How to Design and Fabricate Homestead Projects

January 14, 2016

Design

...st (also with a UCSD degree–go Tritons!) who can provide 24 hour emergency art and art history advice. I’ll use the process of putting together my Vegetable Prison as a way of showing what I’ve leaned from my brainy, art-damaged friends: Go to lots of art shows, museums, take classes, go to furniture stores and watch strange movies One of the things I love about living in a big city is the opportunity to experience lots of high and low culture. I...

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Art and Grains

Mr. Homegrown

April 1, 2021

Design, Food, Thoughtstylings

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...e, friend of the blog Federico Tobon is launching a new zine, has completed 100 days of small drawings, and is making amazing little animated sculptures that you can see in his Instagram and TikTok. He’s got an interesting technique for creating a 3d illusion in 2d images that he explains here. Sign up for Federico’s newsletter for some joy in your inbox. One last thing about Federico. This tweet of his ends up in my Twitter notifications periodic...

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Moonshine

Mr. Homegrown

September 15, 2007

Fermentation, Food

...preferably from a source that will lend itself to a pretty picture on the label — bottle it, and you’re in the vodka business.” As it turns out there is an art to good homemade moonshine — a far cry from the soulless mouthwash Archer-Daniels-Midlands turns out. Here’s some excerpts from an interview of ex-moonshiner John Bowman conducted by the Coal River Folklife Project from “Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia...

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July Linkages

Mr. Homegrown

July 7, 2009

Miscellaneous

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...lo’s articles, especially “The Return of the Root Cellar”. Community building is something we consider essential for this, as of now, no-named movement. And yet, it seems we are better at meeting online than in person. Danah Boyd has an interesting article, “Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.” (26 page pdf) about why kids flock to social networking sites. Hint: they don’t have anywhere else...

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LA on Fire

Mr. Homegrown

January 8, 2025

Thoughtstylings

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...an unholy alliance of real estate interests, Wall Street, the California Apartment Owners Association and more spend millions on disinformation campaigns. What little money is spent ends up wasted on graft and corruption via engineering and construction firms controlled by these very same interests. I have friends who had to evacuate from Pasadena last night who live in a house very far from any wilderness area on a street I never imagined would e...

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