I ran across this short film. Can’t find out where or just what it is. It’s titled “…the crucial moment in building a reciprocal frame roof of round wood on top of a cobwood roundhouse. Jeez, don’;t try this at home, folks. Maybe it’s because I’m from earthquake country, but this roof frame looks sketchy in the extreme to me. Plus when you get tons of soil on top, you’ve got a potential for flattening inhabitants. Owner-builder guru Ken Kern (his The Owner-Built Home was my building bible in the ’60s) was killed when a soil roof collapsed on him.
the crucial moment in building a reciprocal frame roof of round wood on top of a cobwood roundhouse.
Yestermorrow is a school for building in the Green Mountains of Vermont. It’s a great place. This video shows time lapse images of a class doing the foundation and framing of a mortise-and-tenon house in 2008.. More information available at https://www.yestermorrow.org.
Nice film of building a beautiful cob oven on a stone base in Costa Rica:
This is so great. Stay with it; it gets better as it goes along. Had me laughing out loud.
“Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. Matt Harding traveled through many nations on Earth, started dancing, and filmed the result…a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species. Happiness is frequently contagious — few people…watch the above video without smiling.”
See: https://www.wherethehellismatt.com/
Don’t even have time for a 30-minute workout some days? Here are three 10-minute workouts, quick exercises to do on those “busy days.” It’s all on one page that you can keep in your desk drawer (or on the wall). To download a good screen-size print-out, click on the image below for an Adobe PDF:
From: Getting Back in Shape © 2002
Shelter Publications, Inc., Bolinas, CA
About 6 weeks ago, schools of sardines materialized off our coast, the pelicans started dive-bombing, the bigger fish arrived, and fishing has been great ever since. Halibut, sea bass, rock fish — all brought in by local boats. Fisherman Josh says, “The ocean’s healthy.” Believe me, fish eaten the same day as caught are different from anything you find in a market.
And just now, sitting in the morning sunshine in the garden, I noticed honeybees everywhere. Bee colonies got knocked hard by diseases (and crop poisons) in the last 10 years, but are on the rebound, at least around here. Right now they’re brushing golden pollen onto their hind legs, which they’ll take back to the hive. It’s win-win, since they’re pollinating plants while gathering food. (Is this inadvertent? Maybe not. )
Not everything is doom and gloom.
Bee photo from: https://www.dereila.ca/whispers/two.html
Meg Pickard: “The thing about this photo is that if I’d used a “proper” camera, it would have undoubtedly have caused too much attention, and would have spoilt the composition. As it was, I was only able to get this picture by holding the camphone at a most strange angle by my face (perhaps the other passengers thought I was very short sighted, and just reading a text message?) but the crucial thing is that this photo simply couldn’t have been captured in such a spontaneous way without a piece of photographic capturing kit which enabled spontaneity: A cameraphone.”
https://meish.org/
I love graffiti. It’s free, spontaneous, not controlled by officials, not taught in art school, not managed by dealers or galleries. This one appeared in the last few weeks on the beach — which is periodically patrolled by great white sharks..
