{"id":12603,"date":"2010-02-15T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=12603"},"modified":"2010-02-14T17:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T01:36:41","slug":"paper-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12603","title":{"rendered":"Paper cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elsita.typepad.com\/allaboutpapercutting\/2009\/06\/bunny-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elsita.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e3981de7fa883301156f6b2470970c-450wi\" width=\"425\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this past semester, I added a more comprehensive safety lecture to the <em>learning to use an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X-Acto\" target=\"_blank\">X-Acto knife<\/a> <\/em>portion of my beginning design classes.<\/p>\n<p>And this was the first semester that some serious injuries actually occurred. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking I should have not warned them so conscientiously. Usually I just say, <em>a sharp X-Acto can cut thru pretty much anything. Paper, boards, plastic triangle, fingers. <\/em>That&#8217;s my disclaimer. Don&#8217;t want to go into any more detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elsita.typepad.com\/allaboutpapercutting\/2009\/06\/bunny-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elsa Mora<\/a> does cool things with cut paper. She has a great X-Acto tutorial <a href=\"http:\/\/elsita.typepad.com\/allaboutpapercutting\/2009\/06\/bunny-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Yes designers still use X-Acto knifes. Mostly for presentation\/mockups. And yes, I was once trained as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paste_up\" target=\"_blank\">paste-up artist;<\/a> something I could fall back on if computers just suddenly vanish. Sort of. <em>Ahh, the smell of fresh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidd.com\/blog\/?p=1770\" target=\"_blank\">Amberlith<\/a> in the morning!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elsita.typepad.com\/allaboutpapercutting\/2009\/06\/bunny-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elsita.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e3981de7fa883301157062114e970b-450wi\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elsita.typepad.com\/allaboutpapercutting\/2009\/06\/bunny-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elsita.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e3981de7fa883301156f6b2d76970c-450wi\" width=\"380\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/natashanewton\/status\/9067198737\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Newton<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Paper cuts\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/12603\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this past semester, I added a more comprehensive safety lecture to the learning to use an X-Acto knife portion of my beginning design classes. And this was the first semester that some serious injuries actually occurred. I&#8217;m thinking I should have not warned them so conscientiously. Usually I just say, a sharp X-Acto can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,49],"tags":[126,58],"class_list":["post-12603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-education","tag-education","tag-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12603"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12658,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions\/12658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}