tattfoo: social sculpture artist

5pm had been with us for 2 weeks and I’m scrambling to set up the coop before winter comes. Recycling stretcher frame and old artwork into 5pm’s new two levels apartment in the garden. All I need to do is to put on the net and figure out how to insulate them in the winter. I have to keep an eye out for those pink insulation foam.

NYT had an article about a school to teach lumbar jack and outdoor skill at the Adirondack Woodsmen’s School.
A Summer School That Might Have Pleased Paul Bunyan

Ray Mears is my new hero, practicing knowledge that is on the verge of lost forever. I had been following his series on BBC through YouTube.

The canoe was handmade with just a few hand tools, with natural material from the forest itself. No need to run to Home Depot, all the material is right there in nature. All it took was just nine days to complete. Simply Amazing.

A must read book. Written in 1905, and within this short period of 100 years, our education system had totally change. Emphasis on different kind of achievement, producing cookie cutter students that fit for an economy that will hold you bound to debt and climbing career and social ladder that will only ruin one life and fall into depression. Let’s bring back the earnest work of using your hand and not just typing into the latest search engine. Let’s bring the children back into nature. Exposed them to the cycle of life. Let them run, fall, bruised and in turn lifting their spirit are set it free.

The author form a school: Children’s School Farm, Dewitt Clinton Park, 54thStreet and 12th Avenue, New York City, 1909.

Google Book: free PDF download on the top right side of the web page.

Video of Richard Louv on Last Child in the Woods

A five-minute walk in the woods with Richard Louv as he discusses nature-deficit disorder and the themes of his book Last Child in the Woods.

Video courtesy of Austin Now, a production of KLRU-TV, Austin.

Everyone is aspire to live in a greener pasture, but not everyone can. By supporting your local farmer, you can have a taste of the land that you live in and shared with the community. I like how the film maker contrasting two opposite character and particular the story of Minerva Allen. It is sad to see that native people lose the land, their culture, knowledge, wealth and now their health too. The modern society totally ignore the land that we depends upon. We should relearn and reintroduced back into the earth.

A yatch made from plastic water bottle. AMAZING.  via Dazeen.

After reading the book, The New Good Life, where the writer mentions that he was enjoying kale in the winter, plug from the snow, I had to try it and see if it works or not. So below is my new winter crops.