{"id":811,"date":"2009-01-01T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T13:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2009-01-01T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T14:22:35","slug":"drawing-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/811","title":{"rendered":"Drawing tops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"290\" border=\"0\" title=\"Drawing Tops\" alt=\"Drawing Tops\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drawing_tops1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Thomas Forsyth - Drawing Tops\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasforsyth.co.uk\/index.php?s=work&#038;id=9\">Drawing tops<\/a> are spinning-tops that use a pen as the spindle enabling the production of wonderfully unpredictable random sketches.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" border=\"0\" title=\"Drawing Tops\" alt=\"Drawing Tops\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drawing_tops3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The idea is the work of <a title=\"Thomas Forsyth\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasforsyth.co.uk\">Thomas Forsyth<\/a> and represents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;many of the core ideas behind my current work. It is recognisable, un-intimidating, and invites people to interact with objects that can lead to unpredictable results, or an emergent property.<\/p>\n<p>Simply through indulging in the enjoyable process of spinning the top a bi-product is created. Where the pen marks the surface, a beautiful map of the experience and events that have occurred is produced.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"290\" border=\"0\" title=\"Drawing Tops\" alt=\"Drawing Tops\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drawing_tops2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to have a try then Forsyth&#8217;s Drawing Tops are available to buy at <a title=\"Folksy - Drawing Tops\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.folksy.com\/shops\/thomasforsyth\">Folksy<\/a>, <a title=\"Etsy - Drawing Tops\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_1&#038;listing_id=18632501\">Etsy<\/a> and <a title=\"Art-s-talker\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.art-s-talker.com\/index2.html\">Art-s-talker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing tops are spinning-tops that use a pen as the spindle enabling the production of wonderfully unpredictable random sketches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2,6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}