Once again, the Olympia Free Herbal Clinic is doing a series of workshops this quarter at the Organic Farmhouse of the Evergreen State College. All free and open to the public. Tomorrow night’s workshop is The Basics of Herbcraft, presented by yours truly. We’ll talk about core principles of medicine making, with a special eye [...]
It’s a cold, rainy Wednesday night here in the Pacific Northwest. When the rain returns, the whole mood of this terrain shifts. You feel the pull downward, the crystalizing and cleansing qualities of water rinsing everything. It’s a good time to take stock, and reevaluate. I’ve also been dealing with health challenges that have been begging [...]
There’s quite a bit that goes into creating and maintaing a blog. It’s a complex medium that requires some semblance of consistency and regular input. If you start to change your thinking around it, it shows. Earlier this year, I lost my stride a bit. I felt that the content had little cohesion and I didn’t really [...]
Events like these are one of the few things that make me wish I lived in New York. Really. Morbid Anatomy and Observatory, in conjunction with the Coney Island Museum, are presenting The Congress for Curious People from April 9-18. If you are around, you simply must go! Here’s the description from the Coney Island [...]
Up until April 23 is a show called Ouroborus: The History of the Universe by Sweatshoppe and Ali Hossaini. Here’s a part of the description: Ouroboros tells the history of cosmic evolution by animating more than 30,000 found images in custom software that generates a holographic 3D environment.Visitors will be handed 3D glasses that reveal mesmerizing arrays of [...]
For all the readers on the East Coast: Entomologia, a group show of insect art, opens today! At no where else but the lovely Observatory, and curated by Michelle Enemark of Curious Expeditions. It runs until April 4th. (Read below for more details.) If you’re in the area, you should do see it! I would. [...]
I really like Atlas Obscura. It’s a collective project aimed at collecting all the strange and bizarre places that get left out of travel guidebooks. I’ve doubtless spent a lot of time on their website browsing the fascinating entries, such as Dehart’s Bible and Tire in Kentucky or the Rosicrucian Pyramids of Bucks County in [...]
Extra City is a collective founded in 2004 in Antwerp. Their newest project is Animism, now up and running until May 2010. Here’s the decription: The project approaches the concept of animism – coined by 19th century anthropologists in the context of the colonial encounter – from a contemporary perspective. It addresses the current increase in [...]