Top note: get yourself to a bookstore or library or e-reader or audio book and read Stephen Markley’s The Deluge. (Here’s an interview in Esquire about it.) Now we need to print a special insert for Climate Emergency Reading Recs. Maybe a new bookmark!
Hello, email pals!
Ok, here’s the news from ANEMONE: Basically, there’s a new version of Rambles, the sewing book comes out in just a few days (!!!!), and there’s a lot of links. Also, there’s a NEW Spectrolite too, but I will put all the details in a future newsletter so you can skip it if you aren’t into that kind of thing. Also, we sent out all 50 calendars in the mail trade last month and have been getting some AMAZING mail in return, its so fun to get to read what everyone is up to / get zines and cards and notes and prints. <3
New Bike Rambles
Adam did a third printing of Bike Rambles around Seattle and decided to go for a second edition too, updating the inside to have TWO COLORS of ink! The maps!! Just online for now (we haven’t restocked the bookstores yet). You can get it here:
Sewing Book!!
How to Sew Clothes, the book that I co-wrote with Amy Bornman and published by Abrams, is out on TUESDAY — this Tuesday!! February 28th! There’s lots about it in the All Well newsletter and instagram @allwellworkshop.
Pre orders get fun perks, including the brand new Daily Tote pattern (it’s not in the book!!), and risograph prints — all the details here! Be sure to fill out the preorder bonus form. Can’t wait for it to be out in the world!
Seattle friends: we canceled the book release event at Elliott Bay because the ownership would not allow the event to have a “please wear masks!” requirement. We didn’t feel cool about organizing a big unmasked in-person event for a lot of reasons, especially when our county health officer (and the WHO) are recommending wearing masks in public indoors. If you had that on your calendar, apologies, we hope you understand! (If you pre ordered there, you will still get the special riso print bonus with your book.)
Links
The long read link is Rebecca Solnit: ‘If you win the popular imagination, you change the game’: why we need new stories on climate.
An argument in favor of asking for and accepting help
The insect apocalypse is beautiful science journalism (prob best on a computer vs phone)
How the US uses its land (ditto beautiful journalism, ditto computer not phone)
Two blogs about the state of glaciers in WA state (I get really sad when we go mountaineering and can see how much they’ve disappeared even just in the past 15 years that I’ve been in these mountains. Elizabeth and I wrote “every alpine glacier is dying” in Biome I nurture/melt.)
By Ray Eames’ Hand, a digital exhibit of artifacts of her design process.
New Spectrolite!
There’s a new version of our free Mac app for making colorful risograph prints and zines more easily, Spectrolite! You can download it now from Spectrolite.app! If you already have the app, just open Spectrolite, and it should check for the new version and get it for you automatically. Or go to Spectrolite’s file menu and pick “Check for updates”. (We’ll send another newsletter later, with all the info about what’s new!)
If you want to, hit reply and tell us what you’re up to. Thanks for reading this!
-Amelia (& Adam)