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clayfellows & other sundries

[sleepnoises]

my sculpture website is here, my sculpture mailing list is here, i've tagged some of my fun DIY tags below, and i can otherwise be contacted by leaving a message in a jar in an old stump

[othellho]

Ingram, John Henry, Flora Symbolica: The language and sentiment of flowers, (London: 1869).

[ocularshingles]

Free PDF at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

[mikkeneko]

#i was sceptical for a minute cause these illustrations don't match the plants in every case#(rounded dandelion leaves serrated willow leaves same leaves on crocus and aloe etc)#but these are the section headers NOT illustrations/representations of individual flowers#anyways. found a link. gorgeous book.

[wonderarium]

this sewing pattern just touched me while i was in the middle of reading it

[mmeadarts]

Hi i made some quilts a while ago and forgot to post them

[pmamtraveller]

Old Cat Walking by Joe L'Estrange

[chickenfarmersan]

[moldspace]

curly creature

[moldspace]

weird vases

[mydonkeyfeet]

I forget if I showed the beautiful Tyrian purple that they made in the synthesis chemistry lab that I collaborated with at the art museum. They’ve been synthesizing mostly blue pigments and dyes from throughout history. This was my first time seeing Tyrian purple in person and I was so excited!

Historically it was made from murex snails and was hugely expensive and used by royalty, but chemically it’s similar to indigo so the class was able to create it in the lab without snails.

[germanpostwarmodern]

Hill House (1903-04) in Helensburgh, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

[miss-mania]

I regularly have dreams I refer to as "Big Luca Dreams", wherein my dog Luca is very big. They are my favorite dreams.

This is how big Luca is in the Big Luca Dreams

[sleepnoises]

I've been left unsupervised near this jar

i sharpened the pencils and then put everything back

[apoemaday]

A Word on Statistics

by Wisława Szymborska tr. Joanna Trzeciak

Out of every hundred people

those who always know better: fifty-two.

Unsure of every step: almost all the rest.

Ready to help, if it doesn't take long: forty-nine.

Always good, because they cannot be otherwise: four — well, maybe five.

Able to admire without envy: eighteen.

Led to error by youth (which passes): sixty, plus or minus.

Those not to be messed with: forty and four.

Living in constant fear of someone or something: seventy-seven.

Capable of happiness: twenty-some-odd at most.

Harmless alone, turning savage in crowds: more than half, for sure.

Cruel when forced by circumstances: it's better not to know, not even approximately.

Wise in hindsight: not many more than wise in foresight.

Getting nothing out of life except things: thirty (though I would like to be wrong).

Doubled over in pain and without a flashlight in the dark: eighty-three, sooner or later.

Those who are just: quite a few at thirty-five.

But if it takes effort to understand: three.

Worthy of empathy: ninety-nine.

Mortal: one hundred out of one hundred — a figure that has never varied yet.

[sleepnoises]

have just learned the Stanford Laptop Orchestra is abbreviated SLOrk

[princecroutons]

does croutons know how to count to 4

his mind is unburdened by the concept of basically everything

[sleepnoises]

gunk has firmly entered my vocabulary as a synonym for stuff (unwieldy/pejorative) and it's not one that works in mixed company

[anarchistmemedistro]

[inchofsalt]

This includes not working for free. Shift is over and work is left to do? Leave it for the next person who is paid to take care of it. Is that you and it'll sit all weekend? Well, they should hire someone else to help with the workload. They don't pay you to worry about that.

I see this with coworkers who will stay 30 min past their shift because they don't want to leave unfinished tasks for the next person. We are chronically understaffed and the employer is not inclined to change this fact if the work is still getting done and service isn't impacted.