{"id":5879,"date":"2013-04-04T20:44:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T00:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5879"},"modified":"2013-04-04T20:44:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T00:44:37","slug":"thursday-night-so-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/04\/04\/thursday-night-so-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; so simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Diane pointed out to me today a funny  coincidence She got a fb post from a friend about life simplification just on the day that I mentioned I started all my blog post with such a busy day or something like that. True, it seems like paste my life has been accelerating for the last 30 years. Maybe it&#39;s the season but I sense that everyone around me is in that same accelerating swirl all the time.  Everything so complex, too.<\/p>\n<p>There was a funny contrast to that last night. Two friends of friends from Sweden happened to be in town and needed a place to stay, Simon and Eric. They are friends of my friend Michael . Both Eric and Simon  are expert makers. They came and visited the  Floorish team while we were working on the exhibit last night and then showed up here at the house around midnight . I was still working on the project. We still managed to hang out for a couple hours and talk. Then again this morning before work. They were able to show me some of the very cool stuff that they made. Eric had some  die cut plastic  stuff he&#39;d made that was both simple and elegant<\/p>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1001-AM.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1001-AM.jpg id=blogsy-1365122676332.2874 class=alignnone alt= width=500 height=373><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1001-AM1.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1001-AM1.jpg id=blogsy-1365122676326.9136 class=alignnone alt= width=500 height=373><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1002-AM.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1002-AM.jpg id=blogsy-1365122676326.657 class=alignnone alt= width=500 height=373><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1053-AM.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1053-AM.jpg id=blogsy-1365122676383.9106 class=alignnone alt= width=500 height=373><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1001-AM2.jpg target=_blank style=-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1001-AM2.jpg id=blogsy-1365122676317.1316 class=alignnone alt= width=500 height=373><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;>They made things like these iphone holders, and clothes pins out of waste plastic.. So simple&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;>Also  pyramid building blocks out of construction paper and animated sculptures out of soda straws.<\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;>My favorites were a bike fender called the ass saver and a clip on mustache for beer bottles.. Again all made out of plastic that would otherwise have been scrap. <\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;><a href=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1148-AM.jpg target=_blank style=><img src=http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/wpid-Photo-Apr-4-2013-1148-AM.jpg id=blogsy-1365122676376.3906 class=alignnone width=500 height=373 alt=><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=separator style=clear: both; text-align: none;>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p> Their full time job is to make thigns and tell folks about it&#8230;and that includes traveling the world and meetign other makers (like us)  What a great job.. And how simple !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hope we get to see them again !<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both; id=blogsy_footer><a href=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com target=_blank><img src=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png alt=Posted with Blogsy style=vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px; width=20 height=20 \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane pointed out to me today a funny coincidence She got a fb post from a friend about life simplification just on the day that I mentioned I started all my blog post with such a busy day or something like that. True, it seems like paste my life has been accelerating for the last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/04\/04\/thursday-night-so-simple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; so simple<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}