Saturday Tweets: A Wacky Week

July 16, 2016

...Simple (@rootsimple) July 11, 2016 How do designers respond to the tragic events of the week?https://t.co/AWbfliMLd2 via @podessey — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) July 10, 2016 ‘I quit the rock’n’roll life to spread the grow-your-own message’ #HDYGG @courgetteitc https://t.co/Des1KmkjuV pic.twitter.com/bbSkfpNCsV — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) July 9, 2016 Pole-Mounted Mason Jar Garden Lights https://t.co/wRLEBIJcyX — Root Simple (@roo...

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Salsa Dancing in a World Without Oil

Mr. Homegrown

August 14, 2008

Events

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For those of you in the Los Angeles area here’s some events to mark on the calendar: SALSA SALSA What: Salsa Salsa, a Celebration of Love Apples Type: Public Art Event in which we make salsa while dancing to salsa music together. When: Sunday, August 17th, 3 to 7 p.m. Where: Farmlab, 1745 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Free to the public SALSA SALSA is a harvest festival inviting the citizens of Los Angeles to come make and taste tomato...

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The Most Attractive Cargo Bike in the World

Mr. Homegrown

June 21, 2016

Bikes, Transportation

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...ink is the most handsome cargo bike I’ve ever seen. It’s one of the delivery bikes for the Portland based (of course) Trailhead Coffee Roasters. They also seem to have an equally attractive mobile brew bike that you can rent out for events. Though not as pretty, I’m still very happy with my Xtracycle cargo bike and use it for hardware store runs and to avoid the fistfights that break out over parking at our local Trader Joes. Do you have a cargo b...

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Mr. Homegrown

May 13, 2019

Reviews, Thoughtstylings

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...history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to w...

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Midnight in the Desert

Mr. Homegrown

October 25, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...oon men, lizard people and mysterious airships mixed with the more mundane events of the day. Nineteenth century readers knew that the moon men tales were fake just as Bell would frequently describe his show as “just entertainment.” Bell was not one to let epistemological correctness get in the way of a good yarn. He was a skilled listener who would patiently, over the course of hours, draw tall tales out of his guests. In an approach reminiscent...

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