HALT AND CATCH FIRE SYLLABUS 🔥
This has been on my mind for a long time, and now it's a real thing!
I would like it if you watched something I made about how the web and I grew up together (only if you have 15 uninterrupted minutes to spare). https://ashleyblewer.com/throttled.html
Tuesday, May 24 is Breadboard Night at Iffy Books! We’ll have plenty of breadboards, electronic components, and example circuits for y’all to play with. No curriculum or goal, just a chance to hang out and tinker. Stop by 5–8 PM.
This event is free! If you build a circuit you want to keep, you can pay for the parts and take it home.
@ashley i don’t love fb of course but given that this tool can be used with many different file formats you might get some mileage out of it: https://github.com/facebookarchive/codemod
first blog post of 2022 about how I'm accidentally in the middle of publishing an (illustrated) book WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2022/05/09/accidentally-making-a-book-video-format-illustrations/
please click on the gramophone at the bottom of https://maya.land/konmari/ and appreciate what a glorious loser i am
Glowing clothes from 1965, made with phosphorescent rosary beads, by Roberto Capucci.
"It has to do with Capucci's vision of the woman of the future: 'I saw her entering a dark nightclub like a lunar apparition.'" - LIFE, October 1965
Source: https://irenebrination.typepad.com/irenebrination_notes_on_a/2018/05/capucci-1965-rosary-beads.html
"Art and TV are no longer two different things. They're equally tedious. The geometry of the one's devitalized the other (find out what kind of bad habits you have); TV's vibrating field's shaken our arts to pieces. No use to pick them up. Get with it: Someday artists will work with capacitors, resistors & semi-conductors as they work today with brushes, violins and junk"
John Cage, somewhen between 1963 and 1967
While I was away sleeping through a burnout storm, I left my digipres consulting job, started a new tech job, accidentally started writing (drawing?) a book, started building an aura-reader for two, started running and stopped running, started yoga and stopped yoga, switched from an iphone to a pixel, read books
Translations are coming to the A/V Artifact Atlas! Here's a quick write-up of how I made space in the Jekyll-based site https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/blog/2021/07/27/translations-for-the-av-artifact-atlas/
current developer & former a/v archivist with too many extracurricular activities; username ablwr in other places on the world wide web; your internet girlfriend