We tackle a new creative challenge every two weeks and talk about our accomplishments, failures and lessons learned.
Our guest this episode was Melissa Potter! Listen as we talk about the rad earnestness of papermaker hardcore kids at opposablepodcast.com/49.
The Baconator
Feminist fermentation
Security gate hardware conversion
Our guest this episode was Maddeline Vaccaro! Listen as we talk about all things weepy at opposablepodcast.com/47.
Nostalgia tears
Who’s chopping onions in here?
Next level gift giving
Our guest this episode was Michelle Sheng! Listen as we talk about Meninism, mermaids, manga, and more at opposablepodcast.com/46.
H-eye L-eye-ter
TBA
Things go pear-shaped
Our guest this episode was Debbie Chachra! Listen as we talk about problematizing “making,” the geographic center of the United States, social media hoaxin’ and more at opposablepodcast.com/45.
Immersing oneself in the least favored tasks
Cards against unnecessary screening procedures
Cancer cell photos on card backs by Dr. Chris Bakal, Institute for Cancer Research, London
Thanks to Dr. Alan Nazerian, who’s a radiologist in Chicago, for his help with understanding the cancer screening process and the incredibly detailed information he provided. The usual disclaimer applies, which is that I alone am responsible for errors and oversimplifications.
Thanks to my colleague, designer Tim Ferguson Sauder — I went to show him what I made and to ask how best to photograph it, and he volunteered to take the photos posted here.
Sources:
New mammography screening deadlines:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/new-mammography-screening-guideline
Rates of breast cancer by age:
https://ww5.komen.org/BreastCancer/GettingOlder.html
The biology of cancer cell shape and why it’s important:
https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/02/01/the-biology-of-cancer-cell-shape-and-why-its-important/
Playing card template:
https://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/publishing/articles/122296.aspx
Ride or Die (PDF zine)
Our guest this episode was F. Doug(las) Brown! Listen as we talk about Zuihitsu, Ekphrasis, and Full House at opposablepodcast.com/44.
Who let that pencil neck in here?
Just go listen, poem read in full on the podcast
No video? No coffee? What’s this lad up too…
Our guest this episode was Mathew Lippincott! Listen as we talk telephony, dirigibles, and creative bureaucracy at opposablepodcast.com/43.
Rob’s true love, revealed
And don’t call me Shirley
What is this, a soldering process for ants?
Our guest this episode was Quinn Dunki aka Blondihacks! Listen as we talk about steam power, LIDAR, urinals, and purposefully stupid tech stacks at opposablepodcast.com/42.
Fail forward
You can’t tell me what to do!
Tired of off-center toilet nut photos? There’s got to be a better way…
Our guest this episode was… us! Listen as we talk about traditional tattoos, Ed Roth, and fear and loathing 1980’s O-town at opposablepodcast.com/41.
Learning to love again
Just gotta go listen, it’s a heavy one!
Our guest this episode was… us! Listen as we talk about how we got into podcasting, underwater fantasy societies, and garbage at opposablepodcast.com/40.
Our guest this episode was Matthew Shenoda! Listen to us talk about road trips, African poetry, and tennis shoes (as always) at opposablepodcast.com/39.
Inefficient snacking device #49
Overkill
I: Routine stop
The way his hand wrenches
The neck of a stranger
How his feet kick the legs out from
Under him
Leaving the weight of his body
In the mercy of overkill
II: Son
There was a woman in an airport
Her son divided by oceans, by war, by triggers, by blood
There were the hands of another, who slid inside her palm
an envelope and whispered,
“Go and bring him”
They carried him over
Tucked him under
Hid him inside
Sheltered him closely
But the men in green
With their eyes made of convex lenses
And polycarbonate searing
Spotted him like a laser
Searching for a target
placed him in a cage made of polished earth
And sent him as far from his heart as they could.
Inefficient sketching process #78