Hand Eye Supplies

This top quality denim and herringbone workwear at Hand Eye Supply is exactly what we'll be needing for our final move out of Cheshire Street and into the new studio.

Daily Levitation

Photographer Natsumi Hayashi takes (almost) daily self portraits of herself levitating around Tokyo.
I love that the photographs show every day/normal Tokyo locations, they take me back & remind me I must re visit!

HOST

HOST - a collaborative installation with David Gates opens this week At Velvet Da Vinci in San Francisco, opening reception is this evening.

The 'collaborees' are Helen Carnac, David Clarke, Robert Ebendorf, Tom Hill and Katy Hackney (that will be me then)

I also sent out a batch of new Jewellery for the gallery to show.

I do hope San Francisco enjoys it, I wish I could be there!

Rob Ryan Screenprints for Haiti

A message from Mr. Rob Ryan:

As you know, just over a year ago on 12th January 2010 Haiti was hit by a catastrophic earthquake and 13 months later, the country is still in need of so much help.
To try and do my bit to raise some money, I’ve designed and printed a brand new limited edition screenprint which will be sold on Etsy and in my shop, Ryantown on Columbia Road.
The price will be £200 and with Paypal and Etsy fees subtracted (please see breakdown), this leaves £186 per print sold going straight to the Haiti cause. If we can sell the whole edition of 200 of these, we could raise a massive £37,200.

Each print measures 54.3 cm wide by 39cm high, printed using water based inks onto Heritage Woodfree 315gsm paper which measures 68.5cm wide by 51cm high

Cost breakdown
Etsy fees: 3.5% of each print + 20cents per print = £7.00
Paypal fees: 3.4% of each print + 20 pence per print = £7.00
Total fees: £14 per print sold.

Best Wwishes and Many thanks,

Rob

go HERE to buy!

Back to the Future

Fascinting & CREEPY!
Irina Werning, Buenos Aires Photographer asked friends and family to re-enact old photos of themselves for an ongoing project,  “Back to the Future.”

valentines day

Miss Hart has a Valentines day birthday, so we baked chocolate cake & heart shaped biscuits.
yum

Peeping

Our friend Louise Melchior has been 'Peeping' into homes - a good blog for us nosey people!
See her photos here

fish finger, potato, pea - tree

I often make N's food into pictures or faces.
Yesterday we ate trees.
The enamel plate says A is for apple, B is for ball, C is for car, D is for dog, and E=MC2 in the middle!
We sold these & other witty ceramic plates by a long forgotten designer from San Francisco . . ?

UPDATE - they were called A-1 Product Co.
Lovely people we met at the SF Gift Fair, whatever happened to them?

C A L M

Amid the madness of our Grand Sale, I managed to sneak an hour at the hairdressers.
I've been going to 4th Floor for about 15 years and it's always a treat.
Its in a a beautiful space on a rooftop in Bloomsbury.

This visit, they had their 20th birthday bunting up… white, bright, C A L M....
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Annual Grimaldi Service

Popped round the corner this Sunday to see the clowns leaving the 65th annual Grimaldi Service at Holy Trinity church in Dalston.
I must admit I'm not a fan of clowns, but was strangely drawn, I'm glad I didn't take N, aged nearly 4!
For a far more in depth & eloquent explanation see Spitalfields Life