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Flipped Out: The End of the American Bungalow

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Design
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...reminds me of Natasha Dow Schüll description of casino architecture in her book Addition by Design. Schüll says, Gilles Deleuze proposed in the 1990s that discipline, formerly the dominant mode of power in Western Societies, had been modified and to some degree overtaken by a logic of “control” that worked not by confinement or restriction of movement, but by the regulation of continuous, mobile flows–of capital, information, bodies and affects. U...

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Raw Pork Sandwich Anyone?

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Food
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Image: Nize from Wikipedia. Our web and book designer Roman Jaster dropped by the Root Simple compound for an annual look under the hood at our website’s internal workings. After spending most of the meeting calming me down over my existential crisis relating to the troubles of running a blog long past when blogs were still a thing, Roman mentioned an unusual sandwich called Hackepeter that he ate on his last trip back to where he grew up in East...

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A Great New Resource for Preserving Your Analog and Digital Memories

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...t Migration Home Movie Project that, if you are African-American, will digitize and preserve your family’s home movies and audio tapes for free. If you’re in Los Angeles you really should check out the new Octavia Lab at the Central Library. Library card holders can book a 2 hour session once per week. Jump on this opportunity early as I suspect it’s going to be popular. If you’re not near one of the cities with a memory lab, I’d suggest having a...

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Relax and Enjoy the Soft Caress of the Fun Fur

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Design
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...I’m just old enough to remember the era from whence these photos from the book Creating modern furniture : trends, techniques, appreciation (1975) originate, they seem like artifacts from some alien planet, perhaps the one depicted in Barbarella. Water damage from the Los Angeles Central Library fires of the 1980s only adds to the otherness of these images. At the risk of sparking inter-generational snark warfare, let’s take a look at some more:...

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Digital Götterdämmerung

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Domesticus, Reviews, Thoughtstylings, Tidying up
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...arters for the right moment to get the torches lit. The cornerstone of his book Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Amazon, library) is the suggestion to take a one month break from addictive apps, websites and other digital media. Use that time to figure out some life goals. At the end of the month carefully add back the digital tools you find useful. I just started the one month digital fast and, already, I feel like I’...

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