Picture Sundays: Giant Crops of the Future

May 20, 2012

From Paleofuture, some 20th century notions about the factory farms of the future, from Arthur Radebaugh’s Sunday comic strip “Closer Than We Think” COLOSSAL CROPS — In addition to dire threats of destruction, the atomic age has also produced many brighter horizons for mankind’s future. One such happy prospect is the use of radiation to create more uniform and dependable crops that will end famine everywhere in the world. Gamma ray fi...

Picture Sundays: Ferment With the Devil

Mr. Homegrown

May 6, 2012

Picture Sundays

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Mrs. Homegrown was poking around her computer and found an old image we had intended to use for Krautfest 2009. It’s sort of a sauerkraut meets heavy metal t-shirt concept complete with nonsensical umlauts. So we decided to revive the image as an actual t-shirt available in the Root Simple cafe press store. Kraut on!...

Picture Sundays: Unique Cadillac Cargo Carrier

Mr. Homegrown

December 9, 2012

Picture Sundays

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Spotted in the posh HaFoSaFo district of Los Angeles, a re-purposed pickup truck shell serving as a cargo carrier. And since it’s so spectacular–here’s another view. A note about the house in the background: if an object stands motionless for long enough in this city it will get stuccoed. The Cadillac? It too will have a layer of matching beige/orange stucco within a year or so. Then house flippers will buy them both and reha...

Picture Sundays: Grape Nuts

Mr. Homegrown

May 19, 2013

Picture Sundays

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No wonder I have steady nerves and a keen, clear brain....

Picture Sundays: US Postal Service Creates World’s Ugliest Stamp

Mr. Homegrown

November 18, 2012

Miscellaneous, Picture Sundays

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I got some stamps out of a machine at the post office yesterday and this is what got barfed out. Is this a sign of the imminent collapse of the US empire or just evidence that the email thing is making the post office go broke? Either way, you’d think the Postal Service would be embarrassed by this graphic design nightmare. How do we get them to reissue this one? I may not be a big fan of the American Poultry Industry, but that sure is a...

Picture Video Sundays: Many Ways to Open Your Beer

Mr. Homegrown

June 3, 2012

Picture Sundays

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Who needs an opener?...

Picture Sundays: Tax Season

Mr. Homegrown

April 7, 2013

Animals, Cats, Picture Sundays

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Picture Sundays: 100 Square Foot Off-Grid House

Mr. Homegrown

March 17, 2013

Picture Sundays

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This tiny wonder is made by Sensible Structures. Link via Homesteading/Survivalism....

Picture Sundays: Hyperbolic Crochet

Mr. Homegrown

June 24, 2012

Picture Sundays

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Spotted at the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles, a piece from their Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. About the process: The inspiration for making crochet reef forms begins with the technique of “hyperbolic crochet” discovered in 1997 by Cornell University mathematician Dr. Daina Taimina. The Wertheim sisters adopted Dr Taimina’s techniques and elaborated upon them to develop a whole taxonomy of reef-life forms. Loo...