I'm forever seeing tweets and retweets about how terrible it is that we went from everyone having their own website or blog or what have you and merged to the "infinite scroll" models of social media. So I decided that I would stop scrolling infinitely for the time being. One day in and I feel freed from the chains that have bound me. I have never done so much on a Monday, and I ain't even do all that much.
Currently I am reading this delightful book from the 1930's - 1933, to be exact - full of amusements to construct and they make me Absolutely Wild. I am just thrilled about most of the things in this book. When I was a kid, I think the most exciting thing project-wise to make was a potato clock or a clubhouse. This book has things like "Make a kite shaped like a boy! The kite also whistles!" and "Build a huge brontosaurus! Here's how!" and "Here's how to make a sailing skiff!", which is all I want in the world. When I was a kid and would read Tom Sawyer and they'd take their little raft to the island? That was my dream. (I think that happened. Right? I haven't read that book in a while.) So far I have NOT built a sailing skiff, but there are a couple of things that I would like to try. One of them is "making a hectograph", in the chapter on Amateur Journalism. Apparently a hectograph is just making a gelatin plate? I had to call my Printmaking professor from undergrad and ask. I also read Kim Herringe's blog on making gelatin plates - the recipe in this book calls for sugar for some reason, and this blog recipe does not, so I'm wondering what difference the sugar makes. I was thinking that if the hectograph was good for printing a kid's one-page newspaper, that maybe I could experiment with using it to print the one-page mini-zines. Then I wouldn't have to make photocopies. Although I did get my student ID today, so...I should go make photocopies because having a student ID means I can load money on my card and not worry about not having any change. I think I can also take the bus for free?!? Maybe I will make a gelatin plate today.
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