“I believe in the core of my being is that art can help reach people where political rhetoric and facts can’t. There’s something magical about identifying with a fictional character, or getting swept up in a story, or just being shocked by a piece of weird art into seeing things in a different way.”
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“How can queer art help us to survive, and maybe even fight back, during this bloody awful moment in history?
I’ve been asking myself some version of this question non-stop for ages, but I still don’t have any clear answers. What I do have is a bone-deep sense that we need to be twice as wild, twice as flagrantly ourselves — and at least three times as experimental, honest, and weird as before.”
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“The best time to establish alternative, non-algorithmic networks of communication & affinity was five years ago.
The second best time is today!”
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“The best time to establish alternative, non-algorithmic networks of communication & affinity was five years ago.
The second best time is today!
Over the years, I’ve distributed many zines through the mail. Those have been one-off productions, which is to say, pageants of minor chaos, always with the sense, as the last zine went out the door, of skidding into home plate.
The best time to establish alternative, non-algorithmic networks of communication — to forge durable links in physical space — to insist upon the democratic necessity of a muscular, universal postal service — was five years ago.
The second best time is today.”
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I’ve always wanted one of those living willow houses. I finally realized it was beyond me and ordered this gazebo greenhouse kit – assembled it without the plastic exterior and grow vines on it.
Last year I didn’t put down enough seeds, but this year we planted many more and I bought a clematis (the green vine you see here.)
It may take some trial and error to get the right effect.
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Rand’s face took on a pained expression. “I don’t know.” He sounded embarrassed. “When I want fire, for a lamp or a fireplace, I just make it, but I do not know how. I don’t really need to think to do things with fire.” That almost stood to reason. Of the Five Powers, Fire and Earth had been strongest in men in the Age of Legends, and Air and Water in women; Spirit had been shared equally. Egwene hardly had to think to use Air or Water, once she had learned to do a thing in the first place. But the thought did not further their purpose.
The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time Book 4)
Rand is pretty much every author trying to explain how they write fiction.
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Rare Roots – a resource to find native perennials by US State.
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Zines may seem simple, but it still takes time and iteration to get them just right. Especially for color. I took extra time this month because March’s zine features one of my exhibiting artworks. This is just a laser print, but with some minor adjustments it’s popping off the page.
