Kodak moments
I’m not a huge fan of scrapbooking, so it seems a bit ironic that people are constantly asking me to come up with ways to make digital images look like photos in an album…
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Blogger: Kevin Kelley
Bio: Kevin is a DIY junkie who lives and works in Silicon Valley. He likes to design, cook, and garden in his spare time, and he aspires to be reincarnated as his own dog.
Email: kevin@mothersruin.com
Shopdrop ’til you drop
“Shopdropping” is the opposite of shoplifting, wherein people “covertly place merchandise on display in a store.”
The People Project takes the idea one step further…
Organic weed killer?
I love sitting out on my patio. What I don’t like is staring at the weeds poking up between the stones. Last month, I spent a weekend weeding and two weeks later it looks as if I had never pulled a single one. I’ve thought about using a chemical herbicide—heck, I even fantasized about agent
Up to scratch
Oh, to be a kid again. I ran across one of my favorite art projects from grade school while cleaning out my parent’s basement this weekend—the one where you scribble in crayon, paint over it in black tempera paint, and then scratch out
Back [issues] to the future
My big stack of ReadyMade back issues fell over during a trembler we had over the weekend, and the event shook a some sense into me: I realized my slovenly ways must come to an end. If you too have a stack of magazines that you intend to will to your children because they are so special [Editor’s note: Awww, Kevin, you’re too sweet!], here’s a cheap and easy way to organize them.
All tied up
I like tall plants (and I cannot lie). Show me a six foot sunflower, and I’ll yawn. Show me a ten foot sunflower, and suddenly you’ll have my attention—”the bigger the better,” I say. Caring for
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