the marinated fish is ready to add to the boiling broth Bouillabaisse is a fish stew whose origins date to the ancient sea routes of the Mediterranean. Though strongly associated with coastal Provence, the stew has roots in Greece and Italy, where for centuries fish has been cooked in rapidly boiling broth combining strong wine, […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Oakland Estuary Project
Lake Merritt, downtown Oakland Ene and I are honored to be among the finalists under consideration to design a system of watershed markers for the City of Oakland, CA. We spent the morning meeting with stakeholders at the head of Lake Merritt, where several creeks converge and drain into the natural lake/estuary. The group studied […]
Wowhaus Haps
Things are heating up at wowhaus as our studio compound shapes up and we take on more projects: MIX, our bicycle-powered composter (see above video) is part of the show Terroir: A Sense of Place curated by Patricia Watts, opening at Art at the Cheese Factory, March 20th- June 21st in Petaluma, CA. Hope to […]
Sap Moon
The March full moon is sometimes called the sap moon, in reference to sap beginning to flow through trees again. It’s also called the worm moon, to acknowledge the sudden presence of worm casings on the ground.
Windsor Longboard Lives
My first Windsor Longboard experimental deck is a head-turner. My friends at Quinn Brothers Board Shop in Sebastopol, CA took to the ‘uber old school’ spirit and helped me rock the deck with super wide trucks and generic wheels; note the ‘rasta’ bolt heads, the board’s only fanfare. After some road testing I plan to […]
The Week in Bloom
carved cupboard in the kitchen at Fort Ross Our friend Allison Smith came up for the weekend and we journeyed up the coast to see Fort Ross as research for a potential site-specific commission on our land this summer. Allison is one of my favorite artists; we met when she helped with the construction of […]
Interview with Anthony Bevilacqua
I’m continuing to feature an ongoing series of interviews and studio visits with other makers/artisans/crafters. If you would like to introduce yourself and your work to a growing Deep Craft network, I invite you to visit the PARTICIPATE page of this site. Meanwhile, allow me to introduce you to Anthony Bevilacqua, painter/gilder.