Onsdag billede/Wednesday Picture
By Bonnie On 21 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Dirt, Growing, Homesteading, MISC, Wednesday picture
Walking past a small print shop in Vesterbro, we saw this window used as a greenhouse to grow tomatoes. The plants were wild, pressed against the glass and stretching out in all directions. There may have been more plants than just tomatoes but it was hard discern what was what among […]
Mountains and more mountains
By Bonnie On 20 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Environmental activism, Vermont correspondence
Two drawings of mountains from our friend Micah Bornstein.
Micah and I have an ongoing letter correspondence about place. We discuss what it means to find one landscape in another? For example, seeing a mountain in a child’s toy, a pile of laundry, or a […]
We have often written and talked about our interest in the Living Structures of radical architect, Ken Isaacs. His Matrix system has inspired many aspects of our own home life. The system’s clean design and ease of reconfiguration is of both aesthetic and philosophical interest to us.
Continue Reading →
Our daughter needed a kid sized bookshelf. So we made one that was just her height. We needed a bookshelf for our books, too. The simple design, a single board, on each shelf required bookends to hold the books in place. Brett found some pieces of wood on a […]
Images of Farming
By Bonnie On 9 November, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture, Arts and culture, Book reviews, Books, Design
We write often about artists and art groups that work with putting ‘culture’ back in agriculture. Here is a new favorite: myvillages, a group of three women based in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Founding member Wapke Feenstra, recently sent the MQ the group’s new book, Images of […]
Vermont Looks Like Vermont Series of Posts.
User Design : Examples of public interventions by anonymous parties. These moments of visual disruption appeal to me.
P(H), an altered parking kiosk.
Green Mountain Mural. Seemingly unintentional painting.
A dumpster weather vane.
[…]
Astrid Noacks Atelier, at Rådmandsgade 34, was the studio of celebrated Danish sculptress, Astrid Noack from 1936-1950. Astrid loved the Ydre Nørrebro neighborhood we now call home. She was inspired by the wealth of activity–tradesmen, shopkeepers, children, families–in and around her little studio. The tiny room, kept warm with […]
Halloween struck in the Mythological Quarter last night.
We started off with a pumpkin carving workshop at YNKB , a long time art space in the MQ run by a large network of artists. It is an open cultural space that hosts sporadic art shows, talks, screenings, and events.
[…]
Mythological Quarter neighbors and friends, Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung, have opened a new exhibition space in the neighborhood. The pair have long collaborated under the name itinerant_sends_for_itinerant, and they chose this name for their new space at Borups Allé 31. The name refers to a person who […]
We snapped this picture at a local bar in our neighborhood on one of our daily walks. The sign says “Ja til øller, Nej til bøller,” which translates as “Yes to beer, No to bullies.” These signs came up after a local controversy about gangs […]
Alphabet of the Anthropocene – Powerless Powerpoint
Radio Aktiv Sonic Deep Map (2013)
SUPERKILEN – Extreme Neoliberalism Copenhagen Style
Read Brett's essay about the park.
Download our guide:
This is our guide to how-to books from the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. Click to get the download page.
Categories
- Agriculture (11)
- Animal sounds (1)
- Artist parents (19)
- Arts and culture (106)
- Bees (3)
- Book reviews (14)
- Books (18)
- Critical essays (5)
- Daily Photo (5)
- Design (36)
- Dirt (11)
- Environmental activism (43)
- Exhibitions (24)
- Farms (11)
- Forest (7)
- Friday connect (15)
- Growing (42)
- Habitat (38)
- Homesteading (16)
- Interviews (15)
- Kitchen (14)
- Living structure (9)
- MISC (15)
- Mythological (2)
- Neighborhood (83)
- Ocean News (1)
- Our Art Work (21)
- Personal – Design/Art (3)
- Play (2)
- Playground (4)
- Projects (21)
- Public space (53)
- Resilience (13)
- Sea Side (2)
- Sojabønner (2)
- Tofu (8)
- Vermont correspondence (7)
- Water (3)
- Wednesday picture (31)
- Workshop (1)
Video interview:
Watch our interview of SeedBroadcast, a mobile project that is part seed library and part seed-saving-story-collecting machine-recording the stories of seed saving, farming, and food sovereignty work being done around the US.
BOOK: Deep Routes
Bonnie co-edited this collection of essays that reflect on who gets to define a region and what the struggles are in relation to being in a place and demanding social justice across many issues and terrains.
Download a poster Bonnie made about biodiversity in a vacant lot in the Amager borough of Copenhagen, in collaboration with biologist, Inger Kærgaard, ornithologist, Jørn Lennart Larsen and botanist, Camilla Sønderberg Brok: A BRIEF TAXONOMY OF A LOT
We made and installed a network of bat houses in Urbana, Illinois, to support the local and regional bat population, but also to begin a conversation about re-making the built environment.
READ MORE
BOOK REVIEW:
We write often about artists and art groups that work with putting ‘culture’ back in agriculture. Here is a new favorite: myvillages, a group of three women based in Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. Read more...
Post Revolutionary Exercises
We really admire the dedicated hard work of Kultivator who seeks to fuse agriculture and art in their work. Click this sentence to get a PDF of their poster collection called "Post Revolutionary Exercises."
Culture Breakers
One of many books we collected that deeply inspire us. Get the PDF of the book.
Cultural Practices Within And Across
This amazing book networks urban and rural resilience and sustainability projects around the world. Deeply inspiring projects in Romania, Paris, San Francisco, and elsewhere.
• Read our review of the book.
• Buy the book.
• Download the book.
