Made by Hand: things of art and making, from a camera obscura to a story without the letter e
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Art & Making

[ ] 1. Turn a room into a camera obscura
[ ] 2. Take a photo with a pinhole camera made from a tin can
[ ] 3. Print a cyanotype with nothing but sunlight
[ ] 4. Make a wet-plate tintype portrait
[ ] 5. Develop my own film in a darkroom
[ ] 6. Grind my own paint from earth and rocks I found
[ ] 7. Make ink from oak galls and write with it
[ ] 8. Cut a quill pen from a feather
[ ] 9. Make paper from plant fibers or old rags
[ ] 10. Marble paper on a bath of floating ink
[ ] 11. Sew and bind a book by hand
[ ] 12. Print from a woodblock I carved myself
[ ] 13. Set a line of metal type and print it on a letterpress
[ ] 14. Etch a copper plate and print it
[ ] 15. Lay gold leaf on an illuminated letter
[ ] 16. Mend a broken bowl with gold, the kintsugi way
[ ] 17. Patch worn clothes with sashiko stitching
[ ] 18. Weave a length of cloth on a loom
[ ] 19. Spin yarn on a drop spindle
[ ] 20. Dye something in an indigo vat
[ ] 21. Print leaves onto fabric with their own colors
[ ] 22. Make a piece of bobbin lace
[ ] 23. Tuft a rug of my own design
[ ] 24. Make a pair of shoes I can walk in
[ ] 25. Carve a spoon from green wood
[ ] 26. Weave a basket from willow I cut myself
[ ] 27. Forge a knife at an anvil
[ ] 28. Pour molten metal into a sand mold
[ ] 29. Fire a pot in a raku kiln and pull it out glowing
[ ] 30. Build a stretch of dry-stone wall
[ ] 31. Bend glass tube into a neon sign
[ ] 32. Burn a picture into wood with a hot pen
[ ] 33. Build an instrument that plays in tune
[ ] 34. Build an Aeolian harp for the wind to play
[ ] 35. Punch a tune into a music-box strip
[ ] 36. Make all the sound effects for a film scene by hand
[ ] 37. Animate a stop-motion film one frame at a time
[ ] 38. Make a zoetrope and watch my drawings move
[ ] 39. Put on a shadow puppet show with puppets I cut
[ ] 40. Build a marionette that walks
[ ] 41. Build a wooden automaton that moves with a crank
[ ] 42. Balance a hanging mobile of my own
[ ] 43. Build a tiny world inside a matchbox
[ ] 44. Make land art from leaves and stones and leave it to the weather
[ ] 45. Draw the same tree in every season
[ ] 46. Draw a map of a place that doesn't exist
[ ] 47. Make glitch art by editing an image file as text
[ ] 48. Write a program that draws something I didn't plan
[ ] 49. Make a blackout poem from a page of an old book
[ ] 50. Write a story without the letter e