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Saturday Tweets: Bike Rants, Super Monster Wolf and Marginalia

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Saturday Linkages
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...across the city in five minutes, I need to Be able to walk to the grocery store safely. https://t.co/1KXu1yf1OL — Damien Newton (@DamienTypes) March 7, 2018 Historian Peter Norton, author of “Fighting Traffic,” on how the auto industry engineered a hostile takeover of public street space in the 1920s. https://t.co/jxk5pn1n6q — John Lloyd (@boyonabike62) March 7, 2018 SBLA’s @JoeLinton on Musk’s freeway-tunnel scheme: highway builders say ‘If we b...

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I Built a Set of Gerritt Rietveld Crate Chairs and So Can You

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Design
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...uild with a modest amount of tools and dimensional lumber from the big box store. I made a set of Rietveld’s crate chairs and a crate table for our backyard. The crate chair is a nod to the Morris chair. It’s low slung, kind of like a beach chair (there’s also a taller version). While simple, the chair’s design shows an architect’s appreciation of how planes intersect and how to make those connections visually interesting. I’ve built reproductions...

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Sorting Family Photos

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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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135 Larry Korn: Rest in Revolution

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Food, Gardening, Permaculture, Podcasts
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...oka’s natural farming philosophy. During the discussion we cover how natural farming is similar to indigenous agriculture and how it’s different than permaculture. We also talk about the mystical experience that changed Fukuoka’s life. Larry’s website is onestrawrevolution.net. If you want 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 iTu...

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