I purchased some IBM punched cards from 1978 off an online reseller, and used the IBM 29 Card Punch reference manual to translate the phrase. I had to do this manually with inkjet printing and cutting out each square. (turns out card punch machines are super hard to come by nowadays??? Who would’ve thought.)
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“Wood Wide Web” is a term coined by Suzanne Simard in her seminal 1997 article in Nature.
Very excited to have worked with Everpress to offer this merch 🌱 Available as a tee, sweatshirt, or tote here.
For a Halloween costume, I recreated the God helmet with foam, wire, washers, vellum paper, string lights and a battery pack.
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Digital decay refers to the gradual obsolescence and degradation of digital data. It could have many culprits; outdated formats, hardware failure, data corruption, cyber threats. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun distinguishes between memory and storage in The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future Is a Memory, highlighting how all of our data requires constant regeneration-it's erasable, it's forgettable, and it's most definitely not permanent.
So what happens when hyperlinks die? when Internet archives are fragmented versions of events? What happens when we forget?
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When I was first introduced to Are.na, Good Sign Offs was one of the first boards I contributed to. I was enamoured by this collaborative and algorithm-free platform for collecting and organizing hyper-niche ideas. It felt like all my years of tracking mundane (and perhaps useless) information in spreadsheets and notes apps have prepared me for this moment.
An ode to hyper curation. Video here.
While “seashell resonance” may be a folk myth, I hold onto this idea, well into adulthood, that a seashell connects me to the same waves my grandmother swam in as a child.
I ran a Python script to convert a .WAV audio file of the crashing waves on the beach in Podgora to binary code. I painted each zero and one on the inside of the conch until there was no space left.Whether or not you, too, can hear the ocean in a seashell, I think there’s value in holding onto these experiences even when they shift form.They say you can hear the ocean in a seashell. That was the first thing my Baka said when she handed me this conch from Podgora, Croatia. When I visited Podgora a few years ago, I heard the ocean. I heard the crashing of waves against the pebble beach.While “seashell resonance” may be a folk myth, I hold onto this idea, well into adulthood, that a seashell connects me to the same waves my grandmother swam in as a child.I ran a Python script to convert a .WAV audio file of the crashing waves on the beach in Podgora to binary code. I painted each zero and one on the inside of the conch until there was no space left.
Whether or not you, too, can hear the ocean in a seashell, I think there’s value in holding onto these experiences even when they shift form.
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