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Forwarded from Shower Thoughts 🚿
Calling other humans "primitive" because they have less advanced technology assumes that owning something like a toaster inherently makes people more sophisticated. [link]
Hi
If you have Instagram, I'd appreciate you liking this post for a contest.
(This 'new year photo contest' deadline is tonight.)
Thank you either way, though.
Love,
-w
#lineganewhopechallenge
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2cZo5HY3O/?igshid=e2focftbwktc
If you have Instagram, I'd appreciate you liking this post for a contest.
(This 'new year photo contest' deadline is tonight.)
Thank you either way, though.
Love,
-w
#lineganewhopechallenge
https://www.instagram.com/p/CE2cZo5HY3O/?igshid=e2focftbwktc
Instagram
winta
sprout at the end of a dark tunnel 🌱 . . Happy new year, ladies and gentlemen. -w p.s. This is for a contest, so please 'like' and share on your story if you're feeling it 🍻. #linega_new #lineganewhopechallenge @linega_new @eyoel_kahssay_photographer @rophnan…
I guess it's time for the yellow-colored invasion of your profiles and social media.
But also, may you have an abundantly blessed new year, ladies and gentlemen.
Love,
-w
@wintaassefa1
Instagram.com/wintaassefa1
But also, may you have an abundantly blessed new year, ladies and gentlemen.
Love,
-w
@wintaassefa1
Instagram.com/wintaassefa1
Bulk
11.10.20
Something we do here in Ethiopia is keep bulky sacks of grains in our house. If you've ever been to any house here and were a nosy enough guest, you may have found such sacks in the kitchen, living room, dining area, behind the curtains or anywhere really. They'll be there.
The pile could get even bigger whenever people fear an oncoming conflict or war.
These grains include Teff-for making the soft, delicious injera-and everything we cook to put on top of it, like legumes and Shiro.
Many households make their own mixtures here, and there's no fixed recipe. People just pass down their knowledge across generations.
That's one of the main reasons each 'Ethiopian dish' like Doro wett or Shiro could taste drastically different each time you taste it. But since we don't have industrial grinders in our houses, we dry up our spices and line up in local factories to get our grains grinded.
A lot of folk make their maids do that job for them. But my mom goes there and gets her grains grinded herself. She had seen the factory employees steal the 'better' grains for themselves and sneak in cheaper grains into their absent clients' heap.
And my mom ain't playing with her food. So, she'd finish up grinding her well-proportioned spices and grains, get help loading the bulky sacks on to a Bajaj, and take it all home.
Those bags are such a pain to carry home-even in teams of two or three. But the food we make from them lasts many months. And I think having such bulky bags is less wasteful than having so many little containers.
-w
@wintaassefa1
(A caption for my inktober drawing challenge entry on Instagram. Instagram name: wintaassefa)
11.10.20
Something we do here in Ethiopia is keep bulky sacks of grains in our house. If you've ever been to any house here and were a nosy enough guest, you may have found such sacks in the kitchen, living room, dining area, behind the curtains or anywhere really. They'll be there.
The pile could get even bigger whenever people fear an oncoming conflict or war.
These grains include Teff-for making the soft, delicious injera-and everything we cook to put on top of it, like legumes and Shiro.
Many households make their own mixtures here, and there's no fixed recipe. People just pass down their knowledge across generations.
That's one of the main reasons each 'Ethiopian dish' like Doro wett or Shiro could taste drastically different each time you taste it. But since we don't have industrial grinders in our houses, we dry up our spices and line up in local factories to get our grains grinded.
A lot of folk make their maids do that job for them. But my mom goes there and gets her grains grinded herself. She had seen the factory employees steal the 'better' grains for themselves and sneak in cheaper grains into their absent clients' heap.
And my mom ain't playing with her food. So, she'd finish up grinding her well-proportioned spices and grains, get help loading the bulky sacks on to a Bajaj, and take it all home.
Those bags are such a pain to carry home-even in teams of two or three. But the food we make from them lasts many months. And I think having such bulky bags is less wasteful than having so many little containers.
