iron, bronze, driftwood, beach-combing, Freight Baggage, nuance, sandwich cross-sections, Triple Base Gallery, pedal power, sailboats, The Center for Urban Pedagogy, re-purposing, the Crucible, urban gardening, strange color combinations, public transit, Bob's Donuts, the Pacific Ocean, Gravel & Gold, Rural Studio, Yestermorrow design/build school, 826 Valencia, pencil shavings, 'Design Like You Give a Damn', Dave Sellers Architects, Swift Industries, The School for Designing a Society, family histories, Sutros, Mission Yacht Club, The New Yorker, Wowhaus, Four Barrel Coffee, libraries, Pendleton, figured wood, Vermont, Rodney Greenblat and the Center for Advanced Whimsy, The Marx Brothers, Jane Jacobs. . .