Ortolan

Ortolan is a local, vegan, organic maker of pillows, towels, and napkins.  They don’t have a lot on their site right now (http://www.ortolanorganic.com/Ortolan_Home.html)
but what they do have, I adore. I am especially interested in their reuseable table napkins:

Something to look forward to once Emm and I get our own place! Hopefully they will be sitting on a new, chip-free table!

Symmes Hole

So this New Jersey guy, Johnny Symmes, hypothesized in 1818 that the earth was one hallow earth containing many hollow earths living simultaneously inside one another. There is next to no info about this on the internet, and i am completely fascinated by this theory.  It was eventually dismissed as improbable, but many science fiction writers did and do adopt this way of viewing our world. Just a few miles down,a whole new earth is existing. Are there parallel lives to ours? Are there parallel cities and landscapes? How existential!  I think I may actually step foot in a library and do a little more research, because whenever I think about it I feel like my brain is swimming! Below you’ll find a quote of Mr. Symmes taken from his initial informational pamphlet. Cool right?!

I declare the earth is hollow, and habitable
within; containing a number of solid concentrick spheres, one within the
other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees; I pledge my life
in support of this truth, and am ready to explore the hollow, if the world
will support and aid me in the undertaking.

JOHN CLEVES SYMMES

Of Ohio, Late Captain of Infantry.

my 100th blog entry!

why not celebrate with cool stuff!?

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2. SFMOMA exhibit of Ann Hamiton’s indigo blue, an interesting commentary on class and economy. go to the link and click, “start program” and watch the three videos of installation inception and intention.

3. strange creatures found in antarctic waters.

4.  fm3 buddha machine.  asmall plastic machine producing ambient noises by toggle switching.  mine is orange!

5.  the journal of popular noise.  this is a journal of sound, of noise. each issue is a 45rpm record. and it looks like this:

i haven’t had a chance to listen to mine yet, because my 45 insert is too small (weird?) and i have to get new ones. but i am sure it will rock my noise loving world!

6.  installations at cca, specifically MINE! i did/am doing a nature simulation installation in the studio. right now it’s just a 3d sketch of something i hope to expand later…some how. pictures forth coming.  idea is cooler than product right now.

7.  my pals catherine, dene, joanna, and robert for taking me out in SF last night and for filling me with jack n gingers and intelligent, funny company! xo! pictures forthcoming?

we, as a world, are really fucking up.

so, i am in a climate in literature class as CCA. we read about climate in politics, in media, and in literature. we freak out about what will happen to the earth, question science, republicans, and michael crichton. we send each other articles, videos, and book recommendations. recently, one of my classmates sent me this video called the story of stuff. it shows us how we are fucking up the earth by manufacturing obscene amounts of stuff, which we just pile under ground anyways. here is a sample of the video, but go to the site www.storyofstuff.com to see it in its entirety.