kit @kit@friend.camp

For the last few years, I've been enthralled by the Sunsphere, a big golden spherical tower in Knoxville, Tennessee that is one of the last standing pieces of the 1982 World's Fair. I'm also super fascinated by the fact that Knoxville had a World's Fair and all the things that had to happen to make that a thing. I'm funneling all my weird Sunsphere energy into an occasional newsletter and I'm sending out the first one on New Years Day. Please join me, if you'd like.

https://tinyletter.com/adoxographic

welcome to my guestbook!

[reply to sign]

Under the cobble stones, it's me, your pal Kit

[me, during the annual sandhill crane migration] THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

choose your fighter:

just came across this photo again in a lightning submittal and I think part of what's baffling to me is the mix of the boring grey room full of safe Steelcase furniture and the chaos ceiling and Monster podium

the chicken is the plant that sprouts from that famous bean, the egg

activitypub based strava alternative when?

queneau's "exercises in style" but it's me making 99 different birdhouses over the course of my lifetime

walking into the climbing gym looking like an irish spring commercial asking how else we can make this fragile vessel ache

it's cool that we have a day of the week named after the moon but it's super fucked up that that day is monday

I'm kinda worried that the thing I am researching is so frivolous and dumb that it isn't worth anyone else's time

For my goofy newsletter about the 1982 World's Fair, I'm trying to track down the names of the fair's mascots, which has been way more difficult than that sounds.

At this point, I've found evidence that they were hired / sponsored by Kodak and part (if not all) of Kodak's corporate archives are now in the special collections of a university library. What is the etiquette for reaching out to special collections librarians and asking for research help?

i just saw that the museum of infinite outcomes is putting out another call for a show of birdhouses this summer in atlanta.

the way it works is you build a birdhouse or a sculpture that's functionally a birdhouse and ship it to atlanta and they will install it in some trees and maybe some birds will live in it this summer and then at the end of the summer you get your birdhouse back

more info here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8XQgHZFFUT/?igshid=3rpl3ddcilc3