100 miniature objects designed specifically to fit the era.</div>
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Due to few images being available of photography studios at that time, Alamedy read extensively to figure out what tools, techniques, styles, and colors were used within the studios (all images were in black and white). One of the hardest challenges during the completion of the model was the camera, as each fold in the bellow in real life is just 3 cm. The final 1:12 scale camera has 124 2 mm folds that were all meticulously created by hand.</div>
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Today's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/world/europe/russia-decoy-weapon.html">New York Times has an article about Russia inflatable arsenal</a>. However, it is not a new idea. The allies in World War II used them very effectively. Designer Bill Blass was part of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, which designed visual and sonic decoys to distract the enemy.</div>
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Tom Casesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06172037072199773219noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683801739697787097.post-63747007765467979232016-09-27T17:48:00.000-07:002016-09-27T20:47:01.260-07:00Go back in time to India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I had the opportunity recently to meet (via Skype) Raj Guram, one of the founders of <a href="http://jandrguram.com/">J&R Guram,</a> makers of fine campaign furniture. Located in India, it is a family run business that is known for making beautiful, hand-crafted, high quality furniture and equipage. Campaign furniture is what the British took along on their military campaigns in Africa and India. The idea was to bring the comforts of home to the field. This required furniture makers to innovate, by producing compact, folding, yet durable and aesthetically pleasing, pieces. An excellent source on this topic, is Nick Brawer's book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/British-Campaign-Furniture-Elegance-1740-1914/dp/0810957116">British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvass 1740-1914.</a></div>
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I appreciate campaign furniture for its clever fold-up designs, its portability and the other-world feelings it evokes. To see what I mean, have a look at the site of <a href="http://sujanluxury.com/">Sujan Luxury Camps </a>who use Guram pieces on its safaris. </div>
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Here are some of my favorite pieces, along with a few photographs from J&R's website. If you like what you see, please post to sites like Pinterest. As purely a fan of the company, I would like to help it get some much deserved exposure.</div>
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Campaign furniture which is designed to be ‘folded up’ and carried long distances has been a feature of travelling armies over many centuries. With the expansion of the European colonizers through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the finest European furniture makers competed to design and produce elegant, ingenious and fashionable knock-down furniture for colonial officers and civilians traveling in the colonies.</div>
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The administrators and armies of the British Empire in the Indian subcontinent were perhaps the largest consumer of campaign furniture leading to high quality local manufacturing of durable, practical and elegant ‘knock-down’ chairs, tables, desks, bookcases and beds. We have revived this craft using the finest furniture craftsmen and materials to present you with furniture and accessories of a lasting quality which will delight you for a lifetime indoors or outdoors, at home or at your camp.</div>
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<em style="color: #6f6f6f; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Jeet and Raj Guram are descendants of Raja Bhagmal Jat of the royal house of Bithur, who played a defining role in establishing Cawnpore as a trading town in the early 19th century.</em></div>
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Tom Casesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06172037072199773219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683801739697787097.post-79317007129252125612016-09-17T18:08:00.000-07:002016-09-16T18:09:44.465-07:00Happy 93rd Birthday Hank Williams Sr. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams">Hank Williams</a> died when he was just 30 years old. He would have been 93 today. Instead of posting his bio, which you can read on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams">on-line</a>, I've posted below some passages from Bob Dylan's 2004 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Bob-Dylan/dp/0743244583">Chronicles, Volume I</a>.<br />
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<b>Bob Dylan on Hank Williams<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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This is from the 2004 book written by Bob Dylan, <b><i>Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume I.</i></b> It’s from the first part of the book where Dylan discusses his influences.