» The Mysterious Tire Swing
16/05/12 15:41 from Something Fun Every Day
A few weeks ago a bunch of the neighborhood kids started working on a fort built around a dead tree that had fallen on a strange triangle of land that was incredibly overgrown and wild; it was always unclear who owned this sliver of land a..

» The Launch of the River Hunter
15/05/12 23:03 from sweet juniper inspiration
Ship launch from Cockatoo Island Dockyard - The "River Hunter" A class standard steamship released along a slipway into Sydney Harbour, 1945, Photograph by Alan Evans. I was cleaning up my desktop this morning and saw this picture there; i..

» Adventures in (Wooden) Swordmaking
15/05/12 18:44 from Sweet Juniper WoodCraft
This is Jim again. I know last time I said if my wife ("Wood") didn't post here I was changing the name of this part of the blog from Woodcraft to Jimcraft, but (not only does that sound incredibly stupid) this week I'm writing about actua..

» Rural Decay
03/05/12 18:06 from sweet juniper photos
During the months I spent taking pictures for the recent post about the Fauxtopias of the Detroit Suburbs, I spent a lot of time driving around those liminal spaces between Detroit's exurban communities and the Michigan countryside, and on..

» William Klein's "Baseball Cards," New York (1955)
03/05/12 17:15 from Friday Morning Street Urchins
Those are 1955 Bowman baseball cards in their hands. I believe with all my heart that the 1955 Bowman was the greatest baseball card design ever. Each player's photo appeared as though it was on a classic wood-grained television set. In ha..

» Spend a Day Storming the Incredible 170-year-old Fortress You Didn't Even Know Was in Your Hometown
02/05/12 18:24 from Something Fun Every Day
 When you visit Historic Fort Wayne, don't forget your shotgun or your coonskin cap.  He wandered along the ramparts, tumbled down the earthworks, and generally had a blast. But then we went in one of the tunnels, and he saw the windows an..

» Historic Fort Wayne, Detroit
02/05/12 16:08 from sweet juniper inspiration
We had the pleasure of spending some time at Detroit's historic Fort Wayne during a recent volunteer "cleanup day," and we were blown away by what we saw there. I hadn't visited the fort in a few years, and I was extremely impressed with th..

» The Fauxtopias of Detroit's Suburbs
26/04/12 17:21 from sweet juniper!
Detroit rose to its greatest height (and fell as far as it did) in part because Henry Ford didn't want to work too hard. As a child, he hated farm tasks that required physical labor; a neighbor once recalled young Henry as “the laziest litt..

» The World's Greatest Septic Tank Truck
19/04/12 14:22 from sweet juniper inspiration
With all the Helvetica-drenched / minimalist vintage graphic design out there right now, sometimes you find yourself driving behind a giant shit tank thinking, "Gosh darn it, that's the most effective logo I've seen in years." I really lov..

» One Dad, Two Kids, and 33,591 Screaming Tiger Fans
18/04/12 14:34 from Something Fun Every Day
The other day I walked over to the baseball stadium to catch a game. Two little Tigers followed me.   These were very fierce little tigers:  We had good seats.  The drunks behind us could yell at the left fielder and the guy in center fiel..