Living Simply in Richmond, VA: February 19th

If you are in the Richmond, VA area please consider attending the free community forum Living Simply: Making Green & Just Choices on February 19th, where I will be one of several speakers. Here are the details:

This community event is all about how to live and consume in ecologically and socially conscious ways here in the Richmond area. Please come, and spread the word.

Living Simply: Making Green & Just Choices

Panel discussion followed by networking time
Tuesday, February 19, 7 p.m.
VCU Student Commons Ballroom
Free and open to the public

* Connect with farmers markets, urban gardens, energy alternatives, green
building, natural products, and fair trade opportunities here in Richmond!

* Learn how your buying choices impact community, economic justice, and
the global environment!

Speakers
Karl Bren--Green Visions Consulting, Earthcraft Virginia, social justice
advocate
Noah Scalin--founder of Another Limited Rebellion and Sprout
Azibo Turner--Vanguard Ranch Limited Natural Gourmet Products
..and more

Co-sponsored by the Falls of the James Group of the Sierra Club, the Green
Party, Richmond Peace Education Center, Sierra Student Coalition at VCU.

For more information go to www.rpec.org

Painting with pollution

via Wooster Collective

A year in art

My talented painter friend Jason is out sharing his experience of trying to make a life and living as an artist for the year. Inspiring fellowship for anyone who struggles trying to create something on their own.

http://jasonbrockert.com/ayearinart/

Everything's Cool

Everything's Cool is a documentary about responding to the global warming naysayers...

Socially Conscious T-Shirts

Why wear a shirt with a celebrity on it when you can have Makenna Gigliari from Bradford, Ontario or Franka Tomic from Korkula, Croatia? Joy Apparel is an intriguing socially conscious company with the goal of promoting peace & equality through introducing normal people from around the world...by putting their faces on T-shirts! If you buy a shirt you can submit your own face and join in the fun. Find out more on their site.

Thanks Jo!

Illustrated Obsessive Consumption

Artist Kate Bingaman-Burt has been documenting her consumer purchases with a lovely daily illustration for several years. You can keep track of them all on her blog Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today.

Thanks Mica!

Shopdropping: Two Calls for Entries

The folks at Shopdropping.net have 2 calls for entries for activist-artists:

Call 1:
SHOPDROPPING.NET is now calling on artists, designers, media makers, and creative folks to purchase greeting cards and alter them in any way they see fit. Any form of commercial card, from wedding to graduation to birthday to bereavement, is eligible. But clever and witty will be given preference over easy and distasteful.

Please submit JPEG reproductions of the altered greeting cards to "submissions" AT "shopdropping.net" with GREETINGS as the subject line.

All files must be sized to 1024 x 768 at 72 dpi. Each altered card must include the text "www.shopdropping.net" somewhere in the new design. It can be discreet, on the back of the card, and unobtrusive but it must be present.When submitting the cover and inside of the same card please indicate this clearly in the file titles (for example "cover.jpg", "page2.jpg").

The deadline for submissions is April 1st 2008.

Once all of the digital reproductions have been submitted, selected artists will be given the address of a fellow participant to swap cards with. The cards will then be shopdropped back into circulation and the digital reproductions will be featured on SHOPDROPPING.NET. Please do not submit digital files if you do not intend to follow through with the act of shopdropping a fellow participant's work. The digital reproductions are a means to select and document the artworks, but do not replace the act of shopdropping the originals into unsuspecting stores.


Call 2:
SHOPDROPPING.NET is currently seeking 20 artists aged 20-29 to feature and interview for an upcoming book. SHOPDROPPING.NET presents 20/20 will profile each artist and their work and copies of the limited edition book will be shopdropped into bookstores throughout the world.

In the spirit of shopdropping, we are seeking artists who are exploring new forms and pushing boundaries within their field. Bands and musicians with hard to define genres, Internet filmmakers and compulsive bloggers, curators and gallerists working out of their homes, post-vinyl dj's and digital vj's, actors and writers working outside of film, theater, and television, artist collectives, culture jammers, and other hard-to-define creative minds are in demand.

To be considered for this project or to nominate someone you feel fits the bill please submit work samples via web link to: "submissions" AT "shopdropping.net" with 20/20 as the subject line.

DO NOT send jpgs, mp3s, or other file types directly. Links only please. There is no deadline for this project as of yet.

Please repost this information and pass it along to anyone who may be interested.

For additional information please see:
http://www.shopdropping.net