There was a recent post on Slashdot that directed my attention to The Steampunk Workshop. The Steampunk Workshop is a fantastic website created by Jake von Slatt that features a growing number of creative projects to give modern (and perhaps discarded) things a more useful life with a distinctively retro flair.

Now, I’m not criticizing […]

It’s been awhile since my last update, I’ve been pretty busy lately.  But here’s a small one!
Apple featured it’s first iPhone commercial during the Academy Awards last night.  It features a variety of retro phones used in television and film starting right away with my personal favorite, the Western Electric 302.
Don’t tell Apple, but I’d […]

There are two parallel housing movements that I have been thinking about recently. The first is “Tiny Houses” and the other is “Low-Impact” homes. Both have admirable merits and a friend of mine mentioned that it reminded him of the “prairie homesteaders” that passed through here in the early days of the U.S. […]

Green TV Guide (aka Watersana) released a video of John Ward discussing thoughts on ecological degradation and past Utopian ideals back on November 30th, 2006.
I came across this video by chance because it mentions “Henry Dreyfuss” but found the whole thing very interesting. The video is titled “‘Are Your Dogs Warm?” and aside […]