How to Garden With California Natives: Lessons from the 2016 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

...antastic sheds in the Loxton/Clark garden: Or this inventive bit of garden art from the Hessing/Bonfigli garden in Altadena: Kelly and I both have mixed feelings about using found materials in a garden. I think the focus is often too much on telling a kind of visual joke, like when you, say put googly eyes on a old muffler and paint it purple. What works about the found art examples below and above from the Hessing/Bonfigli garden is that they are...

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091 Artist John Hartley’s Contingency Research

...guest this week on the podcast is London-based artist and researcher John Hartley. John is probably best known for turning an office (desk, computer and business suit!) into a sea kayak. We talk about a bunch of John’s projects, including the kayak, and the intersection of art and ecological thinking. While listening to the podcast I’d suggest taking a look at John’s work which you can see on his website ambivalency.net. During the show we discuss...

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Least Favorite Plant: Tree of Heaven

...stinky tree of heaven sauna: “We have another small installation in the SMART Museums Heartland exhibition: A humidifier is installed in the museum lobby. The water tank of the device contains some pieces of Tree of Heaven wood (coll. Ghetto Palm). This is how the active substances get extracted in traditional Chinese medicine to cure a wide range of ailments from digestion problems, mental conditions, balding, to asthma and even cancer. In these...

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Framing the Frame Blog

...ovanni Bellini, the Frari Triptych, 1488. It’s not. It turns out that most artists of the past gave a lot of thought to the frames, often coming up with their own designs or collaborating with highly specialized woodworkers. I know about this though my discovery of a deliriously detailed and meticulously researched jewel of the internet: The Frame Blog. The blog is run by frame historian, Lynn Roberts and has over 45 contributors. Don’t believe ho...

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Saturday Tweets: Cat Memelord

...ich based embroidery artist #womensart pic.twitter.com/kau3VPyzzO — #WOMENSART (@womensart1) June 13, 2019 This thread checker recommended by @makerprojectlab and @TensorFlux is awesome. Side effects include spending Sunday afternoon sorting random bolts in the shop and realizing that 1/4"-28 is kind of rare and I had confused it with a metric size in the past. pic.twitter.com/l6bvwy5J6i — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) June 10, 2019 Like Muzak...

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