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The void will consume us and it'll be dank - Minionotics at Weatherproof

A review of the group show Minionotics (March 13th - April 13th, 2025) at Weatherproof Gallery in Chicago.

2 months ago 23 votes
NCCCIAP 2025 - Photos +

A photo gallery showcasing images taken at the 2025 National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices.

2 months ago 30 votes
Fort Emplacements and FDM: making Castle Doctrine

How I made Castle Doctrine, a 1:1 scale fully 3D-Printed American Revolutionary War era cannon.

over a year ago 86 votes
Back into the FE-AL: Iron Pour at Sculpture Trails Indiana

In which I detail the process of making a cannonball by participating at a very unique iron casting event.

over a year ago 56 votes
Sending a signal - DOGMAS, a project because of the RP2040

How and why I built the DOGMAS project, a self contained Morse code reader in the form of a candle.

over a year ago 59 votes

More in creative

Digital editions on big sale

As many of my readers get ready for a long weekend, here are two of my books now on discount at Amazon–for another few days. This is Strategy is 90% off on the Kindle. $3! And This is Marketing is discounted as well. If you’ve read or listened to either one, here’s a new AI […]

23 hours ago 2 votes
Igor Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (1944)

In 1939, Igor Stravinsky emigrated to the United States, first arriving in New York City, before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he delivered the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard during the 1939–40 academic year. While living in Boston, the composer conducted the Boston Symphony and, on one famous occasion, he decided to conduct his […]

6 hours ago 2 votes
Which shelf is yours?

A friend sorts his records in an interesting way: not by name or genre, but by which musicians are friends with each other. That means some shelves are very crowded, and I’m imagining a few notorious artists have plenty of room all to themselves. It’s possible that we sort the folks in our lives this […]

yesterday 3 votes
Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read

Image via Wikimedia Commons A number of years ago, a Reddit user posed the question to Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Which books should be read by every single intelligent person on the planet?” Below, you will find the book list offered up by the astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and popularizer of science. Where possible, we […]

yesterday 2 votes
Productivity, AI and pushback

Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music. One group of esteemed authors is demanding that book publishers refuse to use AI in designing book covers, recording audiobooks or a range of other tasks. As always, this […]

2 days ago 3 votes