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November 5th 2013, 9:36:00 am
Everything makes me break out in eczema and it hurts
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I can’t tell what is crooked in this photo in real life nothing is. Is it me? Ugh the camera lens?
Look at my beautiful dresser!!!! Includes:
String of hearts
Paphiopedilum orchid in burgundy <3
Air plants
Monstera peru
Philodendron Brasil
Big print is by Eliza Gauger and it's one of my favorite things. I kick myself as I should have bought the painting when it was available.
I'm also dealing with fungus gnats right now. I think I've almost got them beat but it's been a process.
These skulls were ethically gathered. PLANT WITCH!! Birthday card from a dear friend. Semi-hydro for the little Philodendron Brasil which I'm super into.
Air plants! I'm having a hard time keeping them alive. They seem to need lots of spritzing or soaking even though the humidity in this room is at orchid levels. The terrarium I made at my terrarium making party. It was a lot of fun and I think everyone had a good time.
Theophania is my lovely Paph. (Yes I name all my plants.) I got her in December and she bloomed recently. I love her so much and she's so beautiful. She's also in semi-hydro. I find that I overwater and for plants that need to stay "moist" but not wet are problematic for me. The coleus to the left is still a work in progress. I'm figuring out this particular variants light needs. The damage to the Monstera Peru on the right is from the nursery. She's been super healthy so far.
Gertrude my philodendron brasil! I trim her so she's not as long as she could be but I like a fuller vine. This plant means a lot to me. She survived the dark times. Strong little plant :D
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Join us tomorrow as we co-host Seattle’s most anticipated market of the holiday season. Black Owl Market features the finest goods from the most talented creators, for discerning holiday shoppers, brought to you by Strix Publishing, SIGIL, and The Art of Jason Soles.
A variety of carefully curated local creators will vend jewelry, books, perfume, original art, and other, stranger things. Artful Dodger tattoos, Taylor Henze will be on hand with $60 flat fee flash, including a new original set of dark holiday pieces, including the notorious Krampus.
Author and illustrator, Eliza Gauger, will be present at the Strix Publishing booth to sign copies of the Problem Glyphs art book.
The first ten attendees will receive a Black Owl tote bag. Limited quantities of these totes will be available for sale on-site from Strix Publishing.
Join us to celebrate the dark heart of the year.
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got my @problemglyphs book today and as usual felt inspired to draw my own glyph, this one’s celebrating my medicine because it helps me so hardcore
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Oh friendly reminder, Eliza "3liza" Gauger, newly returned to tumblr, was the one remaining figure of my generation I considered on my level that hadn't been pinned down yet
(Freddie de Boer was the generation member I didn't get that vibe from that proved himself most)
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Midsommar was a very wonderful movie, and I'm so so so incredibly curious about the scenes that they cut out - there was apparently an underlying nazi storyline, as the Hårgas were really based off of a lot of 1960's fascist counterculture communes as stated on the variety . Com article, and Eliza Gauger said the runes were intentionally taken from 20th cent. revisionist nordic runology. All that's left of that is the overwhelming whiteness of the whole cast. Since fascism & neo nazis are a burgeoning threat to western politics I wonder if Aster had plans for some sort of cultural commentary on that within the film
#tw nazi#is this spoilery?#i dont think it reveals anything that isnt shown in trailers#midsommar //
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#1yrago My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing
Rob Beschizza:
I chanced upon an ancient backup of my RSS feed subscriptions, a cold hard stone of data from my time at Wired in the mid-2000s. The last-modified date on the file is December 2007. I wiped my feeds upon coming to Boing Boing thenabouts: a fresh start and a new perspective.
What I found, over 212 mostly-defunct sites, is a time capsule of web culture from a bygone age—albeit one tailored to the professional purpose of cranking out blog posts about consumer electronics a decade ago. It's not a picture of a wonderful time before all the horrors of Facebook and Twitter set in. This place is not a place of honor. No highly-esteemed deed is commemorated here. But perhaps some of you might like a quick tour, all the same.
The "Main" folder, which contains 30 feeds, was the stuff I actually wanted (or needed) to read. This set would morph over time. I reckon it's easy to spot 2007's passing obsessions from the enduring interests.
