Adventures in Extreme Making: The White Rose

For reasons I can’t fully articulate, I often think about an obscure film by the artist Bruce Conner called “The White Rose.” Conner’s film documents the moving of a huge and mysterious painting by the artist Jay DeFeo. The painting is so large that the moving company had to cut a hole in the wall of DeFeo’s second second floor apartment to get it out. Perhaps the appeal of this film is the problem solving or the obsessiveness of DeFeo. Or maybe...

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Saturday Tweets: Christmas Eve Edition

O Christmas Structure: Belgium’s Controversial Ultramodern “Tree” https://t.co/BP9fVN2n9M via @Dornob — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 24, 2016 Was the manger a tiny house? https://t.co/vVPQ8jnj01 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 24, 2016 Jammy Oatmeal Pecan Bar Cookies https://t.co/wYQbIpTDon — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 24, 2016 Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice! Celebrate with images of the night sky from our Catalogue of Illumin...

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Saturday Tweets: Toilets, Energy and Deep Old Age

How much energy do we need? https://t.co/T8YSsPY1s0 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 A Lesson in Sharpening https://t.co/ZfP9sLMW40 via @rudemechanic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 Toilet History Museum @atlasobscura https://t.co/EjpAxKshLf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 A Lesson in Sharpening https://t.co/ZfP9sLMW40 via @rudemechanic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 The elite belief in Uberized...

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Saturday Tweets: New Year’s Eve 2016

Los Angeles — when restaurants were built to look like things that are not restaurants. pic.twitter.com/UHTkHxJOx2 — Richard Parks III (@reechardparks) December 30, 2016 Archive of free musical instrument plans: cigar box guitars, ukuleles, and more https://t.co/aJGKqfLEvh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 28, 2016 DIY concrete lamps with LED string lights https://t.co/xE3PnfmI6V — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 30, 2016 Garden design as a...

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Saturday Tweets: Two Weeks of Tweets for the Price of One

...zLhNoP — Medieval Manuscripts (@BLMedieval) December 7, 2016 LA’s traffic is so bad people have to deliver their babies in cars now https://t.co/xmQtGVd1NC — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) December 6, 2016 Is Community Composting an Emerging Economic Opportunity? https://t.co/6FLmb8RiOr — UCUrbanAg (@UCUrbanAg) December 6, 2016 Grow Vegetables In Winter With A Mini Greenhouse – GardenFork https://t.co/enhfGpgaEz — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December...

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