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Ian Willey
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Artist, designer, technician and tutor, helping people of all ages to make things.

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Drone from below
Two insects on a window seen from below. The larger might be a “drone fly” a hover fly that looks like a bee with yellow and black stripes. Below it to the left is what might be a tiny fruit fly or gnat.
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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A set of rulers with clips for an experiment where students measure the resistance of different lengths of wire.
Twenty-four lengths of MDF with crocodile clips at each end and glued on laser engraved plywood measuring scale. Trolley for transporting and storing the rulers made from 2x1 softwood attached to a square scrap of worktop mounted on castors.
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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I have been making classroom equipment for the Science department.

A set of fulcrums:
A small open toolbox made from laser cut plywood containing twenty-four short pieces of steel angle to be used as fulcrums in school Science lessons. Fulcrum box in the background, piece of wood balancing on a fulcrum in the foreground.
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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And that conveyor reminds me a bit of David Smith’s welded sculptures.
A tall black abstract metal sculpture. A disc at the top and a vertical series of concave sided triangles held together by uprights and vertical bars, standing on two wheels and a leg piece. David Smith Land Coaster 2/10/60 painted steel 97 by 27 by 29 in. 246.4 by 68.6 by 73.7 cm.
November 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Hungry skulls
Photo collage of four skulls with things in their mouths including pork scratchings, a large grub, a bag of bread (reduced) and a banana skin.
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Happy Hallowe’en
Laser cut MDF skeleton toy emerging from a brown paper bag.
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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This is a skull to put in your fish tank.
💀 🐟
A fish tank skull ornament sitting on the shelf of a bookcase.
October 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Of course Vermeer had his own personal art algorithm along the lines of:

Studio corner by window + carpet on table in foreground + girl in ermine trimmed jacket + white ceramic wine bottle + allegorical painting in background + sometimes add a bloke.

<When bored do two paintings outdoors>
Arty-crafty souvenirs from the Vermeer “museum” in Deft by Wilma Ritsema: Ceramic Tetra Pak cartons decorated with a contemporary photographic version of Vermeer’s painting “The Milkmaid”.
October 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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I guess the AI results for “The pearl with the girl earring” were too weird?
A rack of what appear to be AI generated “Girl with pearl earring” postcards outside a souvenir shop in Delft.
October 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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The gallery itself is quite wonderful. The last building by H.P. Berlage.
Art Deco with a De Stijl palette.
https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/en/museum/about-us/museum-building The foyer features the new artwork Henry, de Statistocraat by Atelier Van Lieshout. The eight-metre-high sculpture is designed to serve as a visitor information desk and is a humorous nod to the ‘rivalry’ between H.P. Berlage, architect of the Gemeentemuseum, and his Belgian contemporary and confrere Henry Van de Velde. https://www.ateliervanlieshout.com/news/henry-de-statistocraat-gemeentemuseum/
October 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The beach entertainment economy of Scheveningen uses shipping containers as sea-weatherproof equipment storage and as large scale windbreaks.

Ugly and out-of-place looking in the daytime, they become almost beautiful at night.
A short green container followed by two long containers, snaking along the beach at night like a cartoon cubist caterpillar. A container enclosure glowing yellow at night. The illuminated ferris wheel peeps over against a purpley-black sky. A small black container casts a dark triangular shadow lit by the bright white oval of the ferris wheel illuminations. Modern hotel blocks obscured by a mauve container horizontal in the foreground. The cloudy night sky glows ochre, reflecting the street lights of the seaside town.
October 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I enjoyed discovering the playful and eclectic work of Vilmos Huszár.

From mechanical men to plant pot stands.

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Mechanical dancing figure, 1922 Reconstruction: Andy Kowalski en Robert Pachowski, 1985 Wooden plant stand, ca. 1930
October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Bit of a De Stijl binge at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague.
Detail from Piet Mondrian’s last painting Bruynzeel Boys’ Bedroom by Vilmos Huszár and Piet Klaarhamer Not a Rietveld! Corner chair, 1922-1923 executed by Hendrik van Eeken (1889-1970), Drachten Oil on canvas painted beech 63 SPACES FOR A WORK Krijn de Koning Permanent work for the wing ‘Mondriaan en de Stijl’ Collection: Kunstmuseum Den Haag Icw Anne Holtrop 2011 Den Haag NL
October 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I am kurious oranj
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#fallfriday

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October 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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"Under the paving stones, the beach!"

Under the beach, the car park.

🏖️ 🚙

#Scheveningen
The sand of Scheveningen beach, under the paving stones Subterranean car park at Scheveningen beach.
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The wheel turns to move the sea 🌊
October 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Scheveningen beach at night.
Strong shadows cast by brightly illuminated sandy steps. Two Portakabins at the edge of the beach seem to glow against an inky blue-black night sky. Lines and circles. Benches with wooden seats and pale blue metal backs with circular perforations cast interesting shadows. A long flat boulder in the foreground. In the middle distance a small forest of collapsed beach umbrellas, glowing violet in magenta lighting. The sky is an inky blue-black.
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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“Village Bakery”.

That village where they like to eat string.

Deliziosa!
The ciabatta with string baked into it along with the packaging.
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Ok ALDI, what’s this new ciabatta ingredient?
A split ALDI ciabatta containing some kind of string or cord.
October 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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When you live on the flight paths to Heathrow and City Airport and up the road from Biggin Hill, Sky Cards can become a mildly intense Augmented Reality game.

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#SoMuchStuffInTheSky
Photo of a plane in the sky, tops of trees in the foreground. Screenshot from the game “Sky Cards” showing information about the plane in the previous photo. Photo of a helicopter in the sky, chimney pots in the foreground. Screenshot from the game Sky Cards showing details about the helicopter in the previous photo.
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Or soy sauce…
Sumo wrestler being presented with a giant kikkoman soy sauce bottle.
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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How quickly can you throw together a Sumo wrestlers passing around a giant bagel” game?
Sumo wrestlers holding Fortnum and Mason bags, standing outside one of Brick Lane’s bagel shops.
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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A stock photo of someone wearing a surgical mask under their nose.
October 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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A stock image of someone wearing a surgical mask under their nose.
October 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM