Saturday Tweets: Big and Trainy

August 3, 2019

...this weird lens flare when trying to document this ridiculous multi-garage situation … pic.twitter.com/2OjTJxMQj3 — Share The Cities (@sharethecities) July 28, 2019 Thrift store shopper scores original drawing by Egon Schiele https://t.co/F9R1WDVFz1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 29, 2019...

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Misadventures in Laser Cutting

Mr. Homegrown

August 5, 2019

Design

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...egree) to assist in printing the woodcut. We made a trip to the art supply store to get a brayer, paper, and some ink. I fashioned a baren, used to press the paper onto the woodcut, out of scrap wood and a doorknob. Problems We managed to pull two not-so-great prints. The problems fall into two categories: materials and concept. First, I should have sanded the birch plywood before laser cutting. The surface of the wood left too rough an impression...

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132 Legalize It! A Conversation with Beekeeper Max Wong

Mr. Homegrown

August 9, 2019

Animals, Bees, Podcasts

...like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing theme music by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadable version of this podcast is here....

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134 Eric of Garden Fork on Mental Decluttering, Washing Machine Repair and More!

Mr. Homegrown

October 2, 2019

Animals, Bees, Podcasts, Water and Power

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Sorting Family Photos

Mr. Homegrown

October 28, 2019

Domesticus, Tidying up

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...udio portraits as well as shots of my paternal great-grandparent’s general store in Stockton, California. With the advent of snapshot photography in the early 20th century there’s more photos, but I suspect photography was still relatively expensive. The early 20th century snapshots seem more carefully posed than what comes later when photography gets cheaper. There’s a lot more photos from the 1970s and 80s but the quality of many of those photos...

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