fashionRIP: February 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Species on the Verge

hummingbird in the backyard, today!

I have been playing with this title for months and it finally dawned on me that this is IT!

Species on the verge of extinction juxtaposes with species on the verge of evolution -by conscious choice.

It was there all the time and yet elusive; as my mind got in the way and bossed me about, trying to convince me that i needed the full title to shout the losses.

But the reason for the RIP project is to highlight change as emancipating, caring, full of grace style and beauty, peaceful, creative, expanding and in our control. If we can imagine this kind of world we can create it.

The "us them world" the fear of the unknown, the greed of stuff and power...all that is rather moldery now, isn't it?

Saturday, February 14, 2009

the Westlake Valentine

"please forgive Seattle"

Another misunderstood local hero
ahead of his time.
but i remember what you told us
and miss what you didn't have time for.

L, deborah

Friday, February 13, 2009

NSCC

fashionRIP
Renee V photographer

is maximass.
With Lynda.com and an edit suite i am finally logging clips for the "Species on the Verge" video. It is very exciting, trust me....like watching one's baby trying to stand up for the first time.

That is metaphoric, as pulling out of comfort zones is what gives us our next step....so many people circle in routine safety they forget they were meant to grow and bloom and end up with shriveled limbs instead of wings. Why is that?

Happy Friday the 13th!

Why it Matters

What's the matter with more and more fashion choices?

It sounds good; we love to be able to pick the perfect outfit. You wear it once or twice and then ....what was the real cost here?

Your time to shop and the money spent, not so much ....go a little deeper and consider the fiber source, the dyes and chemicals used, the health toll on the workers, the energy to run the machines, the transporting carbons...and now it just takes up closet space. But so what? It's been going on for-almost-ever and you didn't make the rules.

In fact we are told this is what a "healthy" economy looks like.

You will recycle it after all, give it to charity or your sister. This is more transportation and more release of those greenhouse gases. We are using a lot of our personal energy and the resources of this planet to make, use and dump "trash" Some rags, remnants and tawdry bits will molder for eons in landfills, as nature's microbial actions are hampered by our normalized, everyday toxic lifestyles.

This goes beyond dumps as the breakdown cycle that nourishes the life of this planet has been sorely challenged by GMO crops, fertilizers, pesticides, antimicrobials..RIGHT!!. All the "living better through chemistry" propaganda after WWI and II- AKA how to sell your "garbage," is our legacy. Well no more, not on my (our) watch, we are seeing things quite differently.

As we now carry 298 toxins in our bods that weren't there in the 1930s the toxic residues of normal are haunting us more and more. Ironic, no? Advanced is merely a word.

Go to the So Whats the Point blog in February for the numbers.

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Extinctions ...So What?

Life evolves, some species survive some don't. We like to allude to Darwin's "natural selection" or Herbert Spencer's "survival of the fittest" because we are so good at reproducing and taking over this planet and justifying that side of our natures. The fact that we are wiping out the food chain by destroying habitat, fouling air and water and generally behaving like arrogant, tinkering idiots, is called business as usual. .....Well I and others are no longer buying that "sell."

We are wising up to the idea that we too, are dependent on these resources. We too, are physically an organic species and we really don't know what little extinction will be the start of the chain reaction that collapses the structure that we too, are dependent on.

Is this the price we are willing to pay for a pair of plastic shoes?

I say no, that despite the focus on the physical, we are more. We are heart and soul, mind, body, spirit. We are born of stars and we can and will leap over this world view based in old, untrue beliefs led by a science of isolation and religions of patriarchal, hierarchical constructs (your basic dominating Dad- with self reflective rights to rule). It is time to come together and heal. To transition into our fuller expectations and open the new possibilities. We are born with genius...let us help each other get to where we all can shine.