#microadjustable

[gingermintpepper]

When I wake up from my long overdue nap, I'm going to talk about Apollo and Mousike vs Apollo and Music and why it's so, so important that, despite being an accomplished poet and musician - the best of best of the BEST, literally, Apollo's symbol being that of the children's lyre over that of the professional's kithara is so much more meaningful than it might first seem.

[nerdyqueerr]

The smartypants god is a woman presentation is like highly potent catnip for hums students (me)

[kalloway]

hello I have been absent but my (drawing) life is purely procrastinating on non-meme art, and actually working on meme/post redraws shgjdhfj

here's one I spent far too long on with @magthemage 's OC Cammy! Yet again because I love her but also we love to make our OCs suffer too (such is the way) so the *actual* context of this is grim, but... based on goofy 'haha' meme hehe SO IT BALANCES OUT

also im sorry if it looks extra crispy, i guess this lineart brush HATES being saved as a JPEG lmao so im blaming compression

anyway im off to procrastinate further, wish me luck! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

[primsycoldbottles]

decided on lesbo rhoda teneiro 4 pride month instead <3 i liek this

[bamboorocket]

We makin' progress, let's gooooooo

New cosplay project! One panel down. Two more to go. Then skirt time.

I wonder how many people will remember this character...

[scribefindegil]

One thing I really love about hand-sewing is how it allows you to make tiny stitch-level microadjustments to make sure everything lines up juuuuuuust right

(Rosettes Appliquéd: 4%)

[deramin2]

Anyone who thinks you can automate sewing has never sewed. It's so physical in such a bespoke and microadjusting way. Try to get a machine to pin two pant legs together that are slightly different lengths intentionally and one needs to stretch but there's also slightly different curves and also one piece has a wrinkle putting it together because you've sewed edges of two pieces together that aren't the same width.

And you have to go between sewing and pinning to get everything as flat as possible. And also the fabric has to stay perfectly lined up even though it wants to drift apart and you're constantly adjusting them by millimeters as you feed it.

Machines cannot do all this. They can't make all those decisions on the fly with such inherently physical and inconsistent pieces.

I'm sick of tech bros acting like the solution to poor labor conditions, unfair wages, and devaluing of very skilled labor is to get machines to do a piss poor job.

It's also traditionally women's work and there's so much misogyny in devaluing the skill. Of course it's mostly men who don't even know how to examine the stitching on their clothes let alone actually do the work.

Fuck them all.

And remember that ALL clothing is handmade.

[gremlinbehaviour]

every single time i think to myself "I wanna quilt my own quilts! And this is just a throw size so it'll work fine on a regular sewing machine" and then two lines in my ribs and shoulders are screaming at me from trying to maneuver 25 square feet of fabric and backing through dozens of little microadjustments and I'm screaming at the quilt because I have invariably already fucked it up

[fae-iii]

Pixel Art 02-24-24 - Ditto

Quick and easy drawing cuz I really need a win this weekend before I go back to the busywork factory. Still took, uh, quite a bit of staring at and making microadjustments that probably could've been done faster.

[sonofsin]

all of it. I lost. all. of it. all of the scrapping. all of the building. all of the fucking mindnumbingly boring microadjustments. gone.

[c-53]

Dropping my friend off back home and taking so long to do my 60 microadjustment parallel park maneuver that she has time to start and finish an entire multi arc story while I nearly back into her neighbor like 20 times

[horsemage]

I forgot to get a picture of it last night but the thing we use for making microadjustments to the 16” telescope is the exact same logitech game controller as the one used in that submarine that imploded last year

[checkoutmybookshelf]

It's easy to fall into a habit of thinking of speaking and writing as automatic and abstract, so I want to just take a second to celebrate the utter embodiedness of words.

Speaking? Well then your lungs are working to ensure that you have enough air to power the musculature of the human speech apparatus, from the diaphragm, intercostal, and other breathing-related muscles to the vocal cords, the throat, the lips, tongue, teeth, and hard and soft palates. Your body intricately and intimately knows the feeling of air moving through it, the shapes of sounds that carry meaning, and can shape otherwise neutral sounds with tone, pitch, timbre, and sheer attitude to communicate meaning beyond just the sound.

ASL? Look at the beauty of the tendons, bones, muscles, and soft tissues of the hands, arms, and shoulders that allow you to form shapes that take on meaning. And then there are the nuances of space, body position, speed, and sharpness or softness.

Writing by hand? The fine and gross motor skills involved are just wondrous, and your body knows the shape of letters in ink, graphite, wax, and paint. The minute, constant microadjustments to ensure that your mind, body, and writing tool can work in the perfect synergy to get words on paper are practically magic, and they are as deeply embodied as speech and ASL.

Typing on a physical keyboard? Your fingers have to know patterns, must adjust to tiny variations in size, shape, and intensity to make the keys function. Each finger has to be able to manage by itself but also work with the others to get words into a computer.

Typing on a screen? We all have our preferences for that. Some of us do the single-figer peck, some wear out our thumbs...it depends on the size and shape of our hands, their strength, the presence or absence of pain. Even this most maligned way of getting words down in a form others can read is embodied and changes for every single person based on the body they are in.

So...speech, writing, and communicating is inherently some of the most embodied we are as humans, and I think that's kind of magical.

[robertogreco]

Here is another post I made to a watch forum, this one in September 2022 shortly before deleting my posts and account there. I have swapped the same photo for one that I like better, in part because the watch is on one of my favorite straps.

Wristswapping and Barewristing

As many of you know, I am relatively new to watch enthusiasm (about a year and a half at this point) and even newer to watch ownership (a little more than three months). Therefore, I am still figuring out what my preferences and habits are regarding all of this and two phenomena have emerged in the last couple of weeks.

Wristswapping: Last month I began wearing my watch on my right wrist from time to time. As with most people my dominant wrist (right) is significantly larger due to favoring it for use. But my right hand is longer than my left hand just like my right foot is a half size larger than my left foot. So, sometimes it’s like a super fast microadjust for when my left wrist is smaller and the watch is wearing more loosely, I just switch it over. Other times it’s because it looks different – my right wrist frames the watch differently. One of the most compelling reasons to wear watches on our non-dominant hand is to keep it protected from the additional use it would be subjected to on our dominant hand, so if I am going to be doing something active or more strenuous, I will swap it back to my left wrist.

Barewristing: Recently I stopped wearing my watch when I go out (most of the time). For a lot of people I know, part of the reason they like to wear a watch is to prevents them from looking at their mobile phone (or the “smartwatch” the watch replaced) when they want to know the time because they can become distracted by notifications and then become absorbed in their phone and/or whatever messages they’ve received. I don’t have a SIM card in the hand-me-down phone that I carry around mostly to use as a camera, but also to check messages when I am connected to Wi-Fi. So, when I am out, looking at the phone to check the time never really leads to a distraction to me, whereas wearing a watch can mean checking the time more frequently. The watch tends to distract me more than the phone, so it stays at home.

[warhorns]

getting the hang of more dynamic footage. definitely got some quality drop + am so mad about that microadjustment i made to the camera at the end, but still having fun learning >:)

[dire-straits-fn8ic]

If I ever fixed my sinuses I don't know what I'd do with all of the extra brainpower no longer dedicated to constantly making microadjustments to how I breathe and tilt my head and control the flow of fluid through my sinus channels