To the sailors I know in Edinburgh: May the Forth be with you.
shortcolin
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I'm in Edinburgh. I like designing simple technology and riding my solar e-bike - which even works in Scotland!
The newly restored gas holder in Granton was looking great in the sun today. It has been turned into a park.
Jens OhligArchivists working in digital preservation are awesome people. Knitters are also awesome people. It‘s most awesome when both groups come together in one person at Cambridge University.
These patterns are beautiful, I want all of them, and I just wish I was a better knitter.
Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But Here They Are Anyway)
I’ve been truly overwhelmed by the interest in my Digital Preservation knitting patterns — thank you to everyone who has reached out, asked about the designs, and shared their enthusiasm! It means a…
I woke up early so decided to be all smug and go to the gym while watching all the lazy people sleeping with their curtains closed. Got there a bit after 8am and there was a class full of people doing aerobics, or something: jumping around with lots of music. They were both there earlier than me and being more energetic than me: meh.
I decided that being smug was futile so watched the swans (which disappeared by the time I took this photo) instead. It has a lovely view.
Lesson: don't be smug.
Heard a lovely clicking sound while standing outside the St James shopping centre. Looked up and there were around 100 birds in the trees.
I suppose pied wagtails must like having clothes shopping and a food court nearby.
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Lori Emerson📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order!
This a speculative index of communications networks, a love letter to experimental art & technology, & a liberatory guide for escaping the corporate present. Many of you know that, for years, I have been compiling and cataloguing a history of communications networks, one full of alternatives to the monolithic, surveilled internet as we now know it. The result is this compendium of possibilities that existed before or outside of the internet and a tribute to their experimental use by artists, covering everything from pirate radio to barbed wire telegraph, from synthesizers that transmitted over the telephone to encoded messages bounced off the surface of the moon.
Because of the hard work and creative genius of Mark Iosifescu, Jesse Pollock, and everyone at Anthology Editions; Robert Beatty who made the breathtaking cover and section designs; and Ella Gold for book design, OTHER NETWORKS is also a feat of beautiful design. And as if that weren't enough, the talented @jomc wrote the Foreword and the legendary @hrheingold wrote the epilogue. So, so many people to thank, including many of YOU, for making this happen! https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook
418 I'm a TeapotCosta Talalaev, friend and inventor, explains how the 3D printed heat exchanger works. Ventilation and dehumidification minimising heat loss. Consumes about 2.5W of power. Otherwise you would have to spend a couple of orders of magnitude more to replace lost heat. Great for homes in cold, damp climates.
He is also working on a version for boats, of course :)
$30 3D printed window heat exchanger DIY- Heat and dehumidify for cents per day
Madeleine Shepherd"It's not cheating; it's just different!"
That's the name of the talk I'm giving at The Woolly Good Gathering in Edinburgh on 4 April. I'll be extolling the virtues of machine knitting to the hand knitting community. Tickets here
https://www.woollygood.co.uk/events/talk-machine-knitting-madeleine-shepherd
That's the name of the talk I'm giving at The Woolly Good Gathering in Edinburgh on 4 April. I'll be extolling the virtues of machine knitting to the hand knitting community. Tickets here
https://www.woollygood.co.uk/events/talk-machine-knitting-madeleine-shepherd
TALK: "It's not cheating; it's just different" - a machine knitter's apology — Woolly Good
I've often heard machine knitting referred to as "cheating". In this talk I'd like to present the case for considering it as a separate craft with its own skills and traditions. We'll have a tour of historical knitting machines and look at the 20th century boom in domestic machine knitting