Little children with big dreams - this video will make you smile. What was your dream as a child?
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Michigan seems like a dream to me now…
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Spend less on gear, more on beer. Nancy Ford. Minneapolis, MN.
Nancy Ford a.k.a Repair Lair services the Chicago, St. Paul & Minneapolis area with outdoor gear & clothing repair. She came down to jump on the Worn Wear Wagon and help with repairs during our time in Chicago. With the motto of “Spend less on gear, more on beer” Nancy’s no rookie to the duty and culture of repair. She’s incredibly talented and enthusiastic about mending gear and getting it back into the field.
The idea of repair is nothing new. So when the Worn Wear tour rolls in, it is our job to simply reacquaint and help people with their duty of repairing their gear. We’re only in town for one day, so if we can connect the community with their local repair service, Nancy in this case, then we’re doing our part in sustaining the conversation of changing our relationship with our stuff. If it’s it broke, fix it. Thanks Nancy!
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
A terminal patient enjoys Rembrandt paintings at the Rijskmuseum, Amsterdam, one final time. Photo credit: unknown.
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Jack London’s Desk and Study
Invent
The most creative people in the world invent their way out of problems.
Seth Godin doesn’t believe people like to read in the same ways they used to, so he built new kinds of books: a one-page book, a magazine book and a comically humungous book.
Eddie Van Halen was frustrated that the sound in his head wasn’t available in any guitar gear he could find or afford, so he invented a guitar, hotwired an amp and created a legend. He continues to patent new guitar inventions to this day.
Every Jedi eventually has to craft his or her own lightsaber.
It frustrated me for a long time that this mentality didn’t seem to exist in photography. But I was being short-sighted.
That’s exactly the case behind GoPro, the resurgence of handcrafted pinhole cameras and the projects going on at Photojojo.
New cameras and processes are being invented all the time. There’s nothing stopping any of us from building hardware to solve creative problems. The important thing is whether you have a problem worth inventing over.
Sunday morning family hike on Roosevelt island. #manhood #hiking
Freedom from Notifications - Sanspoint. - Essays on Technology and Culture by Richard J. Anderson →
Look at the apps that you have given explicit permission to bother you. Do it now. How many pages is it? I have twelve apps that are allowed to interrupt what I’m doing, though when I started this, I had closer to twenty. Look at each of them and decide if each app is allowed to pull you away from whatever you’re doing, be it playing Threes! or doing your day job. Think about how often they interrupt you, and what they interrupt you forMake “no” your default when something or someone asks if you would like to receive notifications.
Fine Woodworking: Romancing The Shop
French Pyrenees.
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Treadmill
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
“Let your children grow up to be farmers.
Let them know what it is like to be free from fluorescent lights and laser pointer meetings. Let them challenge themselves to be forever resourceful and endlessly clever. Let them whistle and sing loud as they like without getting called into an office for “disturbing the workforce.” Let them commute down a winding path with birdsong instead of a freeway’s constant growl. Let them be bold. Let them be romantic. Let them grow up not having to ask another adult for permission to go to the dentist at 2 p.m. on a Thursday. Let them get dirty. Let them kill animals. Let them cry at the beauty of fallow earth they just signed the deed for. Let them bring animals into this world, and realize they don’t care about placenta on their shirt because they no longer care about shirts. Let them wake up during a snowstorm and fight drifts at the barn door instead of traffic. Let them learn what real work is. Let them find happiness in the understanding that success and wealth are not the same thing. Let them skip the fancy wedding. Let them forget four years of unused college. Let them go. Let them go home.
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Summing Up My Summer
“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
― Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
Fishing Village, Hoa Lu
