Archive for August, 2009
Take a Break – It’s Sunday!
Posted in ART, ART HISTORY, BRONTE BITES, DESIGN, FAVORITE ART: Art I LOVE, WEIRD AND WACKY DESIGN with tags ART, ARTISTS BIRTHDAYS, blogging, brontes, teapots on August 31, 2009 by echostainsNights (and days) on the Toon (Newcastle) Beamish Shops
Posted in Architecture, DESIGN, NIGHT AND DAYS ON THE TOON (NEWCASTLE TRIP), PAST PLACES with tags Beamish open air museum, county durham, nostalgia, old advertising on August 30, 2009 by echostainsYou can go into all the old shops in Beamish. Here’s a few pics;
Even the prices were right!
The assistant in the Co Op was a lovely German student, who spoke excellent English and was very informative! All the food labels are printed from the original!
All the buildings are amazing, and the Print shop is no exception. You can really get a sense of the past in these buildings!
There’s something quite charming about old packaging. Although the colours are limited, it was still possible for the personalities of these items to shine and jostle with each other. Some of these brands are still going strong too!
My previous posts about Beamish and the Newcastle trip
More pics from Beamish
Still Beaming about Beamish
Beamish
Art at the Baltic: Sarah Sze ‘Tilting Planet’
St Nicholas Gothic Cathedral
Out and about
Bessie Surtees House
More HERE
Beamish – More pics from the Open Air Museum!
Posted in Architecture, DESIGN, NIGHT AND DAYS ON THE TOON (NEWCASTLE TRIP) with tags advertising signs, Beamish open air museum, county durham, nostalgia on August 29, 2009 by echostainsStill continuing with the pics from our Newcastle trip and more pictures of Beamish the open air museum set n the rolling countryside of County Durham. We stopped off here on our way back to Manchester. Although we spent most of the day there, we didn’t see half of the place, – it’s just vast and there wasn’t enough time.
The town part is amazing and you can go into all the buildings and shops. There’s a bank, a printers, confectioners (who make home made sweets on the premises), unfortuately this was so packed out that we couldn’t get pictures.
There’s a bank, a printers, a working pub, a Co Operative store. There’s a garage and a tea rooms! So much to see and not enough time to see it in.
As well as the town, there’s also Pockerly Manor. I would have really liked to see that! Also the colliery village, a home farm, a Waggonway, as well as a railway and museum!!!
Coming tomorrow – ‘Inside the shops of Beamish’
My previous posts about Beamish and the Newcastle trip
Still Beaming about Beamish
Beamish
Art at the Baltic: Sarah Sze ‘Tilting Planet’
St Nicholas Gothic Cathedral
Out and about
Bessie Surtees House
More HERE
Nights (and Days) on the Toon (Newcastle):Yet Still Beaming about Beamish!
Posted in Architecture, DESIGN, NIGHT AND DAYS ON THE TOON (NEWCASTLE TRIP) with tags Beamish open air museum, county durham, nostalgia on August 28, 2009 by echostains
Continuing with our visit to Beamish, the open air museum, set in 300 acres of County Durham countryside……………………….
It was all aboard the tram to see the town. All the buildings are real, the houses are real houses and you can go into them and the shops. Inside are people dressed in period costume talking about their trade, like Mr Jones the Dentist. His house was a little more opulent than the others.
In one house a woman sat near a huge fire range baking bread, another making peg rugs from rags. The attention to detail regarding the wallpaper and furnishings in these houses are astonishing. Even the flowers for the cottage gardens have been chosen carefully!
More tomorrow!
More posts about our Newcastle trip;
Beamish
Art at the Baltic: Sarah Sze ‘Tilting Planet’
St Nicholas Gothic Cathedral
Out and about
Bessie Surtees House
More HERE
Happy Birthday Man Ray!
Posted in ART, ART HISTORY, ARTISTS BIRTHDAYS with tags ART, man ray, photography, surrealism on August 27, 2009 by echostainsIt’s American Surrealist photographer Man Ray’s birthday today. Born in 1890 -1976: original name Emmanuel Radnitzky, is best known for his work as a photographer though he thought of himself as a painter.
He contributed to the Surrealist and Dada movements and was reknown as a fashion and portrait photographer. He liked to refer to these as his ‘photograms’ or ‘Rayograms’.
This avant- garde artist has been highly influential in a number of fields including film, sculpture, collage and even performance and conceptual art.
For more of his work, including his biography see HERE
For more of my birthday blogs;-
Rubens
Gauguin
Dali
Leonardo da Vinci
Hart Benton
Turner
Van Gogh
Morris
Pollock
Chagall
Kahlo
Modigliani
Degas
Hopper
Marcel Duchamp
Aubrey Beardsley
Bread is back on the Menu!
Posted in HOME with tags breadmaker, breadmaking, hovis advert on August 26, 2009 by echostainsI’m making bread (in my Breadmaker, I may add). The idea has been fermenting in my head for the past couple of days….so I am now rising to the occasion lol! (yes I know, very BAD and very Lame……….but I digress).
I used love my breadmaker, and made all sorts. I must say though, I never really liked the texture of the loaves. A much better method for me is to use the breadmaker just for the mixing kneading and risings, then turn out and shape into loaves, buns etc. This is the method I’m using at the moment. I hope this recipe turns out, as it’s not one from the breadmaker book. If they come out OK I’ll take a pic……………if not, here’s a link to the Hovis advert anyway HERE
Cool Design: Tord Boontje
Posted in DESIGN, WEIRD AND WACKY DESIGN with tags DESIGN, furniture, glassware, tord boontje on August 24, 2009 by echostainsThese unusual designs are from Dutch born, London based product designer Tord Boontje. His influences are nature itself. In his earlier work ‘Rough and Ready Furniture he recycled from old wood giving the furniture a very organic feel. Amidst the playfulness, there is a huge amount of craftsmanship. He uses a variety of materials including steel…… I love the way some of the cut outs cast their shadow!
His designs are unusual and pay a lot of attention to surface. He has designed glassware, lighting, furniture textiles and even greetings cards! I LOVE these Witches utensils!!!
His studio website is HERE