Saturday Tweets: Happy Feet and Sad Feet

July 20, 2019

...Mix’, the first composition I made when I founded @pictorialmeadows Every time I see it, it is as beautiful as the first time. A lovely setting for the Diving Otters sculpture by Andy Burgess. pic.twitter.com/Qa8EBaUp8R — Nigel Dunnett (@NigelDunnett) July 18, 2019 Native, or Not So Much? https://t.co/DVO4novEGO — Benjamin Vogt (@BRVogt) July 18, 2019 Plant Parenthood https://t.co/01XQzgUiW1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 18, 2019 “It is in our...

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Saturday Linkages: Gaslighting the Quarantine Cats

Mr. Homegrown

June 13, 2020

Saturday Linkages

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...nitize their food and kitchens 3 Reasons Your Chicken May Display Red Legs Time to Get Blueberries in Your Freezer? Strawberry Feijoa Jam Your wedding’s been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good Inside NextDoor’s Karen problem What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride Writer Lane Moore condensed my mood in a Tweet, is anyone else feeling gaslit all the time lately? I’m wearing my mask everywhere I go, I don’t touch it, I don’t pull...

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Seat Weaving for Fun and Profit

Mr. Homegrown

July 26, 2019

Design

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...2-pound rolls since I correctly anticipated making some mistakes the first time and I’m planning on making more of these chairs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkE05DD9_Y I found a helpful seat weaving tutorial on YouTube by Ed Hammond a.k.a. Peerless Rattan. Hammond has sixteen videos on how to weave and cane a variety of chairs. Please note that in addition to ladderback chairs there’s a lot of mid-century Scandinavian chairs that have a sligh...

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Misadventures in Laser Cutting

Mr. Homegrown

August 5, 2019

Design

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...ing art. Printing on Wood After completing my print block I had some extra time in the lab so I thought I’d see what it looks like to simply etch in wood. First I tried an image of our cat Buck, one on birch plywood and the other on a scrap of quarter sawn white oak. With some more tweaking in illustrator I probably could have gotten a better image on the birch but I didn’t have time. The oak image did not work at all because the figure of the woo...

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Starbucks Moderne

Mr. Homegrown

December 4, 2019

Design

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...n and ignored, Generation X. We’re the last generation that can remember a time of lounging in curlycued, overstuffed post-modern furniture, a time before the gig-slave economy. Now we’re hunched over in misery contemplating eking by on Fiverr and Mechanical Turk while the fat-cat masked billionaires enjoy slices of pie and a cup of coffee on the way to their Eyes Wide Shut parties. Further evidence of the age of the artist or, more likely, that t...

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