Posts Tagged ‘Science’

fresh new hyperbolic crochet…

Friday, February 10th, 2012

I new work in progress, I’m enjoying a bit of freedom to pursue crochet again…

This one increases every stitch so I’m getting fast results, lots of curling and it’s actually getting difficult to work with.

We’ll see where this one leads…

 

 

Moon Man by Tomi Ungerer

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

moon man

This has been one of Luna’s favourite books, so I had to share it, first published in 1967.  Moon Man saw everyone dancing and having a great time on Earth, and he wanted a piece of the action, unfortunately, humans panicked and called him an invader!

The illustrations are cool too, bold and stylised.

Lichen lace

Saturday, March 26th, 2011

Lichen pinecone lacey bumps

I found this pine cone while walking around Taupiro Point in Katikati.  It caught my attention in under the pines, bright, dry and lacey I just couldn’t pass it by.

Lichen whole pinecone

So beautiful, and it absorbs me, lichen gently covering the bumps and curves, in some places more than one layer of lichen. The light in this photo is quite warm too.

Lichen pinecone2

 

It has faded from a cool blue grey colour to mostly bone white, being left near a window in our workshop.

 

Lichen pinecone lace3

So into lichen these days!

Lichen pinecone3


visit our local sea gardens project this summer

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

plastic coral

The sea gardens crochet coral reef that started this year at Auckland Museum will be setting down for the summer at The Estuary Arts Centre in Orewa, the opening is this coming Saturday.  I will be there and I’m planning on make some more crochet pieces for it, it’s probably one of my favourite projects, I’m so pleased to be a part of it.

So get hooking and make something to contribute!  Check out this website for the how-to’s and other info on the international Crochet Coral Reef project, The Institute for Figuring.

Also worth a look is Daina Taimina’s blog, Hyperbolic Crochet, she has also published a book on the mathematics involved with loads of beautiful photos.

The last of the Museum Crochet

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

big green and lovely blue

The Crochet Coral Reef installation is over and has been taken down…  good news is it is not over!  Glenys is keeping our Seagardens Aotearoa project alive. 

goldy crochet

The Crochet Coral Reef at the Museum

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

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A bit low res, but here is a photo of the Crochet Coral Reef at the Auckland Museum.  The exhibition will close on the 16th of May so you have a few more weeks to contribute and go and visit, also entry is free until the end of May this year for lucky Aucklanders.

The Crochet Coral Reef comes to Auckland Museum

Monday, April 5th, 2010

creamy gold coral

I’m just so excited about this one, the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project is at Auckland Museum right now!  This afternoon I dropped in to do some work with the lovely ladies busily hooking away and spreading the stitchy love.  I brought in with me the little one above, I had finished it off today and couldn’t wait to see how the project was growing.

crochet coral

So if you are even slightly crafty and nerdy, or into maths or art, or craftsy community projects, or the environment and ecology (that should actually be all of you) best you get yourself along to the Auckland Museum over the next few weeks to have a look at the crochet coral reef that is growing on a wall in the oceans gallery.  Better yet, take your crochet hook and some fibre and get making!

For a really good clip about this international project (and a much better explanation about the mathematics behind the hyperbolic plane than I can give you!) go to this TED talk.

War – Suzie Crow

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Susan Crow War 2010

If you or anyone you know is in Tauranga over the next few weeks go and take a look at this exhibition at The Laundromat Art Project Space.

The exhibition will run from 18th March 2010 – 6th April 2010

War 
Installation

‘Aces in the sky, Spitfire and Hurricane,  Fokke-Wulf and Messcherschmidt.

The defining battle of one generation in the western world and we called it a world war.

Vietnam another generation. And the cold war. Goodies and Baddies. Black hats and White. Right and wrong always relative and perspective dependent.

So far its always been just one lot of people vs another lot; battles of willpower, tenacity, inventiveness and technology. There are individual triumphs and tragedies, strategic gains and losses, but it has been the overall massed effect that prevails, numbers, commitment, sacrifice, leadership, working together for a common goal, Oh and maybe some luck? How much have we been prepared to lose to gain victory?

Now its global more than ever, the sides are less defined but the stakes are very high. We could call it the earth war.

 

There are no sidelines, we just think there are.  Our actions are cumulative.

 

Its all of us, but most are sleepers.’

 

- Susan Crow (nee Pickernell)

New Zealand Shell Show 2009 this weekend at Te Tuhi

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

My Shell Club is hosting the New Zealand Shell Show this weekend, it includes sale tables as well as an auction, fun fun fun!

It is being held at Te Tuhi, Centre for the Arts, 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga, on 27-29th March 2009. 
A Shell Auction on Saturday, 5 – 7pm is sure to be a highlight with a large number of high quality New Zealand and World Wide shells up for grabs.  The show is open to the public from 10am to 5pm on Saturday and 10am – 4pm on Sunday.

The launch of Sputnik sparks the Space Race

Friday, October 5th, 2007

sputnik_picture.jpg

Depending on your timezone, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik was launched by the Soviets fifty years ago today, on October the 4th 1957.

Pretty exciting stuff considering this kicked off the space race, apparently the satellite passed over the USA twice before they were aware of it. Well before I was born people had been to the moon (or had they?) and space travel was not such a new and crazy idea. Interesting to think how this would have gone down in the midst of movies and novels that painted a picture of the future full of interstellar travel and life in colonies on distant planets.y years ago today, on October the 4th 1957.

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