Saturday Linkages: The Calm After the Storm

November 3, 2012

...nion/opinion-la/la-ol-getting-jerry-browned-20121024,0,2854852.story … New Urban Velo issue free online: http://www.urbanvelo.org/issue34/ The fox is guarding the hen house! How the sugar industry defends itself against claims that sugar is unhealthy: http://boingboing.net/2012/10/31/how-the-sugar-industry-defends.html … Billboard firm wrote L.A. proposal on signs http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1027-billboard-influence-20121027,0,1562494....

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Nance Klemn is in Los Angeles and She’s Teaching Classes!

Mr. Homegrown

February 3, 2015

Events

..., and teacher. Based in the Midwest, she lives and works in a diverse neighborhood in the heart of Chicago, and is developing a farm on her land outside the city. She is founder of Social Ecologies, a nonprofit that focuses on system regenerating projects, including The Ground Rules, an urban soil- and community-building initiative using local green and food waste. Nance has worked internationally, lectured at art museums (including MOCA and the H...

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Chris Burden’s Small Skyscraper

Mr. Homegrown

November 1, 2017

Design

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...n closed the loophole. Burden was probably best known for having himself shot and crucified in the name of performance art, but I remember him for making it impossible to build the backyard tower I’ve always wanted....

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I Built a Harvey Ellis Dresser and it Almost Killed Me

Mr. Homegrown

October 26, 2018

Design

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...fitting drawers, finishing surfaces). Late 19th and 20th century furniture making involves not just one task all day but a mix of responsibilities as well as aesthetic decisions such as deciding which way to run the grain. The Ikea dresser is made on a post-Henry Ford assembly line where workers either monitor machines and/or do the same repetitive task all day. This makes for a much cheaper product but an unhappy worker. I made many mistakes buil...

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Saturday Tweets: Too Many Tweets!

Mr. Homegrown

March 9, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...i Kraut! https://t.co/og1x4tenop — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 9, 2019 Build a Border Wall? Here’s an Idea That’s Better for Communities and the Climate https://t.co/uLJ6KbXkpa — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 9, 2019 I’m a sucker for simple, traditional Midwestern architecture – It’s still beyond me why we stopped building this stuff. Here’s where to buy prints: https://t.co/GU0X0ESg8W pic.twitter.com/zvNxNkdr25 — Nate Hood (@natehoodstp) Ma...

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