Please Don't Squeeze The Shaman

Today it was announced by close friends of Cat Frazier that she had passed away on Monday, June 29.

She had been running @animatedtext since 2012, with her impact on the internet SHAPING tumblr. If you have a years long history on this site, you’ve seen her art.

She ran a venue in Oakland called Oakland Secret, a punk venue where I’d vend at regularly as an artist. She made a safe space for queer artists, artists of color, and local furs too. I am forever grateful for her work both in the Bay Area creative scene and online, and am forever changed by the totality of her impact.

I’ll be linking some articles from the 2010’s about her impact online: The Fader | Action | Jezebel | ObviouslySocial

I invite you to take a visit through her archive, and if you have a long history with this site like I do, it’s like walking down memory lane.

"I thought I’d post an interesting project I just completed that began as a joke. I call it the Gluten Obscura. One of my favorite things to do in my free time is to build wood wet plate cameras true to the originals, but when talking with a friend, I joked that it would be funny to build one out of a loaf of bread… then my gears started to turn and now here we are.

Using a loaf of country bread as the camera body, I dried it out to make a hard box. I then took the bread from the inside of the loaf and turned it into charcoal on my blacksmith forge to make a black powder that I could then use to make a black paste to fill in light leaks. I used a small pillbox landscape lens and messed up my math on focal length, so the image is out of focus, but hey I got an image using a camera made out of a single loaf of bread."