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4-foot-wide 3-story House in Warsaw

October 23, 2012 at 1:00 pm

Narrow house opening as art work in Warsaw/MONIKA SCISLOWSKA, Associated Press/October 19, 2012.

“Workers adjust a gate in front of one of the world’s narrowest houses, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Oct. 19, 2012. The two-level “Keret’s House” is no wider than 122 centimeters (48.03 inches) and was fitted into tiny space puzzlingly left between a pre-war house and a modern apartment block of the 1960s in downtown Warsaw. It is named after Etgar Keret, an Israeli writer of Polish roots who will be the first inhabitant of this artistic project of aluminum and polycarbonate. Photo: Alik Keplicz / AP”

NY Times article here.

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Airstream Trailer For Rent Berkeley $750/month

October 8, 2012 at 5:56 pm

Offered for 7 months: Full size bed
Pull out couch for additional guest bed
Wrap around window for great natural light
Full Original Kitchen in good condition
Brand new medium-sized electrical refrigerator
Heat and AC
BRAND NEW HARDWOOD FLOORS
Full bathroom with shower, toilet and sink
Tons of storage for clothes, food
The trailer is in perfect living condition and requires little to no maintenance
Emily – 415 994 9337

-From Abbey Phalen

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/apa/3316005808.html

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Olé LA

October 1, 2012 at 5:42 pm

I flew to LA yesterday, the occasion being a film tonight about my college roommate, Richard Zanuck, who died unexpectedly a few months ago. It’s a documentary on him, titled “Don’t Say No Until I Finish Talking.” It was completed just before he passed away.

  I’m staying in the Erwin Hotel in , Venice Beach, a Joie de Vivre hotel, a block from the beach and it’s  warm, blue-sky LA beach weather. Totally.

   I spent yesterday roaming the boardwalk with 2 cameras. It’s LA at its max. Performers, freaks, skaters, artists, babes, hunks, especially on a Sunday, it’s a dizzying array of let-it-all-hang-out SoCal. Click here for photo album from yesterday.

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Danny MacAskill Rips San Francisco on His Bike

September 29, 2012 at 10:21 pm

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eIOsL8tumMU

“Danny MacAskill hits the streets of San Francisco and while the title may suggest some sort of adversarial relationship, Danny glides through the hilly terrain with a familiarity and effortless grace that would lead you to believe he’s lived there all his life. Launching off sidewalks and balancing along rails, he moves with uncanny precision. Danny also talks a little bit about his methodology when it comes to identifying and perfecting new tricks. So sit back and let the maestro of urban trials do his thing.”

Check out all the cool things at this website (where this originated): https://www.aetherapparel.com/blog/

Sent us by Gary Gunder

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Scary Steep Downhill San Francisco Street

September 21, 2012 at 1:15 am

Late August coming into San Francisco early in the morning. I sometimes take first-time visitors to the city on this route. It feel like you’re dropping off the edge of a cliff. That’s my truck hood in the foreground. (This is one of the streets parallel with Union.)

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Root Simple Blog/The Urban Homestead

July 16, 2012 at 6:55 pm

I got a Google Alert about a video on our homestead and office that had been posted on https://www.rootsimple.com/. The blog is by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, authors of the very fine book (which I originally discovered on Boing Boing), The Urban Homestead, about raising food in a big city (in this case, LA). I enjoyed scrolling down the blog, seeing the eclectic mix. These guys are all over the place, like me.

   Check out the swarm of bees on the Harley, and the swimming pool in the bed of a Chevy S10 pickup truck on a hot night (in LA, of course). The vintage photo at left is titled: “A member of the Woodmen of the World with his ceremonial axe…” 

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