Amanda Chestnut

A giant skeleton lays face down in the snow.

A visual representation of how I'm handling this winter

Omg congrats!!

This is a good lede, thank you! The museums I talked to/researched before didn’t have any information/guides on books as art objects, but having more good places to ask is helpful! Also, reading good artistic image descriptions helps me write better!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

I really want to get this right. It’s 30 books, with about 20 images each. If I get it right the first time I won’t have to rewrite them all!

If this passes I can see it becoming more difficult to get a passport for this reason.

Thank you so much for sharing!!

Thank you for sharing!! 🩵

(H/t: @anamariecox.bsky.social for recommending reaching out on Bluesky!)

My honey-colored hand holding a small, 5x7 chapbook. The background is cozy with furniture, blankets, and the corner of my laptop. The book has a full spread image of artist Luvon Sheppard sitting in his studio.

My honey-colored hand holding a small, 5x7 chapbook. The background is cozy with furniture, blankets, and the corner of my laptop. The book has a small photo on the lower left page and a small photo on the upper right page, showing pint brushes and tools in the artist's studio.

My honey-colored hand holding a small, 5x7 chapbook. The background is cozy with furniture, blankets, and the corner of my laptop. The book has a photograph that bleeds from the left page slightly onto the right, with artist Luvon Sheppard standing outside his studio with his wife, who I know as Mrs. Sheppard

Some examples of spreads in these books. Photos by Rashaad Parker, writing by Quajay Donnell. You can read the full book about Luvon Sheppard on our website: static1.squarespace.com/static/655a0... or at inthismoment585.org

The descriptions are closer to what you’d see in a museum than what you typically see for books. I’m having trouble finding examples and could use some guidance.

As an artist and the curator of this project, I know how much consideration went into image placement; how image placement impacts pacing and the readers’ understanding of the book. But audio books are not physical objects, and I’ve had feedback that page composition is distracting when listened to.

I make each description as vivid as possible, so the meaning of each image can be understood.

Do I also need to include information about where the photo is on the page/image size??

Cross posting with the hope to reach folks who are knowledgeable about accessibility in art for visually impaired people!

I’m writing image descriptions for In This Moment (book project on Black Rochestarians). I think of each chapbook as an art object.

Buffaloni?

Men drawn to authoritarianism 100% have daddy issues.

I’m coming back to this one when I have a minute to read

Fascinated at how news coverage in #roc is reticent to mention how Joe Morelle’s son’s lobbying of Monroe County for AirBNB included sending MC the first draft of opt-out legislation, that they sat on for 200 days before pushing it through at the last minute.

God she’s such a babe 🤩😍🤩

Aaaaaaand there it is.

Why are people so gross?

I would not be at all surprised if this was a contributing factor. I would also not be at all surprised if she had been picked by some red pilled, thumb faced, potato who encouraged her to do this so that she could start a podcast/crypto scam.

She’s at a school you go to where more women are husband shopping l than earning a degree, from a culture that discourages women in the workplace.

But you can run a podcast from home!

Because it’s full of Nazis? Just a hunch 🤷🏽‍♀️

He lasted so much longer than I thought he would!

The ability to recognize this as Nazi propaganda hinges on media literacy and a basic understanding of American history.

Many Americans have neither of those skills.

That is by design.

This isn’t an academic paper. It’s rage bait. She’ll have a crypto launch and podcast by the new year.

I was wondering what Shaggy was doing there and feeling a little old, but this makes sense and I feel better now.

Oh this is the first I’m seeing. I’m so sorry for your loss.

50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.

They are menaces, I hope you get to, too!!

Please post photos of frozen iguana.