Category: Wonderings
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Circular fashion
Circus is one of my tippety-top favourite aesthetics. I drool over big top stripes and tassels and sequins and feathers. I just sketched an idea for a two-piece set I want to make that’s very circus-inspired. Striped satin, red velvet, ribbons, sequins and lace. I thought I’d pop into the charity shop to have a…
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Lofty thoughts
One day this week, Phil and I were in the car at 6am. Don’t ask. I don’t remember what we were chatting about but I started thinking about nouns that are themselves a proposition: aboard, ashore and so on. It always amuses me to say ‘I am a bed’. I said, “Aloft – that’s a…
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Creative pledge
After a week of fighting the end of human creativity with a lot of human creativity, I’ve made a pledge to myself.
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Becoming the Mother of Robots
It’s incredibly on-the-nose for late-stage capitalism to dictate that a large part of my day now involves training robots to perform like humans. My style rules. My knowledge. My social skills. I’m training and testing these ghouls to be an army run on my brain. It’s easy to see how bias can infest AI –…
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Mamdani and Polanski are hope
New York has chosen its mayor and thank God it’s not a Republican or a sexual predator – it’s actually a real person. I’ve been rooting for Zohran Mamdani over the last few months and think he’s a wonderful leader for New York. Love that for them. Meanwhile, the Green Party is seeing an unprecedented…
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