-w
@wintaassefa1
(A caption for my inktober drawing challenge entry on Instagram. Instagram name: wintaassefa)
Forwarded from Shower Thoughts 🚿
Laws that create criminals without any victims are not laws, but revenue generators.
Christmas video (part 3: reunion)
Flashback entry
A few days ago, I received a phone call in campus to draw a Christmas-themed video for a TV channel.
On the spot, I showed my friend a sketch of my idea. She pointed out some things, went through the different gospels with me and helped me conclude the story of the video.
I wanted to show the reason why Christ had to come down here in the first place.
So I went all the way back to humanity’s first place: Genesis.
After Adam and Eve decided to betray God, He told the devil, ‘And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel’.
And through a blessed young woman, God did enter this earth, and faced sickness, death and all of the devil’s weapons right on the head.
Yesterday, my little sister and I had went out to buy chocolate, as she had suggested. The first minibus we found was full so after she got a seat, I paid for her taxi fare and told her to drop off at the supermarket.
After a while, I found a minibus, talked with a stranger about the unstable electricity supply nowadays, and dropped off in the middle lane of the crowded road. I had spotted my sister’s afro from a distance. That market was packed. Things used to be different for us.
Back in Saudi Arabia, dad used to buy smuggled plastic Christmas trees and decoration and we quietly celebrated this day at home. There, in the supermarket, people were buying things last minute, and the staff were wearing red hats. I guess that’s the sort of modern theme the Kana team wanted me to go for when they shot the video a couple of days ago: Christmas trees, presents and decoration. That's not the point of today though, and I'm glad that at the end, they changed their mind. This day is but a reminder of a birth which divided human civilization into two eras: b.c and a.d.
Merry Christmas again, folk.
Love,
-w
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsUASKfglt3/?igshid=r35nv0urcymm
Flashback entry
A few days ago, I received a phone call in campus to draw a Christmas-themed video for a TV channel.
On the spot, I showed my friend a sketch of my idea. She pointed out some things, went through the different gospels with me and helped me conclude the story of the video.
I wanted to show the reason why Christ had to come down here in the first place.
So I went all the way back to humanity’s first place: Genesis.
After Adam and Eve decided to betray God, He told the devil, ‘And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel’.
And through a blessed young woman, God did enter this earth, and faced sickness, death and all of the devil’s weapons right on the head.
Yesterday, my little sister and I had went out to buy chocolate, as she had suggested. The first minibus we found was full so after she got a seat, I paid for her taxi fare and told her to drop off at the supermarket.
After a while, I found a minibus, talked with a stranger about the unstable electricity supply nowadays, and dropped off in the middle lane of the crowded road. I had spotted my sister’s afro from a distance. That market was packed. Things used to be different for us.
Back in Saudi Arabia, dad used to buy smuggled plastic Christmas trees and decoration and we quietly celebrated this day at home. There, in the supermarket, people were buying things last minute, and the staff were wearing red hats. I guess that’s the sort of modern theme the Kana team wanted me to go for when they shot the video a couple of days ago: Christmas trees, presents and decoration. That's not the point of today though, and I'm glad that at the end, they changed their mind. This day is but a reminder of a birth which divided human civilization into two eras: b.c and a.d.
Merry Christmas again, folk.
Love,
-w
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsUASKfglt3/?igshid=r35nv0urcymm
Thanks to @yasbushra for putting my essay in AEA's monthly issue: what a note to end the architecture-school thing on (:
Forwarded from Association of Ethiopian Architects | AEA
ARCH PAGES | April 2021
AEA warmly congratulates @wintaassefa1 on her participation and win on the 2021 Berkeley Essay Competition.
AEA warmly congratulates @wintaassefa1 on her participation and win on the 2021 Berkeley Essay Competition.
16.5.21
Newsletter
I opened this channel on September 25, 2017.
I don't know what you've been doing around that time, what had changed for you since then, and whether you had been shoved into this channel from my contact list without your permission.
