Knitters Sell Off Whole Town

Watch this video from BBC News. A group of women knitted an entire town. It took them 23 years. Now they are selling it off.

LINK

(thanks, mika)

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Steve Lodefink's Cigar Box Guitar

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Originally uploaded by steve_lodefink

Saw this on http://www.boingboing.net/ (thanks, Mark Frauenfelder) today which led me to Steve's flickr page (click on photo). I like the body and I really like the tuner buttons which are squiggly around the edges.

Which reminds me, my Tickler Uke #2 is actually done now, except for the tuner buttons which are being hand-carved out of blackwood.

For Steve's home-made telecaster go to http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/

WWI Flag Flower Postcards

Japan
Great Britain

France

Here are some unusual WWI postcards from the collection of

wackystuff on flickr

I love the drawings of flowers as flags and soldiers as insects. Two of them are smoking pipes. There's a frog with a helmet- that's cool, too. Follow the link to see more cards.

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Rare Crehore Piano for Sale

This beautiful piano was made by Benjamin Crehore, an ancestor of mine (I think), who manufactured the first pianos in the U.S. in Milton, MA. (1915 article from the Boston Globe attesting to this: here.) Look at the pretty decoration and hand-lettering on this piano! I know there are other instruments by Benjamin Crehore in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (bass viol and piano). This rare Crehore piano is among the items the Boston Public Library will offer at auction (Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers) in the coming months.
Here's the Globe article.

They are also selling off their Audubon prints.

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San Francisco Gets to See These

" Murmur of the Innocents"-a new series of paintings by Gottfried Helnwein. More photos HERE . Fascinating shots of the artist painting large, emotionally disturbing, photorealistic portraits of a pale little girl with a baby-powdered face and giant toys, a gun and... covered in blood (The Disasters of War, Part II). The paintings will be at Modernism Gallery in S.F., CA on May 7, 2009. www.modernisminc.com

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My Newest Work in Slideshow Format

In case anyone missed my show in L.A. last month, here it is in mini slideshow format.

LINK on flickr if you want to see larger images.

Contact amy@amycrehore.com for information about acquiring my original art.

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March Hares

Another goodie from Steve Chasmar via flickr

Click to enlarge. Just what is going on here? Two colors of rabbits, I see.

Must be a bunny dance of some sort.

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