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Pretend it's Footwear Friday (easy for me as I'm on a Tuesday-Saturday schedule now), because I have a lovely treat from the Genesee Country Village & Museum collection. This lone slipper is all that remains of a pair, which must have been worn to a splendid party or two in the 1850s or 1860s, likely with a gown in a matching shade of pink.
Because they're easy, I might be starting my photographing efforts with all of the shoes in the collection. But I should bring a link roller for the lightbox backdrop.
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"We're gonna achieve immortality by turning ourselves into machines" buddy I want you to find yourself a 15 year old laptop and try to run a 10 year old piece of software on it please. Connect to the internet, if you can, and attempt to log into any of your online accounts
fun fact this is a big issue that museums/archives/preservation professionals run into
This is something I bring up a lot. Digital preservation is not a thing to rely on. Anything digital is inherently ephemeral, fleeting.
All current and former digital storage will eventually fail. Paper tapes and punch cards cards wear and rot. Magnetic tape and disks grow mold and shed their magnetic coating. Hard drives seize and crash, their controllers fail. Optical media scratches, rots, or simply fades. Solid state media loses its charge over time. Cloud services shut down with no warning.
Long-term digital storage is a never-ending process of copying to new media.
And then there's the problem of format.
It took less than 30 years for digital works by Andy Worhol ā one of the most popular artists of the 20th century ā to be lost to obsolete technology.
A dozen previously unknown works created by Andy Warhol have been recovered from 30-year-old Amiga disks.
We had the disks, we had the computers, we had modern emulators for the computers. But reading the images (PDF Archive) required very specific combinations of operating system and software versions, and in some cases required reverse-engineering image formats for which the correct combination of software could not be found.
This wasn't some obscure machine. Millions of Amiga computers were sold, and Amiga users are among the most dedicated to keeping the platform going long after its discontinuation.
And still the image format had to be reverse-engineered to recover Worhol's images.
How much of our culture from the past 30 years has been entirely digital?
To be fair, this isn't exactly a new problem, or even one unique to the digital era. But I do wonder what will remain for future generations looking back. How much of human history has been pieced together from shards of pottery and clay tablets? With our communications, our documents, our art all moving to digital media, what will be left of us to dig up? What will it tell of our story, of who we are, what we believed, what challenges we overcame?
Bookmark i made forever ago. Also photo from forever ago. I saw it on Pinterest and was like 'I NEED to make this' so i did. I just picked the colours and book orientation at random, whatever felt right in the moment. It's not perfect but that's what makes it perfect to me.
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if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*
this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques
oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?
and we're still building them?
while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?
uh. okay then
(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)
in some cases it goes back to colonialism. colonizers trying to put a certain aesthetic that was thought of as more valuable or attractive in a place we were trying to force to be the way we wanted.
Trying to import a new culture, and replace the old culture, bringing in the architectural ideas of the old place. ignoring the local climate and ecology
Iāll start (if thatās okay): this is finally finished. And blocked!
So I found out something when working on the cordonnet, mainly why double point de venise isnāt usually used as cordonnet even though cinq point de venise sometimes is. Itās because uneven threads are much more obvious with this as a single line of stitch over such a large area. So to counteract that, most of the stitches are interlocked. That lost some of the cabling effect but seems charming (to me) in its own right. Itās also got tension issues so I will be whipping the area first next time.
I gave silk thread another try at the sides and it went waaaay better than previously. The silk only tried to rage quit once.
I had to cut out the tacking stitches and tack it down again for the couronnes. This was a miserable experience HOWEVER I am much more confident in making couronnes overall
Basically this went infinitely better than could be expected for a sick day project done with threads about twice as thin as Iād ever used before
Anyway I had to block someone over calling this bad (???) in the ātrust the processā stage but on the other hand the person mentoring me in art only shouted at me āTRUST THE PROCESSā repeatedly so clearly the person with the masterās in art won out this time ā
I did not take a good photo of it after blocking but itās nearly completely legible
thank you! This is a fanart piece for Bellara Lutare from Dragon Age. Her brother called her hummingbird in their language, and she's a scholar. The quilt is made using her colors, and the black print was a lucky find. Her attire has loads of triangles in and on it. When i quilt this, i'll be using chalk to draw the triangle swirls, just like what the promt shows.
