Made a bunch of new pages for the site: about my studio process journals, the Bookluck poster, the Drink Books zine popup, and a look at the making of Climate Emergency Reading Recs.
A lot of camping plans coming up — kayaking and rock climbing in the Methow valley, our first overnight trip down the John Day River in Oregon, camping with my family. And some more rock climbing.
I'm really deep in grief and rage about the coming anti-abortion legislation and all the other related fascist legislation that opens the door for too, all the climate implications. At the same time, deep in the beauty of the world: the flowers, the birds, walking in the park, floating on the rivers, the joy of collaborating with people and talking and working together to build things.
Rebecca Solnit's new project, nottoolateclimate.com
Trying to get inventory done for the anemone shop — and finding an efficent way of storing zines, and packaging up bundles for the mail. And sorting out how to stock some of our friends' zines and publications too.
My dad sent me a raspberry pi pico kit with a lot of sensors, for the purpose of us talking on the phone to collaborate and chat. When I was in eighth grade I went to a two-weekend long camp at Auburn University where we learned how to build circuits on a bread board and program on a Basic Stamp microcontroller. I remember being transfixed by reading the color codes on resistors, and the tiny numbers on transistors and capacitors and ICs. Thinking about assembly language, and programming a 0 or 1 onto an actual, miniscule, physical location on a board and all those building up to spell out letters and numbers that said something, did something! We got to bring the kit home afterwards, which led to projects with my dad, along the lines of building a "fire fighting" robot that searched a maze to find and blow out a candle. It also led me to Vanderbilt and an electrical engineering degree. I haven't made many circuits besides the plant project in the past couple years though—I don't even have a soldering iron anymore. I'm looking forward to getting back into it, playing just for fun. There's a lot of documentation!
I keep wanting to get a microscope to take pictures but I also have so many open projects that I am holding off. Need to make more sandals and mules, marble paper and fabric, make light sculptures, sew clothes. Learn more video editing, learn more electronic music making, learn more about playing bass and singing.
Speaking of documentation, trying to fill out the rest of the Spectrolite docs so we can link it live, before our June adventures. Then can keep building and improving it over time.
The All Well book I wrote with Amy, How to Sew Clothes, comes out in January and is already up for pre-order. We're in the 'reviewing the layouts' stage of things now.
Need to drop off more Cloud Land broadsides around town!