Saturday Tweets: Root Simple’s Miscellanies

August 26, 2017

...080f8qh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 26, 2017 Verdigris historically used as a pigment tends to form on old pins. This painting was made using verdigris from the Hope collections #sciart pic.twitter.com/8LnjOsH5DC — MuseumNaturalHistory (@morethanadodo) August 25, 2017 This amazing Twitter account is dedicated to showing how media shifts blame in crashes from person actually driving to the Almighty Car. pic.twitter.com/WNqbkBWIsK — Brian Add...

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The Blue Bear

Mrs. Homegrown

September 9, 2016

Thoughtstylings

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...eyes are glimpses into the color palette of my childhood. In addition, he used to have bright red felt or something similar lining his ears, but that was chewed off by unknown agents long ago. Yet I still remember the brilliant contrast between the red ears and the aqua blue fur. While Blue Bear was a fixture in my bedroom growing up, I barely remember great-grandmother Caroline. Certainly I was too young to remember her giving me the bear. She l...

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Designing the World’s Most Pretentious Garden Shed

Mr. Homegrown

September 13, 2016

Design, Gardening

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...Nicolas Ledoux’s oddball sketches But fabricating a waterproof sphere from used headboards and pallets is beyond my carpentry abilities. Nevertheless, I came up with a few scribbles: Thankfully, most of my thoughtstylings stay in the sketchbook like the idea of a 20-foot tall observation chair on top of the shed. Kelly pointed out that the neighbors might not like that idea. After dashing off a few sketches I created a Pinterest board to gather mo...

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092 A Mattress Made of Sand

Mr. Homegrown

September 7, 2016

Domesticus, Podcasts

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...ate Earth Bed. Our conversation also ranges over the history of how people used to sleep, from ancient Rome to the patent on the first mattress in 1850, the ecological consequences of conventional mattresses and the connection between the Earth Bed and barefoot running. For those of you who can’t listen, we also posted about them yesterday. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to...

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A Cheap and Easy DIY Sewing Cutting Table

Mr. Homegrown

October 10, 2016

Design, Domesticus

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...n I built my workshop I discovered a formula for creating work surfaces. I used a similar process to make the cutting table. Step one: go to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore or ReUse People of America and find two or more matching kitchen or bathroom cabinets. Step two: get a sheet of melamine at the big orange store. Step three: cut the sheet of melamine to size. To do that I bought a plywood blade for my circular saw (I don’t own a table saw). I...

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