Dear Materialities of Writing, I used to write letters ALL the time, before the internet. I was a teenager in the early to mid-nineties, when there was internet–but none for me, until 1998. I’ve had this Stuff On My … Continue reading
Being able to convert the horrors of a missing aircraft into a silly, aeroplane-shaped word cloud seems horrific and insensitive, after the fact. Prior to this activity, I had spent two hours creating a technology-manifesto-word-cloud on Wordle, but Java … Continue reading
I made a Complement Bot (@flatterysuitsu), and it works, in the spreadsheet, but I can’t get it to actually send the tweets to the Twitter account. So, here’s a few screenshots of spreadsheet previews, so you can get the idea: … Continue reading
The Sherman reading got me thinking about what kind of books I feel okay defacing. Most any book I buy, I deface with my thoughts, unless it’s an art book or something pricey like that. Library books, though, sometimes stop … Continue reading
Testing…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:”Calibri”,”sans-serif”; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; … Continue reading
I found this at my family home during my last visit, inside a communal desk crammed full of pens, pencils and old notebooks, for the taking. My stepdad was a firefighter in the forest service 40some years ago, but he … Continue reading
For this week’s signment I decided to pick materials that would make writing difficult, in addition to emphasizing their materiality. I was thinking about how often writing utensils fail me ( I usually use cheap, found pens and pencils) and … Continue reading
Precious paper I did not have, so I opted for a photograph. Not an old photograph, not a photograph I don’t have the negative for, not even a photograph housing beloved faces. The photograph I chose is precious because it … Continue reading