Greetings from #rdcHQ. We’re making progress on the Gegenschein Time Capsule project and have chosen the under-appreciated penny to represent a technology that will still work as designed 100 years from now. We are searching for cents for our centennial that are pre-1982 as they have 95% copper content. Copper has an anti-fungal property that will protect other elements in our capsule as evidenced when the Revere-Adams Time Capsule was unearthed earlier this year.

Photography by Nathan Malamud

It would be ideal if we could find pennies minted between 1793–1857 as these would be 100% copper — perhaps someone with one of these coins in their possession would like to contribute to our project. A single 2015 coin will be included as a timestamp despite its low copper content — and even if these minute units of currency may be phased out in the immediate future, they’ll be worth every cent in our capsule.

Photography by Nathan Malamud

We have a collection from the beach of fossils, agates and jaspers that will find a home in the time capsule. At right above is a gift from a friend called Mozart’s Ears which was found on a nearby beach. We’ll be writing backstories for each of these artifacts as we design the time capsule and they will be on display in our street level gallery at 351.

Photography by Nathan Malamud

We’ll highlight additional time capsule contents in the weeks to come. Proposed artifacts run the gamut: visualizations, maps (wind, celestial, terrestrial), historic photos, redwood seeds, original art, local organic honey, metal sculpture, original musical compositions. Interactive exhibits that will utilize technologies that still work a century from now are still under exploration … Stay Tuned!

Greetings from The All New #rdcHQ! At this Saturday’s meetup, upgrades continue into 2015 at Rural Design Collective Headquarters with the addition of a new router and hub in our server room to support future expansion in the media lab. Our internet enabled devices were maxing out the capacity of our sentimentally favorite WRT54G 2.4GHz router that had served our needs diligently since 2002. Our spiffy new dual band WRT1900AC router is a substantial upgrade from the previous device and will certainly fill the bill for some time to come.

Our lovely new WRT1900AC router looks right at home in the server closet at #rdcHQ.

Server Closet as Gallery — A rare poster from The Internet 1996 World Exposition shown at right

Greetings from #rdcHQ! Yesterday was Law Day and the first ever “Free PACER” campaign was held in San Francisco (Internet Archive), Chicago (SmartChicago), and New York (Civic Hall). RDC Founder Rebecca Hargrave Malamud created a special mark for the event as well as pitched in on additional design artifacts —

You can read more about the event here which also includes details on how to send your own postcard if you were unable to attend one of the in-person events.

Happy Earth Day from rdcHQ! We were jazzed to lend a helping hand this year documenting a documentary-in-progress by filmmaker Michael Ramsey. You can find out more about this fascinating project at his Spoken Image website.

The planting we attended took place at Rare Tree Reserve on February 28th 2015 which is part of a recent reforestation effort by the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive where 1000 Champion Coast Redwoods were gifted to private and public property locations in Curry County, Oregon. It was a great experience to meet Michael and he gave us a lot of great tips and even let us check out his mobile “film studio.”

Michael’s new documentary based on “The Man Who Planted Trees” by Jim Robbins. [ enlarge ]

Documenting the planting of Champion Coast Redwoods at Rare Tree Reserve.

Nathan Malamud, RDC Videographer At Work!

Our mini-documentary was filmed and edited by Nathan Malamud who also contributed his musical talents for the soundtrack. So without further ado, here is “Champion Coast Redwood Tree — Reborn In Splendid Soil”

You can read more at Reforest POCSA … Happy Earth Day 2015!