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We had ingredients leftover from making vegan gimbap for Jade's restaurant last week. So my mom decided to make improvised gimbap using the bounty growing in my tiny share of the garden: perilla leaves, chives, and cinnamon basil she accidentally pulled up thinking it was a weed. Here's what went in:
Pickled daikon
Lightly sauteed carrots seasoned with a little soy sauce and sesame oil
Some had cinnamon basil and chives, others had perilla
Egg
The cinnamon basil is pictured. I had picked it up thinking it was holy basil (Thai variety) but the guy at the farmers market told me it was cinnamon basil. It really does have the subtle smell and flavor of cinnamon.
An old tractor seat put to good use in the garden of Mullaghmore House, Omagh, Co Tyrone.
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Breaking Tradition and The Demon Barbers performing excerpts from "The Lock In" on one of the Virgin Money free stages on the Royal Mile - a very strange combination of folk dance and hip-hop / street.
19 April 2015. Sperling Road, Tottenham. Someone's fence is broken. A few other people seem to think it's okay to use the hole to leave litter. To "tidily" tuck cans and card into it.
As though it was a bin or waste basket. And do they also think somebody - the rubbish elves? - will come round and clean it?
My photoset Containers / Improvised bins gives more examples. Including : a can wedged into a wrought iron fence; stuff slotted behind street phone cabinets; inside hedges; and tossed into wire sapling guards put round new street trees.
Liz Ixer noticed and commented on the street phone cabinet problem.
An optimistic part of me hopes that shows some (misdirected) impulse to tidiness. Which perhaps can be "nudged" in a positive direction.
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§ Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein.
§ Link to Liz Ixer's pen portraits of nine types of litterer.
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An old photo, taken next to the small green on the east side of High Road Tottenham.
The bench here was often used by street drinkers. In the absence of a litter bin, the street cleaner used his/her intelligence and hooked a green bag over the railing spikes to collect empty bottles and cans.
This gentle "nudge" seemed to work.
Where: On Nassau Street in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
When: Mid-May 2011.
What: An old man sitting in front of the buiding of Bank of America.
Two cd's glued together with some velcro'ed textile band.
I came up with a very improvised but also a very quick and easy Quadra headcover.
Made with stuff most people will have laying around.
I glued two CD's together with two strips of fabric in between. The fabric has Velcro on one side
( I actually used the fasteners that came with the PLM's)
I already had velcro on the Quadra reflector, I use that to attach gels.