In a few minutes, I’ll email you all our class picture and my comments on your final projects. It won’t be enough. What I can’t fully say is how much I learned from our discussions, how you taught me to … Continue reading
Some people asked about how to link to documents within documents. Here’s how I did it: Insert–>Object–>From File–> then basically you will just select the file, click on the little boxes “Link to File” and “Display as Icon” if you … Continue reading
Hi everybody! I’m not really sure what to say here– I have an overactive sense of nostalgia, so things like this are a little rough on me since it makes me feel like I’m never going to see anyone again, … Continue reading
Classmates: Thank you for such a warm and inspiring environment in class this semester. It was awesome to be making things with you guys and sharing them. People don’t do that enough in the wide world, is what I’ve concluded. … Continue reading
Nothing lasts forever, even this semester, and I’ve been trying to figure out for a few days now exactly how to say farewell. I’m very pleased that the last word is going to the blog, because I’ve found the blog … Continue reading
I was thinking about our discussion from the last day of class. Mostly, I like to think about that discussion because it was so open and warm and emotional. It reminded me of the last day of summer camp::: it … Continue reading
Dear Writing Materialists, I have been thinking a lot about this word encounter. It is a meeting, a meeting potentially with tension or conflict, but I choose a more positive notion of the term. It is, as the OED has defined, … Continue reading
Since I’ve been reading Johanna Drucker all semester, it seems fitting to close my comments on this blog, where we have so often discussed the challenges and surprises of making, with something Drucker says in an interview for Journal of Artists’ … Continue reading
…I think the most impressive part of this seminar was the way every week’s readings could’ve gone in a thousand different directions, precisely because we all offered lots of unique knowledge to shade them, point them up or down, and … Continue reading
As I was trying to think of a good way to begin my farewell post (which I started over a week ago), I realized — just about everything makes me think of materialities in some way or another. Just lately in … Continue reading