How to Design and Fabricate Homestead Projects

January 14, 2016

Design

...Brain. Once you go through that you’re ready for a fun book I’m currently making my way through called Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design. Modeling Lastly it’s time to get those ideas in the free version of the 3d program Sketchup. You can learn Sketchup in an evening or two and it has really helped separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to my many bad ideas. With Sketchup you can rotate the object and really see if it works ae...

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Acedia Part II: An Internet of Narcissism

Mr. Homegrown

June 21, 2024

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...ur time, but rather the Freudian idea which, to oversimplify a bit, is not self-love but, rather, love of the image of oneself as seen by others. Lasch’s Freudian understanding of narcissism aligns closely with the social media selves we curate for others to view. Lasch notes that narcissism, by this definition, leads to an infantilization, “The point of the story is not that Narcissus falls in love with himself but, since he fails to recognize hi...

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Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

Mr. Homegrown

July 10, 2017

Gardening

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...ork. With him, as with all children, mastery of the soil proved mastery of self. The movement showed parents how the work of children can be made the means of contributing to the family income, thus making it possible for them to stay in school longer. In one district two inexperienced young boys in their very first garden venture raised so much produce that they supplied the table for a family of seven for a whole year and had a good deal to sell...

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The Institute of the Present

Mr. Homegrown

April 1, 2019

Appropriate Technology, Water and Power

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...de a bad bet back in the early 20th century on the automobile. Sadly, it’s making another bad bet now on a hoped for future of self driving cars which Lyft and Uber’s business models depend on. I had thought, ten years ago, that Los Angeles’ elected officials were beginning to imagine a future not dependent on cars but that doesn’t seem to be the case. I’m going to stick my neck out and make a few predictions. Self driving cars won’t work unless t...

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Is the Urban Homesteading Trend Over?

Mr. Homegrown

December 14, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...ikes that coincide with canning at the end of summer. Unsurprisingly, most homesteading topics revolve around seasons. Seasonality, by the way, is one of things I really like about this movement. A digression here–the flatness of time (see Charles Taylor)–is one of the things I don’t like about modernity. “Home canning” searches “Home canning” searches show a more dramatic decline. “Backyard Chickens” searches People research backyard chickens in...

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