I contributed to this article at Woodcraft and was asked to help promote it.
Make, fix, create, and help your children do likewise. AI? Who needs it?
This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
I contributed to this article at Woodcraft and was asked to help promote it.
Make, fix, create, and help your children do likewise. AI? Who needs it?
From Pope Leo— "In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
I've been here the whole time. To produce art is an act of resistance.
Make, fix and create...
An article on making your own Shaker knobs originally published in Woodwork Magazine, October 2002
A memorable experience from 2017. https://gliedganzes.substack.com/p/we-built-boats Part One, preparing for the students to arrive.