Nikau, window, lamp. Almost Bauhaus
…he probably thinks that blue stuff is curacao. My mate Bacchus, patron saint of imbibers god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy. (His real…
The lunch room at Roland Rother’s workshop. “Titillating” doesn’t BEGIN to describe the artwork…
The park-that-used-to-be-the-old-shunting-yard-on-the-banks-of-the-Rhine-in-Bingen-until-it-hosted-the-State-Horticultural-Show-in-2010 is always worth a visit. (Even if those bloody pensioners shout at you for cycling in an utterly deserted park…) For the past 2 years, they’ve featured a…
So I bought some watercolours to liven it all up a bit Augustinerstrasse in the Altstadt
I do a bit of pro bono marketing and methodology consulting for a ceramics market in Alzey and a couple of potters in Höhr-Grenzhausen Design the websites, keep them updated,…
I’m usually on the other side, but I rocked down to the Markt der schönen Dinge in Mainz yesterday to say Hi to Karin Schweickhard and Michael Limbeck. Stall is…
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Or TL;DR Blame it on the ADHD sufferers (see yesterday’s comments…). Work it out yourselves.
…through the bathroom window wall. Eberhard Linke’s “Mann vom Castrum”, (so THAT’s where Darth Vader got his wardrobe ideas…) referencing Castrum Mogantiacum, the Roman stronghold dating back to 13 BC…
Supplementary decorative detail on the Markthäuser
Competition on the market the other day. Shutter speed of somewhere close to 300 seconds….
Always remind me of Winnie-the-Pooh’s “Tigger”. Either that or seaside rock
And talking of telephones… This unfortunately reminds me of an utterly un-PC joke. Don’t say I didn’t warn you… Rings by Volker Urban, who takes plastic cellulose acetate (the stuff…
The only thing missing is “U”… A truncated “Bingen am Rhein” logo
A couple we know are fairly well-established artists. They must be doing quite well and celebrating accordingly frequently with bottles of bubbly and putting the muselet to (very) creative use.…
Cigarette vending machine
The confluence of the Nahe and Rhine at Bingen
So what do you do when you’re at the potter’s wheel, hands all gooey with clay when the phone rings? Answer it. Seen at Frank the Potter‘s place. +49 6706…
…act. Figuratively speaking. Crane in the park-that-used-to-be-the-old-shunting-yard on the banks of the Rhine in Bingen. Carved from a single piece of sweet chestnut wood. No, that was yesterday’s….
Perspective noun \pər-ˈspek-tiv\ Middle English perspectyf, from Latin perspectus, past participle of perspicere to look through, from per- through + specere to look A view of the Rathaus and Andreu…
..now you don’t…. Talking with Stefan Sämmer, one of the local paper’s photogs, the other day about the disappearance of the gates at the Gutenberg Museum. “You MUST know about…
Marcel Meyer’s “You Work Where I Live” project continues to fascinate me, despite the fact that his temporary gallery has closed and he’s back at university. Of all the portraits,…
A street as an art gallery. Marcel Meyer is a media design student at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and lives in the Klarastrasse, one of the anonymous…
You’ll normally find the Mug of the Month series over on YMBFA. This one deserves to be here. If you were making pottery commercially (Wedgewood, Royal Dalton et al) in…
I’m going to front up at the reception of the University of Applied Sciences in the Rheinstrasse in Mainz and ask them what they know about the concrete relief gracing…
> If you’re of the (mistaken) opinion that potters create vessels with only their hands from a lump of clay, I’ll have to disillusion you. This is a selection of…
> I’m SURE that there’s CONSIDERABLY more frolicking and Bacchanalian activity going on at the top of the fountain at the moment. Must be Spring…
> This is cool. Local kids paint the bus shelter at the top of Hechtsheimer Berg, decorate it with shadowy figures and tell folks where the action’s at. Tuesdays…
> Makiko Hastings is a Japanese ceramicist living in Yorkshire. She kicked off the 1000 Birds project, with all proceeds going to help earthquake victims in Japan. This is ours.…
> Ross Johnston takes old sawblades, car springs, files and circular saws and turns them into objects of true beauty. He sells them on the Nelson Market on Saturdays. He…
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