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How I make my rugs
- 5mv2 4y agoDo you ever have an existential crisis while you’re making something? “Will this object outlive me?” As a software engineer I have to admit… I’m envious.
- langsoul-com 4y agoSoftware these days don't even survive past npm update :(
- marginalia_nu 4y agoYou should get into enterprise Java. Too inscrutable to change, to complex to replace. Every now and then they try, manage to replace 4% of the functionality whatever platform or design pattern is popular at the time before running out of budget, and now the system is an even more byzantine Cronenberg. I hear, every once in a while you can spot a rare IllegalStateException("Killll mmeeeee...."); being thrown in the logs.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoIs this about having kids?
- Brajeshwar 4y agoHaa! Yes, these days one has to be prepared. Nope, this is not about kids. This is about tools, intricacies of the tools, appreciation of beauty, beauty in the details, etc.
- danuker 4y agoEnvious? I am aware we will all die, and I am proud to leave a mark on humankind.
- dirtyid 4y agoBright side is your mistakes probably don't haunt you as regularly or as long. Like say poor design detail on a building that will outlive you, that you see everyday on your commute, or when you look out your living room window.
- rroot 4y agoLooking though 3 year old code... Lord Gsus, who wrote this s*it?! Then in git log... really?! Me? Did I write this?
- aliqot 4y agoGit blame was a trick :/
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoOh for sure, I am on a team that's been working on the same app for a decade now, which is soon to be retired. It's done hundreds of mil in business, but soon all those years of time we put into it will disappear. If we'd just met up every day in a field and piled rocks up, after 10yr we'd have a huge stone wall (no millions, though).
- tootie 4y agoI've always said that our software is like a Tibetan sand painting. You may as well imagine yourself wiping it completely off the table the minute you look away.
- dsubburam 4y agoIn some philosophies, being envious about art objects' durability vs. a software library's use-life makes for a category error. Art objects are defined as having value in themselves, that we look at for their own sake (~form), rather than for what they can do for us (~function). For software libraries, this is mostly flipped. The metric of concern there, I might submit, is how many people have been helped by it and the downstream effects of that help (maybe it helped someone get a job, which then helped them get a house, and raise a family, etc...). Not the library's longevity per se, but the effects' longevity...
- KennyBlanken 4y ago
- TSiege 4y agoShe's a very talented artist in a niche field. Seems rather likely her works will end up in a museum somewhere https://www.tabithaarnold.com/work/rugs https://www.tabithaarnold.com/work/rugs
- KennyBlanken 4y ago
- sweetheart 4y agoYou must be fun at parties.
- dang 4y agoPlease don't do this here.
- jtr1 4y agoI appreciate the reminder that there are better places to spend my time than HN
- dwmbt 4y agodon't be an arse, she's very clearly talented and her work is politically motivated, making it ripe for the picking at an exhibit in the future. anywho, i was at a farmers market // flea market the other day and walked past this old looking gown. i noticed the price tag was set at nearly $1,000, so i went up to the lady and asked her if she'd made it, why else would it priced so? she laughed and explained to me that she could never dream of being so talented, she was simply invited to an estate sale the previous week in rural Vermont (is there any other kind of Vermont? lol). it happens that the family farm is hundreds of years old and the dress i'd been so captivated by was older than my home state. for being so old, it was in pretty good condition. i learned that it was handmade by one of the daughters of the original homeowner. i asked her why she was selling it here and not hoarding it herself or donating it to a museum. apparently, the daughter was indeed skilled at dressmaking and it was one of a dozen or so such gowns, this being the one in worst condition. a couple were kept by the family, several were sold to collectors, and the rest donated to museums. so, the way i see it, it would not be so strange to see works like this in a museum some day. [0] https://jacobin.com/2022/07/tabitha-arnold-interview-textile-art-socialism-organizing https://jacobin.com/2022/07/tabitha-arnold-interview-textile... [1] https://hyperallergic.com/678743/spirited-textiles-capture-the-fervor-of-recent-political-unrest-tabitha-arnold/ https://hyperallergic.com/678743/spirited-textiles-capture-t... [2] https://www.disobedientmagazine.com/disobedientonline/2021/02/04/interview-tabitha-arnold-whose-streets-and-peoples-art-sabrina-sigler https://www.disobedientmagazine.com/disobedientonline/2021/0... [3] https://www.carnegiecenter.org/exhibitions/form-not-function-2022/ https://www.carnegiecenter.org/exhibitions/form-not-function...
- nick478016 4y agoWhat is a good place to find more pages like this? Is there a hacker news for art?
- savanaly 4y agoSubstack > Discover > "Art" tag?
- the-printer 4y agoJust what I needed to start producing my own war rugs.
- billfruit 4y agoHow does rughooking, crossstich and needlepoint differ? Which might be easier for someone initiated.
- Jackim 4y agoCrosstich is a particular 'x' stitch. It follows the grid of the fabric very rigidly, and is typically done using cotton strands. Needlepoint is the same process, but not necessarily using 'x' stitches, and extends to more types of threading material. Rughooking is a broad term, that means any rug making pushing yarn through a fabric.
- rfreytag 4y agoThe comments veered away from Tabitha Arnold's work which is quite good. Her post (OP) is full of examples from an artist with a distinct point of view and the ability to convey it clearly.