Iāll start (if thatās okay): this is finally finished. And blocked!
So I found out something when working on the cordonnet, mainly why double point de venise isnāt usually used as cordonnet even though cinq point de venise sometimes is. Itās because uneven threads are much more obvious with this as a single line of stitch over such a large area. So to counteract that, most of the stitches are interlocked. That lost some of the cabling effect but seems charming (to me) in its own right. Itās also got tension issues so I will be whipping the area first next time.
I gave silk thread another try at the sides and it went waaaay better than previously. The silk only tried to rage quit once.
I had to cut out the tacking stitches and tack it down again for the couronnes. This was a miserable experience HOWEVER I am much more confident in making couronnes overall
Basically this went infinitely better than could be expected for a sick day project done with threads about twice as thin as Iād ever used before
Anyway I had to block someone over calling this bad (???) in the ātrust the processā stage but on the other hand the person mentoring me in art only shouted at me āTRUST THE PROCESSā repeatedly so clearly the person with the masterās in art won out this time ā
I did not take a good photo of it after blocking but itās nearly completely legible
oh. iām sure its fine and normal that a video investigating the massive bot farm/slop channel shell company connections to the russian mafia and youtubeās own implication by allowing it to continue for profit has mysteriously vanished with no word from op.
What's been known for a long time it seems is that the parent company is owned by two Russians, based in Cyprus, and that it owns a cloud of youtube and other media channels, most of them dedicated to mindless content churning like 5 minutes crafts and a few others having done Russian propaganda such as slanted history articles.
The vid author ran a tracker that looked up the age of the commenters' *account*
This is a normal range for account ages in youtube comments:
And this is the age range for the commenter *accounts* on the 5 Minutes Craft channel: they are all newly created accounts and a majority of them are one second old.
It identifies major bot activity with the aim of creating an artificial audience, which in turns generates a huge ads revenue. This trafic and ads revenue is why the channel has a contract as an official partner with YouTube (-> massive revenue theft !)
Financially, the company is organised in offshore shell holdings that are based in money laundering countries (Seychelles, Virgin Islands). The founders were also named in the Pandora papers.
In 2020, the company, alongside other Russian Cyprus-based it companies, made a public donation that the vid author cross-referenced against a 2025 cybersecurity report, Deniability by Design, that alledged that the donation was connected to a criminal network, Vain Viper, that does ad fraud and cyberattacks.
One actor in that network was physically close to the company (office neighbirs and same lawyers) and appears to have been implicated in the hack of the Democratic National Committee.
(My original post about it, where I found the video because trying to look it up in search engines just now did not work due to 5-minute Crafts burying it under their own links: https://nerianasims.tumblr.com/post/742542007528013824/so-uh-you-know-that-horrible-stupid-dangerous.)
I don't think they mention the mafia link specifically, but they do get into the Russian propaganda and fake history stuff.
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Iāll start (if thatās okay): this is finally finished. And blocked!
So I found out something when working on the cordonnet, mainly why double point de venise isnāt usually used as cordonnet even though cinq point de venise sometimes is. Itās because uneven threads are much more obvious with this as a single line of stitch over such a large area. So to counteract that, most of the stitches are interlocked. That lost some of the cabling effect but seems charming (to me) in its own right. Itās also got tension issues so I will be whipping the area first next time.
I gave silk thread another try at the sides and it went waaaay better than previously. The silk only tried to rage quit once.
I had to cut out the tacking stitches and tack it down again for the couronnes. This was a miserable experience HOWEVER I am much more confident in making couronnes overall
Basically this went infinitely better than could be expected for a sick day project done with threads about twice as thin as Iād ever used before
Anyway I had to block someone over calling this bad (???) in the ātrust the processā stage but on the other hand the person mentoring me in art only shouted at me āTRUST THE PROCESSā repeatedly so clearly the person with the masterās in art won out this time ā
I did not take a good photo of it after blocking but itās nearly completely legible
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