Erica Heinz

a handmade marionette monster photographed in front of a snowbank. it has long arms with branch-like hands, a long neck with a false human face & a lower jaw like a sperm whale, & is dressed in all white/off-white lace & rags with pearl accents. watermark says "Ezra Rose"

a close up of the face of the marionette with its open jaw & teeth visible below.

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Google search for "first iphone", with one of the autocomplete options being "iphone 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

I love whoever searched for iPhone 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Upgrading my phone to the iOS 26 developer beta just to get the new spam filtering features 🤞

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

Cold bomb = juice of a lemon, clove of garlic, slice of ginger, dash of cayenne, blended in a cup of coconut water and strained

I was sneezing all day yesterday but I did my witches brew (zinc spray, cold bomb, and nyquil) and it worked! Slept 12 hours and feel all better 🙂

My new favorite meditation is feeling my pulse throughout my whole body. Following the breath never worked for me, it’s too slow. It’s wild to feel this wavy thudding that is constantly going, but simply tuned out.

I start my new job in two weeks on October 6.

It’s a year-long contract (fully remote) for $180k, which works for me b/c it gets me exactly what I need & allows me to accomplish a helluva lot.

Also, a reminder: if you’re a Black software engineer, DM me b/c they’re still recruiting to fill spots.

My VO2 max dropped below my age, boooo

They should just rename it the clickbait section

Wondering why my sun spots are back even though I had them lasered off, and realizing that my SPF 30 face lotion says “reapply every two hours” just like every single other sunscreen …

Last chance to speak out against the Coney Island casino proposal is this Weds 9/10. They’re also reading all emails and comments!

If you love the boardwalk, the art, the rides, the old school NYC culture, say something.

Example of a mystery grid puzzle, with tips for how to complete it (filled squares scrambled on the left, to be copied into the empty grid on the right). Preview page by Outside the Lines lesson designs.

I just made a whole packet of mystery grid drawing puzzles for my UX grad students (to sharpen their eyes) and I am so excited to give them out. They get to draw a WOLF and a TIGER and a PEGASUS! Lots of fun ones at www.teacherspayteachers.com

I had no idea so many of these existed!
hyperallergic.com/864683/24-ex...

Begrudgingly accepting the onset of fall because now I can cook apples for six months
[photo of an Apple Dutch Baby missing because I housed it]

There’s always The Border Trilogy to fill the cowboy craving after you finish

Oh I LOVE that book. Enjoy!!

Game on.

I’m still doing them! But as concept sketches during strategy sprints, not technical diagrams.

Letter of Recommendation: Phyllis Rose’s ‘Parallel Lives’ (Published 2018)

Here is a great review of the book. It's so good www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/m...

Still gaping at the Victorian zing of writer Jane Carlyle, who wrote detailed diaries about what a bad husband her brilliant and famous philosopher husband Thomas Carlyle was, knowing their papers would be published together posthumously. (Read Parallel Lives by Phyllis Rose for more A+ gossip.)

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spent my afternoon making a short little web game for New Yorkers called "Don't Rank Cuomo"... it has 10 levels. it's very realistic and challenging. can YOU don't rank Cuomo? play in browser (free): radiatoryang.itch.io/cuomo

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE nokings.org

ONE WEEK UNTIL NO KINGS DAY!

At this time next Saturday, we will be taking to the streets across the country. While Trump wastes millions on a birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS.

There are nearly 2,000 events planned. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

MI8 was too melodramatic (they could have cut the first 30 minutes of nostalgic blather about the first 7) but the stunts were nauseating and worth seeing 🫣

student: i don't know what I'm supposed to do for this project.

me: neither do i.

student: ...?

me:

student: ...??

me:

student: …???

me:

student: but... but... but you’re the...

me: welcome to art school.

#art