Saint Caroline of the Polycord

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Caroline Wise crocheting for Choi + Shine Architects in Phoenix, Arizona

Caroline is now five months into crocheting on this project for Choi + Shine Architects, as I wrote about back on July 5th. This is the 18th motif and also the last one Caroline will be doing as her contribution to the art installation called “Canal Convergence 2018” coming in November. For her efforts, she has earned the title Saint Caroline of the Polycord from her friend Christine!

Oh did I say the final motif? That all changed between taking this photo and delivering the “last” ones. I met Jin Choi (one half of Choi + Shine) at the facility where they have started assembling the final piece and it turns out that some people couldn’t finish their pieces and so I’ve dragged six motif #3’s back home for Caroline to knock out this weekend. Will it ever end? Probably not as she’s informed me that she might volunteer for helping with the final assembly and then there’s going to the Scottsdale Waterfront to check out the finished piece.

New Module

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T43 Adder Module from VPME.de

Got a new Eurorack module called the T43 Adder in the mail today from Vladimir Pantelic of VPME.de in Germany and a free gift, my very own blank 8HP Patch Notes faceplate. I thought this blank was a gag when I first saw it and now that I have one I just wanted to send out a big thanks. For the astute, there’s something else worth noting (pun intended) and it has to do with beta testing 🙂

Map of our U.S. Travels

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Map of John Wise and Caroline Wise's travels across America

It’s been 18 years since we started tracking our travels on an old Michelin map. While we’ve been to all four corners, the geographical center of the United States in Lebanon, Kansas, and been to some places such as Yellowstone nine times and the Oregon coast probably more than that, there are still vast swathes of America that remain unseen to us. Large parts of the North and South Carolina coasts have not been explored yet along with small segments of the Texas, Florida, and New Jersey shorelines we’d still like to visit. The Great Plains could certainly use some work, along with the Southern States. We’ve been to the majority of the Hawaiian Islands and while we’ve seen Alaska from Anchorage to Fairbanks and from Juneau to Haines, that is one state that would require two lifetimes to see it all.

I used an infrared filter on the image to turn it black and white as it brought up the darker highlighted roads we’ve traveled and brightened the state outlines making them easier to see, should you be wondering why this photo, in particular, was chosen to be presented sans color.