Mid-day Shift

@middayshift

I'm into matter: itself, its categories. Accumulations of it. Its edges. Its look, feel, utility, and contributions to our perceptions of beauty. I'm into using what there is to make what we need and what we want, on many scales: molecularly, and as individuals, households, worlds. I want us to pay attention to trash differently. Here find materials, furniture, habitable spaces, art, general ordered gristle, and edge treatments. miriamraedevlin.com

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any translation from water to wood will lose fidelity.

Turning Kombucha SCOBY into leather

“@rgay This is an infamous problem. A good inspector is like a lotto ticket and even if you find one, the incentives all favor sellers/build

“Recently I learned that in order for Detroit to embark on the mass-scale demolition of abandoned buildings, they subsidized building of suburban homes because they needed the soil from digging new basements to fill the holes left by demo’d buildings. Rent free in my head y’all”

“A hornet's nest fused to a wooden mask.”

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“The side entrance to my lab building has been bricked up for decades. The grounds keepers recently converted it to a stunning insect hotel.

The groundskeeper!

The Russian dandelion helped supply the Allied forces with rubber through the Second World War. Now, tire makers are hoping it could make a commercial comeback.

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I remember when talking Historically about medicine I’d be like ‘haha miasmas, haha bad air’ and now every time I get inside a building I’m like WHERE IS THE WINDOW AND IS IT OPEN? Every time I go in an elevator I’m like BAD AIR IN HERE?

Empathy for the miasma theory folks of old.