Posts under ‘Making a Spectacle...’

Nothing to say about Spectacles…

…I just wanted to write that down before any one else did.
I’ve searched Google and it’s not there so maybe it’s the first time it’s been written down.  It means very little to me but it would be a good name for a optician baron’s autobiography…  Or a famous rock ‘n’ [...]

Bad Spectacles Jokes:
It started recently when all the papers had Kelly Brook in her knickers for Specsavers:  Every one had the “specs appeal” headline. Was that a phenomena of creativity or lazy journalism with the headline coming from the PR with the pictures and the sub imagining that headline would stand out - against the [...]

New Bio “Glasses” Lenses Fabricated And Through Technical Testing Stages Of Development
Following other previous notes about bio friendly lens and spectacles frame making, the R&D arm of Dutch lens makers Komkommer has announced its new lens made entirely from the skins of cucumbers.  The strengthened bio-material uses the actual skin which has undergone natural heat & [...]

A “Specs Appeal” Story from India Info.com
Listen to this - about Bollywood star Riteish Deshmukh who thinks a lot of his fans.  According to India Info “Riteish has been touring the country and has been promoting his film Jaane kahan Se Aayi Hai across various cities of the country and during one such tour, there was [...]

Have You Lost Your Glasses & Never Found Them
Or Found Them Somewhere Peculiar?
Another thing that I read all the time in my search for the optical novelty, is the throwaway line in someone’s story or article mentioning the loss or the finding of their spectacles - especially reading glasses which seem to get lost the most.  [...]

A Picture Of This Would Have Been A Spectacle…
I read that a spectacles thief was found upside down in a wheelie bin with half a dozen pairs of spectacles in his hand and was covered in small bits of broken glass - which proved to be his down fall.
A nearby neightbour had phoned the police about the [...]

It’s Saturday morning and my kids are all bigger now (we don’t get any pictures like this anymore) and I saw this on a site called “What’s That Smell” / Accidental Mommies blog site and I though that for those that like the cute…here it is.  This picture has received five pages of admiring comments [...]

Not A lot To Say And Not A lot Of Point… Except That There’s Spectacles Involved

As seen in various places on the tinternet… a duck wearing spectacles…but not really the right way.  I understand that it’s not the thing for humans to wear their specs around their neck.
The duck was pulled from the litter filled Leeds [...]

Kenyan Artist Makes Spectacles For Fun & Notariety

Cyrus Kabiru has a show on in Nairobi with ten pairs of his handcrafted spectacles, displayed on a rack as though they were in a retail outlet like an opticians.  But this is art.  It’s certainly craft… each frame is hand wrought out of wire and each pair of [...]

Make Your Own Spectacles Video From You Tube
I’m not sure how many of you will want to follow this advice or to go the whole hog and make some of these glasses which make it look like you’re awake when you’re asleep.  But it ’s got a good feel to it and the avoidance of [...]