Issue 1 – Creative Space
Hello and welcome to a more personal personal newsletter. Since megu.space is a multidisciplinary space for creative research, these letters will help me to tie everything together into some semblance of a cohesive narrative.
From now on, I'll be writing words periodically to you, the lovely reader. How are you doing today?
How are you feeling about the internet? Social media? I'm feeling overwhelmed by streams of information that don't nourish me. I'm taking a break from feeds, and instead planting seeds in my digital garden. 🌱
My digital garden will include education.
My ideal web is one in which we create handmade websites and link to each other, independent of dominant publishing platforms. If you haven't written code since the Myspace days, I encourage you to dust off your html gloves and make a fun website. Send me the link if you do!
Coding for Designers
I'm teaching a 6 week virtual workshop on the handmade web, hosted by Index. Class starts April 17th. Enrollment is open now!
Latest Blog Posts
Recent things I've written on megu.space:
- From Mailchimp to Buttondown - Switched to a more privacy respecting service, which sent the email you're looking at right now!
- Lusitana Font Download - Updated the files for this old style serif typeface featured in the Feminist Fonts zine
Kintsugi projects have been on hold for a while but I'm starting up again soon—and I found a new (old) chipped tea bowl to repair!
Subscribe by Category
Get updates for new blog posts (without all these extra words) by using RSS. I suggest RSS to Email on Zapier.
Main RSS Feed
https://megu.space/feed
Feed is updated for every new post on megu.space.
Category RSS Feed
Just add /feed to the end of any category page URL. For example, Kintsugi:
https://megu.space/category/kintsugi/feed
You can also do this with Privacy and Design. Right now those are the only categories.
Are.na Research
These are the research channels I'm actively working on right now:
Elsewhere on the web
Interesting reads & talks:
- Rediscovering the Small Web. Article by Parimal Satyal on how to engage with the web on your own terms
- "But the Environmental Issues with Cryptoart will be solved soon, right?". Article by everest pipkin that you can send to people who argue that NFTs are good for artists, society, or the environment. Hint: they're not.
- The Pedagogy of Design in the Age of Computation (Youtube). Talk by Mindy Seu, includes cyberfeminist internet history
That's it for this issue, thank you for reading!
Pandemically yours,
Megumi