But thank you for letting this mess of a channel take up space on your virtual list. This channel had helped me in ways I hadn’t expected it to. Over the years, this place had given me the joy of being approached by classmates and acquaintances to talk about topics I fancy. I’ve made some good friends through it. And back in 2018, this page was a huge factor in landing me an internship that seemed to be tailor-made for me.
Now, I heard many ideas from you over the years: some of you only dug the writing, many of you had come for the sand art, and a few of you had come for the architectural journaling.
And I know I sort of drove many of you away through my inconsistent content and posting 'schedules'.
But I don't think I have any regrets about that—and I really hope this encourages you to start putting your ‘work’ out before you have a clear vision of what you want your future end-product to be.
I hadn’t known what this channel would be about back in 2017. And frankly, I'm not sure what this page is supposed to be now either.
But there's a mobile library project I'm working on that I'm pretty excited about, and I want to send you ‘quality’ updates on that whenever I can.
And I'll write a short list of my favorite media: movies, books, music, Youtube channel, etc, in short, listicle form, almost like Austin Kleon does in his newsletters. You may also find comic art, downloadable calendars, and other freebies I’ll collect.
So, I invite you to join my e-mail list by DMing me your email here: @wintaassefa1.
With love,
-w
Newsletter
I opened this channel on September 25, 2017.
I don't know what you've been doing around that time, what had changed for you since then, and whether you had been shoved into this channel from my contact list without your permission.
But thank you for letting this mess of a channel take up space on your virtual list. This channel had helped me in ways I hadn’t expected it to. Over the years, this place had given me the joy of being approached by classmates and acquaintances to talk about topics I fancy. I’ve made some good friends through it. And back in 2018, this page was a huge factor in landing me an internship that seemed to be tailor-made for me.
Now, I heard many ideas from you over the years: some of you only dug the writing, many of you had come for the sand art, and a few of you had come for the architectural journaling.
And I know I sort of drove many of you away through my inconsistent content and posting 'schedules'.
But I don't think I have any regrets about that—and I really hope this encourages you to start putting your ‘work’ out before you have a clear vision of what you want your future end-product to be.
I hadn’t known what this channel would be about back in 2017. And frankly, I'm not sure what this page is supposed to be now either.
But there's a mobile library project I'm working on that I'm pretty excited about, and I want to send you ‘quality’ updates on that whenever I can.
And I'll write a short list of my favorite media: movies, books, music, Youtube channel, etc, in short, listicle form, almost like Austin Kleon does in his newsletters. You may also find comic art, downloadable calendars, and other freebies I’ll collect.
So, I invite you to join my e-mail list by DMing me your email here: @wintaassefa1.
With love,
-w
Goh Dialogues
Hallo,
You’re invited to fill the few remaining spots at Goh, the project that’s introducing the Great Books to Ethiopia.
Now, the Great Books are founding texts of literature, music, mathematics, the natural sciences, philosophy, and works of art that shaped the Western Canon and, inadvertently, most of our modern world.
If you want to join us on the journey lined with melodies such as Tezeta, laws of gravity, thinkers such as Descartes and Plato, and moving poetry, and recognize the rich knowledge you already harbor, please find and fill this application form before June 28, 2021: https://www.thegohdialogues.com/appointments-1
And if you have any questions, please send me a DM.
Warmly,
-w
Hallo,
You’re invited to fill the few remaining spots at Goh, the project that’s introducing the Great Books to Ethiopia.
Now, the Great Books are founding texts of literature, music, mathematics, the natural sciences, philosophy, and works of art that shaped the Western Canon and, inadvertently, most of our modern world.
If you want to join us on the journey lined with melodies such as Tezeta, laws of gravity, thinkers such as Descartes and Plato, and moving poetry, and recognize the rich knowledge you already harbor, please find and fill this application form before June 28, 2021: https://www.thegohdialogues.com/appointments-1
And if you have any questions, please send me a DM.
Warmly,
-w