Viv Westwood , Tribute

"you can change the world, we are the people, we have to. "


Viv Westwood still going strong against the mainstream wind, pushing the tides of change. Doing right, standing tall and well still full of piss and vinegar. Strange phrase to mean "
feminine power"  but thanks to a world of domination, divide and unfounded arrogance, these thoughts float like wasps in the air of social history.

Viv for those who do not know was a punk designer who walked the fine line tween street and couture when there was a line  

Anyway being a hero for the Now Here year of 2016 takes more than words, it takes action and a New Story of who we are and what life means and why we cannot act like kids in toyland ny longer.

(I am working on that, feel free to chime in. Local activism can go beyond protest and create story that will help humans thrive in relationship to the whole life of a living sensual planet.  This is an all connected story. We know enough now to go forward with science, art and LOVE) 



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Trahion in Africa

Creating beauty from waste..the juxtapose of creating human want, media attention  and nature's dramatic impulse.

 http://www.ecouterre.com/haunting-trashion-gowns-illustrate-senegals-pollution-problem/prophecy-fabrice-monteiro-1/?extend=1

Fan Tees

 

Pull quote from a recent FB post:

 

Allen Ensign: Monster Creep is happy to announce, short of an act of god interfering, that merchandise will have t-shirts, these are the first ever Monster Creep t-shirts, simple black with white silk-screen lettering, . . .these are the first ever, Monster Creep t-shirts, right there should make some people I know get out to this show, . . .

And my comment, with hope for the best :-) 

 
Deborah Barnes some segues here..Hemp folks were promoting MJ seeds (protein) alt medicine and fibers et al as a clean crop as weeds are usually prolific which is why they are called weeds!! 

When a few dots are connected,  the tee shirt fiber, production, labor issues start bubbling around and the topic of investing (aka buying). into what one wants to see "grow" in the world, has to be faced. Most tee shirts are cotton a water hungry crop rarely grown sustainably (not to mention organically) Hemp tees exist, as do ethically sourced cotton shirts I understand the marketing punch but what, who else is getting promoted, under the obvious?

And the outcome:

Yesterday at 6:02am · Edited · Like · 1

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Allen Ensign yeah, good idea, we are just starting out here, but maybe we should get going in that direction, hemp, . .

13 hrs · Unlike · 2

 

Fabrics for Life

Finding this website was a pleasure.

True Color Textiles

Reading about the above company made me feel good. Our species is wising up..slowly yes, but all in all..it adds to the hope in all of our balloons.

Enterprises that are designed with a broad healthier vision beat the old construct hands down. Why is this so difficult to understand? Are we so immersed in the "war" on life, others, nature ourselves that we have constructed a Culture of Self Loathing?  What is that ..?  Have we been steeped in the shame and guilt stories of the West that we continue to process them even as we say we "know better?"

Have we duped ourselves into believing this cold ass tech visioned elitist silliness is the best we can do? I say , no way!

Bravo to the few, who understand ethical means honest, transparent, healthy, happy, intelligently aligned with a world of organic processes!

It is simply a matter of fact ..we are MORE!

Deforestation for Fabrics?

 Sacred Trees living for centuries in Woodland Park, my grounding partners.

....."The fashion industry’s unseen assault on the rainforest was first discovered by Canopy. Canopy observed that an increasing area of rainforest in Indonesia was being cut down for the production of fabrics. In 2012 alone, 70 million trees were cut down to create fabrics like rayon and viscose for the industry. These fabrics are used in dresses and skirts, tank tops, t-shirts and suit jacket linings.

Amy Hall, director of social consciousness, told WSAV3, “The current role of fashion in forest depletion is alarming but we know designers and leading fashion houses can make a difference.
 Working with Canopy to address our use of forest fiber, develop mechanisms to ensure our fabrics are free of endangered forests and to craft long-term solutions for sustainable fabric sourcing are the first steps in turning the tide for the world’s rare forests.
".....

Quote from article by Brian Dooling
November 4, 2013

Patagonia and Others Stand Up Against Fashion-Induced Deforestation

  Like all consumer "goods"  are these clothes so "good" that "we" are apparently willing to sacrifice the very means of healthy living on this planet?  How long before that skirt lands in the recycle or trash?  

Until we are taught the madness of the economic ways and means (made up by people, enabled and sustained by mere people) we will remain unempowered and unable to choose in our own best interests.  

We are as abused children, living in a tunnel of misinformation, lies and deceits. For even if that tunnel is satin lined...it remains a tunnel. Information and change of action on said information will help us climb from the tunnel so that we may breathe fresh air again. There is still time, but not as much as you think! So take someones hand and climb together, we can and will do better than this. (Homage to Dr Suess)

Free Energy and Mountain Highs

This video has not been removed by fashionethos, so what "user" is referenced here? The uploader or YouTUBE?

Free energy is like a no-no to big oil, coal and utilities that are ramping up to control and create dependency (control by "need")  Smart meters are one such device-never mind the health risks! Yup that makes sense; oh and that disgusting sound is Big Pharma salivating

("Take Back Your Power" and meet ups are sharing the RFR data and it isn't pretty)

This is (was!) a sweet video on the regenerative capacity of mountain energy and why acting at the level of our knowledge will make a better space for everyone, every "thing."  (if all is more energy than matter, thing becomes a weird concept)

( I didn't have time to check the math or theory so am not sure what triggered the pull down, however it makes me wonder as all kinds of silliness is on the Y Tube with no ramifications) 

It is sad that the most fearful appear to be running the show. Then again if one thinks how what we do colors our world it makes sense.

Military people see the world as a threat.

Government people see the world as something that must be controlled. (as in Manufacturing Consent  by Norm Chomsky)

 Medical people see health problems.

Oil people just want to sell more oli, Apple wants to sell more I Pads, etc. The job, the corporate ideology colors the workers lens.

Artists are still encouraged to reflect on their belly buttons or in social change milieu - to work on issues at the level of the problem -not on total prevention.Acting at the level of our current  knowledge would mean that artists would have to learn at least a couple other fields in order to communicate beyond the individual mirror pattern that was so useful, fresh and rad  back in the day, Now it feels really redundant.

Educators want to share knowledge but are trapped by the system's knowledge and the hierarchical construct that makes turf "kinging" essential for "success."  Competiton has upside but a really ugly downside too! Own it!

Bankers see the world through a financial lens, so the more privatization of commons, the more financialization of life, resources, the more we go along with it- the better. Think how "home" became an investment, how education is represented in earning  expectations, how fashion and dressing for success translates and how valuable is reiterated as dollars and cents.

As banks have a hugely disproportionate hold on the "world" via their ability to create "money" out of thin air, they have an advantage that must be "seen" to be "appreciated" for what it is. Their ability to believe in their own sleight of hand is comical and alas dangerous.

I figure if we understand why we are so hampered in our amazing expert, professional tracks- we might more easily reconcile our differences so we can forgive our errors and move into a quantum opening.  Free energy is a great stimulus.

Evolution, here we come! (check out Gaiad Theory on fashionRIP for more details)