I went for a walk this morning, doing sun salutations,

looking at the dew,

laughing as spider webs swayed out of focus…

and this afternoon, digital scholar of note danah Boyd Twittered from the Knight Commission gathering in Aspen; “listening to madeleine albright talk about her pins. today: a spider since we are talking about the web. powerful women make me drool.”

I Skyped my boss Marc, who then took a video of Ms. Albright and said pin, posted it on Vimeo and Knight Blog, and I thought I’d share it with you:

Spiders often align with powerful, supernatural bodies, and I wonder what the spider means Ms. Albright’s mood was today. While Ms. Frizzle remains my fashion icon, Ms. Albright now joins her as my accessory role model.

All of which is to say, I’m a bit starstruck today and readying for the Perseids meteor showers tonight… (find your local star chart here)…

1. Jessica:
   August 11th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

   i love her. she was one of my idols growing up. not that resulted in anything useful!

2. Kristen:
   August 11th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

   Oh, you never know, it may result in a lovely poem or series of poems. MA is certainly worthy of a letterpress’d objet d’art.

   I’m buying two copies of her forthcoming book of pins. One is for you. :)

3. Dave C.:
   August 12th, 2008 at 7:48 am

   +1. There’s a beautiful yellow garden argiope in its web just outside my bedroom window right now.

4. Kristen:
   August 12th, 2008 at 8:17 am

   Ooh, an argiope, the writing spider, I wonder if it looks anything like my friend Al’s Flickr from this weekend.

   Can you see the X in the web, Dave?

5. Dave C.:
   August 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am

   Mine looks a little different.

6. Kristen:
   August 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am

   Nice, I really like that zig-zag down the middle of the web–

7. El Oso » Archive » Fall Sun, Spider Webs, Maple Leaves, and DNTEL:
   November 20th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

   [...] flirtation, Mia Doi Todd’s sensuous voice, the wonders of nature and her patterns. So here, in the spirit of honoring cottage spider webs, is my homage to those three [...]

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Posted Monday, August 11th, 2008, 4:33 pm * Filed in Cyberfeminism, Design, Photography. * Tags: , albright, danah, kristen, kthread, madeleine, taylor, zephoria. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.