Picture Sundays: A Book Forest
A neat idea: a public bookshelf made from logs in Berlin. Via Boing Boing. ...
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Picture Sundays: Easy Ridin’ Bees
To see how “backwards” beekeeper Danny rescued this swarm see his blog Bees and Beyond....
Picture Sundays: The Huddle Couch
“It’s a bed. It’s a couch. It’s a multi-functional piece of furniture for laid back lifestyles. The HuddleCouch® offers new possiblilites for entertainment and comfort.” Believe it or not this ad is dated 1994. And apparently you have to wear a suit to enjoy your HuddleCouch. But the formal attire doesn’t stop this couch from being, “the most fun you can have on a couch or a bed. It’s a way of lif...
Picture Sundays: Unique Cadillac Cargo Carrier
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: Giant Crops of the Future
re tender and tasty — and controllable as to ripening time. Seasonal vegetables like corn will be available fresh nearly everywhere for most of the year instead of only a month or so. Loopy, but kinda prescient. Not sure it’s gonna work out so well!...
Picture Sundays: Ferment With the Devil
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: Bread Porn
They don’t always turn out this nice, but I managed to make a few good loaves this week. Video on how to do this is on the way, I promise....
Picture Sundays: Cactus Disguise
Via Mostly Forbidden Zone....
Picture Sundays: The Cawston Ostrich Farm
“Reaching for oranges, Cawston Ostrich Farm, So Pasadena, CA.” Ostriches seemed to be a big tourist attraction in the early 20th century. This place also featured a “solar motor”–click to bigulate: Personally, I’d much rather visit the Cawston Ostrich Farm than Disneyland....
Picture Video Sundays: Many Ways to Open Your Beer
Who needs an opener?...