{"id":5909,"date":"2014-03-19T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5909"},"modified":"2014-03-19T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T22:25:45","slug":"put-a-pod-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5909","title":{"rendered":"Put a pod on it"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if I have mentioned my love of podcasts here before? I don’t think I have. It’s what I do. I make jewellery in the afternoons, and listen to people talk.<\/p>\n

I was listening to a favourite today, 99% Invisible with Roman Mars. It’s a design podcast, and it’s chock full of ‘aha’ moments – you know, that point when someone links two phenomena that you were already familiar with and explains how they’re interrelated or interdependent?\u00a0 I love those moments. It’s the awe of pure learning.<\/p>\n

This latest episode<\/a> though really spoke to my heart, as it echoed back what I found out about the quatrefoil during my MFA research. One at a time, I’ve probably strung over a thousand of these shapes in my jewellery works. And hell, any podcast that name-checks Owen Jones gets two thumbs up.<\/p>\n

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Middle Ages #5 from The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones, 1856. Scan from illuminated-books.com, 2006. Sourced 2009 (notice how he even arranged his crosses into a cross shape? Attention to detail, y’all!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then\u00a0Alex Sandifer (@Refidnas)<\/a><\/cite> in the comments section of that page has linked a clip to Sesame Street; because of the connection to Jones’ works by the ‘Street animators.