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Wednesday 25 June '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
For a change from building work I dropped in on the Furness bee keepers skep making workshop and a found a farm kitchen strewn with straw and weaving enthusiasts, a medieval scene. For Lawson Park we are planning to use this material to back the window seats but of course it is harder to find someone to to it - mostly being used in Orkney and the Orkney weavers being unwilling to come so far south. So.... it doesn't look so hard, unless this was a particularly talented group with a special affinity for straw. This great example illustrated on the right is made with orange plastic baler twine, now that could be nice.
Topics: 'skep' 'furness beekeepers'
Tuesday 24 June '08 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Peter Inman's animal planters await TNT for their trip to the 'Far West' exhibition at Arnofini in Bristol.
Along side many other 'products' from the Japan and China projects as well as products from the honesty stall network, there will be a stall running the duration of the programme, so if your in Bristol and have a sudden and urgent need for a dog planter, mare's milk, a bone comb or some wild Chinese mountain honey in an old coke bottle you will find all your needs quickly met at the Arnofini art gallery, and it's not often you can say that.
Works and collaborations from:
Myvillages, Pope and Guthrie, Seven Samurai, Happy Stacking 7, Public Works, Peter Hodgson, Peter Inman and many others
Topics: 'public works' 'myvillages' 'Arnofini' 'Far West' 'Peter Inman' 'Pope and Guthrie' 'Seven Samurai' 'Happy Stacking 7' 'Peter Hodgson'
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Monday 23 June '08 (from myvillages.org)
Honesty Stall at Rochelle School, London
Höfer Waren stall 2007, Höfen
Our proposed so called village shop has opened, a while ago, and been up and running at various locations with different product ranges at random prices, and together with Grizedale and public works and somewhere we have become happy and busy traders.
The shop appears under such different names as:
Honesty Box
Internationaler Dorfladen
Honesty Stall
Village Kiosk
Sufelje
Shop activities have shifted to other blogs:
the myvillages.org website
the myvillages/public works blog on the Agrifashionsita.tv website
and the still rudimentaryvillage kiosk blog.
Topics: 'Honesty Stall' 'Village Kiosk' 'Internationaler Dorfladen' 'Sufelje' 'Honesty Box'
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I think it is good that the honesty stall project has no owner but should perhaps mention that it was juneau/projects that kicked this project off (as an art thing) with the stall in Japan. Their project was called 'Like a Wayside Shrine' - and not forgetting that the concept is a common one around the UK.
From Grizedale point of view it has been nice to see it grow and transform organically. Every version of it has a different name and idea of how it should operate, we will never agree on a common policy in fact I think no stall will ever be able to have a policy - the nature of openness is constant change.
The relationships between all the stalls is also evolving, I think everyone is involved in the stall for Arnofini opening at the end of the week - even the juneaus. Grizedale will also be doing a stall as part of the Farmers market in Coniston 13th July - a new development for the Coniston Water Festival. We are just making some new products with local craftspeople - watch this space for Ruskin baseball caps, Ernest Race dog/cat book shelves, and Peter Hodgson 'animal wars' wall paper
Thursday 19 June '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Friday 20th July in the Yard, visits from artists Nina Pope, Stuart Bastic of Artgene, discussion likely to cover 'Song For a Circus' and Stuart's shack project in Barrow.
Topics: 'Stuart Bastick' 'Nina Pope' 'shack' 'arnold circus' 'song for a circus'
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Friday 13 June '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Improve my view for £15,000
Friday 13th, the heatwave continues, the power comes back just in time and Alistair flys in from Egremont in the very nick. Reports on Guestroom at the ICA, What Michaela RSA Crimon said, and Adam's holiday and the Folkstone Tirennale,
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Friday 13 June '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
On the beach
this proved too much of a strain on the Grizedale tec, hope to be back next week when the mac returns from its holiday in France
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Friday 23 May '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Our studio guest rocks out in the 90's, check the trousers
Alistair returns with a fullish report on our Happy Stacking project's success in China, call in and win a dried mushroom.
