{"id":42,"date":"2021-04-13T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2023-02-26T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T22:25:33","slug":"post-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/13\/post-production\/","title":{"rendered":"post-production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\n\n\n\n\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">trials and errors for first earrings, in process since 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>post-production is time-consuming, tedious, possibly endless. out of 60-70 earrings printed, maybe 10 came out lovely, requiring little work to spruce them up. the other 50+? about 20 or more were just trash quality as i learned to adjust print settings. the remainder, had to sand with a power tool, sand by hand, file, scrape, sand, wash, brush, soak in solution, wash again, sand, scrape. and then came the varnish, the mixing of substances at just the right ratio, working rapidly before the stuff becomes too sticky to work with. it\u2019s like a failure equation:\u00a0<em>aya starts off with X amount, but loses a, b, and c due to issues 1, 2, 3, or 4.<\/em>\u00a0and yet, there is something about this that makes me feel alive, i get lost in the flow of crafting in a way i haven\u2019t for years. making something with my hands, that sticks around (i cook a lot, but that gets eaten), is a joy after years of digital product design and even digital art. i never liked revising my writing, and produce few drafts. i suppose i revise in my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>manipulating and selecting words, composing poetry\u2013lately hasn\u2019t the same pleasure as sanding, scraping. it could be the novelty of crafting a physical object: the manual process of refining each earring\u2019s curves and surfaces; the figuring out of all the ways the object will be in the world. which earring finding? which earring back? how to package for shipping, how to package for sale in a store? how do i translate all the ruminations on the meaning of this work from my heart to a discreet few sentences on a brochure, a flyer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>post-production is time-consuming, tedious, possibly endless. out of 60-70 earrings printed, maybe 10 came out lovely, requiring little work to spruce them up. the other 50+? about 20 or more were just trash quality as i learned to adjust print settings. the remainder, had to sand with a power tool, sand by hand, file, scrape,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/13\/post-production\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">post-production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewelry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}