Quinn Daedal
@quinnanya.me
Multilingual digital humanities, director of YarnLab at Stanford, founded the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
This is beautiful and I hope the fish find a good public home to remind people what we can do together. (Also gotta turn my bag of misprinted whistles into sea life!) #DHmakes
Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18h agoI have posted about how my mother turned some of the Whistle Crew's whistle misprints into art & it was on display at the state fair, but the goblins sent her *so many more* whistles so she has passed a bunch along to a new group of artists & I'm obsessed. www.whistlefishproject.com
Drinking my coffee, having a quiet morning with the Fan Edition of @walshbr.bsky.social "Embedded Pedagogies" with a lovely shout out to the @archive.org (which, upon reflection, has more pillars than my doodle gave it credit for.) #EPFanEd
This is my kind of reading. Communal, attuned to book history, bedazzled. 💜
Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · 3d agoThe Fan Edition of @walshbr.bsky.social "Embedded Pedagogies" is here! Wanna be mailed the book to annotate your favorite parts? Fill out the form! You can also participate virtually by submitting your favorite parts and comments to the form & someone will write it for you! forms.gle/Kbq8ACzPqXCm...
Update: I have seen the bedazzled cover and it is spectacular.
Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · 3d agoThe Fan Edition of @walshbr.bsky.social "Embedded Pedagogies" is here! Wanna be mailed the book to annotate your favorite parts? Fill out the form! You can also participate virtually by submitting your favorite parts and comments to the form & someone will write it for you! forms.gle/Kbq8ACzPqXCm...
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
Very excited to have a @chloecumming.bsky.social owl of my own joining things from @artologica.net & @minouette.bsky.social & @halperta.bsky.social in my favorite corner of my room.🦉 🥰
The Fan Edition of @walshbr.bsky.social "Embedded Pedagogies" is here! Wanna be mailed the book to annotate your favorite parts? Fill out the form! You can also participate virtually by submitting your favorite parts and comments to the form & someone will write it for you! forms.gle/Kbq8ACzPqXCm...
As much as I dislike the weird ambiguities that come with running a "shadow service", there is something nice about essentially having a magic wand to make someone's day better and their research easier. You want a thing? Hey no problem, let me just grant you access! 🧙🏻🪄 Have fun!
I cut the holes for the @neh-odh.bsky.social canceled grants yesterday and realized when you have too many same-sized canceled grants too close, the tiny snipped warp threads fall out. Apt, and not something I would have thought of before doing it. #DHmakes
3.5 hours, got through one stitch on the embroidery sampler project. 🫠 Felt like time to call it quits for the day. #DHmakes
Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · 4d agoHaving a big #DHtries day where I took the day off to hang out with my embroidery friends and catch up on our sampler, only to discover I'm so far behind and spend 2+ hours struggling with braid stitch. #DHmakes
Bay comrades PLEASE vote for this. If it fails the consequences will be dire for transit and it will hollow out the entire Bay Area.
Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief@katie.bzky.team · 6d agoit is very cool (read: very not cool) that "What if the entire regional economy immediately exploded?" is a ballot measure in the bay area because we are in the 'touching the hot stove' era of american history. if you live in the bay area you should vote for the regional transit measure.
Envious that Fry gets all the attention from the #DHmakes friends, Kiki goes for some innovative craft disruption by adorably chasing her tail around on some fabric I need to be cutting for the AI Pants Manifesto.
This is a very delightful piece from my new pal @quinnanya.me that is just worth reading in full if you're interested in copyright, creativity, and law
What do Spinning and the Law Have in Common? - Quinn Daedal
I was invited to speak on the closing panel for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic's 25th anniversary. I sat at the front of the room with my tiny Electric Eel Wheel Nano spinning wh...
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Was working on a Pants Manifesto on AI and Education with @nafpaktitism.bsky.social when Fry curled up next to the keyboard and decided to add about 10 pages worth of forward slashes and lime breaks to our document.
