The Gathering Storm

...5 off on a dark note. Yesterday, on my evening dog walk, I found a charred page from Winston Churchill’s book The Gathering Storm that must have come from one of the many destroyed homes in Altadena, carried aloft by hurricane force winds a distance of 12 miles. We have never lived in Altadena but Kelly and I both feel a deep connection to the place. We met a lot of people there in the years after our two books came out. Altadena is the kind of pl...

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By Hand and Eye

...lden section, for instance, and the shelf spacing came from an exercise on page 131 of the book. Far from being restrictive, I found the principles in Walker and Tolpin’s book liberating. I now had a starting point for any design project. For modern folks it’s difficult to imagine working without a ruler. Walker and Toplin explain, Instead of asking, “How high is this base dimension in inches?” pre-industrial artisans would have asked, “How tall i...

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Fermentology: Mini Seminars About Cultured Food

...d will be recorded and available afterwards on the Applied Ecology Youtube page. Registration here! Follow us on twitter or facebook for updates. A closing note: I’m fortunate to be able to stay at home, with plenty of food, and watch fermentation seminars. Many are not so lucky. I have a friend and neighbor who runs several farmers’ markets through a non-profit called SEE-LA. They are soliciting donations to support families sheltering in place i...

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Saturday Tweets: Architectural Screw-Ups, Road Diets and Pet Dragons

...story here: https://t.co/dTN60J6Abv — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) January 11, 2018 The average kid can identify 1,000 corporate logos and… 10 species of plants. https://t.co/Rr3YBJH9pU — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) January 11, 2018 Cartoon from 1906 predicts our obsession with smartphones https://t.co/p8TvygdViD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 9, 2018 When your pet dragon gets pissed off at you [BnF, Fr. 242, 15th c.] pic.twitter.com/Neu...

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