Weekend Linkages: Pyramids, Strange Houses and F-ing Gourds

September 5, 2021

...Orange free peaches, painted by Elsie E. Lower, 1910. Via @pomological. A stepped pyramid in the desert Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? People are still taking that horse medication That time someone tried to set up a Vietnam war theme park (a podcast) Strangest Zillow listing ever The Diapers.com Guy Wants to Build a Utopian Megalopolis F-ing gourd season Can We Live Without Twitter?...

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Make Your Own Furniture

Mr. Homegrown

April 9, 2021

Design

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...p van Lieshout’s work. Will Holman We had Will Holman on episode 55 of our podcast. He collected his stylish and resourceful wisdom into a DIY manual called Guerilla furniture design : how to build lean, modern furniture with salvaged materials. Nomadic Furniture The 1970s was a golden era for DIY furniture manuals. Two of my favorites are Nomadic Furniture, and Nomadic Furniture 2 by designers Victor Papanek and James Hennessy. Nomadic Furniture...

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Conspirituality

Mr. Homegrown

January 22, 2021

Thoughtstylings

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...This month I’ve witnessed someone fall deep into a QAnon hole as well as a homesteader on YouTube go full Militia LARP. What once could be appreciated as a paranoid if creative imaginarium now has real world consequences. People have been shot and bombs have detonated. Art had a brush with real world consequences when the Heaven’s Gate cult committed suicide after listening to a segment of his show but that’s a long way from January 6th’s Q-Shaman...

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Saturday Linkages: Advent 3/4

Mr. Homegrown

December 19, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...o watch the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter Make a Christmas shadowbox A podcast about Arthur Machen’s weird vision of art Watch Peter Follansbee carve a shallow relief pattern From Instagram to Insistent Goats: Another Life After Social Media Case Study Slavoj Žižek on the “screen new deal” My wife just confessed that for her entire childhood she thought Colonel Sanders’ bow tie was his whole body and now I can’t stop seeing a tiny stick body e...

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Of Love and Compressed Air

Mr. Homegrown

May 21, 2018

Appropriate Technology, Water and Power

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...of Low Tech Magazine creator Kris De Decker (a guest on episode 83 of our podcast). He just published two long articles on the history of compressed air, “History and Future of the Compressed Air Economy” and “Ditch the Batteries: Off-Grid Compressed Air Energy Storage.” This is one of those topics that’s so boring as to be exciting and once you start thinking of the possibilities of compressed air you’ll find yourself, inappropriately, peppering...

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