Hold me!

katherine, 23, peas and beans

[magpiegirlforever]

[chantssecrets]

A lapis lazuli bird bead talisman from the ancient Sino-Siberian or from the ancient Western Asiatic, Bactrian culture.

1st Millennium AD or older 

[plumslices]

Sawkille Company/Hatfield Case

blue pigment stain, cast brass, nickel silver, bison bone, ebony, salvaged copper, silver leaf

[sixpenceee]

[jetix]

2026-05-30

[keentrousers]

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

[artistofthefloatingworld]

miscellaneous sculptures by Ruben Raven imitating filet crochet

[tethered-heartstrings]

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

[unteriors]

Rankin Street, Branchland, West Virginia.

[e14jxx]

— Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis

[slightlyoffaxis]

muybridge horse, manual typewriter

[0uu0]

I spent the month before my wedding (it was last saturday!) working on this huge angelgotchi tapestry to display at our reception! Really pleased with how it came out <3

[kitkatpancakestack]

WE HAVE GOT TO START LOVING THE PROCESS MORE THAN THE PRODUCT AGAIN

[tearsareinyoureyes]

Suwannee river. Low water levels, but the rainy season is back.

[tearsareinyoureyes]

I want everyone to know what Florida is like. Blackwater, sandy bottom rivers and crystal clear, crisp and cold spring fed rivers, both towered by limestone and oak trees. I like to tell myself the golden water in karst rivers and streams like these are healing and magical. It softens my hair and my skin, my feelings become gentle with more understanding. False indigo, native azaleas, sparkleberry and pine, oak and false indigo and river birch lead the way to cypress trees with webbed knees overhead. This drought has been long, exposing limestone and roots in the deep bluffs. And still there are fish to pass by, birds to look up to, and fireflies with their single goal. My single goal is to remember what it feels like here forever, because it won’t be here that long.

[mofohngo]

La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico

[deep-link-plata]

The dolls and her sisters are here to play