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Link to an essay about the Guidonian Hand

The Guidonian Hand →

An essay by Karol Berger from The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. Relevant to an upcoming Musarc performance conceived by Hefin Jones for an Up Projects event.

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Edit 20 May 2016 — Photo from last night ↓

Photo taken by Laura M A Harford of Musarc performing a Hefin Jones piece for Up Projects

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Edit 24 May 2016 — Even more photos on upprojects.com →

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Making tamales

Though it’s become a lot easier to find good Mexican food in London since I moved here in 2010, it’s still pretty hard to find tamales. I was in the mood for them over the weekend so tried making them for the first time.

Edit 14.05.16 — I’ve changed my mind, I’m not really that pleased with how these turned out. They’re too dry, and I definitely didn’t fill them with enough cheese. Also, I don’t know where the heck Sainsbury’s gets their jalapeños from but they were just about the hottest ones I’ve ever had! I think that the main issue was the fine cornmeal, so will definitely wait until I find some masa before making these again. I’ve found a good way of eating too-dry tamales though; they’re really good reheated in the oven with a spicy tomato sauce and plenty of cheese (kind of like enchiladas).

Edit 30.10.18 — A shop in Brixton Village sells masa and corn husks!!! I think it was Faiz Latin & Carribean (corner of 1st and 5th). Time for tamales v2.0.

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David Reinfurt on the beginnings of Dexter Sinister

This idea began as a bit of a joke of course, over whiskey in Nicosia late at night we said “Hey, we should run a book store with this stuff.” And like most things that are worth doing, the jokes are worth following through because they’re fun.

David Reinfurt on the beginnings of Dexter Sinister from his 17 March 2009 talk as part of the Walker’s Insights Design Lecture Series. Quote is a paraphrase, see 33:45 for full comment.

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Graph paper used by Chana Horwitz

Chana Horwitz seems to have frequently used Keuffel & Esser Co. 8 × 8 to the inch graph paper. There were a few pieces in the Raven Row exhibition on 10 × 15 inch sheets with an orange grid. It looks like K&E was acquired in ‘87, wonder if she stockpiled a bunch of it. Also, food for thought: how do you mount+frame mylar in such a pristine way without any show-through?