ChatGPT, the kindness of others, textile sculptures, spinning and weaving, and postcards are the topics of these links that I enjoyed. I hope you will enjoy one or several of them, too.
Writer Amanda Guinzburg asked ChatGPT to evaluate and choose several of her essays to send to an agent. Read her crazy conversation with ChatGPT, all presented as screenshots. It's unbelievable how human-like ChatGPT sounds. Have you interacted with ChatGPT before? What do you think?
I thought some of these Site-Specific Textiles by Rachel B. Hayes were beautiful.
Read about the mostly-anonymous kindnesses of others in "A Restaurant Surprise I'm Still Thinking of Two Decades Later." Also, don't miss all the stories in the comments section. They may be better than the original article. Do you have experiences of being the recipient and/or the kindness-giver?
There's a movie called "The Nettle Dress," about the process of harvesting, processing, spinning, and weaving nettle to become cloth to make a dress. Below is the trailer. And watch another brief video showing how the spinner/weaver scoured (cleaned) and weighted small skeins of the yarn for the weft. (Whenever I think of nettle I think of stinging nettle, a wild plant that causes an awful reaction on my skin. How does he prevent a reaction, I wonder.)
I think this was so interesting to me because in earlier decades I was a spinner, dyer, and weaver.
For a while, Bonnie and Ellen worked together. They became good friends and then Ellen moved away. She began writing a postcard a day to Bonnie who saved them all. She amassed thousands which are now on exhibit at Willamette College. See photos here at Bonnie's blog and read a news article here.
--Nancy.
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