Moonshine

...preferably from a source that will lend itself to a pretty picture on the label — bottle it, and you’re in the vodka business.” As it turns out there is an art to good homemade moonshine — a far cry from the soulless mouthwash Archer-Daniels-Midlands turns out. Here’s some excerpts from an interview of ex-moonshiner John Bowman conducted by the Coal River Folklife Project from “Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia...

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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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Saturday Tweets: Happy Feet and Sad Feet

...and presumably for the Virgin Mary. pic.twitter.com/BJ33oRsel4 — Medieval Art (@vitrearum) July 18, 2019 Tantalising evidence that the vestments at Buckland that make up the carpet may have come from neighbouring Hailes Abbey. A rebus ‘Why’ and a church building may represent Abbot Wychurch. Between the two is a reliquary, perhaps the reliquary of the abbey’s famous holy blood? pic.twitter.com/g1ScF4RYJs — Medieval Art (@vitrearum) July 17, 2019...

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Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Gardening Wisdom

...s garden became a literal battle ground for his disputes with the Scottish Arts Council and with local town council bureaucrats. At various times his art was seized by the police and he became embroiled in a tax dispute with local officials. In the early 1980s his friends, dubbed the “Saint-Just Vigilantes” after the French revolutionary leader, successfully repelled a raid by the police in an action Finlay dubbed the “First Battle of Little Spart...

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Seed Tape Workshop at Summer Nights in the Garden

...ll Arts BOTANICAL TOURS with NHM Garden Staff SMOKE FLY SAMPLING with NHM Citizen Scientists PATIO CHATS: The Story of P-22, L.A.’s Famous Mountain Lion ENCHANTING TOY THEATER PERFORMANCES by NHM Performing Arts Staff LIVE ANIMAL PRESENTATIONS ART INSTALLATION, “Edge of Color” by Sarah Rara of Lucky Dragons LADWP Save the Drop Photo-Op Hope to see you there. More info on the Museum’s website....

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