How to Garden With California Natives: Lessons from the 2016 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

April 5, 2016

...antastic sheds in the Loxton/Clark garden: Or this inventive bit of garden art from the Hessing/Bonfigli garden in Altadena: Kelly and I both have mixed feelings about using found materials in a garden. I think the focus is often too much on telling a kind of visual joke, like when you, say put googly eyes on a old muffler and paint it purple. What works about the found art examples below and above from the Hessing/Bonfigli garden is that they are...

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I’ll Need This Someday: Clutter Control for Artists and Creatives

Mr. Homegrown

June 8, 2016

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...neighbor Doug Harvey who turned the ever present street headboard into an art piece. Then there’s the time I passed up the chance to grab the Olive Motel’s Art Deco sign, only to see it later in a fancy boutique with a $3,500 price tag. What kind of creative person are you? Do you have a “I’ll need this someday” pile? When you’ve been blogging for ten years you sometimes duplicate subject matter. It turns out the Kelly already covered this topic...

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Framing the Frame Blog

Mr. Homegrown

March 22, 2019

Design

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...ovanni Bellini, the Frari Triptych, 1488. It’s not. It turns out that most artists of the past gave a lot of thought to the frames, often coming up with their own designs or collaborating with highly specialized woodworkers. I know about this though my discovery of a deliriously detailed and meticulously researched jewel of the internet: The Frame Blog. The blog is run by frame historian, Lynn Roberts and has over 45 contributors. Don’t believe ho...

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131 Learning to Smell the Roses with Kendra Gaeta

Mr. Homegrown

June 5, 2019

Podcasts

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...ded this interview with Kendra, who is a board member of the Institute for Art and Olfaction, Kendra pulled out a box of scents in tiny vials and proceeded to blow my mind. Smelling all those vials was a reminder of the sheer range of smells we might encounter and, most likely, ignore in the course of a day. Paying attention to our sense of smell opens up a whole new reality. We think a lot about things we see, hear and taste but don’t give a lot...

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Saturday Tweets: Cat Memelord

Mr. Homegrown

June 15, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...ich based embroidery artist #womensart pic.twitter.com/kau3VPyzzO — #WOMENSART (@womensart1) June 13, 2019 This thread checker recommended by @makerprojectlab and @TensorFlux is awesome. Side effects include spending Sunday afternoon sorting random bolts in the shop and realizing that 1/4"-28 is kind of rare and I had confused it with a metric size in the past. pic.twitter.com/l6bvwy5J6i — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) June 10, 2019 Like Muzak...

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