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Austerity bread

Least effort and least cost. Ingredients 500g strong white flour 350g warm water 1tsp salt 1 tsp easy bake yeast mixed into the flour (Or 1 tbsp dried yeast dissolved and frothy in the water mentioned above)   1. Put the flour, salt and easy bake yeast into the food processor bowl. You can useContinue reading “Austerity bread”

Posted bylucynewmanOctober 24, 2013Posted inBread and other recipesTags:Food processor

Making rope

A factory film showing the mechanised braiding of rope, from the National Film Board of Canada.

Posted bylucynewmanOctober 20, 2013Posted inMachines and processes, Making thingsTags:rope, string

Geometric animation

still from geometric animation

A beautiful geometric animation, set to Japanese koto music,  from 1973. Perspectre/Perspectrum by Ishu Patel, National Film Board of Canada

Posted bylucynewmanOctober 17, 2013Posted inArtTags:animation, film, video

Decommissioning Shapewear: videos by Empty.co.uk and Victoria Harwood

These films were made as part of the Decommissioning Shapewear project for the Feminist Times. It all began with Charlotte dangerously burning shapewear in her garden in order to ‘take it out of service’. It soon grew into a group of artists making new creations from spandex items.

Posted bylucynewmanOctober 5, 2013Posted inArt

Futuristic toast racks

These toast racks were designed around 1880 by Christopher Dresser.    

Posted bylucynewmanSeptember 16, 2013Posted inDesignTags:bread

Moorish ceiling tiles

I think Picasso would have been impressed  if he had looked up to the ceiling and seen these painted tiles, especially the painting of the bull. It looks as if its eyes are painting on another plane and defy conventional representation. They are on show in the ceramic Museum in Valencia. These are drawings byContinue reading “Moorish ceiling tiles”

Posted bylucynewmanSeptember 14, 2013Posted inExhibitions and influencesTags:ceramics, picasso

Shredder van on fire

A truck carrying shredded paper caught fire at the side of a road next to Clapham Common, London

Posted bylucynewmanAugust 30, 2013Posted inDiary, Machines and processesTags:paper, shredder

Pavement (photo)

Black Tarmac around a yellow cover

Posted bylucynewmanAugust 24, 2013Posted inEverydayTags:colour, materials, photography

Arenas

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Posted bylucynewmanAugust 23, 2013Posted inArt, Displays and processions

Our daily bread: a factory film

A film maker’s record of mechanised food production at an industrial scale

Posted bylucynewmanAugust 23, 2013Posted inMachines and processesTags:film, food, how it's made, photography, Salt, wheat

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