Working Big: A Teacher’s Guide to Environmental Sculpture

February 9, 2016

Design

Let me tell you how on-board I am with any children’s DIY project book that begins with pictures of Robert Smithson’s monumental land art. Working Big: A Teacher’s Guide to Environmental Sculpture resonates with me due to many childhood trips to the LA County Art Museum at the height of the minimalism art era. Working Big applies some of the art notions of that period to group activities for kids using cardboard, plastic bags and junk. The result...

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Picture Sundays: Famous Cat Statues

Mr. Homegrown

February 14, 2016

Animals, Cats, Picture Sundays

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...ue of Trim, the first cat to circumnavigate Australia and the subject of a book by the ship’s captain Matthew Finders. Next is a statue of Samuel Johnson’s cat Hodge sitting on top of a dictionary and pondering some oyster shells. It’s located just outside Johnson’s house in London and is inscribed, “a very fine cat indeed.” UPDATE: Root Simple reader Peter noted a glaring feline statue omission on my part: the statue of Mrs. Chippy (who should ha...

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Saturday Tweets: Pre-Peeled Oranges, Fine Fiber and the Dome Revival

Mr. Homegrown

March 5, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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...y (@BicycleLobby) March 4, 2016 Wool fans: Check out the Wool & Fine Fiber Book slash traveling exhibition from Fibershed: https://t.co/DB689iJN3J #fibershed #woolbook — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 5, 2016 #relatable pic.twitter.com/8nYPhJALaM — Xeni Jardin (@xeni) March 4, 2016 Learn what it takes to be a sushi chef (spoiler: insane skills we definitely do not have) https://t.co/DFDb9wAL2o pic.twitter.com/PYDPCYZgEk — Xeni Jardin (@xeni) Marc...

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116 Being the Change with Peter Kalmus

Mr. Homegrown

March 7, 2018

Podcasts, Thoughtstylings

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...boratory, with a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. He lives in suburban Altadena, California with his wife and two children on 1/10th the fossil fuels of the average American. Peter wanted me to remind listeners that the ideas and opinions he expresses in this interview are his. Peter is not speaking on behalf of NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or the California Institute of Technology. During the podcast we discuss: Climate change g...

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Saturday Linkages: Super Spreader

Mr. Homegrown

July 11, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...s Warming trend in California, but most intense heat remains across the interior Southwest. And what about the autumn to come? On the Exceptionalism of Books in an Age of Tweets Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover Experiments in Anachronism A Call for Community-Based Seed Diversity During the COVID-19 Pandemic Beer Mats of the 1970s...

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