Saturday Linkages:

April 5, 2014

...://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/opting-introduction-77049/#.Uzs9IwgcJoo.twitter … How to host a star party: https://sites.google.com/site/aancsite/articles/host-a-starparty … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things

Mr. Homegrown

July 20, 2016

Animals, Cats, Design

...architecture. And saunas, like the bike propelled mini sauna above. I don’t know if I need to own a copy of this book (I’ve got a library copy), but I’ve spent a many evenings leafing through the pages. On a side note, many of the objects in this book are temporary outdoor art installations, something you see a lot of in Northern Europe in the summer. I don’t know why we don’t see more of these types of art and design shows in the U.S. They’re pop...

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The Call to Create: Marguerite Knutzen 1925-2017

Mr. Homegrown

April 18, 2017

Thoughtstylings

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...easy task. Schools dump students with academic and home problems into the arts classes just to keep them busy. My mom’s call to be a teacher wasn’t really about how to turn a pot on a wheel. I’ll let my mom explain. In a stack of her papers I found this note: As a former teacher of 30 years working with junior high (now called middle school) and elementary students I was always challenged to keep the art activities of crafts, ceramics, drawing an...

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A Grand Rapids End Table

Mr. Homegrown

October 26, 2020

Design

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...Midwest. The region had a lot of German language newspapers that featured art and design trends from the Continent. To my eyes this table looks like a mishmash of a Continental European Art Nouveau and an American Mission style. But this is just a guess. To turn a photo off the internet into plans I use the free version of Sketchup. Sketchup has a handy photo tracing feature that adjusts for perspective. I used this tool to get a rough idea of th...

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Midnight in the Desert

Mr. Homegrown

October 25, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...ommercial break on Water’s first appearance on Coast to Coast, listeners started searching the area around Ellensberg on an early internet satellite service called Terraserver. Mysteriously, Water’s property seemed to have been blacked out. Bell later claimed to have heard of military activity around Ellensberg. After his last appearance in December of 2002, claiming to have found another hole in Nevada, Waters disappeared never to be heard from a...

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