Finders Keepers

Mickey's Monkey

Bosky Dell

Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang, a couple from Northern California, scavenge the coastline and collect plastic debris. This debris is washed and sorted and made into art. 

I found this clip through thisiscolossal and I wanted to share!

One Plastic Beach

One Plastic Beach from High Beam Media on Vimeo.

Aside from the important environmental aspect and the beautiful art they create, I was especially tickled about the sorting process. I like sorting and organizing things! :P

Taking Notes

{My grandparent's backyard}

How I love the internet. How I love discovering through it. 

I am constantly reminded  that this world is amazing 

and that there's so much being done to fight against the problems we face as a planet.  

Please take the hour to watch this documentary. It's fantastic, and very inspiring.

Let me tell you, I was taking notes.

Natural World: A Farm For The Future

{These are all pictures from the little garden I had in my grand-parent's backyard.  I grew lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, and all kinds of herbs. The romaine lettuce grew almost 4 feet high!}

{My grand-mother planted these for me, she knows I love daisies.}

Everything I am discovering right now is making my goal clearer and reinforcing it's possibility. Later this week I will be posting more about permaculture, farming, and sustainability.


"When you want something, 
all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it"
- Paolo Coelho -

Kapu

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com has become my new favorite website. 

There are some brilliant documentaries on there.
I've watched a lot of great ones and I'd like to share them all, 

but I'll start with this one. 

Hawaii - Message In The Waves

The Hawaiian word kapu is usually translated to English as "forbidden", though it also carries the means of "sacred", "consecrated", or "holy".

SEDUCTION

Ok guys, I buckled.

I tried to take a vow of plastic celibacy, but last night these shoes 

were chillin near the googly eyes 

and they used their combined seductive powers to entice me to make these:

They're SO RAD!!!

Especially when you have them all together, the TRIFORCE power of hat/shades/sneaks:

My mind is boggled and torn. I absolutely LOVE the whole creative process of making stuff like this. Actually, scratch that, more than love: I GET OFF ON the whole creative process. How do I continue this path without supporting industries that harm our Earth? Like, I'm not trying to be an a$$hole and shove these issues in everyone's face, but it is something that we need to think about and make efforts to change. And since I've always been an advocate of ethical consumption and living self-sufficiently it would make absolutely no sense for me to construct my business without considering the impact it would have in ripple-effect. 

As I continue to battle this problem, I will keep on with my other projects and hopefully find a way to consolidate these seemingly opposing matters.

This video completely encapsulates my perspective. 

(I'm very wordy today, aren't I?  Must be lack of sleep.)

Back to the Start - ad for Mexican food chain Chipotle (food with integrity)

"Questions of science, science and progress 

don't speak as loud as my heart"

Massive Goal Shift

 
I bought clear-lens nerd glasses at the night market.

Then I bought a glue gun. 

And a pair of purple shutter shades.

Gess loves unicorns, so I made her unicorn sunglasses. 

And I made googly eye glasses for me:

Then I "google-i-fied" this hat and I bought black patent sneaks for future
"google-i-fi-cation":

I bought pink plush shoes with a teddy bear head on them at the night market,
(a Jeremy Scott inspired design, click here to see the originals)
and I painted a cap pink:

I got my trusty glue gun and away I went!

BAM!!!

 Here's the part about the Massive Goal Shift:

     I came to Taiwan with many goals. Starting my own small clothing label was one of them. Prior to leaving I photo-documented my scrapbooks and journals, carrying my many ideas across the sea. And when I started making all of these prototypes I was having a blasty-blast. I was drawing and designing and planning and getting everything ready for lift-off.

     I love creating things and I get HIGH when I’m making stuff. I love freaking out on inspiration in a craft store or a thrift store or a night market. Then I put on some tunes or a documentary and go, and I end up with some crazy $hit. And then planning the photoshoot for the thing? MAN. I love it. Any creative person who has worked with me before knows how I get when I’m in this mode. My brain just blooms.

     As soon as the ball was rolling on this clothing project a thought slowly embedded itself into me. It wasn’t a new thought, but it reemerged from my subconscious and caused me to reevaluate my plan. Through the manufacture of these products, as cool and limitless the ideas are, and as much appeal as they would have, I would be supporting the manufacture of materials that harm our Earth and I would be turning a blind eye to the environmental problems that humanity is facing today. And it sucks. I wish that it didn’t have to be this way, and I wish that plastics weren't so harmful, and I wish that all fabrics and dyes came from ethical sources. But I can’t ignore it.

     I found that my move to Taiwan pulled me far away from the “materialistic desperation” that surrounded me in Toronto, and I’ve been able to thrive as opposed to survive. I’ve slowly reconnected to every dream I had when I was younger because I now see viable ways of making these dreams REAL. My bucket list keeps getting check marks on it, and so many of these little buckets are getting done, one by one. But I am aiming for the big bucket. That big glorious dream and I have a plan and a way. I just had to shift my focus.

     My scrapbooks and journals are filled with a multitude of other things, so I’m going for them. We talked about leading by example, and living in a way that inspires others to do the same, so I’ve geared up and restructured my plan. Same big bucket, new way to get there.

A Self-Sufficient Life...

In a cabin in the woods...

Bon Iver - "Skinny Love" (Das Kapital Rerub)

I love lots of green growing on a roof...

 

Essential to happiness: canoeing on a lake...

In a cabin in a wood,
A little man by the window stood
Saw a rabbit hopping by, knocking at his door.
"Help me! Help me!" the rabbit said,
"Or the hunters will shoot me dead!"
"Come Little Rabbit, come inside.
Safely you'll abide."

Living a self-sufficient life...
information about living off the grid

A ski access only cabin in Colorado

 

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