This is what I talked about in my defense to obtain the academic degree ‘Bachelor of Science’ in the field of Media Systems at the Bauhaus-University of Weimar (I started there the last year the programme was available, so there is no easy way to link to the actual programme I did.). The slides can …
Author Archives: Katta
Final Fantasy Black Mage
Before I show off with the pretty doll I made, I want to introduce you first to the Final Fantasy Black Mage, essentially because I didn’t know it before either. It traditionally looked like this: However, the picture that was presented to me as a ‘this is how it should look in the end, was …
A monkey apparently named ‘Mojo’
So, because I have now more time again, I can also post my crafty stuffs again. Basically I made a monkey adapted from this site (which is not really more important), where the logo appears to be a monkey drawn in some very basic computer programme like paint or something. But because I found the …
Talking about Flow
Upon writing my current thesis, I discovered the flow-concept of Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, whose name I really can’t pronounce or type without copy and paste, so I will call him Mr. C. for the following. Flow is a state you can reach when there is an equilibrium like state between your skills for a task and …
Monstrous Regiment
The following is an article I wrote for a seminar in my studies for media culture. It’s about monsters and gender identity. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen states, that the fear of the monster hides a need, that is difficult to articulate otherwise. He illustrates this point in the desire lying within the celebrations of Halloween, …
The raggedy cat
Remember the tiny owl button pattern? Well, yesterday I took this pattern and embroidered some kind of hairy stuff, cats have on their face and used mini-glass eyes, and it works too! The other glass eye was unfortunately destroyed, so I gave the cat a stitched on eye as well, which makes it look a …
Acorn Button
I wanted to see whether things other than animals would work as buttons too. And there we go! They do! This is a little acorn button that has a smiley face embroidered to make it a bit more childish, since I love childish things. If you are interested in having one, I can also make …
Going larger… crocheted brooches!
So I found this lovely pattern for an alien amigurumi, and there I thought right away, ok, this is not button material, but wouldn’t it make a lovely brooch? And yes, yes it does! So, now I also do brooches apparently. This one was just a try, cause, you know, you gotta start somewhere. I’ll …
Tiny Owl Button
In the button series there is a new friend to be found! The tiny owl! This little fellow is easily done. You need: · 2 colours of puppet yarn · 1.5mm crochet hook · sewing needle · a tiny amount of stuffing (polyfill, scrap yarn, what have you) · something to make it buttonable, I …
Tiny Hippo Button
Since it worked out so marvelously with the tiny frog buttons, I designed a tiny hippo button. So, there you go, another free pattern! This is only the head and the snout because otherwise it would become too large. You will need: · some puppet yarn in the desired colour · a 1.5 mm hook …