How to Design and Fabricate Homestead Projects

January 14, 2016

Design

...st (also with a UCSD degree–go Tritons!) who can provide 24 hour emergency art and art history advice. I’ll use the process of putting together my Vegetable Prison as a way of showing what I’ve leaned from my brainy, art-damaged friends: Go to lots of art shows, museums, take classes, go to furniture stores and watch strange movies One of the things I love about living in a big city is the opportunity to experience lots of high and low culture. I...

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A Great New Resource for Preserving Your Analog and Digital Memories

Mr. Homegrown

July 8, 2019

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...entral Library. Library card holders can book a 2 hour session once per week. Jump on this opportunity early as I suspect it’s going to be popular. If you’re not near one of the cities with a memory lab, I’d suggest having a conversation with your local librarian to help you get started dealing with that mountain of photos you’re hiding somewhere....

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The Blue Bear

Mrs. Homegrown

September 9, 2016

Thoughtstylings

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...nd Halvard followed her in 1977, and all I have of her are my genes, those memory fragments and the bear. I don’t even remember her voice. Which leads me to musing on what we leave behind, on the ephemeral nature of memory and experience. Some families are big on family lore and stories and those get passed down and repeated over the generations. As I’ve said, my family is not like that, on either side. But I don’t think my family is atypical in o...

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An Awareness of What is Missing

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...hought of these four counter-cultural skills: 1. Memory I’ve written about memory before. The important thing to note about it is that memory is a creative act, not a boring rote skill. It’s a way of expanding your mind’s creativity. And it’s relatively easy to learn. It’s also, of course, atrophying under our constant access to “the cloud.” 2. Wayfinding GPS, and mobile technology are raising a generation that will no longer know how to get aroun...

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By Hand and Eye

Mr. Homegrown

February 12, 2018

Design

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...rabbit hole, in addition to By Hand & Eye I’d suggest the following web resources: By Hand and Eye website Jim Toplin’s blog Lost Art Press Blog (the publisher of By Hand & Eye) Lost Art Press publisher Christopher Schwartz’s posts at Popular Woodworking But you have been warned. Walker’s not kidding about the side effects....

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