The Tiny Mess is a cookbook about people, places, small kitchens, and the delicious meals that come out of them. It is a whimsical hodgepodge of recipes, culinary adventure, medium-format photography, and, of course, petite and inspiring cooking spaces that prove constraints are nothing but an invitation for creativity. Small homes… their even smaller kitchens……

Foster Huntington just launched a Kickstarter for his new book about his stunning tree houses in the Pacific Northwest. It’s half photo book, half tree house building tutorial with a bonus chapter about the build of this wood fire hot tub. Check out this 15 min beauty of a short film about the project. The…

Last week David Macomber painted a 8′ x 20′ mural on a local Jersey Shore boardwalk. The title of the piece is STRENGTH IN UNITY – to commemorate the power of people coming together after Hurricane Sandy.  Once the mural was completed he cut it into smaller 2′ x 3′ pieces and is now auctioning…

By Jacob Tillman In the early morning hours of July 5th of last year my sister was awoken by an intruder who followed her home from the fireworks show in Ft. Collins, CO.  She was raped, severely beaten, and her apartment was set on fire in an attempt to destroy all evidence of the crime….

Looking to put a swing in your backyard? Here’s a simple upcycing project that anyone with a big tree and an old skateboard lying around can do. So dig out that old skateboard that you aren’t using anymore and give it a new life… Reposted from Make Magazine

I got the idea for the retractable fin set up while I was on a sailing trip. I joined a boat that was doing the Baja Haha sailing race, which is a race that starts in San Diego and ends in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We caught a tuna fish, and our captain, a photographer,…

Surfboard shaper and writer, Bryan Knowles, was featured a while back in our interview series where he discussed, Where Albatross Soar, a children’s book he wrote about waves and where they come from. His goal in writing this book was to share his love for surfing and the ocean in a way that gets children…

Maker Ryan Lovelace is currently doing a Kickstarter project to help him make the transition towards creating more environmentally friendly surfboards. Ryan is a talented shaper/glasser who makes all kinds of surfboards. Although he makes everything from spoons to kneeboards to asymmetrical finless stubs, his specialty is the creation of mid-length vee-bottomed hulls for his…