Grab your needles for an online workshop on data visualization with embroidery! 🪡 #DHmakes
Francesca Giannetti@jofrankie.bsky.social · 5d agoStill a few more slots in my Data Visualization with Embroidery workshop next 10/15 in the DH Lab at Alexander Library, Rutgers. I'll be preparing supply kits for in person attendees (online attendance is possible too). 🥰 🧵🪡 libcal.rutgers.edu/event/17621114 #criticalmaking #dhmakes
I was digging through a box of old journals from my adolescence and came across one where the material itself was produced by a company called Running Rhino. It's now defunct but the memorial tombstone for it is something beautiful, so human and reminiscent of the old days so o had to share it here.
Whatever happened to Running Rhino & Co.? Are they still around?
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Today was a day of miracles in YarnLab. For the first time in maybe 2.5 years, I successfully used the digital knitting machine and AYAB to knit a reasonably-sized design without it jamming or falling off or failing halfway through. I credit a boon from our probable new mascot, the snail. #DHmakes
Wore my @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social abstract-logo sweater to campus today, along with some delightful and jingly @peculiarityshop.bsky.social jewelry. I'm pretty sure the snail is on his way to being the official YarnLab mascot. #DHmakes
"If AI had existed in the early aughts, we could not have accelerated Zotero’s conception, b/c we did not know exactly what we wanted...As programming increasingly becomes a caffeinated bender with magical bots, this measured pace & emphasis on communal thinking likely holds an important lesson." ❤️🔥
Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 6d agoOn the 20th anniversary of Zotero's 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
Got my little @peculiarityshop.bsky.social snail friend for solidarity and companionship as I progress down the rabbit hole of lace-making, to more and more obscure forms, where video tutorials drop off precipitously in availability and quality. 🤔 #DHmakes #DHtries
I love this. And anymore, I try to carve out a corner of my life where I can go back there. #DHmakes
Kelly Boo-ten 👻@kwooten.bsky.social · last wk.From a student in a zine class: "Everything was so slow back in the 90s. Seems like everyone was chill... ordering paper, pen pals, concealed cash [in the mail]... we can't go back to that anymore! Oh, also, slow isn't bad, slow=care! These days nobody puts so much care into anything for friends."
I am nothing if not stubborn, and so I decided to make good on my claim that I'd dig out old crayons and draw it myself. Is it a masterpiece? I mean, I hadn't drawn in decades and it shows, and old broken crayons are a challenging medium, but driven by spite and curiosity, I made it my damned self.
Whitney Gegg-Harrison (she/they)@writerethink.bsky.social · 2w agoOh, FB, I promise you that if I felt a pressing need to have a “crayon masterpiece” of this 14 year old photo of my and my daughter, I would dig out her old crayons and draw the thing my damned self. I made those sweaters with my own hands, I have no aversion to making things myself!
My girlfriend pulled out her old copy of The Write Source and it immediately took me back to late elementary school when I'd carry around Write Source 2000 everywhere. I loved writing and I loved that book. Give me a new edition of this book, not AI in schools.
For Caturday: Exhibit B, Kiki the Good Cat lets me finish spinning the scrambled egg / banana yarn. #DHmakes
Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · last wk.Fry the Craft Chaos Cat strikes again, this time disrupting spinning! You can't ply when you've got Fry. 🧶 #DHmakes
I've started marking spots where I need to slice warp threads as I weave, to mark the canceled grants. Five more from the 2021 @neh-odh.bsky.social grants, including one in the $10-50k range. 😥 #DHmakes
#DHmakes for manifesting better things 💫
The London Stage Database@londonstagedb.bsky.social · last wk.Our #NEH #digitalhumanities funding has been officially restored! To celebrate, here's a blog post with a sneak peak at what we have in store for the next several months. blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/... [Pictured: cross-stitch art gifted to our team by the amazing @quinnanya.me]
Fry the Craft Chaos Cat strikes again, this time disrupting spinning! You can't ply when you've got Fry. 🧶 #DHmakes
The thread you needed about the show you absolutely do not need to see. 🍫
Madeleine Hunter, PhD@huntressleine.bsky.social · last wk.Because I'm a scholar of both children's media and adaptation studies who clearly doesn't love myself myself enough, I have sat down to watch Wonka: the Golden Ticket and I am gobsmacked; or perhaps more accurately, gobstoppered