��� Arts and Letters Daily: a minimalist blog of links about smartypants subjects, a Drudge for those days when I sensed a third digit dimly glowing in my IQ. But for the death of founder Denis Dutton, it's exactly the same as it was in 2007! New items daily, but the RSS feed's dead.
↬ Boing Boing. Still around, I hear.
↬ Brass Goggles. A dead feed for a defunct steampunk blog (the last post was in 2013) though the forums seem well-stocked with new postings.
↬ The Consumerist. Dead feed, dead site. Founded in 2005 by Joel Johnson at Gawker, it was sold to Consumer Reports a few years later, lost its edge there, and was finally shuttered (or summarily executed) just a few weeks ago.
↬ Bibliodyssey. Quiescent. Updated until 2015 with wonderful public-domain book art scans and commentary. A twitter account and tumblr rolled on until just last year. There is a book to remember it by should the bits rot.
↬ jwz. Jamie Zawinski's startling and often hilariously bleak reflections on culture, the internet and working at Netscape during the dotcom boom. This was probably the first blog that led me to visit twice, to see if there was more. And there still is, almost daily.
↬ Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society. Curios and weirdness emerging from the dust and foul fog of old books, forbidden history and the more speculative reaches of science. So dead the domain is squatted. Creator Josh Foer moved on to Atlas Obscura.
↬ The Tweney Review. Personal blog of my last supervisor at Wired, Dylan Tweney, now a communications executive. It's still going strong!
↬ Strange Maps. Dead feed, dead site, though it's still going as a category at Big Think. Similar projects proliferate now on social media; this was the wonderful original. There was a book.
↬ BLDGBLOG. Architecture blog, posting since 2004 with recent if rarer updates. A fine example of tasteful web brutalism, but I'm no longer a big fan of cement boxes and minimalism with a price tag.
↬ Dethroner. A men's self-care and fashion blog, founded by Joel Johnson, of the tweedy kind that became wildly and effortlessly successful not long after he gave up on it.
↬ MocoLoco. This long-running design blog morphed visually into a magazine in 2015. I have no idea why I liked it then, but indie photoblogs' golden age ended long ago and it's good to see some are thriving.
↬ SciFi Scanner. Long-dead AMC channel blog, very likely the work of one or two editors and likely lost to tidal corporate forces rather than any specific failure or event.
↬ Cult of Mac. Apple news site from another Wired News colleague of mine, Leander Kahney, and surely one of the longest-running at this point. Charlie Sorrel, who I hired at Wired to help me write the Gadget blog, still pens articles there.
↬ Ectoplasmosis. After Wired canned its bizarre, brilliant and unacceptably weird Table of Malcontents blog, its editor John Brownlee (who later joined Joel and I in editing Boing Boing Gadgets) and contributor Eliza Gauger founded Ectoplasmosis: the same thing but with no hysterical calls from Conde Nast wondering what the fuck is going on. It was glorious, too: a high-point of baroque indie blogging in the age before Facebook (and I made the original site design). Both editors later moved onto other projects (Magenta, Problem Glyphs); Gauger maintains the site's archives at tumblr. It was last updated in 2014.
↬ Penny Arcade. Then a webcomic; now a webcomic and a media and events empire.
↬ Paul Boutin. While working at Wired News, I'd heard a rumor that he was my supervisor. But I never spoke to him and only ever received a couple of odd emails, so I just got on with the job until Tweney was hired. His site and its feed are long-dead.
↬ Yanko Design. Classic blockquote chum for gadget bloggers.
↬ City Home News. A offbeat Pittburgh News blog, still online but lying fallow since 2009.
↬ Watchismo. Once a key site for wristwatch fans, Watchismo was folded into watches.com a few years ago. A couple of things were posted to the feed in 2017, but its time has obviously passed.
↬ Gizmodo. Much has changed, but it's still one of the best tech blogs.
↬ Engadget. Much has changed, but it's still one of the best tech blogs.
