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A New Method For Bleaching and Toning Cyanotypes
Silver nitrate allows you to bleach and tone cyanotypes in one step, with one chemical, and without needing to wash the print after applying the silver nitrate solution.
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Intro to Sewn Book Binding Part 1: Pothi Books
Book binding is an easy entry to making. And while there are specialized book binding materials, this lesson doesn’t require any of them. In fact, if you wanted, you could pick up a pad of drawing paper and yarn at a dollar store, spending only a couple of bucks on enough materials to make a…
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The Power of DIY
There is a lot of power in DIY. One of the essential tenets of marxism is that workers are alienated from their labor. I think an essential part of our current crisis with capitalism is that this alienation goes beyond jobs. It extends to all facets of our lives. We are alienated from our food.…
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More Pu-Erh Dragonball Chromatography
While cleaning up for the Lunar New Year, I ran across more pu-erh dragonball chromatograms.
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Love, Land, and Chromatography
Last year, I learned how to do chromatography. You may be familiar with science class experiments where you apply a ground up plant or a marker to a piece of filter paper and watch as the colors in your sample separate out as capillary action carries them across the paper. In photography, chromatography is based…
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Shiitake Mushrooms
At the end of last year, I started growing my own oyster and shiitake mushrooms. Watching the shiitakes grow beyond the stage where you would normally pick them has showed me that I really didn’t know shiitakes like I thought. Their shapes can encompass so many frills and scallops that I don’t normally see in…
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On Art, Craft, and Design as Separate Disciplines
The distinctions between art, craft, and design are not universal truths that separate us from supposed lesser beings. They are not even truths shared by all human cultures throughout time. They are relatively recent inventions spread to reinforce European supremacy.
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Vegan Chicken Experiments
A few months ago, I started trying to make vegan deli meat. The goal was to make vegan, gluten free, soy free meat for sandwiches because I haven’t been able to find a substitute that accommodates all of my food allergies and intolerances.
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Criteria for Planet-Centric Design, MDes Thesis pt 4
The formal written part of thesis projects at the UIC School of Design is a thesis documentation book. See excerpts from my documentation book, including criteria for planet-centric design, as well as my full bibliography below. This is the fourth part of my Master of Design thesis project. If you have not already, go see…
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Designing With Waste, MDes Thesis pt 3
DesigningWithWaste.com grew out of frustrations with seeing awesome experimental design projects never go beyond a classroom because of a lack of infrastructure. Making matters worse, students often have to reinvent the wheel when they have an experimental design project since the industrial design community lacks a collaborative hub where people can improve upon each others’…
Author: Mari
