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I make art, I make tech, I make art with and about tech

An unspooled, unbound coil of silver PLA 3D-printer filament is slung over an empty green bottle in a vain attempt to corral it while I attempt, mostly unsuccessfully, to wind it by hand onto a cardboard spool.
Suave Tuxedo Bugs Bunny: I wish all [video essayists] a very [stop dropping genre-redefining bombshells until I am caught up on my own work]
A small boule of gluten-free artisan bread, nestled in brown parchment paper inside a red Dutch oven. It has just been pulled from the oven and the crust is deeply bronzed where the loaf was scored; some flour marks from the proving basket are visible.
(From page 71 of Saving Time) He was obsessed with measuring and ranking all kinds of things. In the memoir, Galton casually describes his efforts to make a "Beauty-Map" of the British Isles, for which he used a needle to secretly prick holes in a piece of paper listing "good," "medium," and "bad": "I used this plan for my beauty data, classifying the girls I passed in the streets or elsewhere as attractive, indifferent, or repellent," he writes. Other grading schemes of Galton's were more serious. In his book Hereditary Genius, he describes…
Screenshot of the DaVinci Resolve scripting console with the output “Hello World”; the language is set to Lua
Page from the book User Friendly by Cliff Kuang; highlighted text reads: As a student at Carnegie Mellon, he helped design a robot programmed with an agenda: as it offered you snacks, it detected what you chose and tried to coax you into healthier choices— "Cookies again, huh?" It had an LED capable of expressing a subtle frown of judgment. Glaser was still facing the same challenge: How do you build a smart robot that doesn't freak people out?
A hardcover library book, Ashley Shew’s “Against Technoableism: rethinking who needs improvement”
“It knew that the age of its average customer was forty-six. Two-thirds of its customers were men in well-paid jobs, married with no children. They wanted to be Clive Owen, driving a plush car with Madonna in the back seat. As for the women, many of them probably wouldn't have minded being driven around by him.” (Excerpt from the book Tell Everyone, by Alfred Hermida.)
The heel of a black pair of tights with a large “ladder” emanating in two directions from a nasty hole
A work-in-progress semi-circular lace shawl on circular knitting needles, along with the remaining ball of yarn. The hand-painted yarn produces a radial gradient from red at the centre through pink and orange to bright yellow at the current edge of the work; the rest of the yarn still to be knit features speckled blue-grey and hints of purple.
Original post by @nsqe: “Friendly reminder there isn’t an algorithm here so your cutesy-wootsy nicknames and misspellings of Trump and Musk don’t do anything but prevent mute and block functions from working for those of us who are so so so tired.” Each word is punctuated by the grinning face emoji.
Clockwise from top left: technical line illustration of the front view of a dress with cap sleeves, a sweetheart neckline, full skirt, and pockets; stylized fashion sketch of the same dress in soft pink; a closeup photograph of the pink lace used in the dress, technical illustration featuring an open back detail
Head-and-shoulders photo of the designer in a white lace mask, modeling a beige mesh gauntlet with white trim, embellished with 3D lace flower appliqués. Her hand is held at the side of her face to showcase the details of the gauntlet.
Two multicoloured quilted placemats on a black coffee table; the design has rays of bright pinks, yellows, and blues (some solid colour and some patterned) emanating from a dark slope, evoking a sunset or burst of lights. The corner and some of the binding is a fabric printed with multicoloured outlines of hands.
Overhead close-up photo of a holiday platter of homemade gluten-free donuts in assorted sizes, decorated in richly saturated red, green, and white icing.
Overhead view of a spiral-bound sketchbook surrounded by gel printmaking supplies. The sketchbook is open to a page with a rough black-and-white print featuring several lines of Lorem Ipsum text in different fonts and sizes, a polka-dot pattern, a five-pointed star, and an image of the artist wearing a mask; handwritten notes with details about the printing technique accompany the image.
An un-fired bowl on the table of a paint-your-own-ceramics studio. The bowl is white and its interior is painted with a pattern of green, mauve, and brown dots.
Monotype print reading “hello world” in block capital letters, on two lines. The letters are squished together and overlapping, but the paint is slightly translucent so the outlines of each letter are mostly visible. The background of the print is a pale lime green with binary code (zeroes and ones) in a terminal typeface; the word “hello” is printed in neon pink paint, and “world” is printed in black. The paint did not transfer cleanly in some places so the overall vibe is kinda grungy and rough.
Screenshot of a library catalog search for author “Russell, Bertrand”, with the unhelpful suggestion “Did you mean *russell brand*? View 20 results”