By: Janet Reid,
on 8/5/2012
Sometime back I posted a picture from the blog "Things Organized Neatly" and asked you to guess what the items were.
Here's another picture. Except they forgot to tell us what the items are!
By: Janet Reid,
on 7/30/2012
As regular blog readers know, I'm trying out a new approach to queries between 7-8pm on Saturday nights through August.
I've been calling it "new wrinkle" and frankly, that name STINKS!
Help me find something with a little more zest!
Post your suggestions in the comments column of this blog post.
And no, "Janet Reid's Idiot Idea" is not going to win!
By: Venetia Butterfield,
on 2/11/2008
Keep your eyes peeled for free copies of teen author Kevin Brooks' latest dark thriller - Black Rabbit Summer - in the least likely of places. Penguin have teamed up with US site bookcrossing to release 100 of the books 'into the wild' as those in the know call it.
If you've not come across this phenomenon before, bookcrossing is the warm-fuzzy-feeling-giving practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up, read and enjoyed by someone else, who then does the same once they’ve finished it. The books are registered on www.bookcrossing.com – which tracks the titles as they make their literary journeys across towns, cities, countries, and sometimes even oceans.
60 of the books will be lurking in clothes store USC (watch out for them amongst the Deisel trainers and Bench hoodies), and the rest left on buses, tubes and trains and in pubs and cafes around the capital. If you are lucky enough to find one, stay true to the spirit of bookcrossing, read it and pass it on.
Jodie Mullish, Publicity Manager, Puffin
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Answer on the left. Blogs: Things Organized Neatly - 25 Jul.
They kind of look like bobbins to me, but I'm not sure.
Well, they looked at first like groovy, custom-made baseball bats, but I'm going to guess they're fancy balusters.
Pipe cleaners?
I believe they are war clubs from Pacific Islands. But my memory isn't too reliable.
Drumsticks. Drop spindles. Really ineffective arrows.
bill, yes, that's where I got it, but what are the objects? I absolutely could not figure it out from the site.
To me they look like bed posts. But then again, I never figured out the other ones either.
They're bobbins for lace-making (is it called tatting?). You use several bobbins wound with a very fine thread, and pin it onto a small cushion; then make repeated knots and twists to build the piece of lace.
Most of them look like sample legs from the catalogue of a furniture craftsman -- maybe for dollhouses?
Part of the difficulty is not knowing the scale. If these are at roughly actual size, they may be organized neatly but not particularly usefully, because who the hell has fingers capable of pulling one of those things away from the rest without bringing them all clattering down? Which suggests that the scale is greatly reduced; they're probably big enough, with enough space between them, to enable the user (?) to insert a hand between adjacent items.
The one puzzle is [counting] 10th from the right. Is that a hollow spring at the upper end? or something carved/wrapped around a solid cylinder?
I googled the artist, Vincent Kohler.
http://www.vincentkohler.ch/turnaround.html
It was a project he did with 30 types of wood, creating his image of baseball bats. The link takes you to the website where there are pictures of a baseball player holding a few of them.
Note: I muddled my way through the whole description in French before I realized the paragraph below was in English. Duh!
They look like nostepindes to me. They originated in Norway, and are used to wind balls of yarn that pull from the inside.
Spindles for Rumpelstiltskin?
They're cricket bats for the criminally insane. If the ball goes anywhere near a reasonable location, you lose.
Turnaround is an artistic project focusing on the theme of the baseball bat.
A collection of thirty baseball bats, turned in different species of woods, each unique in form.
SO THERE!
Laura beat me to it - it's Vincent Kohler's baseball bat themed art project.
For how I found it, I dragged the image over to Google search and had it find matches to the image itself :)
baseball bat sculptures by Vincent Kohler.
http://www.booooooom.com/2011/10/28/baseball-bat-sculptures-by-artist-vincent-kohler/
I found it by using my Pixie sense.
Honey dippers
okay, okay so I'll tell. ... dont' hit me again!
I copied the image to my desktop. I posted it to my blog. I pasted the url for my version into image search, selecting find similar. It took me to his web page. Satisfied?
I’m sorry but all of you are incorrect, no matter how convincing you sound or the research you’ve done.
They are batons.
I was a drum major in school, and have coached twirling for years...these are decorative batons used in marches befitting different ceremonies. Some of my twirlers used exactly the same kind of batons you see pictured. Some held jute, 10th from right and fourth from left, which would be set aflame. The third from right actually won an award for using natural materials...the competition was held in Joplin Missouri about ten years ago. The eighth from left is covered in a gold/plate wash which made it extremely heavy to twirl.
I’m finding the posted suggestions very interesting as well as the convincing nature of some discriptions.
Ah hem...Janet I have a query I'd like you to read. It' about a bridge in Arizona and some swampland in Florida.
I think they'd all prove excellent for serving honey, especially if one was all out of clean teaspoons.
PS: If your teacup was the size of an armchair! (Just checked the link posted above.)
Wry Writer,
LOL!
Yup, I was in marching band, too.
Cricket bats gone wild!
They are War clubs. Most likely Polynesian. I figured it out by opening my email this morning, seeing the picture, and wondering. "Hmm I wonder why Janet has a group of Polynesian War clubs pictured?"
Of course....now that I make the claim, I'll be completely wrong! :-)
I think they're different styles of banisters.
In order to ascertain the precise identification of said artifacts, I applied the scientific principle of acute observation and looked at Laura's answer.
Wands! They are Harry Potter-esque wands! They're beefy and borderline chunky wands . . . but they are wands. Yep.
Knitting needles for myopic dwarves.
Spurtles. Learned about these at a Scottish Highland Games. Bought a pretty, shapely wood one. For mixing food.