Are we all like?

I just finished a 4 day class with adults, making inlaid boxes. It should be noted that teaching adults and children is essentially the same thing, particularly if the children have an interest in learning, as do most adults who have joined me in the wood shop.

It is all a matter of play. We experimented. We asked questions of ourselves and others. We watched for the safe operation of tools. And we made inlaid boxes. 

We maintained an atmosphere where mistakes we OK.

Adults or children, we start with our interest, as that is what we build upon. We proceed from what we know, toward what we want to find out. We move from the easy to the more difficult. We go from the simple to the complex and always from the concrete to the abstract, and back to simplify and make real.

Make, fix and create.

Creativity. Where does in come from?

https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/creativity

Where does it come from"

Where's it going next?

Certainty and risk

 

https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/certainty-and-risk

All hands in

This from an Op-ed I wrote for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in October 2022.

https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/all-hands-in

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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.

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