Saturday Tweets: Spiders, Boomerangs and a New HGTV

...and throwing #boomerangs. This thing was made out of light weight, cheap, underlayment plywood from home depot. Got the plans from this ridiculously large and entertaining database https://t.co/9gtj8155J2. Fun to browse just to see silly shapes. pic.twitter.com/XxFfqWwvpu — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) July 6, 2018 Meanwhile, in the beautiful world of medieval manuscripts [BnF, Latin 8878, 11th c.] pic.twitter.com/Z46UY1ReZR — Damien Kempf (...

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078 Mark Lakeman on City Repair

...e communities we live in. Hint: it starts with a potluck! Mark is the co-founder of the non-profit placemaking organization The City Repair Project, and principal of the community architecture and planning firm Communitecture. He is also an urban place-maker, permaculture designer and community design facilitator. And if you’re on the West Coast of the US, you have a chance to participate in a series of workshops this month. For more information v...

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Eating the Void: On Making a Raw Café Gratitude Chocolate Hazelnut Pie

...our diet being raw vegetables. But we also have to acknowledge that our digestives systems have evolved over thousands of years to cooking food. Indeed, there are many foods that don’t release their nutrition unless they are cooked. In addition to this culinary nihilism, the proprietors of Café Gratitude mix into the recipes what Mark Fisher called “business ontology,” that ever present drive to explain every aspect of our lives in the language of...

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Saturday Tweets: Ancient Bread, Wild Horses and High Metabolism Money

...l) August 6, 2019 High Metabolism Money https://t.co/Z7Z27lpnJF via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 10, 2019 Become immersed in the sights and the sounds of the forest as you enjoy an open-air train ride on Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad. Take the train to our Fresno station now through September 15, then hop on @rideyarts for a ride to Fish Camp. https://t.co/JWwWh5BFMT — Amtrak San Joaquins (@SanJoaquins) August 8, 201...

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