The Tech Wolves had their first market at the Cooper Young Farmer’s Market. It was a pretty great way to bounce into the season. Zay and Othello each had work for sale and they added more to the coolness of Global Streetwear. Afterwards, we stopped in to visit with Jay Etkin at his gallery. We hope to see you at a next market.
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January 2021 Daniel R. Wallace Social media has provided me with the chance to meet with some of the coolest people. They are everywhere when you are right like I or you know how to look. If neither of those is you, then you may need some help. Jimmy Mays posts about his tale and the bits as it goes and they are always most sincere and fly true from source to goal. “I have Parkinson’s and then of course affects my fingers and my speech so the words don’t…
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This goofy old game can help a little with adding fractions. Whole was originally made by Noam Davidovics and Daniel R. Wallace. It is a great game for number play. You can slide any piece directly up, down, left, or right, as long as the total is not greater than 1. The new total will be formed. If it is a whole 1, you get a point. It works best on a larger screen, we are working on getting an updated version made.
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Circling the Tangent is a lesson for students in a high school level calculus course or precalculus class. TSW learn and write the equations for circles. TSW solve equations to find values from inputs. TSW define tangent and normal lines. TSW use definitions of tangents and normals with the circle equation to create a unique artwork. Instructions. Students will write 5 equations. Each for a circle with a radius of 8 units. The centers are the origin and then in each quadrant such that four circles are tangent to both…
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is a standard for a style of writing that one need not be and do to be great but it is an excellent one to study for elevating one’s adaptability with language. I can not remember where I read it, perhaps it is in Death in the Afternoon, a book that I am unsure of finishing but Hemingway did talk a something about the craft in it (Stephen King’s On Writing is a much superior text on that subject and he is totally not Hemingway and…
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Kelsea Comb first published as a start to her blog. She is a person of many things, poet and writer are two. She wrote this letter in the days after the election for the 46th president. November 04, 2020 (Excuse punctuation, just started writing) I would like to start with a poem by Countee Cullen. Incident Once riding in old Baltimore,Heart-filled, head-filled with glee;I saw a BaltimoreanKeep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small,And he was no whit bigger,And so I smiled, but he poked outHis…
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We had the chance to sit down with Memphis City Councilman, Dr. Jeff Warren, and listen to him talk about what people should be doing in regards to health and this virus. If you listen, Dr. Warren gives a nice explanation of exponential growth. This circumstance is very much at the intersection of math and science. Below are some resources on that aspect. Learning to count in a number base is the strangest concept at first for most. We associate the one we first learn with everything. Below is a…
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We contacted our friend John Lowebow, who makes cigar box guitars and more. He sent the above list. Most things are available at your local hardware store. The pickup, jack and guitar strings came from a guitar store. A next build will include diy pickups. The screws for to attach the pickup are # 4. The bridge and nut were cut from the smaller piece of wood. Measurements are important. Here, a tape was used to measure the pickup height. On the next one, the pickup was used to mark…
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When learning a craft, finding the most knowledgeable people to provide guidance is crucial. Mr. Houston is a local luthier, or stringed instrument maker, who makes guitars and basses for people around the world. He eagerly joined the Tech Wolves in the quest to learn all we can about sound and frequencies through his chosen art. In this video, he introduces everyone to the instrument, the craft, and his philosophies on design and building.
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History is the past that led us to here. The telling of what happened depends on who one listens to and why. If one is most true to a study of history, they seek out to learn as much of the truth as they can, not just the events and dates but the stories of the people involved. Fort Pillow State Park is located on the western edge of Tennessee, about 45 miles north of Memphis. Fort Pillow was important militarily because it commanded the Mississippi River. The river has…
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