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How Online Game Photo Modes Teach Makers to Photograph Their Handmade Work
Modern games hide a small photography studio inside themselves.
A wipe-on finish is the surest way for someone without a spray booth or a steady brush hand to get a smooth, even surface on wood.
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Modern games hide a small photography studio inside themselves.
Paper and Mixed Media
The first journal I sewed for a client looked fine on my table and terrible a week later.
Paper and Mixed Media
The first book Junie bound in our shared garage dried under a stack of three cookbooks and a cast iron skillet.
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A surprising number of games tuck a whittling or carving minigame into a quiet corner, a little loop of shaving a block down...
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Survival and crafting games put a repair bench in your base for a reason, because gear wears out and replacing it is wasteful.
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A client picked up her hemmed trousers last winter and saw a half finished cross-stitch on my table: a small mushroom from an...
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Three makers who work with their hands before they write about it: one builds furniture and teaches basic joinery, one sews and mends for a small alterations clientele, and one turns salvaged materials into sellable pieces at weekend markets. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not actually made.