aesthetic dialectic
infrequent life updates from Jeanne Jo
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I have five crits this week! Yowza. 3/5 of them are in-progress crits though, so not so bad. Here is the latest rendition of the Undo-er. (It’s a working title.) And an overdue update on the singing booth helmet, which has taken a drastically different turn. This past week was also our final exam for [...]

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Last Friday, several members of the Textiles Futures class joined up with the juniors and first year grads of the textiles department and attended a tour of Material Connexions in New York. There were a lot of really interesting materials to look at and touch. I am considering trying to incorporate insulation made from recycled [...]

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John Ewing wearing my Portable Singing Booth prototype.

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While TA’ing for the Textiles Futures class, I am going to start working on my singing booth helmet again. I am researching vacuum forming and sound proofing foam and paint. References: The Portable Cellphone Booth Nick Rodrigues ScreamBody Kelly Dobson (who is also one of the teachers of the class)