Tag: joy
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“Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts” by Amanda Wyatt Visconti & Shane Lin
A 20-page standard-size, full-color zine co-created by Amanda Wyatt Visconti and Shane Lin. “Absolute Unit”: An entity exceedingly pleasing to the eye & soul by virtue of unusual-for-its-kind square or stocky dimensions. Absolute Units are exemplars of: stability! solidity! abundance! confidence! A model for insisting we deserve at-homeness in our world. A righteous & unbothered…
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“The Good Pets of UVA Library” zine
The Good Pets of UVA Library is a whopping 36-page standard-size, full-color zine created by Amanda Wyatt Visconti with text and photos of pets contributed by UVA Library colleagues.
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“Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy” zine
An 8-page quarter-size (“hand pie”), full-color collage zine by Amanda Wyatt Visconti (v1, 11/26/2024; CC BY-NC). Look!! Here’s your unusual letterpress blocks invitation to joy: a collage mini-zine is an 8-page, quarter-size collage zine of odd letterpress blocks (illustrations/text mounted on a block of wood, to be inked & pressed into paper using a printing…
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Resin casting
I completed two resin casting projects recently: a full-size skull, and a light-up TTRPG dice necklace. Memento mori (skull) High-level resin casting steps are: measuring the resin components, mixing them together very slowly to avoid introducing air bubbles, pouring, adding embeds, and allowing the resin 2-3 days to cure. Pouring more than one inch or…