Fashion. Pdf. Recycling. The Case for Working With Your Hands. Nikki McClure. P r i m e - n u m b e r . c o m -- everything is temporary. Project #273 – Red Hat Posted in: projects, sewing | Comments (0) A red hat! Designed for the desert! I have a little visor to keep the sun off of my nose and forehead, and it’s a bright enough color for Clark to find me if we get separated someplace crowded. I do this sometimes, wear a bright, improbable color, when it comes to crowd situations. The first time I visited Japan, on my very first day, my husband (then my college boyfriend) took me to Tokyo Big Sight for the Comiket.
The Comiket is the world’s largest Doujinshi convention and attracts abouthalf a million people each year. So, when we arrived we waited in a field in a block of oh…about 20,000 people waiting for there to be room in the building for us. Luckily, I decided to wear a eye-bleedingly neon green striped sweater, so each time the crowd split us apart Clark was able to follow the green glow and find me again. As a lesson from that day I tend to try to wear things that will help him find me if we go somewhere crowded. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Notes from the Typist The Wizard of Oz: A Parable on Populism has ended up being a wonderful article with an influential effect on my life. My high-school History teacher (Dan Christner) taught this to us in High School....as a side benefit, we got to watch The Wizard of Oz in our History class. ;) It started me on a journey re-reading books looking at them for more then just their literal meaning.
I lost track of this amazing History teacher, who managed to make History a interesting and entertaining subject, when he lost tenure at my old High School. (They should be shot for letting an inspiring instructor like him go.) Anyhow, I remember everything about that week we spent on this. This is the essay that he handed out to us. It's been five years since I originally put up this article. This article is copyrighted, and contains long passages from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz within it.
Footnotes and some other links to follow the essay by Henry M. Hector St. Trouble intrudes. The Matchbox Project's Blurty -- Entries. MODOFLY. Business cards - a photoset on Flickr. Artspace | Visual Art Center. The New Atlantis - Shop Class as Soulcraft - Matthew B. Crawford. Editor’s Note: The original essay below, by New Atlantis contributing editor Matthew B. Crawford, was published in 2006. Mr. Crawford has expanded the essay into a bestselling book — Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work — published in 2009 by Penguin. To read excerpts from and reviews of the book, and to see interviews with Mr.
Crawford, click here. Matthew B. Anyone in the market for a good used machine tool should talk to Noel Dempsey, a dealer in Richmond, Virginia. At the same time, an engineering culture has developed in recent years in which the object is to “hide the works,” rendering the artifacts we use unintelligible to direct inspection. A decline in tool use would seem to betoken a shift in our mode of inhabiting the world: more passive and more dependent. So perhaps the time is ripe for reconsideration of an ideal that has fallen out of favor: manual competence, and the stance it entails toward the built, material world. Viral Video Chart. World RPS Society - How to beat anyone at Rock Paper Scissors. Lighthouse in a Tree. Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop - Tutorials - Stencil Revolution. Make Blank Books, Sketch Books or Repair Paperback Books with a Simple Japanese Bookbinding Technique -- a Tutorial.
Make or repair books with this easy technique. Adapted from an article in Boys' Life (October 1991) by Brook West. Does your "Boy Scout Handbook" look as though it has been read by a grizzly bear? Are pages falling out of your favorite novel? Has the cover come off of your copy of "The Hobbit? " You don't have to buy new copies. It's easy to repair paperback books using Japanese bookbinding techniques. To rebind a paperback you will need an awl or thin wire brads, heavy thread (eight times as long as the book 's height), a needle, pencil, and ruler. Here's what you do: 1. 2. Making these holes should not damage the text in the book. 3. 4. Go around the back and back up through the starting hole, then down through the other middle hole. Around the back again, then up through the top hole.
Around the back, then... ...around the top of the spine and up through the top hole again. Around the back again and... ...around the bottom of the spine and back through the bottom hole. Back to Brook's bio. Envelope and Letterfolding. Designers Toolbox.