Dew Things is a tool and native seed library for FREE public use. We will resume operations once the renovation of this trailer is complete.
Your support will fund the build-out, operational/ administrative costs, a native plant nursery and free workshops—like how to make The Living Pool below.
The Living Pool is a native garden, cult religion, and clean water reservoir. It’s also a response to the chemically treated Cowboy Pool during the Dry Ages of data centers and water shortages. Our pool’s water is cleaned by Texas native, wetland plants & naturally occurring microbes using a stupidly-simple bog filtration system. The Living Pool is alive, simple to maintain and a huge benefit to local wildlife during perpetual Texas drought.
We offer a workshop teaching the community how to make and maintain their own!
Let’s not forget (Mama-) WATER IS LIFE. This pool will inspire you to write an epoch in the style of a Dr. Bronner’s soap bottle—spiritualized and incomprehensible. Join our cult, by making your own. Stay tuned for upcoming workshops.
Lemon tea served on the streets. As the kettle whistles, the passerby stops to inquire about its sound, and is offered tea. We stage this deconstructed, anti-ceremony as a weekly jester of bringing and sharing life (water). We encourage you to do the same in your hometown. Make it your own, do it often.
If you need to clock community service hours or simply enjoy being outside, invasive plant removal is a powerful fix. We remove invasive plants as often as possible. Be in contact if your naughty, unlawful behavior requires you to volunteer with a legitimate organization. We dew things that municipalities dew not.
Removing invasive plants support local ecologies, native seed banks, and your survival. Life is all around, you have a responsibility to nurture life just as life nurtures yours. Get your head out of your ass.
A pulley system installed at an unmaintained inner city playground. We dew things that municipalities dew not.
“Put in jail the animals who are poor.” A 3 hour street performance—symbolic of the 3 years a friend spent in jail. His family was too poor to post bail.
Making art shouldn’t fuck-up the environment or the person(s) making it. On “bulk brush collection days”, ITDOLT is known to rearrange brush piles to make curbside sculptures. Make art, not trash! Keep your eyes peeled for these in ATX.
“Art lives on the streets, dies in the gallery and is buried in the museum”. -Unknown
Fire pits—made from recycled barrels—and firewood are delivered to street encampments during freezing temperatures. We dew things that municipalities dew not.
This native plant trellis was made where a giant trash pile was removed. Art and land stewardship in a nutshell.
The Field Sink is sourced to houseless communities as a simple and cheap form of preventative medicine for public health. We dew things that municipalities dew not.
Shitty Flowers
Shitty Flowers is a composting project using fecal matter (resource) to grow bio-installations of flowers and other plants. Social collapse is the wave of the future and fecal matter will be managed by the humans who make it.
Working with folks living on the street, ITDOLT is providing composting receptacles to increase public health. We want to get a jumpstart on the future and teach others how it’s done.
Artist Zwi Meza is illustrating a How-to-Humanure pamphlet explaining composting systems.
StReet Hospitality
ITDOLT provides street hospitality services to the unhoused—like, fire extinguishers for encampment kitchens, over-the-counter antibiotic ointment, hot meals and drinking water, tents, etc.
Lawndry
Lawndry is a laundry-to-lawn citizen service project and DIY workshop teaching you how to create an outdoor, bicycle-powered laundry facility for free, public use. You will learn how to create and manage a simple gray-water system that runs into a mulch bed and a state-of-the-art clothesline will function as the drying facilities.
ITDOLT will walk you thru the process and review the city of Austin’s requirements to help make it happen.
Frugality Forever
Frugality Forever is a on-going lecture series and public discussion about living frugally, the superstition of the 40-hour work week, and a lesson in consensus decision making, designed to help low-to-no income communities thrive with less and learn strategies in shared leadership, resource management and getting shit done, together.