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@JudsonGreene oh yeah, he’s got some really cool stuff!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/88272706","date_published":"2026-04-15T01:55:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-15 01:55","date_timestamp":1776218109,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87734701","content_html":"@TheGiddyStitcher thanks! FWIW, I can’t say enough good things about the online class at the Lace Museum (near the bottom of the list here), which is how I learned.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/87734701","date_published":"2026-04-07T00:48:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-07 00:48","date_timestamp":1775522911,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"87734503","content_html":"@jabel violets and dandelions! (making notes for future salads)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/87734503","date_published":"2026-04-07T00:40:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-07 00:40","date_timestamp":1775522450,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86757961","content_html":"@JudsonGreene and also, I’m interested in the “I used to think this harsh” category. Definitely have my own examples of that! It’d be pretty interesting to hear answers from a bunch of different people.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/86757961","date_published":"2026-03-23T02:10:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-23 02:10","date_timestamp":1774231801,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86757837","content_html":"@JudsonGreene thanks for this. I want to read more Judson commentary!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/86757837","date_published":"2026-03-23T02:06:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-23 02:06","date_timestamp":1774231619,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86673494","content_html":"Picking back up with learning bobbin lace 🎨🧶
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Really enjoyed listening to the Tuva Halse Quintet these last couple weeks … that trumpet/violin blend!! 👌 Another gem from Bandcamp’s monthly “best of” posts.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/84415868","date_published":"2026-02-17T02:39:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-17 02:39","date_timestamp":1771295982,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"83879133","content_html":"@isaacgreene love it! I remember a shift like this happening for me in college—realizing a “performance” could feel like following a train of thought, developing the music in real time, as if I were a really really really good improviser. And wow, that way of interpreting feels so alive!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/83879133","date_published":"2026-02-09T04:34:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-09 04:34","date_timestamp":1770611641,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"83017237","content_html":"@JohnBrady I love blanket stitches! (Probably for similar reasons—it’s one of the few stitches I know, but very effective 🙃)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/83017237","date_published":"2026-01-27T23:14:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-27 23:14","date_timestamp":1769555693,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82785783","content_html":"@isaacgreene !!!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/82785783","date_published":"2026-01-24T20:01:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-24 20:01","date_timestamp":1769284887,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82238858","content_html":"@bradleyandroos The nurse said, “Can I ask which one was the bad experience?” and when I told her, she gave a knowing nod and said “I thought so. You’re not the first.” 😂
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/82238858","date_published":"2026-01-17T03:44:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-17 03:44","date_timestamp":1768621443,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82238843","content_html":"@bradleyandroos also, funny story about the clear quality rankings: After my worst ever donation experience at the NYBC near Grand Central, I went back to the downtown BK one, and told them how much better they were. (continued)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/82238843","date_published":"2026-01-17T03:43:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-17 03:43","date_timestamp":1768621404,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82238698","content_html":"@bradleyandroos yep, in Brooklyn, and also quite close to that center actually!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/82238698","date_published":"2026-01-17T03:38:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-17 03:38","date_timestamp":1768621102,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82207478","content_html":"@bradleyandroos is this the downtown Brooklyn one? Looks familiar!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/82207478","date_published":"2026-01-16T18:10:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-16 18:10","date_timestamp":1768587056,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"82084969","content_html":"@marmanold I have eventually unsubscribed from almost every Substack I’ve subscribed to for a similar reason. Occasional, great content is what will keep me around!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/82084969","date_published":"2026-01-15T01:57:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-15 01:57","date_timestamp":1768442247,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"81938877","content_html":"@JudsonGreene @elliotlovegrove . . . while the words were still coming out of my mouth, I could feel that they weren’t the full story.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/81938877","date_published":"2026-01-13T05:12:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-13 05:12","date_timestamp":1768281125,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"81938838","content_html":"@JudsonGreene thanks for highlighting this tension. Repeated visits to The Met have done a similar thing for me—there’s so much incredible art out there; if I’m going to add anything it’d better really be good!—and yet . . .
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/81938838","date_published":"2026-01-13T05:10:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-13 05:10","date_timestamp":1768281030,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"81767393","content_html":"@isaacgreene it’s one of the sonatas I’ve heard where the musicians sound most like equal collaborators developing the music together, instead of like a soloist and an accompanist pretending to be a collaborator 🙃
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/81767393","date_published":"2026-01-10T16:03:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-10 16:03","date_timestamp":1768061034,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"81740424","content_html":"@ReaderJohn @isaacgreene and the 2nd violin sonata! (I mean, I can’t make any grand historical claims for it; I just love it.) So much invention, in a bunch of different directions . . .
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/81740424","date_published":"2026-01-10T04:01:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-10 04:01","date_timestamp":1768017716,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"81660295","content_html":"Wow, the last 2 minutes of this video! I love the way these musicians work together (and can’t wait for them to come back to US on tour sometime)
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/2026/01/08/wow-the-last-minutes-of.html","date_published":"2026-01-09T01:18:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-09 01:18","date_timestamp":1767921492,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"81352071","content_html":"@isaacgreene wait, @judsongreene is on micro.blog?!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/81352071","date_published":"2026-01-04T22:18:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-04 22:18","date_timestamp":1767565085,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"80847204","content_html":"Anyone have advice about a good color desktop printer? Looking for fairly high quality, to print out things like cards, zines, and booklets. Older/“dumber” models preferable because I’d like one without its own app, AI features, etc. if possible 😑
\n","summary":"","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/2025/12/27/anyone-have-advice-about-a.html","date_published":"2025-12-27T20:19:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-27 20:19","date_timestamp":1766866755,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"80325741","content_html":"@isaacgreene yay! Looking very nice
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/80325741","date_published":"2025-12-19T00:58:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-12-19 00:58","date_timestamp":1766105886,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"78438314","content_html":"@isaacgreene fantastic! That’s the one of his posters/zines I don’t have . . . does it also have writing on the back?