↬ Boing Boing Gadgets. Site's dead, though the feed is technically live as it redirects to our "gadgets" tag. Thousands of URLs there succumbed to bit-rot at some point, but we have plans to merge its database into Boing Boing's and revive them.
↬ Gear Factor. This was the gadget review column at Wired Magazine, separate from the gadget blog I edited because of the longtime corporate divorce between Wired's print and online divisions. This separation had just been resolved at the time I began working there, and the two "sides" -- literally facing offices in the same building -- were slowly being integrated. The feed's dead, but with an obvious successor, Gear.
↬ The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Required reading at the time, and very much a thing of its time. Now vaguely repulsive.
↬ i09. This brilliant sci-fi and culture blog deserved more than to end up a tag at Gizmodo.
↬ Science Daily: bland but exhaustive torrent of research news, still cranking along.
The "Essentials" Folder was material I wanted to stay on top of, but with work clearly in mind: the background material for systematically belching out content at a particular point in 2007.
↬ Still alive are The Register, Slashdot, Ars Technica, UMPC Portal (the tiny laptop beat!), PC Watch, Techblog, TechCrunch, UberGizmo, Coolest Gadgets, EFF Breaking News, Retro Thing, CNET Reviews, New Scientist, CNET Crave, and MAKE Magazine.
↬ Dead or quiescent: GigaOm (at least for news), Digg/Apple, Akihabara News, Tokyomango, Inside Comcast, Linux Devices (Update: reincarnated at linuxgizmos.com), and Uneasy Silence.
Of the 23 feeds in the "press releases" folder, 17 are dead. Most of the RSS no-shows are for companies like AMD and Intel, however, who surely still offer feeds at new addresses. Feeds for Palm, Nokia and pre-Dell Alienware are genuine dodos. These were interesting enough companies, 10 years ago.
PR Newswire functions as a veneering service so anyone can pretend to have a big PR department, but it is (was?) also legitimately used by the big players as a platform so I monitored the feeds there. They're still populated, but duplicate one another, and it's all complete garbage now. (It was mostly garbage then.)
My "Gadgets and Tech" folder contained the army of late-2000s blogs capitalizing on the success of Gizmodo, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, et al. Back in the day, these were mostly one (or two) young white men furiously extruding commentary on (or snarky rewrites of) press releases, with lots of duplication and an inchoate but seriously-honored unspoken language of mutual respect and first-mover credit. Those sites that survived oftentimes moved to listicles and such: notionally superior and more original content and certainly more sharable on Facebook, but unreadably boring. However, a few old-timey gadget bloggers are still cranking 'em out' in web 1.5 style. And a few were so specialized they actually had readers who loved them.
Still alive: DailyTech, technabob, CdrInfo.com, EverythingUSB, Extremetech, GearFuse, Gizmag, Gizmodiva, Hacked Gadgets, How to Spot A Psychopath/Dans' Data, MobileBurn, NewLaunches, OhGizmo!, ShinyShiny, Stuff.tv, TechDigest, TechDirt, Boy Genius Report, The Red Ferret Journal, Trusted Reviews, Xataca, DigiTimes, MedGadget, Geekologie, Tom's Hardware, Trendhunter, Japan Today, Digital Trends, All About Symbian (Yes, Symbian!), textually, cellular-news, TreeHugger, dezeen.
Dead: jkkmobile.com, Business Week Online, About PC (why), Afrigadget (unique blog about inventors in Africa, still active on FaceBook), DefenseTech, FosFor (died 2013), Gearlog, Mobile-Review.com (but apparently reborn as a Russian language tech blog!), Robot's Dreams, The Gadgets Weblog, Wireless Watch Japan, Accelerating Future, Techopolis, Mobile Magazine, eHome Upgrade, camcorderinfo.com (Update: it became http://Reviewed.com), Digital Home Thoughts (farewell), WiFi Network News (farewell), Salon: Machinist, Near Future Lab, BotJunkie (twitter), and CNN Gizmos.
I followed 18 categories at Free Patents Online, and the site's still alive, though the RSS feeds haven't had any new items since 2016.
In the "news" folder, my picks were fairly standard stuff: BBC, CNET, digg/technology, PC World, Reuters, International Herald Tribune, and a bunch of Yahoo News feeds. The Digg feed's dead; they died and were reborn.
