Nov
10
I have the same relationship with technological style as I do with my wife: Fascination and repulsion. Glowing cufflinks and the like are theoretically neat but the execution often leaves much to be desired. To my mind, at least. Some people manage to build an entire aesthetic around these objects. While it’s not my cup of tea, …
May
18
I don’t usually cut and paste from press releases but this is nifty and I’m lazy. Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 9 p.m. EST (6 p.m. PST; 10:30 p.m. in NFLD) on natandmarie.com Highlights: Fashion designer Breeyn McCarney and creative technologist Christopher Lewis will make an appearance on the Nat&Marie live webcast to present an extension …
Jul
02
I have some pretty clever comrades. One of these, an incomparable chap who probably doesn’t want his name used, has long collected my empty pipe tobacco tins in order to repurpose them into various electronic devices – most of which have something to do with music. A while ago, he hosted a little workshop where he taught …
Aug
25
I had high hopes for steampunk. By combining the technological with the hand-crafted, it might have carved a path into a pleasant future. It circled back into the Victorian era but even that was forgiveable. Sometimes you have to take a step back to go forward. Steampunk, I thought, just needs to mature. But, like …
Jul
26
I forget what blog it was (I just remembered) but it was some anarchist one and the fellow had a weekly food recipe on it. Now that’s a good idea, I thought. So I’m stealing it. Every Sunday I’m going to try to post some sort of food thing I made during the week. Bacon …
Jul
26
Window Farms. via Beyond the Beyond I’ve been interested in growing some of my own food supply since the spring but doing it on one of my patios seemed too challenging. There’s too many animals and vagaries of weather to compete with. These window farms seem like the ideal, all season solution.
Jul
19
How To Build A Solar Panel. From Scratch.
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
