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Had a yarn on ABC radio today about empty homes and how they impact housing.
youtu.be/a0bDRp1d944
DECLASSIFIED The Mutoid Waste Files - 1989 - 1994
DECLASSIFIED: THE MUTOID WASTE FILES The Mutoid Waste Company 1989 - 1994 D 1989/2015 Duration: 91′ Director: Uli Happe Camera: Uli Happe Editor: Uli Happe & Bernd Böhlendorf Producer: Uli Happe Music: Mutoid Waste Company, 7 Kevins, Spiral Tribe, DNTT.
The Mutoid Waste Co. are a group of sculptors, musicians, performance and multidisciplinary artists. As the group’s name suggests, they mutate waste, which then sets as the background for their installations, performances, parties and events. With the use of all types of scrap as their raw material, from industrial to domestic and from huge derelict military machines to small everyday items, they have created a new form of art crossing boundaries of sculpture, mechanical-art, performance, theater and music. Founded in 1984 by the London artists Joe Rush and Robin Cooke, the Mutoids had a significant impact everywhere they worked and performed, from legendary London warehouse raves to the ‘Car Henge’ sculpture in Glastonbury 1987. They went on world tour in 1989 and have been mostly a mobile crew since, traveling and leaving their unmistakable mark around the world, including London, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Italy, Japan, Australia and more. Being so visually unique, the Mutoids have attracted many photographers and film makers who tried to capture the Mutoid experience on film. None was allowed a deeper entry to their world than the Berlin film maker Uli Happe, whose film shows the most intimate and most spectacular moments of these adventurous times.
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My brilliant friend Tanya Loos is about to release her new book "Living With Wildlife".
Answers brilliant questions like "how do I get the bars out of my roof?" (I have this problem) And how do I stop randy fairy wrens from attacking my windows? (This one too).
She's a wonderful communicator and this book definitely has something for everyone. Put it on your festive gift lists.
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Possums in the roof, an echidna in the garden, or perhaps a python in the pantry? Living with Wildlife: A Guide for Our Homes and Backyards explores commonly asked questions and issues about encounters with wildlife. Taking a wildlife-friendly approach, Tanya Loos provides practical information, advice and solutions, based on current guidance from wildlife rescue organisations and the latest research. Living with Wildlife features helpful advice on wildlife rescue, both for every day and during extreme weather events, as well as common issues such as feeding wildlife, pets and driving. As urbanisation and climate change effects intensify, Australian wildlife need our help now more than ever, making this a timely guide for successfully living alongside our wild neighbours.
Update: gift heartily received.
This hatchet is beautifully crafted. Recommend!
The best/worst thing about my job is that I get to read things that stretch my thinking so much they hurt my brain.
Translating economics into a language that everyone can understand can be a challenge at times. But the more I learn about the economics profession the more I realise how many of the core ideas are not only socially constructed but also, just plain made up. Like many fields of scientific research, the methodology is constructed to match the assumptions and belief systems of "how the world works" according to the researchers.
For a fascinating look into how this has played out in the science/technology world, watch "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis. Then go and read "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robyn Wall Kimmerer.
I digress.
This morning I read this latest piece by Cameron Murray and I must confess, this was definitely in the brain-hurting realm. But it is an absolutely critical read for anyone working on trying to solve the housing crisis.
I need to read it a few more times to understand it properly - this is no ECON101 piece! But the key takeaway for housing justice lovers is that any policy measure claiming to be a solution to the housing crisis that doesn't address the economics of the housing market is no solution at all. Most of these "solutions" just make things worse.
Case in point, the Labor Help To Buy scheme. Framing this as an "at least we're doing something" piece of legislation is absolute rubbish when you have political and economic consensus towards structural reform and you choose to ignore it and pursue an ineffective path designed to not scare the electoral horses.
The underlying cause of our housing crisis is the treatment of land as a speculative asset. How and why that works is always up for debate (as discussed in this article) but the underlying problem to solve is an economic one. Any policy proposal that doesn't hold that truth as a central tenet is doomed to be ineffective.
So read Cam's piece to understand how the housing market makes decisions about when to build houses. Then join those of us perpetually frustrated at the Labor Party's determined strategy of letting the private market continue to determine the construction of housing in Australia when they should just bloody get on with it and build more public housing.
Note: Cam's piece is subscriber-only on his substack but worth paying for to get this piece alone.
https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/explainer-markets-efficiently-delay
Either this one www.knifesupplies.com.au/brands/beavercraft/
Or
Maybe this one
Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ
