just let me weave

Finnish | 1993 | Textiles and gardening

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[oldshrewsburyian]

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

[doctordune]

[canmom]

I've had trouble tracking down the original photographers, but these mostly appear to be pictures of the blast furnaces in Belgium (called things like Haut-Fourneau 4/6/B etc.); here are some other pictures of HFB, of HF4 Charlenoi, and some of HF6 Seraing, by other urban explorers. the first picture is probably cables for an arc furnace, I saw one Instagram post claim it was in Canada but it didn't seem to be the original.

[cosmicanger]

Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel , Embroidered quilt with common flax plant, sticky flax plant, narrow-leaved flax plant, mottled grasshopper, meadow grasshopper, Moroccan grasshopper and bobbin, 2024, Cotton and polyester thread on linen fabric, cotton batting , 168 x 140 cm

[plantcomic]

first ll prev ll next in july! COMICFURY MIRROR Want to read a mediaval plant au? Because I made one. This is the link.

It's still a week for midsummer, let's celebrate early. I've been going insane overr this. I've written a love confession chapter like 5 times over the years and all of them have been vastly different... Scary to nail down one iteration and decide that'll do.

[calcifiedred]

"Diver," 2026. Photo transfers onto cotton, freshwater pearls, fish hook, thread, colored pencil, gloss medium, gloss gel. dimensions: slightly smaller than my hand :)

[holespoles]

Jun’ichiro Sekino, 1914-1988 "Lovesick Cat"

関野準一郎「恋猫 love sick cat」木版画

[cottaegecore]

schedule for the week

[victoriantomodern]

Detail of vault with flowers and birds, Archiepiscopal Palace Chapel (interior), mosaic, c. 494-519, Palazzo arcivescovile di Ravenna (Ravenna, Italy) (JSTOR)

[aurpiment]

“It’s easy to assume”: someone’s misconception is about to be amiably corrected

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

“It’s comforting to assume”: someone’s assumption is going to be read for filth

[homunculus-argument]

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

[sobcat]

people who do a PhD are running from something

[petits-pois-carcinogenic]

the job market

[todays-xkcd]

Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are.

Nostalgia Content [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball is standing, with his arms out, in front of a Prototaxite towering over a mossy landscape. To his right, a Tamagotchi (bottom-left) and milk-caps (referred to in this comic as "pogs", top-left) appear. The 3 milk-caps that can be seen show a skull with a snake through its eyeball, a figure 8 & a star (3 more milk-caps are also shown, but have obscured pictures).] Cueball: Who else remembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of Prototaxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep?

[Caption below the panel:] Due to a database error, millennial nostalgia now includes a portion of the early Devonian.

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Good time to bring this back.

[likalinea]

shihoko fukumoto, tea room: mist, 1990 - fukumoto once said her aim is expressiveness that is profound within the constraints of a single colour. tea room: mist (1990) is exactly that / indigo only, silk gauze only, and yet somehow a moon, a horizon, mist. View on Instagram

[sesamie]

“Spontaneous Combustion” (54″ x 77″) by Amy Meissner Wool, cotton, vintage domestic linens. Machine pieced, hand embroidered & appliquéd, hand quilted, 2013.

[yesterdaysprint]

The Waco Times-Herald, Texas, June 19, 1936

[192929020202020]

[napalmdebt]

[firagasoap]

Broccoli Knuckle Duster by David Delahunty

[ma-gpie]