There is a Junk Drawer display at the “The Opportunity Shop” in Hyde Park.
The shop is a temporary experimental project space for art in the urban community. It is located in a former Hollywood Video store.
The Junk Drawer set-up was created almost entirely out of stuff found at the space: sets of drawer, and display racks that were previously used for DVD’s. Zines are for sale, and there’s a drawer full of odds and ends you can donate to, or trade from. It is within the indoor yard sale area, which like a thrift store with plenty of items for sale.
The space contains an expanding collection of art as well as classes and talks. See the website for more Op Shop. It is open through the month of April, so don’t miss it!

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Three “Junk Drawer” zines have been selected to be part of an exhibition of artist made books at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It takes place at Dittmar Gallery in the Norris Center, through February 8th. There’s an opening reception on Thursday, January 7th, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Check here for further info. http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/12/dittmar.htm

This apple crisp will make anyone melt instantly! It is the perfect dessert or for lazy afternoon gatherings in the fall. Not to mention, it is really easy to make and pretty easy on the wallet. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream and perhaps a little drizzle of caramel for an extra special treat.

Apple Filling:

4 of your favorite sturdy apples, I used Rome

2 tsp cinnnamon

1/2 tsp of each, nutmeg, cloves and allspice

1/2 stick butter (melting is not necessary)

tsp of cider, cider vinegar, or lemon (whichever you have on hand, all give the same effect)

tbs cornstarch

1/2 cup sugar, use more or less to taste

tsp of vanilla

a pinch of salt

Peel the apples and slice thin. Combine these ingredients and let macerate. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and begin the topping.

For the topping:

1 cup old fashioned rolled oats

6 tbs flour

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

a pinch of salt

1 stick butter, cut into cubes

Combine all ingredients but the butter, and then add the butter. Use your fingers for ease in creating a mass with the butter.

Pour the apples into a greased baking dish. Put slices of butter throughout the apples. Place the topping on top, you will have to mold it a bit. Bake for about 30 to 45 minutes, until the apples are nice and tender when pierced with a fork.

Alrighty.  As promised, here is your tour of the farm where I came from.

If you missed the first installment of My History, click here.

The second installment is here.

The first pen we come to houses our lovely sheep.  This is Alex.  Short for Alexandria.  Don’t ask me why we named her that.  She never gave us any babies and ended up getting sick and dying.  Or she was shot to put her out of her misery…I can’t remember which.  She was nice though.

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This isn’t exactly a junk drawer item, but it does have a lot of potential junk drawers. I found this dresser down the alley a couple blocks from where I live. I put it on craigslist, describing it as “shabby chic.” I wasn’t able to get it sold before the zine fest I was about to leave for. Then I realized this dresser had the perfect drawers to use as part of the junk drawer display at the fest. So, I took some of the drawers with me and filled them with zines. They looked good, and one person there even commented that they were nice drawers.

Now I’m back to selling the dresser, so the drawers have to go with it.
If I do another zine fest, I’ll need to find some other drawers. Maybe some junked drawers.
This is a nice, well-made old dresser, and whoever left it in the alley I’m sure expected someone to pick it up. But they probably didn’t expect that part of it would be part of a zine fest. It’s interesting the way things can get found and passed along.

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This isn’t an individual find, but a whole fence full of finds. I spotted this by a used car lot while riding my bike down Elston Avenue on the northwest side of Chicago. This is like a junk drawer of odd hubcaps, all hung up for display. It could actually be considered a collection, or an art installation. I don’t know if these are used for spares, or if they’re just saved to be saved. Either way, it makes a nice group overall, and it might span decades of automobiles. Of all the hubcaps that have fallen off and rolled to the curb sides, here is one spot where they’ve been gathered up. There are actually probably many spots like this, all like hubcap art galleries.
I wonder if any of the car owners know that their lost hubcap is now part of a hubcap fence.

Japan nsk bearings announced the development of new small and lightweight motorcycle brake system with ball screw. In the motorcycle-wire braking system (Brake By Wire System), using the motor of the rotary motion into linear movement, to promote the use of screw-axis hydraulic piston resulting structure. Improved reliability, with the CVT used in motorcycles than 270g ball screw, weight reduction of about 70% to 70g.
The company has developed a thread can not use slot (Thread Groove) shallowing of the structure to prevent thread groove ball into areas outside the lead ball screw lock. Will allow the ball through the back of the original thread slot cycle parts – inserts into the resin material from metal, improved reliability and durability. In addition to the inserts can be realized small-block ball screws, eliminating the need for inserts fixed blocks, also used directly to promote the use of screw-axis structure of the piston, push the piston without the use of putting in order to achieve a small, light quantified. Moreover, in addition to through the realization of a small lightweight, significantly reducing the inertia, he also made use of low-friction ball screw performance, improved responsiveness.