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Two great classes.

These are photos from my last two classes at the Eureka Springs School of the Arts. 

The first is beginning box making in which each student made 3 boxes in 3 days, each of a different type, and involving their own creative ideas.

The second is my pop-up cane making class based on an article I wrote for Woodwork Magazine, and using the Veritas round tenoner and walnut. The pop-up class was offered due to a large demand for the first class held earlier in the year.

Make, fix and create as though your life depends upon it. It does.

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Left making things of useful beauty

You may have been following the anthropic class action lawsuit in which the company has agreed to pay each publisher and author of certain pirated books, an amount split between them. I should receive a small check, though not enough to justify continuously feeding into the theft of intellectual properties that appears ongoing. The judge's ruling is such that AI will continue mining us for salable content. It happens with everything we place online, in whatever form. Are you on facebook? You've agreed to have your content stolen from you and it will be.

In contrast, we can continue to make beautiful, useful and real things. I've placed business card holders on my made in eureka springs site: https://madeineurekasprings.com/products/linden-business-card-holder

We'll truly worry about AI when it steals our jobs and we are left making things for ourselves and being enriched in many ways by the process.

Constructing a shared sense of reality.

https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/constructing-a-shared-sense-of-reality

Books in Bloom

Books in Bloom was a literary festival here in Eureka Springs and here was my author talk from 2007. Although I've aged, think you'll find it consistent with my message of today. https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/from-books-in-bloom

Boxes, newly finished.

Boxes, freshly oiled with Danish oil.

Magazine organizer/storage boxes.

Magazine organizer boxes. Complete instructions and plans. Part One.

Part Two is here.

https://open.substack.com/pub/gliedganzes/p/on-the-beach