Posters, Pins, Project Butterfly Updates, Etc. (Patreon)

Hello good humans!

1. New Merch!

Ok I am VERY excited about the triangle person pin. They are so cool! DFTBA does great pins. I can't wait to get my hands on one to show you properly!

Plus, "How to Make a Hexaflexagon" is now available in poster form, on sale for Back to School for only $8.

And there's still some shirts in stock too. We're going to be retiring some of the designs so they might not have all the sizes as we let them sell out.

Store link: https://store.dftba.com/collections/vi-hart

2. ART ART ART

I've mentioned I'm a little burnt out on the "try to make lots of videos real fast" thing, and trying to squeeze just one more out on a timeline isn't helping. So I'm taking an art break to work on the longer more conceptual Project Butterfly.

I shared a bit of the latest Project Butterfly-related artings on Lens, and I thought I'd share a few photos here and transcribe my Lens ramblings, as it's about to disappear:

I like working at night in dim yellowish light to help me focus less on how my art looks and more on how making it feels.

The pages aren't separate chronological pieces assembled together. They're a dialogue of materials, they're my hands thinking out loud, they're made from each other's scraps, they're built together for each other with each other. 

I like variations in art and in music because each gives context and framing to all the rest. Each makes each other more meaningful.

The source material is a dusty plant slap that showed up on my pants, through photos and also lifting a print with tape.

3. This Week's Slow-Tweets

What if dogs perfectly understand everything we say but just think most of it is super boring/irrelevant?

A painting is partly made by a brush, but still wholly made by the painter using it. Did people ever find this fact confusing before the tech industry started trying to sell the idea that current “artificial intelligence” technology is capable of creativity and autonomy? Were people ever confused about whether a brush were some magical animistic being? 

"Check out this painting that was MADE BY A BRUSH!!!!" they said, ignoring the hand holding it. Then everyone bought brushes and the brush executives got rich and took over the world, the end

Vi