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White Elephant.
It’s not a cure for waste or a cure for loneliness, but it’s something.…
Kelly Pendergrast
Kelly Pendergrast is a writer, researcher, and sometimes art worker based in Oakland. She is the co-founder of Antistatic, a consultancy that focuses on issues around technology and the environment.
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Notes, 2023-07-10
Anna and Kelly Pendergrast on the secret recipes, the superstition, and the myths embedded in what we call “innovation.”…
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Notes, 2023-01-30
Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on rising to the challenges wrought by disasters, corralling invasive carp, and subsea cable chokepoints.…
2022-09-19
Anna & Kelly Pendergrast on New Zealand’s Gib crisis, eco-industrial parks, and Bhutan’s experimental postage stamps.…
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On Baltic Birch
We’ve recently been admiring photos of a friend’s new kitchen. The cabinets and drawers are pale, clear-coated plywood,…
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On Stretch Wrap
The diaphanous material that holds together the containerized world.
To look at a container ship is to see the world…
2022-03-07
Anna & Kelly Pendergrast on moving the London Bridge to Arizona, vertical wind turbines, and QR codes' comeback.…
2021-12-06
Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on the Bay Model, low tech cooking, and the politics of measurement.…
2021-08-30
Anna & Kelly Pendergrast on DIY backpacking gear, guerilla infrastructure, and poetic weather monitoring…
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On Geofoam
Images from the 2014 construction of Maggie Daley Park in Chicago are something to behold. Where one might expect earthmoving…
2021-05-17
We’ve been watching a lot of The Repair Shop recently, a British show where people bring in broken family heirlooms with the hope that expert...…
2021-02-15
In a twist on the “I can’t access my bitcoin fortune because I forgot my password” narrative, we were struck by the story of this guy in Wales...…