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Amidst all the seriousness of outgoing presidents, incoming administrations, green living and less harmful car design, it’s easy to lose sight of the clever creativity and ambition of the people at the forefront of the DIY movement. As we enter an era of localism, artisanal production, retrofitting and sustainable design, these inventive combinations of recepticles [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]