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Belated Photo

So on my last day of work Todd gave me a present to remember Cushing by: a framed set of our original designs for the DTS banners. He sent some of the photos yesterday, but this is my favorite...

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The funny thing about my fandoms

Is that the Cap 2 trailer makes me want to sit down and start writing academic papers about popular representations of government policies in comics and the stills of X-Men: Days of Future Past make me...

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Kenyon Review Workshop, Day 1

There are a hundred students in this round of workshops; there are four workshops of poetry, three of fiction, two of creative nonfiction, and then the lone "literary/book arts hybrid" class I'm...

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Kenyon Review Workshop, Day 2

So to start off with, for some reason they decided to have an art studio class without providing aprons OR telling students to bring their own. Because printing ink washes out of nothing, ever, I...

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Kenyon Review Workshop, Day 3

Today was a bit more low-key than previous. I've finally gotten myself into a more or less focused mindset: projects in mine, strategies in place. I spent half the afternoon in the studio marbling...

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Kenyon Review Workshop, Day 4

So tired: I was in the studio all day and now I'm trying to finish some text for the books I want to finish tomorrow. Here, have a sneak peek:

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Kenyon Review Workshop, Day 5

A quick post of more sneak peeks of my work for the studio show tomorrow--I was working until 10:45 there tonight trying to get things done!!!!Funny story: I'd been texting Todd pictures of things as...

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Kenyon Review Workshop, Day 6

Very tired after today's art show, so a quick post:This was my table display with the work I did this week:I got a number of kind comments from visitors, including one from a woman I shared the airport...

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Kenyon Review Workshop, Day 7

This morning was the last day of workshop, and in an hour I'll catch the shuttle to the airport and thence home. Some last photographs:We had book-decorated cupcakes as a final farewell.We also made...

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Sometimes, just sometimes, they make your 'ship canonical

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Query

Working on my Maleficent paper, and.... is it just me, or do her wings in glass recall the good ol' diagram of women's reproductive organs? I mean, sometimes the Sacred Feminine is just the Sacred...

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Such Happy

Via Feminist Jamie Fraser Tumblr.

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I just brought my Baby home!!!!!!

That's 2100 lbs of awesome. Also three cabinets of type in the background...

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More squee

Tonight I got to spend some quality time organizing my job cases into the type cabinets. There's still a stack to go, amongst many other things, but still!!!!!

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Lookit What I Made!!!

Made these at a workshop at Virgin Wood Type. I actually find making wood type more stressful than making metal type because with the machines you can't actually see what you are doing. >_< You...

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Puppy Pic-Spam!

A few weeks ago we adopted a new puppy to be a little sister for Bilbo; we named her Rey because she is tiny and has so much attitude. Prepare yourself for the cute.

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Bookmark: Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Talking Robotic Head With Ringlets

Text-To-Speech in 1846 Involved a Talking Robotic Head With RingletsMeet the Euphonia, a machine that boasted the ability to replicate human speech.The Euphonia was the product of 25 years of research...

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Today in I am Ridiculous

The new WoW update included lots of new options for transmogs for gear. After way too much time thinking and playing, I got my Level 100 Blood Elf Hunter some sexy new gear:SO PRETTY. SO BADASS.*is so...

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A Brief Report on Last Week

Last week I was at Wells College for their Summer Book Arts Institute, this time taking a course on punchcutting. A punch is the first stage in making a matrix, or mold, that can then be used to make...

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Super brief Hamilton notes

More pics forthcoming later, but today was Hamilton day! First we did the full pilgrimage, going to Trinity Church to see the Hamilton family and Hercules Mulligan's graves, then going to Federal Hall...

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The Outlander Printing Post No One Wanted

I have waited three years to make this post, ISTFG.This one is from 3x05 "Freedom and Whiskey." Apparently they made two common presses and sent Sam Heughan to "printing school" so he could operate...

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The screencap from STD I really needed

These anonymous Fleeter girls dancing together.Everyone else dancing in this scene is a couple of some kind. Just <3

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This amused me

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A Visit to the Int'l Printing Museum!

I survived my conference and it went well! So of course we had to go to the International Printing Museum because, uh, have you met me?We got to pull prints on this replica Gutenberg press!...

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How Dare You, Captain Pike

 Photo from behind the scenes of the season finale of Discovery, in which Anson Mount has his Captain's jacket open and I feel so attacked.How DARE you, sir. HOW DARE.

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