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/78438314","date_published":"2025-11-21T03:00:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-21 03:00","date_timestamp":1763694050,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"77427779","content_html":"@jabel they’re so good.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/77427779","date_published":"2025-11-06T20:21:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-06 20:21","date_timestamp":1762460460,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"77285061","content_html":"@isaacgreene ha, I actually like it at least 30% of the time with Bluetooth earbuds (e.g. I’m cooking dinner and my roommate walks in the door, so I take the earbud out music pauses and have a quick conversation, then put it back in music resumes and start cooking again)
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/77285061","date_published":"2025-11-05T02:56:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-11-05 02:56","date_timestamp":1762311404,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76565745","content_html":"@isaacgreene wow, that’s fabulous!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/76565745","date_published":"2025-10-24T21:10:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-24 21:10","date_timestamp":1761340230,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"76246862","content_html":"@bbowman thanks for sharing these. No wonder this book got the attention it did!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/elliotlovegrove/76246862","date_published":"2025-10-20T23:37:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-10-20 23:37","date_timestamp":1761003468,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"56456510","content_html":"Hi @ayjay, grateful blog reader here. 👋 I’ve seen your string of Dorothy Sayers posts and wanted to pass on a link to this show in case you haven’t seen it. Pretty interesting concept for a show all around, but I wasn’t expecting to see a dedicated Sayers section!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/2025/01/31/hi-ayjay-grateful-blog-reader.html","date_published":"2025-01-31T21:31:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-31 21:31","date_timestamp":1738359093,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"42497346","content_html":"the tatted postage experiment begins … 🧶🖼️
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\n🎵 Listening: Air for Violin and Piano by Aaron Jay Kernis.
\n\nReally happy to rediscover this today. For me, it’s in a sweet spot of twentieth-century Classical music where every beautiful chord feels hard-won. But really, what a wistful and beautiful piece!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/2024/07/27/listening-air-for.html","date_published":"2024-07-28T02:55:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-07-28 02:55","date_timestamp":1722135332,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"40438575","content_html":"A pile of tatting. 🧶
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Wow!! This wood carving!\nwww.julienfeller.com
\n","summary":"","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/2024/06/20/wow-this-wood.html","date_published":"2024-06-20T23:43:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-06-20 23:43","date_timestamp":1718927031,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"22397249","content_html":"One of today’s best finds at the Met: a box made mostly from thin translucent panels of amber. (!!!) Just incredible. (Didn’t get any more details about where/when it was made, unfortunately, but somewhere in Northern Europe, at least a hundred years ago)
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Tatting update 🧶 (following this fantastic pattern by Robin Perfetti)
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A few years in, this album still holds up! Such fun, joyous tracks 😌
\n\njoeyalexander.bandcamp.com/track/our…
\n","summary":"","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/2023/06/22/a-few-years.html","date_published":"2023-06-22T22:16:16+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-06-22 22:16","date_timestamp":1687472176,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"20112311","content_html":"I’m quite pleased with how this plastic heat-bending job turned out! (The pieces aren’t finished yet, but this was the major roadblock step)\n🎨
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While I’m thinking about less-famous paintings, here’s my favorite John Singer Sargent painting (and also one of my favorite landscapes ever) 🎨
\n\nSimplon Pass, 1911, at the US National Gallery of Art
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I’ve already thought that Edvard Munch gets short shrift when people only know him for The Scream, but yesterday I was introduced to yet another (really beautiful) facet of his work 🎨
\n\nh/t Robin Sloan’s fabulous newsletter
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A pretty remarkable article:
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/2023/05/30/a-pretty-remarkable.html","date_published":"2023-05-31T00:53:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-05-31 00:53","date_timestamp":1685494435,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12847663","content_html":"Commute
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\nPetals fallen onto the plants below them feels like a natural version of abstraction … at least to this abstract painter!
\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Felliotlovegrove.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F1dd11471f6.jpg\")
golden moment in downtown Brooklyn
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Whew, doing this with thick wire is another level! 🎨🎨
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Just a lovely little composition I walked by:
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… and, 🎨 Day 30!! Interactive toy-like projects lead us back to my latest book, which is also a playable marble maze. Here’s a (rough-cut!) video:
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/2021/10/14/and-day-interactive.html","date_published":"2021-10-15T02:12:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Elliot Lovegrove","url":"https://elliotlovegrove.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F30%2F59110.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"elliotlovegrove"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2021-10-15 02:12","date_timestamp":1634263945,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"12050545","content_html":"🎨 Day 29
\nLight Toys, 2019\nHere I was trying to make objects which could be played with—but which didn’t read so explicitly as childlike.
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\n🎨 Day 28
\nI followed up the last installation by making a set of extra-fancy building blocks … but I wanted to leave the funnest part—putting them together—entirely up to viewers and not to me. Here are some of the setups my classmates made:
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\n🎨 Day 27
\nPipe Game. An installation for one of my first grad classes in 2019.
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