by Rachel Hulin
Mother Photographs Her Flying Baby
“I never throw him, and I never move him into a place in the frame that he wasn’t in to begin with,” Hulin said. “I like Henry to fly the way he feels like it, I never pose him in a specific way. Sometimes he’s graceful and sometimes he’s a little hunchback. I think telling you more would ruin it.”
More creative new uses for old books:
Make table runners from the pages of unwanted books, e.g., books damaged beyond repair.
(via BHG)
Phone booths re-purposed as micro-libraries in New York City. (via Designboom)
I love urban interventions, especially when books are involved. (Check out this newspaper stand converted into a community lending library, if you haven’t already seen it.)
Anyway, this NYC phone-booth-turned-book-swap is a great addition to the group of repurposed phone booths featured previously on Unconsumption (here), which includes other micro-libraries in various cities.
Are there other repurposed phone booths that we — your friendly Unconsumption hosts — haven’t yet come across?
Over the past year, I’ve found Pinterest to be quite useful for two primary reasons:
- Discovery of recipes (see my “food finds” Pinterest board here).
- Discovery of items made from repurposed materials (see my “creative reuse – Unconsumption ideas” Pinterest board here). For several months, my personal Pinterest activity pretty much centered on finding examples of repurposing to share on the Unconsumption Tumblr. (As many of you know, Unconsumption is an inspiring, mindful consumer behavior-oriented project with which I’m involved). Later, in April, after continuing to come across so many reuse-related finds on Pinterest, I launched a separate Pinterest page for Unconsumption (to which I pin many more interesting pins than those I share on my personal Pinterest page!). Needless to say, Pinterest is a great vehicle for expanding the Unconsumption brand. I mean, look at the volume of items – pinned by other Pinterest users – from the Unconsumption blog!
Anyway, it’s thanks to Melody Kramer’s food-focused Pinterest board that I discovered, this morning, the recipe for this incredibly tasty, highly aromatic turmeric chicken dish, and made it tonight for dinner.
I followed Beth’s (of the Budget Bytes blog) recipe, except I used only half a can of coconut milk; used ground red pepper instead of crushed (which I didn’t have); and I didn’t make rice; I simply ate the chicken in the sauce. (A note about the “no rice” thing: I’m trying to reduce my consumption of grains, including rice; see Wheat Belly blog and William Davis’s book by the same name.)
If you love Indian food, and easy-to-make, one-dish cooking, I highly, highly recommend you make this dish.
For the recipe, which includes onion, ginger, garlic, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, red pepper, a bay leaf, chicken, and cans of diced tomatoes and coconut milk (cilantro optional), see Budget Bytes.
For variety, I think you could add cauliflower, red bell pepper, chick peas, and/or cashew or almond pieces to the dish. And vegetarians could leave out the chicken altogether.
What else could be added? Probably many other things I haven’t thought of!
If you make a turmeric dish, let me know what you put in it.
Time declares Unconsumption one of "30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs"
(Readers’ Pick) When environmental advocates go on about sustainable living, the concept can seem murky at best. The Unconsumption project seeks to provide inspiration for everyday people to creatively reuse items and reduce waste. The Tumblr account provides creative ideas like using wine bottles as candle holders and turning board games into jewelry boxes.
Somehow it’s extra cool that we’re a “readers’ pick,” no?
The entry is here.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY — TO US!
Earlier this week (on January 16, to be precise) this Tumblr marked its third anniversary. Pretty exciting in and of itself, but super-exciting because things have picked up so sharply around here of late, particularly in the past year or so.
Three years ago we were a small band of volunteers sharing links that promoted mindful consumer behavior and creative reuse. Actually we’re still a (slightly different) small band of volunteers doing the same thing. BUT, we’ve also introduced our reuse/remix-friendly logo by Clifton Burt, we’ve launched our ongoing Uncollection project, we’re in the news, and we’re adding, conservatively, a thousand followers a month.
That’s thanks mostly to YOU, the Unconsumption reader! So THANKS again for the likes, the reblogs, the tips, the encouragement. Makes us think perhaps we’re onto something here…
And of course Unconsumption isn’t just a Tumblr thing anymore. Find us on Facebook, on Twitter, on Pinterest, even on Instagram (where we’re @unconsumption). Oh, and of course the blog also has an RSS feed you can subscribe to here.
So thanks again to all, and let’s keep in touch, eh?