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Kelly’s Office Furniture in Progress

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Design
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...ding with 220 grit sandpaper followed by either spray varnish or a poly finish. I went with a poly finish since it’s what I had on hand it ended up looking great. Wish I had the space to build a teardrop trailer out of ply. The last project for the office will be a desk from a plan in Christopher Schwartz’s The Anarchist Design Book....

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How to Garden With California Natives: Lessons from the 2016 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

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Garden Design, Gardening
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...peaking of Honey do’s The expression on Kelly’s face says: Erik you better build me a garden shed like this one at the Loxton/Clark garden. Duly noted. Lastly, our neighbor Lora (who also went on the tour) came over yesterday and we had a spirited discussion of “neatness” in these gardens as well as how much labor a garden takes to maintain. Sometimes a garden tour brings up more questions than answers. How much gardening skill can we expect from...

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Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione

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Design
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...ings, rather it’s a manual to teach a vocabulary you can use to design and build your own furniture. Mari says, Therefore the way should be to involve the user of a consumer item in the design and realization of the item designed. Only by actually touching the diverse contradictions of the job is it possible to start to be free from . . . deeply rooted conditioning. It’s no easy feat to make attractive furniture from 2x4s and nails but, especially...

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Saturday Linkages: The King’s Hand

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Saturday Linkages
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...ign Luxury Sneaker Markets Are a Preview of Capitalist Dystopia Farmers Reject Biden’s Pro-Corporate Rural Advisers Out in the wild: how Ken Layne created an alternative to clickbait in the desert Playing God: I sold my wife’s clothes to build a Christmas village in my parents’ basement I had a dream where there was a food called “King’s Hand”, a hollow hand made of m&m cookie, filled with Greek salad. I could not stop thinking about it. Here is t...

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