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I came upon this colour palette yesterday and had an instantaneous response to it. The pink flowers are magnolia and the red and chartreuse bush on the right is ‘Goldflame’ spirea (Spiraea x bumalda). Of course it could just be the designer in me that is responding to the grid formation but I [...]

They say that lightly brushing your hands against tomato leaves stimulates a growth hormone in the plant encouraging radial (aka stockier) growth. I’m still searching for a study that supports this but I chose to believe it regardless, which is why I spend some time each morning lightly touching my young tomato seedlings. [...]

For years I’ve been trying to convince Davin that a big button press would revolutionize our world. Small buttons are fun and have their purpose, but big buttons offer up a whole new world of possibilities. Big buttons remind me of special button-making fundraising days at my grade school. Throughout the course of the [...]

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I should be writing.... so I procrastinated and made a pot holder. Then I took a picture and put that picture on the internet. Then I wrote about it.

Spotted over at Shane’s site, Christian Patterson has posted a video teaser for his forthcoming book Sound Affects. christianpatterson.com

I bought another box of pansies yesterday. This new batch falls primarily within a blacks, dark purples and reds colour palette. Some are frilly. In case you are interested they are as follows: ‘Panola Fire,’ ‘Imperial Antique Shades,’ ‘Frizzle Sizzle Mix’ (for shizzle!), and ‘Accord Black Beauty.’ To catch you up, that makes [...]

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Shane Lavalette and Karly Wildenhaus have announced the photographers to be featured in Vol. 1 of their contemporary photography project, Remain in Light. The photographers chosen are varied and unique and should make for an incredible portfolio of images. Andreas Weinand Anne Lass Coley Brown Debora Mittelstaedt Ed Panar Estelle Hanania Gustav Almestål Hiroyo Kaneko Kamden Vencill Mark McKnight Michel Campeau Nicolai Howalt & Trine Søndergaard Nicola Kast Nicholas [...]

This has been posted fairly widely at this point, but just in case… Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips have come together to act as curators of a new site which will present the work of female photographers on a monthly basis. “There are more women working in the contemporary photo world then ever before. Their methods, [...]

Pause, to Begin has selected the 15 photographers that will become the focus of the project’s first year. Colin Blakely; Ann Arbor, Michigan Timothy Briner; Boonville, California Alejandro Cartagena; Monterrey, Mexico Hin Chua; London, England Tealia Ellis-Ritter; Barrington, Illinois Matt Eich; Athens, Ohio Matthew Gamber; Savannah, Georgia Shawn Gust; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Shannon Johnstone; Cary, North Carolina Erika Larsen; Hoboken, New Jersey John Mann; Tallahassee, Florida Thomas [...]

“Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process.” “Click! … begins with an open call—artists are asked to electronically submit a work of photography that responds to the exhibition’s theme, Changing Faces of Brooklyn, along with an artist statement.” Brooklyn Museum has [...]

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Coming up at my community garden plot today. My first visit of the spring!

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at University of San Francisco

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at University of San Francisco

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at University of San Francisco

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Delicious!