iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Emily @mle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Long time, no update. This is what I've been up to: Building a tall bike out of junk bicycles I've found on the streets.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This has been a quixotic quest for no reason other than to see if i could do it, but I did do it: I've created a ceramic circuit board with copper traces that I can solder components to. Here's a little astable multivibrator circuit running on stoneware.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Final project for ceramics class, well half of it. It has a mate that's not pictured here

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Now my DIY ebike has a headlight and a tail light!

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Did you know you can use a Dymo labeler to make a headlight symbol if you're willing to take the labeler partially apart and emboss by hand?

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It's a perfect day to be a cat with a semi-secret nest in the garden

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

One of my favorite cactuses is blooming today

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

And here it is done! This is a wild-clay glaze and wild clay stoneware. This bowl, like my recently finished mug, is 100 percent made of materials I gathered myself, without a single store-bought or studio-supplied ingredient. I loooove how this glaze looks.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Time for some progress shots. Here's the bowl as bisque ware, before firing.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I threw this pot from 15 pounds of clay. That's a new personal record for me (the previous record was 9, yesterday). Throwing this much clay is a lot of effort! That's a big mass of clay you have to center and force into shape. I was sweating.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This mug is made entirely from materials I gathered myself. There isn't a single store-bought or company-supplied ingredient in the clay or glaze. I finally did it!

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

My project is done and it's wonderful and disgusting.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Reconfigured little DIY ebike. I just need to 3D print a couple of bits, but it works the way it is, and now I have so much more cargo space.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

After being tagged numerous times in posts about a feminist hacker collective making clay PCBs, I had a sudden realization two nights ago that I might be able to make conductive, solderable pottery glaze, so I tried it. It worked. Today. I made some prototype ceramic PCBs with a 3D printed stamp

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Quick afternoon glazing session in the studio. I put my 100 percent wild-gathered (scavenged) glaze on this wild-clay mug, and did some glazing with studio glazes on this geometric luminary assignment.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This post is already extremely replied to, but I love that hatchet, so why not? Here's the ebike I built from a trashed folding bike, a hub motor I found in the river, and a battery pack from an abandoned e-scooter.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Golf should actually be like this

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I threw this wild clay bowl yesterday, and trimmed it today. Off to the bisque kiln it goes! See you when you're orangey-red, little bowl

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Coordinating pants and dress with earrings and necklace and eye makeup. It's a red-green day for me. I pity colorblind people for not being able to see how good i look today.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Update on the donut. It has colors now

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You cannot beat a cactus flower when it comes to glory and splendor. Don't even try.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

On my bike ride tonight I had to stop suddenly and circle back after spotting this beautiful dragon arum flowering in the shadows of some large trees in a forgotten patch of dirt in an industrial area. I've never seen one before. Amazing plant (look it up). I have no idea how it got there.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

New #ceramics projects in the works. Today was a very satisfying day in the studio.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

If you keep your eyes open, really open to the world around you, instead of just passing through it looking straight ahead, you start to notice all kinds of things other people are overlooking. Like, for example, this spot where a shirtless handyman was unexpectedly raptured on the side of the road

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The new mug has been inaugurated

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Yesterday I showed my second attempt at a mug made of wild clay. Today, I show my first. I got this back from firing today. It's made of wild clay and glazed with wild-clay glaze. Two years of experimenting, trial and error, research, road trips, and trespassing has led up to this moment.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

My second attempt at a mug made entirely from wild clay. Fingers crossed!

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

New ceramics assignment: A luminary, or rather a luminary suspended inside of another luminary.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This mug is glazed with a glaze made entirely from ingredients i gathered myself. This my first 100% scavenged glaze. No store-bought ingredients here. This is the third wood-ash glaze I've made, and the first that exhibits the trademark runny effect that these glazes are known for. Very cool.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

For a while in the '90s, every cartoon character looked like this

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Sure! Here's me using one of the ones I always carry to keep my bike secure in the bike stall on the metro last week, for reference

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Excellent color scheme at this motel

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I had what seems to me like a brilliant idea, and took my spare bike (one of my spare bikes) to the office today and left it there as my office bike. Now I'll never be at work without a bike, and I have one less bike cluttering up my house.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

New ceramics project coming up

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I was asked what it looked like before it was fired. Compare and contrast

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My newest ceramics piece. The simple geometric shape is something I'm comfortable with. The multilayered calico finish was a stretch for me, but I'm happy I tried something different.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Last night's scheme dream

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

One day i need to revisit the Blobs project. It's too good to not explore it further.

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The depth of color and the way the glaze breaks over sharp edges is really nice

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Another wild clay ceramic piece of mine back from firing. This was a 50:50 mixture of clay from the Salton Sea and from Lake Elsinore. The glaze is from our studio.