Saturday Linkages: A Difficult Week

May 30, 2020

...D-19 and Circuits of Capital Holding the Vision: Collecting the Art of the Book in the Industrial North West (museum exhibit in a series of blog posts) Mystery as 60 peculiar cubes with inscriptions pulled from Coventry river Thermoelectric Stoves: Ditch the Solar Panels? The Complete Guide to Creating Your Personal Makerspace (Via Eric of Garden Fork) Infectious Bronchitis In Chickens: Another Coronavirus My friend found a listing for an otherwis...

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The Twittering Machine

Mr. Homegrown

October 18, 2019

Thoughtstylings

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...d I want to find the escape hatch in the Spectacle. Seymour notes that we are in an age in which we are all writing more than we ever did, in the form of posts, texts etc. But he asks are we “more being written than writing?” The book leaves me wanting to disappear into my wood shop to commune with a carefully curated set of had tools for the rest of my days on this earth. I’ve embedded an interview with Seymour on the appropriately named This is...

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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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Kelly’s Office Furniture in Progress

Mr. Homegrown

July 20, 2020

Design

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...cing on scrap wood. Kelly did not like how long it took for me to make the bookshelf (made out of inexpensive beech wood, by the way) and requested that I put the cabinets together faster. I used birch plywood which was more fun to work with than I expected and certainly saved a lot of time. Hardwood has to be milled, the edges jointed and small pieces glued together to make wider boards. It takes days of work. Plywood cabinets come together in ho...

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Kelly’s New Desk

Mr. Homegrown

September 14, 2020

Design

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...to Schwartz’s blog in the past and can’t say enough good things about his books. In addition to being well written they are just plain beautiful books and the projects strike a perfect balance of good design and ease of construction. Schwartz specializes in reviving what might be thought of as the furniture of common people, not the fancy and fussy stuff usually associated with middle aged woodworking hobbyists. He draws a lot of inspiration from...

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