jeweled platypus

 

About

I’m 23. I grew up in Los Angeles. My email address is brittag at gmail dot com.

I recently graduated with a Literature BA from the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara, including classes in the Literature and Culture of Information, Linguistics, and Book Art. I ran the Lit major club, I worked on the poetry magazine, and I helped lead the in-progress redesign of our college website. CCS is a small and unusual college, and I recommend it to anyone who asks.

I was also the Delicious community manager intern/contractor from 2005 to 2009. I answered support requests, dealt with spam, filed bugs, wrote blog posts, and generally assisted with communication between the people who use the service and the people who construct it. I’m the odd type of person who enjoys doing all that, and I love Delicious; I was one of its first users and earliest employees.

I sometimes collect Mac OS X menubar items, edit Wikipedia, and make unicode faces.

A few of the blog posts have tags:

architecture  books  food  geometry  insects  losangeles  maps  memes  naturalhistory  netart  osx  plants  prettypictures  sanfrancisco  santabarbara  self  toys  transportation  typography  ucsb  webdesign  yahoo 

A picture of Doug and me in the CCS Computer Science Lab:

in the CCS CS Lab

What is a jeweled platypus?

When I was maybe 11 years old, I found this image in an issue of National Geographic Magazine and decided it looked like a jeweled platypus. I cut it out and pasted it in my binder, and it has stuck with me ever since, even though I lost the original when I was 14. When I was 19, I researched the image and found out it’s a picture of an ancient Peruvian duck earring, which confirmed its status as my favorite thing.

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I’m Britta Gustafson and this is my blog about projects and pretty pictures.

Selected post

My classes for Fall 2007 — Flowers, Shakespeare, books, and adaptation. October 08, 2007.


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