Art Directed

drape for tee repurpose with neckline

for pocket opening in skirts

When artists collaborate, they can do more without the meddlin' middles that take a big part of the profits.....if rockers can, why not designers?

Street up art/design empowers society as the focus is put back on the "art" and not the profit, profit should be the result not the raison d'art.

Pierced Arrows (usa) and Black Lips (UK) interview in Dazed Digital inspired this entry. The B. Lips video of their song "Drugs" brings up the larger social problem underlying abuse. Are we just trying to fill a hole in our psyches?

Japan is now studying suicide as a social issue, realizing that blaming victims has not improved stats. How does this tie together?

Maybe it all means that we are searching for better truths, changing focus, adding perspective and attaining new consciousness.

Maybe drug damage and suicide drives are symptoms of consumer based systems. All that stuff never really fills the holes. It's time to look elswhere....and some of us are!

Climate Chaos Chapter

desert Skirt 1

from 2nd use materials

A new chapter of fashionRIP was born early this morn. Feedback on the Verge dresses inspired a photographer to reinterpret the scene with snow. The black and white drama he painted was so stunning that it spawned an adamant must do on my part.

So as I figure we could find ourselves in a frozen or a desert landscape, it appears to be a throw of the dice.

Moscow is experiencing a record heat wave and yet evidence of global cooling exists. Then consider the planet orbital flip that happens every 1.5 million or so years and appears due give or take a few 100 years.

Knowing stuff leads to more questions than answers. What we do know is that changes are a coming and futurist dioramas are fun to fantasize; to vision enables the re-vision.

back from AZ

Gpa (we get along fine) Papa and Gma

parents and child

Joshua Trees

Az is not Oz but the wizard is going unchecked all the same! Desert sprawl makes me wonder about the "what" that is in charge of consensual reality!

All these people are living in a land with little water (hi-jacked from the Colorado River) and pesticides are needed for scorpion control (yup, they can kill ya). Indoor living means AC and HD on big flat screen TVs, Wii and uber video games on super clocked computers -all making for good little consumers but at what "real" cost?

Ok the day temp was over 100 degrees but the evenings were nice. Suv's and US flags and the Vision worker (yard care and builders of swimming pools) who told me when I asked what he made of the low use of spolar energy that "they don't think about the future."

Side 2:

My granddaughter was born there, in her daddy's hospital (he's a doctor) so there I was and there she is and I dropped as many seeds of change as I dared. Snippet educating is my new best practice, challenging everyone to do in kind is my new nag!

July 4

My friend Gale spotted the angel's watch stopped at 12

pathos and time
I am celebrating the small changes that go beyond borders.

medical mannequins

skater accident dude at Swedish Hospital

Me n Mr Bones -real bones! at Vets Hosp.

Low fidelity Gal at Swedish

Wow, techy mannequins for optimal health care practice and practicing.

These state of the art, high fidelity simulators are being brought to life in several area teaching hospitals. I tagged along as the photographer with a nurse who is presenting the needed research to her hospital as a training tool for the nursing staff.

The low fidelty models are the basic trainers.

I figure the re-use strategy involves display; the surprise function of a function.

I was able to get some hands on training at the Northwest Hospital which was awesome. I never used a stethoscope before and hearing an asthma wheeze even from under a plastic skin set up a buy in step to the real. They talk, give birth, pee, bleed, perspire....again wow!

The teaching lab at Northwest wants to eradicate the saying "Nurses eat their young" by creating safe, nurturing learning environments where students get comfortable with asking questions and helping each other in collaborative learning experiences.

This is the part that resonates with the fashionRIP Project. We are evolving past the fear syndrome of limited hierarchal power into recognizing and celebrating the individual within the group, the connection of a better whole.

Dragon Tattoo

serendipitous maxilimas...taking it as postive feedback

Majestic Bay Theater in Ballard
who knew? Maybe this is the sign of my time. (i have this dragon tattoo on my hand, a late 80s Madame Lazonga aka Vyvyn custom mark)

Wabi Sabi Wear

Wabi Sabi Wear showroom
It is local, lovely and full of eco friendly fibers. The cream colored wrap has a beautiful drape and a soft french terry cuddle quality, pure yum!

Other wraps are made of a hemp/tencel blend that look like linen sans the high wrinkle factor; not wrinkle free like a board, just an easy tailored crisp.

Marybeth is the proprietor of Yoga for Our Times and the designer and is a local gem.
See the YfOT wbsite for more information.

cotton woes

Eco textiles from Pacific Fabrics for 2007

Earth Day display at NSCC

organic cotton, ddt and malaria...a tangled mess of facts, funding and trade-offs in Uganda. The malaria is real, the swamps are breeding grounds and DDT is a quick fix but not a solution as it causes other problems, creating domino hell.....like contaminating drinking water.

More science needs to come on board, Dr. Uday Bhawalkar, makes a nitrate connection and states that organic crops (cotton) are less likely to be as bad as crops with added synthetic nitrogen (fertilizers).

I wonder if the area was always swampy, are the swamps a source of "good" which makes draining an issue? Is every swampy wetland sacred or what criteria should we use to make the wisest possible decisions?

How are the mosquitos infected to begin with?

logos

Fascination Graphics became Superior.......how droll.

NSCC graduaton

Several 2008 CMN video class students rallied to support another matie as he picked up his diploma.

The student speakers at the ceremony were chosen for their ability to withstand and overcome hardships. An inspirational cliche that makes most whiners ashamed of their petty everyday peeves. All good on the surface, the underdog wins, is cheered and we are proud of our species ability to overcome life's challenges. Then the ?s creep in.

Like in helping one child out of the slums of Brazil is great, but how fair is it to others just as deserving, inteligent and innocent? What would really change the slums? According to G. Mortenson in "Three Cups of Tea" it takes educating the girls to make conditions better. They tend to stay and do damage control, have less children and gain dignity.

Or what about the abused street kid who ended up in prison but was contacted by a group that supports his exit with an entrance into education, how cool is that. This cuts back the rate of returns to 10% against the normal rate of recidivism which is 50-70%, but why are our prisons so over populated?

Why so many charities? Doesn't it make more sense to dismantle the cause aka use preventive medicine?

BP is proof

fave bench at Woodland Park Zoo
that some things are beyond the monetary system, that some damages are beyond justification.

As real resources necessary for life on this planet are being squandered and jeopardized, when there is no amount of money that can compensate for the abuse of the commons and when large ecosystem health is at stake, we have to come to terms with this huge mistake we call the "economic system." It is a made up thing, we humans created it and it is now time to re-invent the whole of it.

Make-over Central coming soon to a town near you! (like start it, don't wait for Godot!)

menswear 2

Old is new again aka men in skirts, from the classic to the contemporary it's all in the accessories.