Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione

...nails, to offer designs that anyone can make without specialized training. Comrades can download Mari’s 1974 manual Autoprogettazione (roughly translatable as “self design”). The goal of Autoprogettazione is not to just offer measured drawings, rather it’s a manual to teach a vocabulary you can use to design and build your own furniture. Mari says, Therefore the way should be to involve the user of a consumer item in the design and realization of...

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Pepper’s Ghost

...there’s a free version of a video DJ type program called VDMX that you can download and Ellingson also has some videos on how to hook up old TVs to a laptop to create bigger Pepper’s ghost setups. I’m thinking of doing a simple Pepper’s ghost for the huge trick or treat crowds in our neighborhood. How huge are those crowds? Most years we run out and close early at about 300 little customers. Many of our neighbors are in the film industry and put u...

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Making Tofu From Scratch at the Institute of Domestic Technology

...clever idea. Back to the tofu. I’m going to try making my own this summer. At the very least I can make my own soy milk and skip the sugary stuff I’ve been using. You can get organic non-GMO soybeans and coagulant online at www.laurasoybeans.com. Incidentally, IDT founder Joseph Shuldiner wrote my favorite vegan cookbook which is aimed at vegans and non-vegans (such as myself) alike: Pure Vegan: 70 Recipes for Beautiful Meals and Clean Living ....

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Video Sundays: Crazy Bike Tricks

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKinsOnuR6Y Sometimes I think the purpose of this blog is to provide fodder for Portlandia writers. So writers, take note of the inspired lunacy in this video: cargo bike stunts bikes made with 2 x 4s bikes with roller blades for wheels Make sure to watch until the end for the cargo bike version of a common action movie trope....

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