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“The first Time I heard Hank he was singing on the Grand Ole Opry, a Saturday night radio show broadcast out of Nashville. Roy Acuff, who MC’d the program was referred to by the announcer as “The King of Country Music.” Someone would always be introduced as “the next governor of Tennessee” and the show advertised dog food and sold plans for old-age pensions. Hank sang “Move It On Over”, a song about living in the doghouse and it struck me really funny. He also sang spirituals like “When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels” and “Are you Walking and a-Talking for the Lord”. The sound of his voice went through me like an electric rod and I managed to get a hold of a few of his 78s – “Baby We’re Really In Love” and “Honky Tonkin’” and “Lost Highway “ – and I played them endlessly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They called him a “hillbilly singer,” but I didn’t know what that was. Homer and Jethro were more like what I thought a hillbilly was. Hank was no burr head. There was nothing clownish about him. Even at a young age, I identified fully with him. I didn’t have to experience anything that Hank did to know what he was singing about. I’d never seen a robin weep, but could imagine it and it made me sad. When he sand ‘the news is out all over town”, I knew what news that was, even though I didn’t know. The first chance I got, I was going to go to the dance and wear out my shoes too. I’d learn later that Hank had died in the backseat of a car on New Year’s Day, kept my fingers crossed, hoped it wasn’t true. But it was true. It was like a great tree had fallen. Hearing about Hank’s death caught me squarely on the shoulder. The silence of outer space never seemed so loud. Intuitively I knew, though, that his voice would never drop out of sight or fade away – a voice like a beautiful horn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Much later, I’d discover that Hank had been in tremendous pain all of his life, suffered from severe spinal problems – that the pain must have been torturous. In light of that, its all the more astonishing to hear his records. It’s almost like he defied the laws of gravity. The Luke the Drifter record, I just about wore out. That’s the one where he sings and recites parables, like the Beatitudes. I could listen to the Luke the Drifter record all day and drift away myself, become totally convinced in the goodness of man. When I hear Hank sing, all movement ceases. The slightest whisper seems sacrilege.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In time, I became aware that in Hank’s recorded songs were the archetype rules of poetic songwriting. The architectural forms are like marble pillars and they had to be there. Even his words – all of his syllables are divided up so they make perfect mathematical sense. You can learn a lot about the structure of songwriting by listening to his records, and I listened to them a lot and had them internalized. In a few years’ time, Robert Shelton, the folk and jazz critic for the New York Times, would review one of my performances and would says something like ‘resembling a cross between a choirboy and a beatnik… he breaks all the rules in songwriting, except that of having something to say”. The rules, whether Shelton knew it or not, were Hank’s rules, but it wasn’t like I ever meant to break them. It’s just that what I was trying to express was beyond the circle. “<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tom Casesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06172037072199773219noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683801739697787097.post-25448622844152159142016-08-05T07:20:00.002-07:002016-08-30T17:58:41.381-07:00Lost Art Press and its Craftsmen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I came across an interesting company. Christopher Schwartz, former editor of <i>Popular Woodworking Magazine</i>, along with his partner John Hoffman run <a href="https://lostartpress.com/" target="">Lost Art Press</a>. They define their mission as seeking<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> to help the modern woodworker learn traditional hand-tool skills. They seek to "</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">restore the balance between hand and machine work by unearthing the so-called "lost arts" of hand skills and explaining how they can be integrated with the machinery in the modern shop to help produce furniture that is crisp, well-proportioned, stout and quickly made".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">From their site you can buy beautifully bound rare books (such as the works of Parisian woodworker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Jacob_Roubo">Andre Roubo</a> (translated into English) and a book on British campaign furniture. They also have an informative <a href="https://blog.lostartpress.com/" target="">blog</a> and a <a href="https://lostartpress.com/collections/dvds">series of DVDs</a> that teach hand wood working techniques. I would like to learn some of these techniques and will post my progress after seeing some of the DVDs.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">These outstanding scale models are from </span><a href="http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Imagineering Disney</a><span style="text-align: center;">, a blog made by former Disney designers who are still passionate about their craft. It has a lot of great content: photographs, models of attractions, drawings and vintage ephemera.</span><br />
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Tom Casesahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06172037072199773219noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683801739697787097.post-72092248580776198192016-07-29T14:22:00.000-07:002016-07-31T11:03:34.509-07:00Old New York City, mapped in photos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library to plot a collection of old photos from the <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=219" style="color: #279cd8; text-decoration: none;">Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s</a> on an interactive map.<br />
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The project, <a href="https://www.oldnyc.org/" style="color: #279cd8; text-decoration: none;">called OldNYC</a>, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps. The collection contains over 80,000 original photographs. Hit the red dot on the map to see a photo (source: <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/old-photos-of-new-york-city-in-the-1800s-with-google-street-view-2016-7" target="_blank">TechInsider</a>). </div>
