My pittie is extremely sweet and gentle.

Playing two nearly identical spelling bee boards simultaneously. What are the chances?

One of my favorite emergent field/phone practices is "bad photogrammetry." I'm not against good Photogrammetry, but bad photogrammetry is poetic, creepy, provocative....

Loving this spoon/grater I found at the supermarket.

To clarify, she prototyped them for me but it was her first time. She also reproduced ancient Chinese gardening tools for the Huntington's Chinese garden--watering can in the photo. At the Huntington you can see her pruning scissors. So now she has a specialty in replicas of old Chinese tools.

Ok I'm going to be posting a lot about my fieldwork in Taiwan, on top of the editing things. Yesterday, I worked with a feminist blacksmith in Santa Ana, who prototypes traditional tailoring tools that are no longer made.

Landed in LA this morning, with a view of the Palisades fire.

I'll be offering a workshop on writing to publish at the Society for Applied Anthro meetings -- only $25!

All I want to do these days is keep working on this. As I sew, I'm reminded that the history of Vodou flags is that there were wedding dress factories in Haiti back in the day and that's how they started using sequins.