project: warehouse at live green slc!

thanks to jodi, project: warehouse signed up just in time to get a booth at the live green festival.

the festival is may 9 at library square, 10am to 6pm, and we'll be there with bells on* and treasures to play with.


currently, we need help with the following:

(1) volunteers. awesome people who want to sit at the table and talk to folks about why it's cool to reuse stuff and make art out of it, and why they want to help.

(2) a canopy tent. i've spent my share of time in the sun. i'm over it. i'd love to borrow your 10x10 ez-up booth tent. please?

(3) art supplies! we'd like to have an array of things for folks to play with - a creative reuse playground to get people excited. we'll take your leftover bits and pieces, the things you can barely stand to part with because, well, it might be useful someday but are happy to see it go to a good home.

if you'd like to help, please email us at projectwarehouseslc@gmail.com.


*this part is metaphorical only. wearing bells gets tiring after awhile.

project: warehouse mailing list

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you do WHAT for a living?

wait, what is project: warehouse exactly? and why on earth do you not use capital letters ever?

1. easy questions first. they're distracting. also, both shift keys are broken and pausing to locate the magic contact point on the exposed keyboard slows down my thinking.

2. important stuff. project: warehouse is a one-stegosaurus project in salt lake city, a stegosaurus on a mission to bring the wonder of treasure hunting to an organized (kinda) and creative central station. we'll collect treasures of all sorts, anything remotely usable from your household remodeling projects, your gramma's sewing closet, your forgotten painting class, your slated-for-demolition log cabin, your business' leftover doohickeys, or your school's stray test-tube collection. provided it won't explode, leak scary juices or gases, and isn't illegal in and of itself, and provided it's at least remotely cool and has potential for great awesomeness, we'll take it. other cities have sorts of things similar to project: warehouse, but they're literally millions of stegosaurus light-years away from the middle of utah, and it's high time the salty city get funky.

project: warehouse

there it is. take it or leave it. project: warehouse is being hatched as we speak, complete with articles of incorporation and bylaws. i finally buckled down and edited to the simplest, plainest things i could think of (from a selection of borrowed-from-the-internet convoluted legalese). sometime next week, i'll actually make my paperwork official by depositing it in the nearest usps receptacle. woohoo!

your inspiration goes here:

the job search has included a number of interesting prospects. most of them have pretty much led me to decide that the best idea is to build my own perfect job, and being that i've done a bunch of work on fragments of this beast before, it seems quite doable.

it's re-store + scrap exchange and thus far, it has entailed filling out a lot of forms.

the first line of all the forms is "name of organization." i haven't gotten terribly far.

for your reference, here's what it's based upon:
a) http://www.restoredane.org/home.cfm
b) http://www.scrapexchange.org
c) http://www.thereusecenter.com/
d) http://www.reversegarbage.org.au/

here's what i've come up with thus far. inspire me.

1) something like TRASH Store to stand for something like Totally
Recycled Art Supply and Home Store
2) anything with the tagline "creative reuse center"
3) the words exchange, upcycle
4) the concept of "wabi sabi" - both in the japanese aesthetic sense
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi) and the moab thrift store
sense (http://www.wabisabimoab.org/)


for logo, anything involving a cherry tree...

http://books.google.com/books?id=E7dHf3DuyfEC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=cherry+tree+cradle+to+cradle&source=bl&ots=3PaC_lsG7w&sig=FmIv2rNEHv-KMzbVgTYhxW3vwgk&hl=en&ei=ktTeSZP_Et-InAfAlaSmCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#PPA72,M1

provided that's not too much of a stretch. everything has a recycling
arrow on it. it's trite, overused, and approaching meaningless.

thoughts?

open book, find purpose.

consider the cherry tree: thousands of blossoms create fruit for birds, humans, and other animals, in order that one pit might eventually fall onto the ground, take root, and grow. who would look at the ground littered with cherry blossoms and complain, "how inefficient and wasteful!" the tree makes copious blossoms and fruit without depleting its environment. once they fall on the ground, their materials decompose and break down into nutrients that nourish microorganisms, insects, plants, animals, and soil. although the tree actually makes more of its "product" than it needs for its own success in an ecosystem, this abundance has evolved ... to serve rich and varied purposes.