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Laura Kampf’s Emotional Support Tool Roll

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Published: May 2, 2025 06:44

That’s quite a weird little tool bag. The most interesting thing about it is that it’s designed for Laura Kampf’s long-established personal habit of scroUunging street junk for Makertaimnent purposes. Also, she made a hundred of them and they sold out…

Survival Sporran – Best of Historical & Modern EDC in One Pouch

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Published: May 2, 2025 06:35

*This YouTube influencer is trying to pastiche the difference between histocial costume-play and high-tech prepper survivalism. *I don’t know if it “works,” but it’s interesting video preppertainment with a remarkable and distinctive look, so to that…

The “Sir Walter Scott Every Day Carry”

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Published: April 30, 2025 07:18

*Includes a pocket-sized “planter’s knife” made in Sheffield, which Scott bought for himself in that city of steel-works, and carried around the extensive fields of Abbotsford, in order to work on pruning his trees. *Scott was a very serious land-developer…

Meanwhile, in Spain

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Published: April 29, 2025 06:05

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Laura Kampf as Maker art-gallerist

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Published: April 27, 2025 08:23

*Well, let’s see how that works out. Los Angeles has had a “low-brow art” alternative gallery scene for quite a while. https://youtu.be/RHdGOp9Aers?si=uLYUYP__JmKCdckc The post Laura Kampf as Maker art-gallerist appeared first on Artmaker Blog.

Photographic image to 3D Model

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Published: April 24, 2025 14:38

*Still pretty crude, but onsider the implications of this for, say, objects in movies. https://youtu.be/OrPf7V9FcYs?si=94TgejPO8C910HXr The post Photographic image to 3D Model appeared first on Artmaker Blog.

“Babbage’s Dancer” by Simon Schaffer

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Published: April 22, 2025 16:24

*In which Charles Babbage makes a half-hearted effort to build some popular-entertainment kinetic-art computational contraptions. http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/16/babbages-dancer-by-simon-schaffer/ (…) Calculator or Dancer? ‘They needed a…

Walter Scott versus popular mechanics (1825)

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Published: April 20, 2025 23:48

Sir Walter Scott is making a general argument here against kids getting taught shop class and becoming hobby makers. Scott is a Scottish laird with a lot of friends in the aristocracy, and his main concern is that dilettante tech-hacking muddles class…

The Sir Walter Scott Versificator, or, The Dousterswivel Engine

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Published: April 20, 2025 20:43

The Sir Walter Scott Versificator For his 1825 historical novel “The Betrothed,” (which, oddly has the same title as Alessandro Manzoni’s hiustorical novel “Promessi Sposi” from 1827) Sir Walter Scott decided to write a comical parody as an introduction.…

Origins of heritage tourism and the museum economy

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Published: April 20, 2025 03:09

*Italians might remove the name and the novels of “Walter Scott” and substitute the name and the novel of “Alessandro Manzoni.” Also, Scott’s private “Abbotsford” can be better understood in an Italian context as Torino’s public “Borgo Medioevale.” *They…