…was the order of the day as we prepare for a weekend planting of Edible Estates #12: Budapest in Wekerletelep – so I sketched away the morning on garden diagrams and plans in preparation for an evening meeting with the family at their home, and then spent the afternoon at an organic (an unusual and ..
Archives : May-2012
…of the Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics is under way on the rooftop terrace, featuring a sliver view of Big Ben, where I have dropped by for a quick meeting on my way from Liverpool to Budapest to discuss design and details of the geodesic dome-topped platform that will be our HQ for a month starting ..
…was a quick welcome sight after hot days moving dirt and planning for tomorrow’s planting of the Foraging Spiral &..
…my project for the Liverpool Biennial, started this morning with a digger rolling over the bowl of Everton Park – first opening up a hole in the ground for a team of collaborating National Museums Liverpool archeologists searching for the remains of St. Benedict’s Church previously standing at the entry to the garden site (which ..
…is looming out my window catching the last late mid-summers night light around 9:45pm after a long trip and then long first day in town beginning work on the Liverpool Biennial project “Everton People’s Park: Phase I Experiments & Expeditio..
…is the title of the 2011 book by Andrea Wulf I am just finishing, engrossed in the stories of gardening maniacs Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Adams, and how that passion formed t..
…The Story of the Angeles National Forest‘ is the title of this charming 48-page booklet by W.W. Robinson and illustrated by Irene Robinson, published by the Title Insurance and Trust Company in 1946, which I picked up after seeing it prominently displayed at my new favorite neighborhood bookstore – Alias Books East in Atwater Village, ..
…the Italian architecture journal has a new issue that just arrived in the mail on growing food in the city featuring some pages on Edible Estates, plus a lot of gardening compatriot friends like Amale Androas and Dan wood of Work AC, James Corner of Field Operations, Heather Ring of Wayward Plants, Eric Sanderson of ..
…is the rare event that came to us here in LA late this afternoon from 5:24 until 7:42, peaking at 6:48, so up on the deck I arranged my hands in the NASA-recommended finger formation of a waffle to see the eclipse play itself out, projected in eight little solar eclipses on the blue dome ..
…was the destination for a last-minute impulsive day trip – having enviously heard stories from friends of leisurely days spent there over the years; so heading north on the 2, east on the 210 (through the endless Inland Empire), up the 15 (where the San Gabriel Mountains meet the San Bernadino Mountains at the Cajon ..
…was always one of my favorite city escapes when I first moved to LA from NYC in 1999, when everything was all California Dreaming newness to me, which it feels like all over again, while inspired to rediscover the city after being in and out, but mostly out, of town for the past few years ..
..the scenic Hollywood Hills / Santa Monica Mountains park popular with fit youngish Angelenos in the ‘industry’ is not a place I get to visit very often, but wanting to make a gradual informal tour of the wild regions of the city, it’s where I headed today for a hike up and sweaty jog down. ..
…Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (2011) and We Who Feel Differently (2012) – by artist-activist friend, and contemporary queer culture instigator, raconteur, organizer, and editor – arrived in the mail today, which I look forward to reading, and then adding to our little library at next months Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics ..
…or Romneya coulteri, or fried-egg flower, are the towering white petaled and yellow native Californians whose drama is greeting visitors to the Theodore Payne Foundation right now (the place I can’t get enough of, and where I have returned today for some native grape vines, currants, sages, and such) – which of course leads to ..
…opened tonight, featuring set installations by artist friends Alice Konitz and Katie Grinnan (presenting a bright shiny colorful dramatic ‘Junk Heap’). Crescent City is a hyperopera with music by Anne LeBaron, libretto by Douglas Kearney, and directed by Yuval Sharon. It’s the inaugural production of The Industry, a new home for new and experimental opera in ..
…has been on my mind since I first noticed some of those pods plumping up a few weeks ago, and this afternoon I have the gumption to hunt them all down one by one, then to a stump in the shade to shell, and finally to the kitchen where they go into the the big ..
…was a welcoming amber view back to the city last night, just able to glimpse my little mound of a hill out the window through the hazy amber veil as we made the familiar approach and decent across the endless sprawl segmented by the occasional freeway and trapped between the chain of mountains to the ..
…was a pretty cool thing to see as we made our way down the tarmac and spied the space shuttle casually hanging out on the back of a tricked out NASA 747 transporter – which had delivered it from DC a few days ago – and where it continues to rest as it awaits travel ..
…or F.O.O.D., was the title given to the final public event of our Princeton Student Colony, which consisted of a variety of activities throughout the afternoon, but the highlight must have been sitting in a circle on linen squares around a student-made communal chopping board, wielding knives of varying sharpness, chopping vegetables for stew while ..
…as the site for the Edible Estate Regional Prototype Garden #12: Budapest, Hungary to be planted over the weekend of June 2nd – commissioned by Blood Mountain Foundation and supported with a grant from the Graham Foundation – and check out this video by Réka Pigniczky of the search for the Budapest garden site at ..
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