From the exhibition “Guex Liu, Kuu ñunro, Totlalhuan” por Fernando Palma Rodríguez — shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca. These are only a little taste of the many moving constructions. It is amazing what a creative person can do with some quality servos and a couple of Arduino boards. Sewing machines and …
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Paying Attention
There are things in the woods. Paying attention is one of the fundamental tasks of being human being. Paying attention to what’s around us is a survival skill. Paying attention keeps us from being eaten by lions, helps us to find nuts and berries, and keeps track of our mates. But it is more, it is …
It’s Still a Big Damn Country
Recently I was looking for this picture of an artfully rusted steam engine that I took during a cross-country trip in 2009. Rather than dig through the many thousands of photographs on the back-up server, I searched through the series of blog entries titled It’s a Big Dam Country that I wrote while on that road …
Nuke and Pave…
… is an old computer term for removing all of the software from the hardware and starting over again. Back when we could rm ‑rf we would occasionally find that a system had got itself into a non-recoverable state and need to be rebuilt from the ground up in order to function again. Or on …
The Pretty Girl in the Room
At certain points in every girl’s life gender politics force choices between the male world and the female world. Between girlfriends and guy friends. Between the sometimes fickle loyalty of female friends and the weirdly nonchalant allegiance of male friends. I long ago opted for the male world. Frankly, men are more fun. They have …