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3/29/14

vandwelling woman

VIDEO Vandwelling Woman



I can only hope to be this cool. Also, there is an incredible amount of vanlife/tiny home info out there, including: Architecture & Building via Kirsten Dirksen.


3/18/14

Growing Cities

DOCUMENTARY Growing Cities: Urban Farming in America/"America"

via the Institute of Urban Homesteading (urban homesteading: sounds expensive and totally out of reach, especially in the Bay Area - what's the secret?)

Tuesday, April 8th, doors open at 6PM
4274 24th Street, Oakland at the New Parkway Theater, with couches
Tickets $8: here

I love this kind of stuff, but honestly, how can this kind of culture persist in the Bay Area where land is exceedingly expensive? In places like West Oakland for example, a place that researchers prescribe to be in all manners deficient, people who propose improvements need to deal with the reality that West Oakland is one Bart stop away from the Financial District of San Francisco, where condos are going for a million dollars a piece. It's like heating an oiled pan and pretending like there's no egg to fry.

The Man Who Planted Trees

FILM The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono (1953) animated by Frédéric Back (1987)


3/7/14

Dotspotting

VISUALIZATION Dotspotting

Real time data sets ---> dot map

Ugh.

what we need is here

As opposed to attempting utopia -

WHAT WE NEED IS HERE by Wendell Berry

Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye, 
clear. What we need is here.