The "Wired" feed folder comprised all the Wired News blogs of the mid-2000s. All are dead. 27B Stroke 6, Autopia, Danger Room, Epicenter, Gadget Lab, Game|Life, Geekdad, Listening Post, Monkey Bites, Table of Malcontents, Underwire, Wired Science.
These were each basically one writer or two and were generally folded into the established mazagine-side arrangements as the Age of Everyone Emulating Gawker came to an end. The feed for former EIC Chris Anderson's personal blog survives, but hasn't been updated since his era. Still going strong is Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond, albeit rigged as a CMS tag rather than a bona fide site of its own.
Still alive from my 2007 "Science" folder are Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait), Bad Science (Ben Goldacre), Pharyngula (PZ Myers) New Urban Legends, NASA Breaking News, and The Panda's Thumb.
Finally, there's a dedicated "iPhone" folder. This was not just the hottest toy of 2007. It was all that was holy in consumer electronics for half a decade. Gadget blogging never really had a golden age, but the iPhone ended any pretense that there were numerous horses in a race of equal potential. Apple won.
Still alive are 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacSlash, AppleInsider and Daring Fireball. Dead are TUAW, iPhoneCentral, and the iPhone Dev Wiki.
Of all the sites listed here, I couldn't now be paid but to read a few. So long, 2007.
https://boingboing.net/2017/12/29/my-rss-feeds-from-a-decade-ago.html
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sometimes I think I will never have tattoos, simply because I’ve never made a permanent change like that before also needles
and then sometimes I think I want a one piece nakama X on one arm and an Utena rose and several Delirium fish and an octopus and and a moon and some stars and a Penny paw print and maybe a few of Eliza Gauger’s Problem Glyphs if doing so was okay with her and lord even knows what else
I’m a silly X)
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November 6th 2013, 12:16:00 am
problem: feeling like my art will have no outlet, nothing i make will be cared about by anyone besides me
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Orchid for H.
My new baby on the right. [Eliza Gauger art, H photography, and magpie from Etsy shop that no longer exists]
My three other new babies with very specific needs that I did not look up before buying. Heh.
The current setup.
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The Strix Publishing Halloween sale is upon us! Through November 1st, enjoy 15% off select books in our webstore including the newly released Never Bet the Devil & Other Warnings, by Orrin Grey, the Lovecraftian horrors of The Book of Starry Wisdom, and Unhallowed Metropolis, the gasmask-chic roleplaying game of Neo-Victorian horror, featuring illustrations by Robert Tritthard, Raven Mimura, and Eliza Gauger.
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Learning-to-draw-on-computers project of the day: I remembered the very cool tumblr Problem Glyphs, where an artist called Eliza Gauger invited folks to send screaming-into-a-void problems by ask and replied by drawing glyphs/sigils/symbols that (often indirectly) address the problem: https://problemglyphs.tumblr.com/post/168269058386/anonymous-said-10062017-210831-i-have-been
The glyphs are all mirrored down the centre, so each image is a reflection of itself, and that gives them a stately, slightly unreal quality; they’re also cryptic, building up among themselves a vocabulary of symbols: snakes, horned figures, arrows, hourglasses, feathers, knives... It’s an awesome project, though because of what it is it’s often grim.
Anyway, they are drawn in a piece of art software called Alchemy which is intentionally limited: it doesn’t have an erase button, it does let you draw a mirror-line down the centre of the canvas with a click. this was my first try at drawing something in those lines, for the (imagined) problem “i feel like I’ll never get back home”:
[ LONG TRAVELS ]
#problem glyphs#wayward draws#i wrote some actual screaming into the void to draw glyphs from#but it seemed like too much to ask for myself to confront my actual dilemmas with unfamiliar tools
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Man I can’t find a good way to contact eliza gauger. Maybe I’m just being stupit or some shit idk but i wanted to ask her a few questions about stuff but just can’t find a good way to contact her.
fuc
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(I consider Eliza Gauger as on the same tier as Sady Doyle and Colin Spacetwinks)
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