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THE USE OF THINGS
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useofthings · 8 years ago
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WATCH: Fordlandia - a compound built in the Brazilian jungle by Henry Ford in the early 1900′s. 
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useofthings · 8 years ago
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WATCH: DJ Spooky creates soundscapes to forest
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useofthings · 8 years ago
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WATCH: sound artist Brenda Hutchinson talks about using a metal tube to capture and manipulate her voice
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useofthings · 8 years ago
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WATCH: making calcium carbonate into slack lime for use in cement
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useofthings · 8 years ago
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WATCH : The George Washington Carver Biography
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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COOL: Nettles for soup, beer, fiber, ointment...
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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READ: Cleaning and Dyeing World, a newsletter from the early 1900′s about the dry cleaning business.
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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COLOR! rare pigments preserved at Harvard’s pigment library
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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WATCH: Henry Ford’s hemp powered and hemp built car from 1941
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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WATCH: Hemp for Victory Campaign during World War II
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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UOT COOL: Plants in NYC used to create pigments and mapped!
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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UOTFIBER: Harris Tweed- Only cloth protected by an Act of Parliament in Scotland.
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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UOTCOOL: Hand made “picker” for preparing wool to be carded and spun.
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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COOL: agropunk move to in food
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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WATCH: Justin Boyd sound collecting
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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WATCH: Alva Noe: Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature (book)
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useofthings · 9 years ago
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MATERIALS: how polyester is made
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