"Not only do you have to make a game that tackles difficult subjects, right?It has to be engaging and fun,or at the very least engaging to the person that is playing it……and then have a wide appeal on top of that.There's a lot of things to consider… and it's a really, really hard balance to manage."

S1E5 - Jonathan - Social Impact In Video Games

"It's not good. It all started when, last year university... there was a lot of stuff that I was learning, with like C#, like audio implementation, and some other art stuff, and I just had so many tabs... and I knew where everything was and I was like, "Yup!" Then ever since then, that's how I work. It's just like I have a bunch of these resources open...

I know where things are and... like I, I usually stop adding tabs and open a new window when I reach the tab limit , *LOL*, and then I'll open up a new window and be like, All right, I gotta start somewhere else."

S1E5 - Jonathan - Too Many Tabs

"We can see examples of this craft, this ancient technology, that is still so relevant in everything we use. Whether it's like, fabric that upholsters a car or the BART seat.You know? Like, you could totally examine all the fabrics…Our backpacks and purses, and really look at it, and you can figure out really,once you know, the basics like, “Oh, is that knitted? or is that woven?…is that crocheted? Like, how is that created?”And it is really interesting! It's nice to marvel, kind of, at the ordinary like that."

S1E6 - Jeannie - Woven Into The Everyday

"[with a] …Rigid Heddle Loom, you can't do a lot of different types of patterns and such with it, but…
it weaves really great fabric! And it's great because it's simple in operations.They’re a very good entry point, and affordable way, for someone to get into weaving, if they wanted."

S1E6 - Jeannie - Getting Into Looms

"I think that there's not enough rest, like, rest is pretty revolutionary.We do seek some of that …like with people not you know, wanting to settle for less. There's ripples of that — people demanding better workers’ rights, that's all a part of it."

S1E6 - Jeannie - Rest is Revolutionary

"And, you know, with woven fabric, uh, if you choose like a, depending on the type of, um, fibers that are used, to use of cotton or hamper. However, when you're, when you have something woven or even wool, it can be really, uh, non stretch, which is helpful. You know, let's say you have a rug... rugs are mostly woven that, you know, so they're kind of providing a soft thing to put your feet on, but they have stability and structure.

You can... imagine if you had a rug that was kind of knitted, and it would be stretchy, it wouldn't hold its form very well to a space. It'd maybe get snagged on things. And so yeah, if you look at a.. If you look at a rug, I'm looking at my wool, uh, wool Ikea rug right now. Yeah. That has a, has threads running in two separate directions and it's, you know, for a reason.

It's for durability and wear and tear. Yeah. All of that."

S1E6 - Jeannie - Rugs

"Not necessarily that it's not for everyone

but it will challenge the patience of an individual.

It either pushes one to become more patient, with oneself,

not necessarily of the instrument,

but to become more patient with oneself."

S1E7 - Destiny - Patience

" Tarika had written a piece called ego tripping
in like 3/4, 6/8 time.
Man! 
A real, rich, fun E minor 
something

girl,

we… shoo… 
we was having a ball!

and the dancers had choreographed a whole piece around that

and Nikki Giovanni is reading.

Now, we all on stage and sitting Orchestra side to Nikki

and Nikki is looking at us… and looking at the dancers… *lol*

she is so taken by us, that she's not even reading

and the dancers can't Stop dancing! 

and I Love that experience!"

S1E7 - Destiny - Speechless

"Even in the process of teaching, I'm still learning

and I'm learning more of what I thought that I knew, that I didn't.

And so there are times when I'm teaching

or sharing with someone who has a desire to learn harp

and I’m sharing what my process may be, or sharing a process,

or me, even improvizating on a process that I had already been using,

but it needed some tweaking.

And even learning, even more in this teaching-sharing process,

As I shared that with them, I'm learning as much, 
if not more."

S1E7 - Destiny - Learning While Teaching

a fun story about playin w local jazz cats
"...You should come to the workshop and, and, and come learn from us."

S1E7 - Destiny - Playin with the Jazz Cats

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