Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Knights of The Road
My good friend Charles from Eberhardt Press has a short little audio segment (8minutes) or so, on tramp printers. These are the stories of traveling union men and women who would travel around the country and find skilled work wherever they were. Pretty sweet. (Charles has two articles about this in SteamPunk Magazine: one in [...]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Tintype!
I ran across a traveler friend of mine who carries a view camera and darkroom in the trunk of their car. They make tintypes. So I found a handsome fellow named Parks, got all gussied up, and sat still for several seconds. I’m quite pleased with the results! See their flickr for more wonderfulness!
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Things I Like / Things I Hate
It’s time for another* edition of Things I Like / Things I Hate! Magpie likes: Outsider Anarchism! That is to say, folks who pick up on anarchism from their own context, and not just get into it through the “movement.” Not that I don’t like the movement, and by working together we’ve come up with [...]
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
Woke up this morning to a goat bleating
I just moved to Tucson, Arizona in time for monsoon season (and the two hottest months of the year!). Anyhow, the house I moved into has two goats in a pen in the yard. This morning, at 5am, one of them ate through the fence or something. I’ve decided to name him Papillon. So he [...]
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Cascadia Free State
I’ll have more of an update about this tonight or tomorrow, I’m currently on the road. But there’s a free state in Cascadia, which is one of the coolest forms of forest defense around. Here are some photos. They are of the tipped-over van (with someone locked down inside), and other structures such as a [...]
