Handmade Pasta: My Skillshare Class is Live!
Just nearly a year ago I went to see Jon Fasman from The Economist speak in Atlanta about "why it's expensive to be poor", and he spoke specifically about food deserts. This was a concept I'd never heard of before—in nutshell, a food desert is an area of a city or town where the residents don't have reasonable access to fresh meat and produce. Specifically, they live in a region that is more than one mile away from a grocery store. Usually, these residents only have access to crappy mini marts with Honey Buns and Twinkies as their sustenance. They can't call Uber (and even if they can, a $15 trip is precious cash to a low income family), and when they do make the trek to a grocery store, it takes several hours of grueling transit that could be spent doing other things.
Paper quilling is such a crazy, amazing little medium—it must take hours to make every piece, and they're so fragile and delicate. Instead of trying to do it myself, here's a round up of my favorite examples.
Inspired by the collection I posted a few days ago, I decided to play around and make my own versions. As I worked, I realized this is similar to this concept I've been chasing for years—projecting fabric patterns on to white clothing, to create moving patterns (since fabric design is static).
One day I discovered how to make GIFs. The next day I discovered I couldn't stop.