Another Puyallup place where you couldn’t tell what it was like until you came inside. Score! Anthem Coffee & Tea (210 W. Pioneer Ave.), interior done in recycled wood and corrugated steel roofing, great coffee and a perfect almond/bran muffin combo, fast wifi (so handy for the on-the-road nerd), opens at 5:30 AM (I don’t even know a connected place in NYC that opens that early), cool workers and clientele.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Not really germane, but These pub shots, patched together from a single vantage (?), made me rethink my reaction to the painter Rackstraw Downes talking about his representing perspective. While I liked the effect, I was dismissive of it being in any way true to life. The first link is to some of his stuff, and the second to the Art21 episode which introduced me to him.
http://goo.gl/q7ASO
http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/episode-balance