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Make Plushie Patterns with Play-Doh & Paper Towels

So, you want to design a plushie! ("soft toy", if you're English) And not just a flat, two-pieces-of-cloth plushie. No: you want three D's. To do that, you first need to transform a 3D surface into 2D pieces, to cut into fabric & sew together. The two most common methods…

on ART, Learning about Learning

How Do We Learn? A Zine

Links to References: Piaget’s Constructivism, Papert’s Constructionism: What’s the difference? by Edith Ackermann (PDF) Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson (book) The Spacing Effect: A Case Study in the Failure to Apply the Results of Psychological Research by Frank Dempster (PDF) What Works,…

on Nicky Reads, ART

The Happiness Trap: Zine-ified

A while back, I read Russ Harris's The Happiness Trap, an introduction to Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. It's really helped me out the last couple months, so I thought I'd share it with y'all -- as a zine! Print it out & carry it around in your wallet or whatever.…

on ART, Social Change

The Other Side

.content img { width: 480px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; border: none; } Originally posted as four pics in a tweet. Links to the authors' books: The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell Moral Politics by George Lakoff…

on ART, Short Stories

It's A Loopy World

Never thought I'd make a gritty reboot of Parable of the Polygons, but, welp, heeeeere you go: high-res version Just an idea I've had on my mind for a while. I wanted to figure out a way to combine abstract, high-level systems thinking with the raw, emotional punch of storytelling.…