Category: Craft
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How Typing Affected Nietzsche’s Consciousness
This article on the MIT Press Reader describes how it appears the act of typing affected the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s thinking. When Nietzsche bought a typewriter he noticed that his writing changed, as did his productivity. He was going blind and the typewriter meant that he could continue to work. But writing is a demanding…
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Weaving and technology
This article has been supported with research using AI and has been fact-checked and corrected by hand. To read the original AI results go to the bottom of the page where it is copied and pasted verbatim. The craft of weaving is one of the oldest in the world and has a long history of…
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AI and image generation
In researching this week’s blog entries Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a tool. Harnessing the power of data to create new images is powerful but it currently has limitations. The images on this page were created using AI. By typing prompts into the AI platform new images were created to illustrate the articles on the blog.…
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Technology
This week’s blog entries are all to do with technology. From the rise of the computer to AI, we are surrounded by technology. Some of it is useful, some is harmful. Some helps us to be more, and some has the potential to disrupt our lives and lessen them. So this week I have decided…
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The tracks on Spotify
The audio this week on the playlist features these tracks. The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček This well-loved opera in Czech started out as a newspaper comic strip before becoming a staple of the operatic stage. The allegorical story follows Vixen Sharp Ears as she loves and lures her way through life in the…
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The Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist is curated on the Spotify platform for readers to listen to while browsing the blog. The tracks on the playlist have something to do with the blog entries, sometimes obviously and sometimes less so. To listen, click on the player above or head over to Spotify where you can search for…
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Iceland and the poetry of weaving
The Nordic nation of Iceland sits on the Mid Atlantic Ridge, midway between Europe and North America. Wild, windswept, beautiful, bleak and filled with fire and ice, the country is a romantic’s dream, an island of Vikings and sagas,… and art. While the music of Iceland is well-known, and it boasts a fine pedigree in…
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Conversation and Cloth
The next in the series of Conversation and Cloth talks will be on the 6th December 2024 at 10am in the Regent Theatre Cafe in Greymouth Māwhera. After a hiatus of a few months while the studios in Shetland were being sorted out and the new studios in Greymouth have been getting underway, the series…
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Timelines
Myriam Dion’s work, currently on show in New York, uses repurposed paper and ephemera to tell stories about women. In this exhibition, the artist has used paper to explore and highlight the rights of women and those who have fought for them. Cutting newspapers, reports, handmade papers, textile designs and photographs and weaving them together…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist of audio is compiled and curated to go with the articles in the blog. The tracks have something to do with the blog entries and you can read about the links in a separate article on the blog. To listen to the playlist click on the player above or head over…