Cyanotype Presentation Version 1.2

Hello friends. I would like to share with you a slide presentation and some links to help you learn how to create cyanotypes on fabric (or paper, if you prefer). I have presented this information for several groups of quilters, and we always come up with more fun ideas while we’re talking. I encourage you to explore on your own, and please share the results!

Cyanotypes on Fabric (PDF, 6.3 MB) - click here to download

Slide notes (PDF, <1MB) - click here to download

Links from the presentation (Word document, less than 1 MB) - click here to download

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Were you looking for a sign? Here's a sandwich.

The Sandwich Dream

I was talking with a friend about how hard it is to do creative work and make yourself vulnerable by showing your work to the world. My friend said they’d gotten to where they couldn’t make anything for fear of other people thinking it was crap. I sympathized with my friend and said, here’s a symbol in the form of a sandwich. The sandwich was a big juicy corned beef thing on rye with pickles and mustard, a real five-napkin event. I pushed it toward my friend and told them it was okay to eat. They dove in with both hands and open mouth.

My friend was so hungry, and the sandwich was right there. They were just waiting for permission to eat.

End of Sandwich Dream

So if you’re wondering whether you should make / say / do / dance / sing / try the thing because you’re worried people might think it’s crap, here’s a sandwich. You have permission to eat it.

It comes with a pickle.

Can we make the sandwich a symbol for permission to create? It is written. So it must be.

Here’s a bunch more sandwiches. (images linked to sources where available)

p.s. The Cube Rule of sandwich identification

Why You and I Are Here Right Now

Austin Kleon said that Lawrence Wechsler said, “The world keeps showing me these pictures.”

Things are changing, as they always do.

Can blogging rebuild America?

I’m not talking about all of us launching political blogs. I’m talking about reigniting our independent spaces once again. Turning up the volume on our individual voices and real-life stories, sharing our values…creating an alternative to the mass media (now social media) messages and memes that keep floating to the top.

Tavi Gevinson, creator of Rookie, says farewell - for now. There is far too much of note here to summarize in a block quote, so please take time to read the whole thing. Here’s Jason Kottke’s take.

Social media: It’s fun until it isn’t.

Facebook’s tipping point of bad behavior?

Julia Carrie Wong, senior technology reporter for The Guardian, on Twitter:

But this Soros thing is different. This is no passive failure. It’s a malevolent action taken against groups who criticize Facebook for things that Facebook admits it has failed at. It takes advantage of and contributes to the most poisonous aspects of our public discourse.

What does Facebook consider its single biggest threat?

According to an email written by exec Sam Lessin in 2012 addressed to Zuckerberg, it's not one rival site or app — it's lots of them.

"The number one threat to Facebook is not another scale social network, it is the fracturing of information / death by a thousand small vertical apps which are loosely integrated together," he wrote.

Another way to look at it: Facebook’s biggest threat is a diversity of experience using the Internet. Facebook’s biggest threat is anything that isn’t Facebook. What if Facebook’s biggest threat was people taking a walk?

And the primary reason I’m typing this on this page right now:

Sayonara Tumblr. Tumblr has decided to ban all adult content. Including a bunch of stuff that isn’t adult content. Was I on Tumblr for the pr0n? Who cares? I was on Tumblr for the free expression. Tumblr was a safe space to talk about things I can’t publicly discuss elsewhere. But now it’s being made safe for the children. (sarcasm mine)

The sad decline of Tumblr

Tumblr's Porn Ban Reveals Who Controls What We See Online

Tumblr's Porn-Detecting AI Has One Job—and It's Bad at It

All about Tumblr adult ban, alternative platforms, and more (updated as new info arises)

The adult content ban on Tumblr (and elsewhere) disproportionately affects sexual/gender nonconformity? SHOCKER (again, sarcasm mine)

What these “pictures” are saying to me: It’s time to take back control of our content. Re-embrace the decentralized web. As Amanda Palmer puts it, We are the media. I did quit Tumblr. I quit Twitter. I am not quitting Instagram or Facebook (not right now, anyway). Those sites are still powerful communication tools for me. We’ll see…

Patreon is working like gangbusters, particularly as a direct line between myself and the people who want to support what I do. I’ll use it until it no longer serves that function.

And I have sarahatlee.com. This is my house. I will now commence to posting whatever I choose. I don’t care if it makes sense. I don’t care if it’s on brand. I don’t care if you “like” it.

Vaya con carne!

xoxo s