Placebo
The idea is a seed. It has something to do with a Nature article title: Consciousness: what it is, where it comes from — and… Read More »Placebo
Vendible
The first event I attended with the Standards of Excellence Seminar in Hand Bookbinding (aka Standards), the annual Guild of Book Workers conference, it was… Read More »Vendible
New Editions at the MN Center for Book Arts
Experimentum: the mundane meets Mundus Subterrananeus By a coincidence reminiscent of The Bow Tie Story, Experimentum is for sale in my homeland. When I was… Read More »New Editions at the MN Center for Book Arts
Make an LLM from an Interactive Guest Book
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. ~ Lao Tzu Now that large language models (LLMs) and generative intelligences are… Read More »Make an LLM from an Interactive Guest Book
Verbolotry, AI, and Authority
The Book of Kells and Machine Learning The Book of Kells, a stunningly beautiful illuminated manuscript from the early middle ages, has long fascinated scholars… Read More »Verbolotry, AI, and Authority
Proprioception, Scent Actuators, and a Ruff
I visited the Sensational Books exhibition at ST Lee Gallery, Weston Library in Oxford on Saturday. Having spent time describing it to friends over the past… Read More »Proprioception, Scent Actuators, and a Ruff
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Understandably, a single person’s comprehensive vision rarely meets the public gaze. The bureaucracy required to house and protect artifacts encounters committees, financial roadblocks, &c. A… Read More »The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Process Shots
I delight in the choices that a book artist makes—the infinite becomes finite. Experimentum, a hexagonal book that riffs on Karen Hanmer’s Triangle Book structure, came… Read More »Process Shots
Delrin & Bamboo 101
For Christmas 2021, my dear father-in-law gave me a gift certificate to spend in Jeff Peachey’s shop, home of beautifully handcrafted bookbinding and repair tools.… Read More »Delrin & Bamboo 101
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