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		<title>Wood Resin Buttons from Loop</title>
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Wood Resin Buttons &#8211; dark side, originally uploaded by Goldtop.
Went to the opening of loop&#8217;s new location in Camden Passage yesterday. It&#8217;s a fabulous place for it, with 3 floors of space with tons of natural light. Sounds like they&#8217;d had a busy morning too; with over 150 people queueing as they opened the doors!
I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/06/wood-resin-buttons-from-loop/</link>
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		<title>Mr Thwaite&#8217;s Doll &#8211; pt II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The old man took a tin from his pocket and opened it to show to his friends. I had been reading an exhibition catalogue studiously trying to not to appear interested in their conversation so far, but now I was intrigued and put the book down.
Inside was a tiny clay figure, no bigger than my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/05/mr-thwaites-doll-pt-ii/</link>
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		<title>Matchbox blanks &#8211; the joy of printed ephemera!</title>
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Head, originally uploaded by Goldtop.

I picked this matchbox blank up at one the Ephemera Society events a while ago, and recently re-discovered it in a tidy-up.
For some reason they make me happy to look at and hold, and l was trying to figure out why.

It could be I just love roughly one and two colour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/05/matchbox-blanks-the-joy-of-printed-ephemera/</link>
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		<title>Mr Thwaite&#8217;s Doll</title>
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MrThwaites_Doll, originally uploaded by Goldtop.
Mr Thwaite had this doll in a box in his pocket. He&#8217;d found it mudlarking and was chatting with his friends abut what it was.. (made of pipe clay, too small to be a doll, perhaps a tamper?, perhaps 18thC?).
I&#8217;ll never know, but he was gracious enough to let me take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/04/mr-thwaites-doll/</link>
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		<title>Electric Sheep Magazine mentioned in New Statesman article</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For the offbeat stuff you have to go to sites such as electricsheepmagazine.co.uk. Run by a print magazine, Electric Sheep, it reviews fringe and art-house films that seldom get space in the broadsheet newspapers. The writing is confident and well-informed and the scope encompasses everywhere from Spain to South Korea. I was excited to read about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/03/electric-sheep-magazine-mentioned-in-new-statesman-article/</link>
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		<title>Twist Collective &amp; Knit Nation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How come Twist Collective has so many great patterns each issue?? I already want to cast on two sweaters (Ormolu for me, Tanit&#8217;s Jacket for my mum&#8230; if anyone with nothing better to do, needed to knit me Sabbatical or Kirigami, I&#8217;d be a grateful recipient!*) and I&#8217;ve only just skimmed through the Winter issue&#8230;
I&#8217;m also giving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/02/twist-collective-knit-nation/</link>
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		<title>Drawing from memory vs from a model</title>
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Bizarrely this one captured her better than drawing direct from lifel.
The tutor made a good point; looking at the original drawing &#8211; and looking to improve it &#8211; you had to ask yourself to remember if the models shoulders / weight / hips / arms really were at that angle / length / position etc&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/01/drawing-from-memory-vs-from-a-model/</link>
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		<title>Back at an easel again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have gone back to lifedrawing class; first time in probably 15 years (eek!). I was fully expecting to freeze up and only be able to scratch out a 2&#8243; high little stick (wo)man, but after 6 poses in the 2 and a half hour session, I was quite pleased with what I&#8217;d done&#8230;
It&#8217;s a strange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/01/back-at-an-easel-again/</link>
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		<title>Electric Sheep Magazine is Dead, Long Live Electric Sheep Magazine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;lovingly and effectively designed – stylish yet readable – exactly as it should be&#8221;
(Richard Bruton, Forbidden Planet Int.)
Some of you know by now that the magazine I&#8217;ve been Art Directing has now gone bust in it&#8217;s current print format. Richard writes a lovely goodbye piece on the FP blog, mentioning not only the lovely design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2010/01/electric-sheep-magazine-is-dead-long-live-electric-sheep-magazine/</link>
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		<title>24 Hour Book project &#8211; get involved this weekend!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must thrive under pressure cos the idea of this book, a collaborative novel written in 24 hours*, is dead exciting!
And they&#8217;re not just looking for potential authors; illustrators and photographers can get involved too, to contribute images to inspire the writers on the theme &#8211; based on a group of city centre allotments, ideas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.goldtop.org/news/2009/09/24-hour-book-project-get-involved-this-weekend/</link>
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