Also in the yard Mark Guthrie ex of Britpopsters the Supernaturals DJ's the sounds of the farm...
Topics: 'China' 'the Supernaturals'
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Friday 16 May '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Direct from the Langdale Hotel, it's a Kurt Schwitters special with Ian Hunter of Littoral and the Slade MA students from UCL currently working on the Cylinders site in the Langdale Valley (where the London bombers allegedly trained), once home to Schwitters' famous Merz Barn which Littoral et al saving from ruin.
Also updates on why we couldn't broadcast the last two weeks and reports on China and Grand Designs exhibitions...
And new microphones, so you can actually hear us.
Topics: 'Kurt Schwitters' 'Slade School of Art' 'UCL' 'Merz Barn' 'Littoral' 'Langdale' 'July bombers'
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Saturday 3 May '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Adam, Karen and Lisa tried and failed to bring you a surprise outside broadcast from a glamourous mystery location in London town. They're there trying to choose nice things to style and furnish Lawson Park with, so will be addressing burning issues such as
"Swags - too 2006, or worthy of reinvention?"
and
"The return of the coloured bathroom suite - should we start the trend?"
Topics: 'outside broadcast' 'London'
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I'm a great fan of the pastel coloured suite, I believe its an absolute no no when you intend to sell/move on so maybe Lawson park is the perfect place for a bit of pale blue or lemon.
I think if you are going for colour in a bathroom suite you need to get away from pastels and get vivid with it...
so... what happened?
grand designs wasn't wireless thats what happened..tune in this week for our highs and lows from the show.
Friday 2 May '08 (from Farmyard Radio)
Backdoor bees
Farmyard Radio sadly failed to transmit from a distant yard this week - the beautiful farms of Nanlin, Gwandong province of southern China where director Adam is shepherding artists for the 'Happy Stacking' project.
The great Fire Wall of China got in the way Dorian suspects...
See the Happy Stacking project website to see what we're up to uncensored.
Topics: 'China' 'censorship' 'residencies'
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Topics:
- add things[1]
- amphibians[1]
- architecture[2]
- Arnofini[1]
- arnold circus[1]
- being different[1]
- building[1]
- building site[1]
- celebrity[1]
- censorship[1]
- China[3]
- construction[1]
- Culture Cumbria[1]
- drystone walling[1]
- Egremont[1]
- Far West[1]
- farmer[1]
- film festivals[1]
- fungi[1]
- furness beekeepers[1]
- furniture[1]
- golf[1]
- ground source heat pump[1]
- Guest Room[1]
- handling[1]
- Happy Stacking 7[1]
- Honesty Box[1]
- Honesty Stall[1]
- Internationaler Dorfladen[1]
- July bombers[1]
- Kurt Schwitters[1]
- Langdale[1]
- Lawson Park Collection[1]
- Littoral[1]
- Liverpool[1]
- London[1]
- Malcolm Wilson Rally[1]
- Merz Barn[1]
- money[1]
- Mycology[1]
- myvillages[1]
- name[1]
- Narnia[1]
- Nina Pope[1]
- outside broadcast[1]
- overkill[1]
- Peter Hodgson[1]
- Peter Inman[1]
- Pope and Guthrie[1]
- proposal[6]
- public works[2]
- residencies[1]
- rural girl[1]
- Ruskin[1]
- self-importance[1]
- Seven Samurai[1]
- shack[1]
- skep[1]
- Slade School of Art[1]
- soil[1]
- something[1]
- song for a circus[1]
- soul music[1]
- Stuart Bastick[1]
- Sufelje[1]
- SXSW Film Festival[1]
- Texas[1]
- the Supernaturals[1]
- toads[1]
- two guys[1]
- UCL[1]
- USA[1]
- Village Kiosk[1]
- village shop[8]
- weather[1]
Months:
Our blogs:Grizedale Arts Blog, Farmyard Radio, myvillages.org
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