Posts from ‘December, 2009’

How Long Do You Wait For Your Spectacles?
We all know that waiting for things that used to take tame is less attractive in our modern world. Customers want things faster and competition often drives fast delivery as an advantageous move.  So realised retailer Megane Top when they studied the fast pace of it’s potential customer who [...]

Matisyahu In A Variety of Glasses

I happen to have a CD by this guy and very interesting and very good it is too. And then I saw a reference to him and his spectacles so I thought he deserved a mention on Spectacles Blog (whether he wwanted one or not).
The reference that I saw mentioned [...]

But Takes Them Off For A New York Mag Interview

Reading about Lady Gaga (which I find painful after watching her affectations on the BBC Jonathon Ross show) I hear that she took off her glasses off especially for the NY Mag interview because she loved the interviewer Barbara Walters.
And I quote “Removing her omnipresent dark glasses, she [...]

Spectacles Blog Gets Pedantic… and Ponderous…
Why is it “Spectacles” (always plural) and then when you put them away, it’s in a spectacle case (singular)? I guess the first part is that there are two of them - the lenses - as scissors and trousers and thus the prefix “a pair” of which goes with all [...]

How Could I have Not Included This Spectacled Guy…

Is Bono not of of the most famous four eyes out there and yet… have we shown him before? No. Why not? Don’t know. But here he is now and further I need to scout around for a range of his specs which are never (I think) [...]

A Sort Of Arts & Craft Furistism…
I don’t know what it is about these spectacles that make me think of Thunderbirds, the 1960’s TV series.  It may be the fact that they’re combining a view of high-tech with a hand crafted execution.  Or it may just be that Joe 90 (Thuderbirds’ stablemate) wore something like these? [...]

What To Do With Old Glasses? Paint Them…
A couple of weeks ago I showed one of Claudia Hammer’s paintings of her spectacles and she alerted me to another - which I personally prefer; as seen here.
This one asked in the accompanyig text what to do with the old glasses that Claudia has lying around from when [...]

Here’s One For Spectacles’ Image
Michael Kors (not to be confused with Caine who he distinctly looks like in this picture) designer, with new stores in NY, Chicago and London this year, is seen with Victoria Beckham.  They are both judges in the fashion version of the X Factor, Project Runway.
Apparently (Independent) kids are asking for [...]

News: But No Pictures…
MTV in India are launching thir own range of shades MTV’s and Roadies.  they are being made by Aureole Inspecs.  But so fr despite all the newson MTV and in their on-line media, there’s no pictures.Â
Any one seen them?

If You Want Them, You’ll Want Them
I haven’t got a lot to say about these.  if you want magnifiers and you wear specs you might want these.  In that case go to Maplin and buy them for just £6.99.
A clip-on spectacle eye loupe with sprung clip to attach to your spectacle frames.  Flip them up when not required. [...]