The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
Making
The best laid plans…
…of hand-drawing, careful listening, fortuitous discoveries, Craft NI, and the discovery that sometimes when things go wrong, they end up going right.
The Felicity Ford Radio Show, PILOT
…of the Arty Street Party; Soundmaps; Tuned City; Sonic Cupcakes; Turbans; Eccentricity; and so many amazing sounds.
How to make your own stamps
…of making the stamps for A Knitter’s Manifesto feat. valley views, Welsh blues and greens, and homemade stamp glue.
Tuned City #1
…of Tallinn, tuning the city, and finding the local phonographic lore in strange lands, through creative practices.
Bricks, Knitting, Biscuits and imaginative diversions
…of knitting, hat-patterns, Huntley & Palmer’s factory, biscuits, BISKITS, Victorian brickwork, water-powered flour mills and other glorious digressions.
The meta data
…of sonic meta-data, meta-data badges, meta-tags for another year, and the beginnings and endings of many things.
Walk2012 and the new badgemaker!
…of walking, recording cows, making badges, meeting beasties, and Walk2012.
KNITSONIKTM
…of KNITSONIK, stationery, design, customisation, artistry, knitting, sounds and Prick Your Finger.
The rise of the Pentax SLR
…of SLRs, frameworks, ways of seeing, shutterspeeds, things I espied, blackbirds, woolstaplers, technology, wisteria and brothers.
KNITSONIKTM
Announcing A NEW PROJECT: KNITSONIKTM KNITSONIKTM is preparing for its first residency at the Prick Your Finger gallery between 4th – 12th May, 2011. What is this? The KNITSONIKTM residency is an intensive study period during which Felicity Ford will stay in the imaginatively fertile and woolly environment of the Prick Your Finger Haberdashery & […]
Mixtapes and Messy Tuesdays
I was so excited to read Kirsty’s post reviving the Messy Tuesdays concept that I immediately vowed to write a Messy Tuesdays post of my own this week. Happily I am never short of a creative mess or two (or three or four or five…) to document on Messy Tuesdays, and the affirmative power of […]
Biscuitopolis & The Mad March Hare…
A couple of Sundays back, the Sticks’n’String knitters plus some Bluestockings came over for a yarn-swap and a tasty feast. The rules were simply that everyone should bring some kind of local fare for the table plus some yarn to swap. Everyone bought amazing things to eat – pies, sausages, cheeses, cakes, chutneys etc. – […]
Wool at Reading Geek Night…
Last Tuesday I gave a talk at Reading Geek Night entitled “10 things you didn’t know about Wool.” Much of what I said in my talk will be old hat to seasoned knitters; you don’t need me to point out that shreddies are clearly NOT knitted by Nanas, nor that there are basic differences between […]
Tea and Biscuits
The past few months have been manic. Since my PhD studies came to an end and my AHRC funding ran out, I am relying 100% on my own wits and skills to make an income. I am trading as a self-employed artist, which is not the fantastically high-paid profession that one might hope. However, I […]
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