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Discovered an offline Pinterest alternative which is very exciting for me and my 3000 emotional support screenshots.

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Austronesians did also rely on a form of a physical map called a stick chart, illustrating the specific wave and swell patterns surrounding different island chains. These were particularly helpful during cloudy conditions when the sun and stars were less useful. To navigate the Marshall Islands, the Marshallese represented ocean swell patterns using parts of coconut fronds and shells as islands. Like a subway map, they don’t so much represent distances as they do relationships. The complex and decorative stick charts were often only understood by the person who made them. They were memorised before a voyage by the pilot who would lie on the floor of a canoe to get a sense of swell movement and often lead a squadron of 15 or more boats.

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Potentially hot take but one of the reasons we need art and music in schools is that, taught correctly, they are ideal avenues for teaching kids how to do something, kinda suck at it, keep going anyways and improve over time.

And THAT is one of the most valuable skill sets a human being can have. THAT is the skill set that unlocks soooooo many others.

A LOT of people I see with anxiety and depression do not have this skill set. To suck at something is a threat. Proof that they are doomed to suck at it forever. And then, often, that either THEY suck forever or the task must be stupid/useless/pointless (whence we get AI art fans who have decided actually making art is pointless and degrading the labor and skills of others is fine because these are useless skills).

Or you get the freeze- the inability to try things in case you fail. The sudden lancing shame and humiliation or hopelessness. The sense that anything you haven't learned by now you can't learn. Which is so heartbreaking and so untrue.

I just hate it.

"What if I write it and it's bad" "what if I draw it and it's bad" "what if I play it and it sounds bad" DOING IT BAD IS HOW YOU LEARN TO DO IT GOOD! You can't skip the process of leaning and the process is FUN if you let it be what it needs to be!

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i am totally going to come across as a boomer in this post but as an engineer it's common sense to not build systems with a single point of failure. and i'm starting to realize that our usage of the smart phone is exactly that. a single point of failure. the calling/texting is the implied function of the smartphone, which is fine. that's what it's built for. but nowadays we don't think to keep a physical map or atlas or gps unit in our car because our phone has google maps. we don't keep address books anymore because it's all stored in our contacts. i serve customers who no longer carry a wallet/physical card because it's all on their phone. this is literally a single point of failure. if you lose or break your phone when you are in a foreign place you are fucking screwed. maybe you're still screwed even in your home town because so many people have become accustomed to using a smart phone to take them anywhere.

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i swear every single time i buy stickers i put them somewhere safe so i don't lose them and then just immediately forget where that safe place is

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one day i am going to write that article about how artists taking inspiration from the things around them (which yes includes art) is nothing like ai image generators being trained on art.

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It's not Spencerian but its also not not Spencerian you get me?

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The sun is out and my desk is tidy.

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bit annoyed that ferris wheel press has stopped making my everyday use fountain pen ink. what do you mean i now need to find a new colour to replace it.

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i really like a notebook for daily use, but prefer rings for archiving because I can put photos/ postcards/ all the little bits i hoard at the back of my notebook between the pages. so i had a thought. what if after i finish a notebook i dissect and hole punch the pages so it can go in a ringbinder

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Thought I'd share my take on the calligrapher; Lilly is the problem. Okay so Lilly is the person organising the state dinner right, and there's lots of ways she's doing badly at it. But the big one is she can't decide who is going. Like we're told she kept changing the number of guests, it was 100 or maybe 200. And the number of rooms the dinner would be held in. It was one then three, then a tent outside. And the servers said this was a problem as well. Because they rehearse how they are going to serve the meals. I'd also like to argue that the security breaches are part as well, because the social secretary's office was helping clear the people who came into the white house but obviously something went wrong because three people got in who shouldn't have. But the whole problem goes back to Lilly constantly changing who is going to the dinner and where they're going to sit, then St. Pierre tells her to move things around and I'm assuming the calligrapher writes more place cards based on the the changes. It's not super clear how long she has been making changes, but she makes them right up till the dinner starts. There's a shot where you can clearly see the calligrapher is stressed. He literally says it hasn't been a good night. You can see some of the place cards on the table are neat, but by the time the dinner is about to start he's got bad handwriting. Yes, you'd expect a calligrapher to write nice, and the fact he doesn't is just another way of showing hey this really hasn't been a good night. Really there isn't anything suspicious about the calligrapher. The state dinner didn't go well for him just the same as Wynter and Didier and Marvella and the Florist and the Plumber and Elsyie and Jasmine and Sheila and Tripp. The place cards are just another little clue pointing at Lilly who doesn't respect how things are done in the white house.

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The calligrapher's having an off day

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A man has died and she's JOURNALING. Honestly mood.

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This isn't exactly a new idea but highly recommend replacing goodreads with a notebook I'm having a great time.

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I don't normally get sticker anxiety but my friend brought stickers back from Japan and I now have sticker anxiety.

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I also got this victorian valentines card that folds out