Category Archives: Art/Craft

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In the age of Google Earth, the once artful oeuvre of globe-making has been largely replaced by poor quality mass produced products.

Not so the elegant watercoloured earthballs emanating from the open plan workshop of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers of Stoke Newington, London – as documented in this short by Cabnine Films.

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Dismaland – Banksy’s new theme park project – live events, gallery space and morosely uplifting amusement for all the family – open for the next five weeks at the Tropicana – a former leisure centre (closed since 2000) on the Weston-super-Mare seafront.

Banksy’s Dismaland show revealed at Weston’s Tropicana (BBC News)

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In 2011, Denver based artist and calligrapher Jake Weidmann was named  a master penman and admitted as the youngest ever member of the impressively titled International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting (IAMPETH) – a group of 14 uberskilled pencil-squeeezers.

Fair play in fairness.

His handwriting is just lovely.

 

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