FEB
05

Lost Trades Fair - Australia

 The Lost & Rare Trades Fair was established as an artisan lead event to provide a single platform for career artisans and traditional tradespeople to share their skills. People are fascinated when true artisans and talented craftspeople openly demonstrate their incredible skills and share their knowledge of their trade and craft. We aim t...

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AUG
16

Men And Their Sheds photo book explores importance of the man cave

Gordon Millett - The inspiration for 'Men and their sheds'

 A new photo book documents how spending time in their backyard sheds can help men with their mental health. And photographer Craig Wetjen said creating the book, Men And Their Sheds, had helped him with his own depression and anxiety. "Men just love to tinker," he told 774 ABC Melbourne's Clare Bowditch. "I really tried to tap into the whole ...

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JAN
15

Welcome to Garage Culture

367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto. The garage where Hewlett Packard started business in 1939. Designated the birthplace of Silicon Valley in 1985.​

Garage: Borrowed from French garage ("keeping under cover, protection, shelter")​​ Culture: from Latin cultūra("cultivation; culture"), from cultus, perfect passive participle of colō("till, cultivate, worship")​​The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterise a particular society or nation  The beliefs, values, be...

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