{"version":"https:\/\/jsonfeed.org\/version\/1.1","title":"Scott Boms: Documenting","description":"A personal notebook of things on my mind, moments frozen in visual time, and other interesting ideas and media. (link: \/feeds text: Subscribe) for updates.","home_page_url":"https:\/\/scottboms.com","feed_url":"https:\/\/scottboms.com\/documenting.json","icon":"https:\/\/scottboms.com\/assets\/img\/apple-touch-icon-200x200.png","favicon":"https:\/\/scottboms.com\/assets\/img\/favicon-64x64.png","authors":{"name":"Scott Boms","url":"https:\/\/scottboms.com","avatar":"https:\/\/scottboms.com\/media\/site\/ba52019455-1751662462\/photo-scott.jpg"},"language":"en-us","items":[{"id":"924","url":"https:\/\/scottboms.com\/documenting\/every-hue-is-a-special-color","title":"Every Hue is a Special Color","content_html":"
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I’ve more or less finished the studio rebuild other than a smaller secondary project to add a small loft storage space that will help get a few more things out of the way. Improving the space has made it feel more organized, flow better, and just generally be more enjoyable to be in. And — it’s got me back in a mood to be making things, starting with helping a good friend with a few things for their upcoming nuptials tomorrow, and a little mini print for myself that’s ready to go.<\/p>

Footnotes<\/h3>\n

O.OO No Magic in Riso: A Bilingual Risograph Tool Book, O.OO, 2019.<\/p>

Reply via e-mail<\/a> or follow me at @scottboms@typo.social<\/a> on Mastodon.<\/p>","date_published":"2026-05-23T20:15:00+00:00"},{"id":"923","url":"https:\/\/scottboms.com\/documenting\/frailty-and-impermanence","title":"Frailty and Impermanence","content_html":"

Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wendell Berry<\/cite><\/p>\n

Wendell Berry has become a bit of a spirit guide for me, someone whose writing always teaches me something and opens my mind to things I’ve never considered.<\/p>\n

Although the book’s central theme is a deeply personal meditation on racism and the hurt it inflicts on all of us, this snippet from The Hidden Wound<\/a> taps into something about that feels relevant not just in the sense of how we place value on one another as humans, but also in how we’ve allowed technology specifically to erode the value of learned skill.<\/p>\n

My hope is always that common sense will prevail and most people will want to land on the right side of history as the upheaval we’re experiencing now shakes out.<\/p>

Footnotes<\/h3>\n

Berry, Wendell. The Hidden Wound<\/a>, Counterpoint Books, 2010. p 76.<\/p>

Reply via e-mail<\/a> or follow me at @scottboms@typo.social<\/a> on Mastodon.<\/p>","date_published":"2026-05-20T22:15:00+00:00"},{"id":"922","url":"https:\/\/scottboms.com\/documenting\/the-machine-appeared","title":"The Machine Appeared","content_html":"

\u2026 The machine appeared
\nIn the distance, singing to itself
\nOf money. Its song was the web
\nThey were caught in, men and women
\nTogether. The villages were as flies
\nTo be sucked empty
\nGod secreted
\nA tear. Enough, enough.
\nHe commanded, but the machine
\nLooked at him and went on singing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

R.S. Thomas<\/cite><\/p>\n

Welsh poet R.S. Thomas<\/a> frequently referred to mechanized and materialistic society as the machine,<\/q> an apt metaphor that holds up even today despite Thomas passing in 2000 — his life barely glimpsing the technology we take for granted today. This particular passage is taken from a poem called Other<\/cite> and his 1972 collection\ufeff H\u2019m<\/cite>. I can imagine he’d have strong words about where we’re currently headed and those pushing us in that direction.<\/p>

Footnotes<\/h3>\n

Thomas, R.S. H’m. Macmillan, 1972.<\/p>

Reply via e-mail<\/a> or follow me at @scottboms@typo.social<\/a> on Mastodon.<\/p>","date_published":"2026-05-18T23:30:00+00:00"},{"id":"921","url":"https:\/\/scottboms.com\/documenting\/through-lines-289","title":"Through Lines 289","content_html":"

These classic General Dynamics posters are a thing of beauty and it’s fascinating to watch them expertly repaired and restored<\/a>. They’re considerably larger than I realized too.<\/p>\n