Saturday Linkages: Cool Furniture and Other Thoughtstylings

...eline — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 29, 2015 A pastoral case for bike lanes: http://t.co/mW2zujYNhC — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 29, 2015 Folding Cedar Lawn Chair http://t.co/TnUzWkMIxO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 28, 2015 Slipstream Table (Experiments in Aluminum and Plywood Lamination) http://t.co/9we5FOFMsi — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 28, 2015 Via @nprnews: Game For Ancient Grain: Palestinians Find Freekeh Again http://t.co/2ePIfi1...

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Video Sundays: Let’s Take a Musical Break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ui2deAKr8 Kelly and I consider ourselves very fortunate to have been able to see Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in concert back in the 90s. He’s considered by many to be the greatest of Qawwali (a type of Sufi devotional music) singers of all time. Falling down a youtube hole, I discovered this remarkable video. Please note the paradoxical moment of ecstatic silence that happens around the 12:51 mark. Also note the beauti...

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Bird’s Nest

...trange and gorgeous. I assumed Erik had found it. And since the table sits under our grape arbor, and a few grape skins were in the nest, I figured the nest had been up in the grape vines, and Erik had discovered it whilst up on the ladder, trying to defend our grapes from sundry critters. Nope. Erik knew nothing of the nest. Logic tells me it must have jiggled out of the vines on the arbor — perhaps a rat dislodged it?– and it happened to land fa...

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That Sugar Film

...h Gameau’s health decline precipitously. A disclaimer: personally, when it comes to documentaries, I prefer a vérité approach and am not a fan of Spurlock-type hijinks or hyperactive animation, both of which this film has in abundance. Show me don’t tell me is a film making mantra seared into my brain during the brief period I took classes and edited with Jean-Pierre Gorin (Full disclosure: my inner Gorin drives Kelly crazy and makes me a grumpy,...

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