{"id":15442,"date":"2011-10-14T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2011\/10\/14\/crash-and-learn\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:15","slug":"crash-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2011\/10\/14\/crash-and-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash and learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often wonder about the &#8216;quality&#8217; or refinement issue in making books by hand. It&#8217;s not about being lazy, but other people I&#8217;ve taught instantly made more squared-off and tidier-looking books than mine and I&#8217;m okay with that. Still, I keep coming back to the question of whether I should be trying to make them look perfect.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I aspire to keep learning more and more about this craft, but I&#8217;m most interested in these books as useful things first rather than art objects. They&#8217;re places for storing and retrieving ideas and plans &#8212; an invitation to think and dream. Plus, I think people really like the hand-made look. I&#8217;m honestly tempted to just make everything out of kraft paper!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: This morning during some hard drive data hell, I used my offline time to sketch out ideas for next year&#8217;s day-planner. Now that I look at them, though, I feel moved to use something just like them rather than &#8220;fix&#8221; them on the computer and make tidy, bland pastel versions of these pages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1271\/crash-and-learn0.jpg.webp\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often wonder about the &#8216;quality&#8217; or refinement issue in making books by hand. It&#8217;s not about being lazy, but other people I&#8217;ve taught instantly made more squared-off and tidier-looking books than mine and I&#8217;m okay with that. Still, I keep coming back to the question of whether I should be trying to make them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}