@phoenixdragon1
Composer, poet, book artist, printmaker, letterpress, graphics, recording studio, photography, type designer. Pan/poly/neurodivergent/queer. arthurdurkee.bandcamp.com www.patreon.com/ArthurDurkee arthurdurkeearts.crevado.com
Two blank notebooks now finished using kettle stitch binding and origami-paper caseboard covers, to be donated to a fundraiser this weekend. I refined my technique even more and the green book came out flawless. Bookbinding is very satisfying.
#design #bookart #bindery #kettlestitchbinding
2/ and Dan Gibson’s natural sound recordings. Spellbinding synthesizer soundscapes mixed with recordings of natural sounds. So incredibly influential, but also just an incredible experience to listen to. A huge influence on my own music making, as well as many others.
#wendycarlos
Wendy Carlos: Sonic Seasonings
I have been looking for this sonic masterpiece on CD for two decades. I have the original vinyl and played it often. This is either a precursor of both ambient music (what we now call) sound design, or it’s the first of its kind. It prefigures both New Age music 1/
On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced a new initiative that would lead to more unhoused veterans being forced into guardianships.
It's part of a long history of poor disabled people's civil liberties being threatened.
Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them.
"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"
Following up on my workshop last night on teaching kettle stitch binding, I needed to make one more blank notebook to donate to a fundraiser this Saturday. I am donating two blank notebooks. Tonight was smooth and easily accomplished, so I feel like I know what I’m doing now. Practice.
Over time Rex has become one of my favorite characters.
Screen shot of a post by Bernie Sanders that lists media companies owned by one family.
I was going to say "unbelievable" but it's actually not.
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"
The 3 genders
I’m glad someone else noticed and said this. The desperation to be relevant is why I have no use for “influencers.” They claim to be populist but many are clearly professionals. That’s a lie I have no use for.
Also, I refuse to watch a 20 minute vid about things I can read about and absorb in 5.
What she said and also the whole thread.
Teaching kettle stitch bookbinding tonight was really terrific. It’s a complicated loop and knot bindery technique to learn, but people did well at it. There was a family of kids and they were smart, interested and talented, they did superbly well at it, and had excellent questions. Well done, all!
Well, us queer poet witches live by the Knowing, aka intuition. I hadn’t thought about it till now, but I guess that’s why people don’t play Battleship with me anymore, even though I have the Pirates of the Caribbean edition.
Incredible to read the sermon I heard on Sunday summed up so succinctly here...
One of the worst results created by northern European colonizers in the tropics was to import their body-shaming, s3xually uptight repressions about natural relaxed native nvdity, and their attitudes that the fl3sh is sinful while the spirit is “pure.”
A Great Motto for Witches!
Apparently my body has decided to go hyperosmic today, don’t ask me why. *
So today is a day for REAL Tea. As in loose leaf, steeped in boiling water.
* (For one with constant sinus problems it’s bizarre to have such a good sense of smell; but then my ND pattern is all about heightened senses.)
No the clocks have not actually changed because they have not shifted Stonehenge yet
I see Terry Matalas got a special Saturn Award. I don’t care what he does in the future, it could be zero, but I say he deserves it for making this moment happen, & making me ugly cry more than any other media has in recent years. Thank you sir. (Also how was this 3 years ago??) #Picard #StarTrekTNG
Trump says he won’t sign any other bills until the SAVE Act is passed, which requires voters to show proof of citizenship with expensive documents like passports.
Reminder: noncitizen voting is already illegal and incredibly rare. This is about voter suppression, plain and simple.
I’ve this chronic illness pain scale chart very useful for getting the idea across.
“Luna” means “Moon” in Latin, that’s all. By that logic, Earth’s proper name is Gaea. We live on a planet named a thousand names in a thousand languages, likewise the Moon. Claiming one is more correct doesn’t really say anything except that the speaker thinks one language dominates all others.
even false spring brings
forth bicyclists and runners,
shirtless in the sun
#spring #outdoors #mokuhanga
Even if you are 100% convinced that Democracy is already dead and our votes won't count...
PLEASE VOTE ANYWAY!
I'm begging everyone. There is a critical mass of voter turnout that will be too big to fix.
Please vote, no matter how bleak it seems.
Who is it for?
Literally everyone. For everyone who felt physics wasn’t for them. For the math anxious. For people who see whole universes in Langston Hughes poems. For the non-binary kids who didn’t know the neutrino was kinda like them. 🧪
More on this here:
Seconded.
Both Twilight Zone and Night Gallery were constant social commentary disguised as fiction across several genres.
A favorite place of mine, a required stop before driving on. Endlessly beautiful.
Also: forest lords and hunter gods and green men are kinda my thing.
Wait. What’s going on here. That quote about music being my real religion, that is SO ME. It’s why I stayed singing in Lutheran church choir for a few years after leaving the church. Music is my core.
Also, everything else they said to you about you was like they said it to me too. WTF
