Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 27/09/2026So it's not quite a dress code and not quite a uniform, and is heavily accessorised. The point is not to represent a certain school but to represent education, which is why teachers and undergraduates wear it too. 0523
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 27/09/2026A good example of how all schools and universities in the Commonwealth share a basic uniform. It's nonspecific and unbranded, so the pattern of colour is more important than specific items. Women can wear trousers too, I just wanted to make it clear they were the same characters 1331
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 26/09/2026The dorm layout is kind of crazy? But I like the concept. I think it would need stress testing before it goes into production. Not Tzipora by the way, just a short Sri Lankan woman with her lanky hydroengineer friend. I think despite her energy she is a brilliant mathematician. 0410
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 26/09/2026Undergraduate students in the Commonwealth wear the same uniforms school students and teachers do, but with the addition of academic gowns. Different universities have different patterns, but they have a standard system of colours for faculties. Set here in Nassau, Bahamas. 1460
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 21/09/2026Also I know there's no blister for the rear undercarriage at the moment, I'm working on a technical drawing and I just wanted to sketch how they'd look in livery. 0241
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 21/09/2026It is effectively a titanium nuclear ramjet with auxiliary electric fans, powered by an aneutronic reactor. It operates somewhere around Mach 3. It also needs canards and a droop snoot to land properly, and often crab-walks like the Concorde to do so. 1372
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 20/09/2026I suppose that's more of a GMT pilot's watch, but I'm sure a flight attendant could find it useful. Concept uniform for domestic flights, I think they'd have some sort of cape overseas. Ignore the plane with the circle wing I don't know what I'm doing. 1220
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 13/09/2026I wanted to make it milk tea since there are soft drinks that have dairy in them, but I refrained in this version because the image of pure rich sparkling tea was too strong 0211
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 10/09/2026The end goal should be homes that are useful and comfortable while also showing restraint, since that is what housing beyond the commodity means to me. The abolition of the commodity I think is central to the Commonwealth way of living, beyond even moneylessness. 0452
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 10/09/2026Commonwealth abundance has extended the "star houses" layout slightly, and it includes many features I find appealing and hygienic, like exterior tile cladding and wood frames I am also interested in inventing a type of large carpet tile that replaces what would have been tatami 1371
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 10/09/2026I have given them a pseudo-cantilever here, inspired by Hong Kong. I should emphasise that I am not trying to indulge nostalgia for its own sake. I am interested in developing a modern, somewhat timeless, dignified baseline for housing all people in the Commonwealth. 1371
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 10/09/2026It is heavily inspired by the "star houses" built in Tokyo, almost none of which exist today. They have many modern but simple amenities and no central elevator, and embody many of the principles I find attractive in a building. 1391
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 10/09/2026Tzipora lives in an old-fashioned low rise apartment block, which is nearly a hundred years old by the time of the setting. Its appearance and layout give me great satisfaction because, despite its austere period styling, I think its layout is good and full of life. 1371
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 22/08/2026Here, though, the items are mostly kitsch references to Chinese clothing (or "Cathay" as they call it). Jiefangxie (military sneakers); Jiang's dress; an army tunic; upturned collars -- all ripped up and reassembled in the pure internationalist tradition. 1220
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 22/08/2026I think Commonwealth society would have very little conception of appropriation generally; they are cultural internationalists and so would happily incorporate motifs around the world. Like Jiang, worldbuilders exercise control over fashion, especially as symbols. 1260
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 22/08/2026Sorry for slow posts, I'm travelling around China atm. Mao's fourth wife, Jiang Qing, attempted to create a dress that would serve as a female equivalent of the "Mao suit." It didn't go well and has been almost lost to history. I've recreated it with Lin Zhi here 1200
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 08/08/2026Proper flags would use gold thread, not like a shiny plastic disc or something. So it would still be a cloth flag. The gold hoist on the flag is not technically a part of the design -- all Commonwealth republics (including the federal flag) have a shiny gold hoist as a sort of unifying motif. 0372
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 08/08/2026I really like the idea of reflective materials in a flag. Not just for its obvious lustre -- imagine how beautiful a gold disc would be as an aircraft roundel. And the stationary! It could be represented in matte colours too, but the primary form would be reflective. 2452
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 03/08/2026happy birthday @zanzaverse.bsky.social 🎂 feat. Lemon wearing a hat + Tzipora + misc spheres 113526
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 23/07/2026The shelves and scripture reflect the classificatory and rationalist nature of modernity, and the violent artistic capture of the dead as an object of history, organised and vulgarly sublimated into the sculpture, replacing them. What is our obligation to history? 1301
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 23/07/2026Lead is the unredeemed, base metal. Lead scraps tumble from the shelves here, their promise as the catalyst of alchemy forsaken, repurposed as a crude shield from radiation. The huge shelves carry the unrealised dreams of the dead, tumbling out. What is our obligation to them? 1301
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 23/07/2026It appears as wreckage stacked high and piling higher still; blown by the storm called progress, unable to be redeemed or restored. The shelves carry a record of the victims of history as a single catastrophe, wrecked concrete pages inscribed with the theology of advancement. 1251
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 23/07/2026It is also a picture of Lurianic creation, a sculpture of a world not fallen from grace but of withdrawn divinity. In an atomic metaphor, shards tumble from the monument like the broken vessels under the return of God’s light. 1271
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 23/07/2026The Atomic War occurred in 1950 and killed half a million people in what we know as Oslola. The huge sculpture is littered with radioactive glass, and its decaying and broken shelves recall the scorched walls and endless ruins of the bomb sites. 1301
Hobart 🌿 @millmint.net · 23/07/2026“The Catastrophe” is a sculpture in northern Oslola (Iceland). It is a monument to the Atomic War; a picture of creation; a rejection of teleology; a claim of the dead; and a reflection on the sublimation of history. It is made of concrete, lead, iron rebar and glass. 1321
