Context Switch: Groundhogs, School, the Bounty of Summer
summery update of the Context Switch newsletter
Context Switch Interview: Natalia Yanchak of The Dears
My first interview, with Natalia Yanchak, of The Dears and game dev fame, went out on Friday. You can see it now in the archive, and sign up to receive the next one
Back to School
Announcement: Later this week, I’m headed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, for my first weeklong residency in the MFA Creative Nonfiction programme at the University of King’s College.
Garden Season
The long goal is for every season to be garden season– to make ourselves as hardy and resourceful as the few vegetables that can still grow through a Montreal winter. To build cold frames and greenhouses, and get out there managing crops year round. For now we’re just trying to do better than last year. Not that last year was bad– it was great– and most importantly it was better than the year before, which […]
Tartan mania
I’ve been collecting archival information about my grandmother, Bessie Murray, and the Nova Scotia Tartan. I found this Macleans cover from 1957 in an old email from my dad, that I think really gets across the “tartanism” of the time. The tartan was just four years old at this point, and apparently, already plastered all over everything– thanks in large part to the initiative of premier Angus L. Macdonald. Despite its name, Nova Scotia at […]
Getting Dressed
Dressing the loom takes an eternity.
Some game narrative posts about scope
Linking to two Discoglobe Interactive posts about videogame scope.
Visible Mending with a Darning Loom
I break out my speedweve loom for the first time and make patches ’til the sheep come home
You Can Weave: Let’s Get Warped
I detail my plans for creating a Montreal Tartan, and make my first warp– that’s the long vertical threads– for the loom, with Penelope’s help.
You Can Weave: Meet Frankie, the Frankenloom
My new-old loom needs some work to make it usable. It also gets a new name.