The Future is Biomorphic

November 4, 2014

Design

...lish. We can be especially thankful that the washing machine for people on page 179 of The Futurist never caught on. That said, the point is not always to predict the future. Architects, artists and designers push the envelope of consensus reality to spark a dialog. Architect Glen Small, one of the founders of SCI-Arc and the subject of an entertaining documentary, “My Father, the Genius” is one such provocateur whose thoughtstylings appear in The...

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3 Mules the Movie

Mr. Homegrown

June 16, 2017

Animals, Thoughtstylings

...ed from my first encounter with the mule man on Sunset Boulevard. Sears is making a point about public space and our rights to travel and use the commons. It’s a stance that often puts him at odds with law enforcement, local governments and, perhaps, modernity itself. You can see some excerpts from McDonald’s film on YouTube and make a tax deductible contribution towards completing the project. You can follow Sears via his Facebook page 3 Mules. M...

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How to Search for Science-Based Gardening Advice

Mr. Homegrown

February 24, 2014

Gardening

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...g about Agricola is that it’s free and online. Google Scholar–good for a start but most of the articles you’ll find are behind pay walls and you’ll have to look them up in a university library. The following databases are behind pay walls. You’ll need to make a trek to your local university to use them: CAB is a database of 7.3 million abstracts relating to “agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science and nutriti...

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A Last Minute Gift Suggestion . . .

Mr. Homegrown

December 19, 2014

Thoughtstylings

...ome junk email to discover that Amazon is suggesting that I buy our own books, The Urban Homestead and Making It, as Christmas gifts. It also recommended Rachel Kaplan and K. Ruby Blume’s excellent book Urban Homesteading. It’s a reminder that this blog is partially supported by your book purchases at both independent booksellers and through the Amazon links on our Publications page. Many thanks to all of you who have bought our books in the past...

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Happy Cranksgiving

Mr. Homegrown

November 25, 2020

Thoughtstylings

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...is isn’t a new situation. Covid Theater I was perusing our local health department’s new closing guidelines and came to the conclusion that they are just making stuff up on the fly. Some things are open and some closed and it’s obvious that the decisions aren’t based on any research since their probably isn’t any. When you see a multi page list of directions for “model airplane facilities” you know they are winging it. Again, the solution is simpl...

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