Ben
Ben Godwin is a freelance graphic and web designer in Austin, Texas. He has been designing for the web and other media since 1999, and is the founder of Ambivert Creative.
He is a synthesist mutualist devoted to promoting cooperation, mutual-aid, community, and self-reliance — toward the goal of moving out from under the state/corporate grid to form a free society within the shell of the old.
By Ben on April 30, 2011
Posted in Food, Garden | Tagged cattle, farming, lawn, livestock, Mother Earth News, pest control, pigs, poultry, sheep, sustainable living, weeds |
From Mother Earth News:
Homestead Helpers: Sheep, Cattle, Pigs and Poultry
Livestock aren’t just useful for meat and eggs. They can mow lawns, work garden soil, dig stumps and more!
Lawns first became fashionable in the Middle Ages. Back then, the only alternative to sending flocks of sheep to graze the lawn was hiring men with scythes. Since [...]
By Ben on April 15, 2011
Posted in DIY, Technology, Tools | Tagged blueprints, fabrication, farming, machining, manufacture, Marcin Jakubowski, open-source, sustainability, TED, video |
Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
About This Talk
Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village [...]
By Ben on April 14, 2011
Posted in Food | Tagged barter, beverages, caffeine, coffee, food preservation, James Rawles, roasting, SurvivalBlog |
SurvivalBlog has posted this handy guide to maintaining your caffeine addiction during even the worst of times — but who says you have to wait? The idea of roasting your own coffee sounds rather intriguing on its own. James Rawles lays out the basics below:
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Coffee in a Post-Collapse Society
By James Wesley Rawles
I have read many [...]
By Ben on April 1, 2011
Posted in Books, News and Views | Tagged community, Detroit, Grace Boggs, interview, revolution, sustainability, urban |
From MetroTimes:
Grace Lee Boggs says she would like the chapter titles of her new book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, written with Scott Kurashige, to become buzzwords for progressive activists.
So I imagine “Detroit, Place and Space to Begin Anew” or “We Are the Leaders We’ve Been Looking For” on T-shirts, [...]
By Ben on March 8, 2011
Posted in Communication | Tagged Gonzo Times, mutual aid, PDF, print, zine |
Gonzo Times has just released a PDF of the first issue of their mutual aid print publication. The PDF is available in several formats, seen below:
Here is the first issue of Gonzo Times for Print. We ask that you print not only one for yourself but others to distribute in your area. Coffee Shops, Libraries, [...]
By Ben on March 3, 2011
Posted in News and Views | Tagged Against the Grain, audio, cooperative, economy, interview, KPFA, left-libertarian, Mondragón, Oakland, radio, recession, worker-owned |
From Against the Grain:
Much of the radical left subscribes to some version of “Dump the bosses, put the workers in charge.” Brian Edwards-Tiekert tours a bakery in Oakland that went out of business — until its workers brought it back. Melissa Hoover describes how worker-run businesses adapt to a bad economy. And Gayle McLaughlin discusses [...]
By Ben on February 28, 2011
Posted in Featured Posts, Philosophy | Tagged class theory, definition, left-libertarian, OCR, PDF, Roderick Long, text format |
Roderick T. Long’s brilliant “Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class” had only been available as a scanned PDF. It’s now been OCR’d and we’re happy to make it available here.
Wally Conger posted this review in praise of the work when it came out in scanned-PDF form:
Roderick T. Long’s “Toward a Libertarian Theory of Class,” [...]
By Ben on February 25, 2011
Posted in Tools | Tagged Alex Himmelbaum, blacksmithing, crafts, how-to, Make Magazine, Marsha Trattner, Meg Allan Cole, metal, metalwork, She-Weld studios, towel holder |
Meg joins Alex Himmelbaum who shows us how to shape hot steel into a rustic paper towel holder for the kitchen. More info: http://bit.ly/gH7YgI
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By Ben on February 15, 2011
Posted in Food | Tagged Bob, cabbage, fermentaton, food preservation, jarring, sauerkraut |
This is another great how-to from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob shares his favorite methods for making sauerkraut at home.
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So around thanksgiving the snows were getting two feet deep and it was getting cold enough to [...]
By Ben on December 27, 2010
Posted in Site Updates | Tagged JustLive, site update, technical issues |
The site may appear “broken” for a little while. All the articles still work, but it will take us some time to adjust for the changes brought about by updating the site’s backend. Please be patient with us while we sort things out.
By Ben on December 27, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged C4SS, Charles Johnson, civil disobedience, cops, copyright, direct action, jury nullification, Kevin Carson, law enforcement, marijuana, public opinion, tyranny |
Kevin Carson of Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) drives another one home, by pointing out the futility of using the system to change the system, when it’s so much more effective to just… just disobey it.
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Attack Tyranny at Its Weakest Link — Enforcement
by Kevin Carson of C4SS
Goo-goo liberals and “good citizens” of all stripes [...]
By Ben on November 15, 2010
Posted in Art, Books, Communication, Digital, Music | Tagged copyleft, copyright, Samuel Konkin |
Found a great post on lewrockwell by SEKIII about his view on the fallacy of copyrights. These ideas can be expanded to the current digital media debate with the RIAA. A novel take on copyright licenses that allows free use of someones work in the public domain, is called copyleft. This basically gives each person [...]
By Ben on June 16, 2010
Posted in Art, Digital, Featured Posts | Tagged agorism, ALL, design, download, illustration, left-libertarian, MLL, portrait, poster, Samuel Konkin |
By popular demand… JustLive is proud to make these images of Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEKIII), by Ben Godwin, available for download in two color schemes to suit your preference.
Click the thumbnail to view full-size image, then right-click and chose “Save [Image] As…”
These images and their creator are anti-copyright, but please attribute/linkback if you dig [...]
By Ben on June 12, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged Africa, anarchism, anarchist societies, anarcho-capitalism, C4SS, community, Kevin Carson, kritarchy, Mogadishu, Rachel Maddow, Somalia, study |
Kevin Carson takes on statist liberals and anarcho-capitalist ideologues alike in this brilliant article about Somalia and anarchy.
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Somalia — Is That Really All You Got?
by Kevin Carson
Rachel Maddow, a popular liberal commentator on MSNBC, recently iterated — for the umpteenth time — the standard liberal talking point of Somalia as a supposedly unanswerable argument against [...]
