INNU MAKES.

Beadwork, museum photography (baby blue!) and natural to man made objects—a collection of my favorite things! Innu and their ancestors have resided on a large portion of Labrador and eastern Quebec for over two thousand years. According to Innus the world is an island created by wolverine and mink after a great flood. via Tipatshimuna

S. AFRICA.

Rural life in South Africa, 1946-1947. Photographs by Constance Stuart Larrabee. I’m reading Martha Quest by Doris Lessing which takes place on South African farmlands on the cusp of WWII. Maybe it looked something like this? via Smithsonian Photography Initiative

HENSON TIME.

Jim Henson – Time Piece (1964). A must see! via Rhizome

WEIRD BOTANY.

Weird wild plants! I’d like to learn more about indoor gardening. And make some plant collage installations. via Botanical Society of America (Thanks for the tip aapc!)

NATIONAL PARKS.

The National Parks of the western United States are some of my favorite spaces to roam. Through my internet travels I discovered the National Parks Service has a massive digital image archive. Aside from sharing thousands of images the photographs are high res and often wonderfully discolored! From the top: Death Valley, Canyonlands, Devil’s Tower, [...]

POSSUM POWER.

This may be the most inspiring documentary I’ve ever seen! Dolly Freed wrote Possum Living : How To Live Well Without A Job And With (Almost) No Money at the age of 18 with only a 7th grade education. In 1978 it was published and became an instant classic for those interested in frugal living [...]

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