In a recent article I wrote for Craftsmanship Quarterly, “Real Film Strikes Back”, I tell the story of analog film’s…
As U.S. student loan debt balloons to nearly $1.6 trillion nationally, calls for low-cost or free college tuition programs are…
Sometime in the 1930s, a Mexico City artisan named Pedro Linares lay on his bed delirious and racked with fever….
Earlier this month, some 400 devotees of the arts and crafts spent three days in Philadelphia exploring the meaning of…
For generations, the Isbell family of Arkansas has been tinkering with innovations in rice farming. They were the first American farmers to grow elite varieties for sushi and sake, and have also pioneered rice cultivation methods that can conserve water and slow climate change.
Since the 16th century, Cremona’s luthiers—including Stradivari himself—have been using an unusually resonant wood from Paneveggio, known as Italy’s “violin forest,” to handcraft the world’s finest string instruments. Then a 2018 storm decimated the forest. A band of experts in Cremona is now rallying to save this iconic tradition. A documentary short.
Against all odds, and despite the efforts of Hollywood and Silicon Valley to make movies in digital form, old-fashioned, analog, motion-picture film is suddenly making a comeback. What is it about the mystery and magic of celluloid that modern production methods, with all their high-tech tricks, can’t seem to match?
Since the 16th century, Cremona’s luthiers—including Stradivari himself—have been using a particularly resonant wood from Paneveggio, known as Italy’s “violin…
Mark Sturges doesn’t advertise—clients have to find him by word of mouth, but find him they do. He’s become a master of an agricultural art as old as agriculture itself: basic compost.
As our environmental challenges mount — from devastating wildfires to hurricanes and floods — one solution, largely ignored thus far, may lie in using an unlikely-sounding material for home-building: straw. Has the lowly straw bale house’s time finally come?
