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I’ve started on a big tatting project, and I’ve realized I can just about finish one sample per day. It’s a good feeling! . . . to be stretched but also find out what’s doable. 🖼️ 🧶
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Picking back up with learning bobbin lace 🎨🧶
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Really enjoyed listening to the Tuva Halse Quintet these last couple weeks . . . that trumpet/violin blend!! 👌 Another gem from Bandcamp’s monthly “best of” posts.
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Wow, the last 2 minutes of this video! I love the way these musicians work together (and can’t wait for them to come back to US on tour sometime)
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Anyone have advice about a good color desktop printer? Looking for fairly high quality, to print out things like cards, zines, and booklets. Older/“dumber” models preferable because I’d like one without its own app, AI features, etc. if possible 😑
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the tatted postage experiment begins . . . 🧶🖼️
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🎵 Listening: Air for Violin and Piano by Aaron Jay Kernis.
Really happy to rediscover this today. For me, it’s in a sweet spot of twentieth-century Classical music where every beautiful chord feels hard-won. But really, what a wistful and beautiful piece!
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A pile of tatting. 🧶
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Wow!! This wood carving! www.julienfeller.com
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One of today’s best finds at the Met: a box made mostly from thin translucent panels of amber. (!!!) Just incredible. (Didn’t get any more details about where/when it was made, unfortunately, but somewhere in Northern Europe, at least a hundred years ago)
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Tatting update 🧶 (following this fantastic pattern by Robin Perfetti)
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A few years in, this album still holds up! Such fun, joyous tracks 😌
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I’m quite pleased with how this plastic heat-bending job turned out! (The pieces aren’t finished yet, but this was the major roadblock step) 🎨
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While I’m thinking about less-famous paintings, here’s my favorite John Singer Sargent painting (and also one of my favorite landscapes ever) 🎨
Simplon Pass, 1911, at the US National Gallery of Art
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I’ve already thought that Edvard Munch gets short shrift when people only know him for The Scream, but yesterday I was introduced to yet another (really beautiful) facet of his work 🎨
h/t Robin Sloan’s fabulous newsletter
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A pretty remarkable article:
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Commute
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Petals fallen onto the plants below them feels like a natural version of abstraction . . . at least to this abstract painter!
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golden moment in downtown Brooklyn
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Whew, doing this with thick wire is another level! 🎨🎨
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Just a lovely little composition I walked by:
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. . . and, 🎨 Day 30!! Interactive toy-like projects lead us back to my latest book, which is also a playable marble maze. Here’s a (rough-cut!) video:
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🎨 Day 29
Light Toys, 2019 Here I was trying to make objects which could be played with—but which didn’t read so explicitly as childlike.
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🎨 Day 28
I followed up the last installation by making a set of extra-fancy building blocks . . . but I wanted to leave the funnest part—putting them together—entirely up to viewers and not to me. Here are some of the setups my classmates made:
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