I have been following artist Laura Isaac’s work for a few months now, since fellow @platea member, Joanie san Chirico pointed me in the direction of her knitting project, 10,000 Hours. Laura attempted to learn to knit, from complete beginner to expert standing in the given, 10,000 hours to explore the theory it takes a […]
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Alf and Binnie Hodbin are ruffian tearaways who were evacuated from Whitechapel, in the Second World War literary world of Connie Willis’ books Blackout and All Clear. At the Manor House of Lady Catherine, they create havoc for the maid, Eileen O’Reilly, who is actually a time-traveller from the Oxford University of 2060. Over the
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Nobody Owens, image copyright Giles Babbidge Photography Reading Neil Gaiman’s fabulous, spooky children’s story The Graveyard Book last year, I was struck by the changes in the small world of the main character. An orphaned baby at the start of the book, he is taken in by not the living, but the dead in order
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By Ingrid Murnane and the #plateaknitters Design Story For five days in February 2010 I devised and led a knitting performance on Twitter called #plateaknit. Instructions were tweeted by the @platea online performance collective for others to interpret to the best of their ability in knitting, crochet or any other medium of their choice. Some
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I have been involved for a couple of years in an online art group called @platea. I’m part of their steering committee and earlier this year, devised and led a performance called #PlateaKnit on 25th -29th January 2010. As our strap line says, “@Platea is a global collective of individuals interested in the power of
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