Hippie van parked at the beach, Queens
See also: My dad and my mom, possibly pregnant with me, standing next to the VW bus I was conceived in, Calgary, Alberta Canada, 1971

A great way to build a tiny house is with friends – kind of like a mini-house raising. Ryo Chijiiwa did just that a couple of weekends ago at his property in a remote part of northern California. Ryo had already built a little hut but wanted somethin…

This boxy and modern wooden observation tower by Ateliereen Architecten recently opened to the public in the Netherlands. Read more at Inhabitat

Email is great, except when there’s too much of it. Gmail is rolling out a new feature today, calledPriority Inbox. It automatically identifies your important email and separates it out from everything else, so you can focus on what really matters.
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I’m not the only person to have received a pre-production version of the Blackwing pencil made by California Cedar. So did several other Faber Eberhard Blackwing 602 enthusiasts, and many of them have already commented about…

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This summer has been full of travel, with everything we needed tucked neatly into a carry on sized suitcase. It’s been a great reminder that when you’re surrounded by people you love and beautiful places, you don’t need that much stuff. Now that we’r…

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