Lear, sear, bear, beer, bier, tier, ties, hies, hiss, kiss, kist, kilt, tilt, tile. I invested 2.5 hours in the Trevor Nunn production of King Lear on PBS Wednesday night, and then another hour watching the later rebroadcast before I fell asleep. //I loved the ease with which Ian McKellen portrayed being nudged by his Fool to slip from his heart-bursting torment into soft laughter. Cordelia (Romola Garai) in scene one seemed to assume she and her fatal profession would be received through that same special door shared by Lear & Fool; hence her (to me) surprising chuckle as she walked straight into a storm. //I thought the shot of Edgar-Tom writhing almost naked on his back with limbs flexed like an infant was terrifyingly true to the play's evocation of "unaccommodated man." // The image of Lear (bottom) is a daguerrotype of Edwin Forrest in that role, attributed to Matthew Brady. (Courtesy of the Harvard Theater Collection). We carry a ceramic art tile of a Julia Margaret Cameron Lear albumin photograph (top)--among other Camerons.
Isn't she lovely, film historians? One 8" x 10" glossy ceramic tile of this vintage futurist image inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Thirty pfennigs translates into $25.00 at Magpie. The tile is lavishly backed with cork and has a tab hanger. One available, more possible. And wait until you see our Othello. We dig deep to find you rare public domain images and spare no pains to make them into beautiful colorfast art tiles.
We received our first batch of glass bud vases made by Deb Florian of Recreations by Deb (Buffalo, NY). This blue dragonfly is just one of the many themes of adornment Deb offers. There's the rubber duckie bud vase, a perfectly funky Easter gift or spring fetish, a black wooden bird vase, and silver hearts and crosses. These bud vases have a little sucker attached, allowing you to stick them on your bathroom mirror or a window (to catch the sun). Magpie also carries larger colored glass hanging vases, and inspiration vases, by Deb Florian. Check out Deb's web site at www.recreationsbydeb.com and then come pick out your own at Magpie Gallery Shop. You can't go wrong with these and you can get them in between classes.
A new image, "Morning Woodland" by Richard Murch, came out beautifully on this brushed glass cutting board or cheese board (dim. 7.5" x 11"). When you're not using it, hang it on your wall or prop it in a window to let the sun shine through claret.