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That's Roland and Louise Flora who for years handmade neckerchief and bolo slides for the Boy Scouts of <a href="http://www.tmrmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Ten Mile River Scout Camp</a> up in <a href="http://www.narrowsburg.org/" target="_blank">Narrowsburg New York.</a> They are both gone now, be many of us have memories of going into their small workshop on Route 97 and seeing him hand carve, and her paint, the pieces. The Floras lived on the property which was once a motel with small cabins throughout the property. One of these became the workshop. Campers would hike to the "slide farm" place their custom order (to be picked up the end of their stay at camp) and also perhaps to buy a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherikee_Red" target="_blank">Cherikee Red </a>to fight the heat.<br />
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This <i>Push Button Camper </i>was presented in <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ford-Treasury-Station-Wagon-Living/dp/B000H5CSZS" target="_blank">The Ford Treasury of Station Wagon Living, Volume 2</a></i>, which I picked up in at the <a href="http://www.inquiringbooks.com/" target="_blank">Inquiring Minds book store</a> in New Paltz, New York. So nice to see that theses independents still exist. Written in 1958 it seems to capture the essence of an ideal America - a time when prosperity was high and Americans had disposable income, and time to spend in the great out doors. The book, which shows how life is better with Ford station wagons, also serves as a guide to the enjoyment of the great outdoors. It includes campsites to visit and products to buy, most of them made in the U.S. It's a snapshot that evokes <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2010/07/28/128831822/colorama" target="_blank">Kodak's Colorama series</a>.</div>
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The introduction discusses the innovations that took place since the previous volume, and the prize innovation was the this push button camper concept car. With the push of a few (clunky - see the video) buttons, a boat folds out revealing a tent and a portable kitchen complete with canopy. The concept even has it's own Chitty Chitty Bang Bang type graphic showing the contraption from above.<br />
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Saw this in Poukipsee, New York yesterday, fourth of July on the Hudson. Pretty impressive. It's the Amphicar, which was produced in Germany and debuted at the New York Auto Show in 1961. Some people gasped when it entered the water, unaware that it was amphibious.</div>
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In designing its <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/arts/design/american-museum-of-natural-history-plans-an-addition.html" style="color: #326891;">$325 million addition</a> on Columbus Avenue, the American Museum of Natural History has opted for an architectural concept that is both cautious and audacious, according to plans approved by its board on Wednesday. The design consumes less coveted park space than expected, while introducing a contemporary aesthetic that evokes Frank Gehry’s museum in Bilbao, Spain, in its undulating exterior and Turkey’s <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150325-underground-city-cappadocia-turkey-archaeology/" style="color: #326891;">underground city of Cappadocia</a> in its cavelike interior. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/arts/design/museum-of-natural-history-reveals-design-for-expansion.html" target="_blank">Full Article</a></div>
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It brings to mind the classic <a href="http://www.chriscraft.com/" target="_blank">Chris-Crafts</a> that were so popular from the 1920s -1950s. Called runabouts, they were known for their beauty and their mahogany hulls. The company was founded in 1984 and still operates today, out of Sarasota, Florida. It's site has a lot of <a href="http://www.chriscraft.com/main/company/historical-gallery.aspx" target="_blank">great historic pics</a>.</div>
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A working Swiss Army knife in 1/12 scale by <a href="http://stleger.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">L&A St.Leger </a><br />
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Here are some more 'stuff' collages, which are basically collages I make with stuff I love and/or simply look great together. Item details below. Also see: <a href="http://www.dioramasandcleverthings.com/2016/05/best-made-my-new-fav-company-and-i-have.html" target="_blank">Best Made collages</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Slide 1</span> <span style="font-size: 13px;">Products from Best Made (axe, sunglasses), Victorinox (classic Swiss Army knife), Vornado (fan), Nike (sneaks), Mougin & Piqued (watch sold through J. Crew), Vilas (Dreser), Sheffield Pewter Craft Company (pewter flask)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Slide 2 - Handmade diorama, vintage Colonial Africa silk print (c.1900), antique guitar, classic English phone boxes, Triumph Bonneville, Beeswax crayons from Stubby, handmade bookends</span></div>
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Just received this book by craftsman Peter Korn. It's in the vein of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Soulcraft-Inquiry-Value/dp/0143117467?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0" target="_blank">Shop Craft as Soulcraft</a> and through Korn's story we get an appreciation of the satisfaction that comes with creating well made and beautiful items. He describes the creative effort as being 'a process of challenging embedded narratives of belief in order to think the world into being for oneself, and that the work involved in doing so provides a wellspring of spiritual fulfillment'. Korn is a furniture maker, but makers of any sort will appreciate this book.</div>
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I picked up a copy at <a href="https://www.bestmadeco.com/" target="_blank">Best Made's</a> store in New York City, but it's available <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Make-Things-Matters-Education/dp/1567925464/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466004707&sr=1-1&keywords=why+we+make+things" target="_blank">on line</a> as well.</div>
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Peter Korn and the chair with which he began to find his voice</div>
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