Here you are.
- Watering Hole
It’s been a while since I posted anything here.
This, then, is one of those “it’s been a while since I posted anything here” posts. I’ve been meditating, working, making some music and listening to mix cds, and playing host to friends and friends of friends. For the purposes of this blog, I’ll have new graphic work to display here (to eulogize my springtime daylight hours with) soon. Also, I finished a writing exercise. Here it is: wateringhole. I’d love to get feedback from where the poetry-reading public and the blog-reading public intersect, if such an overlap exists.
By the way, here’s a recording of Keith Fullerton Whitman’s October 2005 performance at the Galeria Zé Dos Bois in Lisbon, entitled Lisbon. I mostly listened to nothing but this while writing most of what’s alluded to above.
- Morning Pie
Here’s a song I made a few days ago; it’s less inscrutable than it could be, and more playful. Someone should add drums to it.
- Adapt Apparel website up
and under fierce construction.
We have shirts for sale. Go there to find out how to call us and buy buy buy.
- Lee “Scratch” Perry
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMktHfWSe-E[/youtube]
Thanks Andres!
- AmniOn
Today was my last day at the Interra Project. I’m grateful for what I got to see take place there—something taking off…
Now, I’m on the lookout for more independent gigs (graphic design, web development, branding, marketing, business/nonprofit development) while I finish school, and as other projects move along. Here’s a resume. Here’s a running online portfolio.
Shenandoah recently forwarded me a link to a band called Amnion. From their myspace, I was expecting something noisy. But it reminds me, strangely, of Billy Joel, Elvis Costello… and Kahimi Karie. Pop.
Allegedly, the whole album will be downloadable here until February.
Here’s “aTONn,” and “hEARtbreAThmMAgikK.”
See also: Tenlons Fort
- Bat for Lashes
Bat for Lashes, “What’s a Girl to Do.”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1wnOUH2jk8[/youtube]
- Clothes the Loop
4.5 percent of waste sent to municipal landfills - 4 million tons according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - is textiles ::source
The New York Times magazine has a few slides on handmade recycled clothes.
The recycled T-shirts that are at the core of the Rogues Gallery (of Portland, ME) men’s-wear line are sorted, processed, printed and reworked in a warehouse in Portland, Me., by a crew whose backgrounds have little to do with fashion.
“I’m as proud of this system as I am of the designs,” says Natalie Chanin, the woman behind Alabama Chanin, a line of richly embroidered recycled shirts and dresses that are cut, painted and sewn by hand in rural Florence, Ala. Her stitchers, some of whom quilted alongside her grandmothers, are part of a cottage-industry style of manufacturing in which people work out of their homes.
While difficult to do at a large scale, as far as I can tell, recycling old clothes into new styles can help close the loop on what is typically a wasteful industry. It slows the pull on virgin resources (and crops like cotton are very land and water intensive to grow) and we don’t have to forgo new fashions. We can keep our cake, and eat it again.
According to one source, “over 70% of the world’s population use second-hand clothes.” Indeed, to recycle clothes has become synonymous with donating them to a charity, which will rarely re-manufacture them. If we Americans start recycle our clothing at a larger scale, where will the rest of the world get theirs? Some would argue that this opens up opportunities for local producers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to sell the clothes they’re making for American and European markets locally.
Today I post for you “Indestructible Life!” by Olympia, WA’s Old Time Relijun. Enjoy!
- Melody Day
I first heard this Four Tet remix of Caribou’s “Melody Day” a few months ago. Couldn’t stop listening to it. Nor will I, on this very sad first day of 2008.
- More Fire on Fire
I can’t not pass this on, first heard on KEXP’s “Music that Matters.” It reminds you of similar sounds you like, by people you care about. Voices so sticky.
Michael Gira can pick ‘em.
