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Posted on August 6, 2011. Filed under: Creating, designing, Japan, manga, needlework, workshops, writing | Tags: Akita International University, animation, anime, Anime UK, Arts, Dr. Darren-Jon Ashmore, Japan, manga, Manga Cross Stitch, principles of collaboration, Reza Ben Gajra, Steve Kyte, Takarazuka, Tezuka Production |
Creative collaboration = me+. I’ve gained and learned so much by working with gifted people. Find out more about them and what we made together.
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Posted on October 15, 2010. Filed under: Consuming, costume, designing, events, history, Japan | Tags: Astro Boy, Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Cinema, Erté, Fortuny, GirlsWorld, Hiroaki Ohya, Janek Schaefer, Japan, Japanese street fashion, Junya Watanabe, Madeleine Vionnet, manga, Paul Poiret, Rei Kawakubo, Satoshi Kon, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Yohji Yamamoto |
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is at the Barbican Art Gallery until February 2011. Everyone interested in Japanese culture should see it.
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Posted on April 8, 2010. Filed under: Creating, designing, Japan, manga, needlework, writing | Tags: 9th Japan Quilt Grand Prix, anime cross stitch, crafts, Craftster, Etsy, how to draw manga books, Judi Dench rude needlepoint, Manga Cross Stitch, Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival |
Rebirth, remaking, re-invention: all good themes for spring, and all features of the alt.crafts movement. Manga Cross-Stitch has its own spring revival in the blogosphere.
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Posted on February 22, 2010. Filed under: Creating, designing, writing | Tags: Artists Rights Society, Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society ALCS, Digital Millennium Copyright Act DCMA, Internet piracy, Jonathan Swift, libraries, OCILLA, Performing Right Society PRS, Public Lending Right PLR |
I’m not suggesting creators should eat their children, though The Cronos Solution might have been a snappier title. Since we can’t do anything much about illegal uploading of material without creator consent – or stealing, as I like to call it – let’s talk about ways creators could be recompensed for every use of their content online.
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Posted on August 31, 2009. Filed under: anime, Creating, designing, Japan, manga, writing | Tags: 500 Manga Heroes and Villains, Anime Encyclopedia, Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, contemporary art, Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation, Horse Hospital, Manga Cross Stitch, Mr X Stitch, Neil Gaiman, shitamachi, William Morris |
What does an author hope for from a review – apart from “go and buy it”, that is? Visibility, credibility and empathy.
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Posted on July 9, 2009. Filed under: Creating, designing, Japan, manga, needlework |
I just heard from one of last week’s workshop attendees, who gave me permission to post a link to his album of work on Facebook. Tom is doing some amazing graphic work with needle and thread, and tells me that since the workshop he’s begun to work with cross stitch as well as backstitch. Result! [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2009. Filed under: anime, Creating, designing, Japan, manga, needlework, writing | Tags: Helen McCarthy workshops, Japan Foundation, Japan-UK 150, katakana hiragana sampler, Manga Cross Stitch, needlecraft, Stitched Up! From Sashiko to Manga |
Manga Cross-Stitch workshops at the Japan Foundation helped to launch my latest book. The idea is to demolish prejudices, break barriers and build bridges, one stitch at a time.
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Posted on July 6, 2009. Filed under: anime, Creating, designing, Japan, manga, needlework, writing | Tags: anime, Beginners Guide to Japanese Animation, cross stitch, Ilex Press, Japan Foundation, Julie Jackson, manga, needlecraft, SFX, Steve Kyte, Subversive Cross Stitch, Tim PIlcher, Victoria and Albert, workshop |
My latest book, Manga Cross-Stitch, finally hit British bookshops and Amazon.co.uk last week. It should have gone on sale in mid-June, but the Gods of Shipping had other ideas: hopefully they’re now appeased, and the U.S. launch next month will go ahead without a hitch. I’ve already seen the first review – in the August 2009 [...]
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