tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81815618864453107432024-02-06T21:46:32.028-08:00F A S H I O N T H R O P EV E R M O N T • S T Y L E • F A S H I O N • C U L T U R E Mark Ezra Merrillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06436376956719546332noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181561886445310743.post-43614294362596513122021-04-01T23:44:00.001-07:002021-04-01T23:44:29.064-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CjrybMr7bEo" width="320" youtube-src-id="CjrybMr7bEo"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Mark Ezra Merrillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06436376956719546332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181561886445310743.post-1677190918750675962018-06-08T07:44:00.001-07:002021-04-08T13:01:20.378-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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Good Morning Amerikkka. An yes, that’s uncomfortable. Is it not? The verbiage itself “Amerikkka” is borrowed from a title of a poem by the much beloved poet August Bleed. I’ve use this nomenclature often in titles of my artworks, but it wasn’t until my friend, and social activist, Olivia Lapierre, inquired if I had ever considered the pain using such a title might inflict upon individuals—that I really even really questioned why, how and to whom such pain was being directed, as my assumption was, I believed it to be obvious. It's a tear a slight against the system. It names the thing itself to be resisted. It's a rage of contempt and irony against the machine. That is, anyways, my belief.<br />
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Belief, of course is always a passive non-action, and why do I say this? Because I believe it is... our belief or belief systems are a hodgepodge of values, experience, privileges and lack thereof, hopes, fears, dreams, desires, and wishes—who we are, the core of being, it is the truth in which we walk.<br />
Belief, I believe, is always a passive non-action, and why do I say this? Lol, because I believe it is... any belief or belief system is a hodgepodge of personal values, experience, economic privilege (or lack thereof), hopes, fears and... dreams. And where are we without our dreams? What we actively incorporate into this belief system is dogma.<br />
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The enfircable guidelines of both spoken and unspoken memes that are responsible for things like say, a Starbucks Employee calling 911 on and individual whose skin color was not there own, and a nation divided on lines of the guilty and fearful with backstepping and retroactive racial bias band-aid trainings, and the even more insidious those whose response was the absence of.<br />
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In another corner of the same dilemma there is the active compliance of this dysfunction. I just spent the past several hours in a non-conversation with <i>support@monday </i>Monday.com is a flashy <i>bling-bling like</i> visual organizational tool that may have shown-up somewhere on your Advo-sphere. And I’ve been really thinking this is exactly the thingamajig that I could really use at this particularly moment of upheaval in my life. Yet, their advertising is somewhat deceptive. Signing up for a "free account" is a bit of a stretch, don't ya think fellas? I’m not sure how many of you realize this, but I've been without a paycheck since 2008 (which exception of a short part-time 6 month stint) to immerse myself in this experiment of the Main Street Museum and that opportunity to do so is so rare. So when what I thought was advertised as a free account turned into an "expired trial account" I got really pissy fast (see current blog post). And ya, I'm being overly harsh on these guys, but it symbolizes my struggle, the larger struggle i see that stifles innovation––let's call it what it is––capitalist exclusionary dogma.<br />
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<b class="">From:</b> MEM <<a href="mailto:markezramerrill@gmail.com">markezramerrill@gmail.com</a>> <br class="" /><b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, April 06, 2018 6:32 AM<br class="" /><b class="">To:</b> Essy Hart <<a href="mailto:ehart@bunim-murray.com">ehart@bunim-murray.com</a>><br class="" /><b class="">Subject:</b> Re: 215929<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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Hello Essy, is it ok to send supplementary material to the link i was provided? My interviewer and I are planning to shoot some more video on Saturday. Also I failed to notice my license had expired this past Birthday 3.21–i have a passport scan i can send also.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<i style="color: #ea9999;">Let's see, there's a cope of your id, lots of sketches, an looks like a four, five... seven page additional statement written in crayon (love it) of purpose written in crayon All we have is a statement written in crayon (love it) and sketches photo's of any of your work.</i></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i>eM</i>: (Nervous Laughter) Well, that's because, Augh (more nervous laughter) that's because </span><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">(Nervous Laughter) I just finshed my first design yesterday and the show was yesteday to so I had to mail the application before 5 because of the deadline but I've been working on those question for a while and been sketching for a year... and well could take any photos until after I had to mail the application...</span><br />
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<i style="color: #ea9999;">Amanda</i><span style="color: #ea9999;">, "Hi––thank you so much for applying we just got your application and everything looks good but, everything here your application, your video and yes, your portfolio, but it seems you must have forgotten to include the other photographs of work samples, because there's I only see one.... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"> and I didn't have time to make another, I guess but, I've already got an for the next one, and I'm like starting that as soon as I get home from work, and I really, really think that even though I have no experience, I mean I just sat down at a sewing machine for the first time three weeks ago, but I've been designing every night in my head and i did all these sketches and I really think that this is going to work in my favor, serious, because </span><i style="color: #b4a7d6;">I don't know</i><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">... (slowing down a bit to annunciate my words) you know what I mean...?</span></div>
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<i style="color: #b4a7d6;">Me:</i><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"> "Yea, but you see, I think, that's really going to work for me, you see, because, I'm not going to think like everybody else, and I mean––really what's at the core of fashion? When you pull every thing away.... It's the "Thought" (emphasized)... so that puts us on an equal playing field––and that means I'll be solely relying on the creativity of that moment, right then and their an not my pre-conceptions–– that means I won't have any hang-ups... OMFG this would be the best thing in the world... can you imagine... just solely relying on my creativity only to problem solve each challenge, I'm that would be my angle––to have use my creativity alone with no experience, WOW, I mean it's not just an angle, because that's what I would have to do, but WOW could you imagine––this would be my once in a lifetime opportunity to rise above everything everyone knows about fashion, to make fashion from ideas that I don't even have, that's fucking innovation. I'm telling you, and I am so ready to bring it... this is the challenge of my life I've been waiting for... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">I would like, if I may, to take you on many a strange journey with an insiders look into the highs and lows of this, my often scandalous, always surreal, and not at all, topsy turvy, life as a Designer. And you wont get this anywhere else folks (and if you do I need to know who from). Even better, if you subscribe FASHIONTHROPE VIP, you'll get the un-edited <i>first thought best thought</i> copy of this post, too... and there will be nothing I can do about it, except maybe apologize in person if I need to (and yup that's a two way street). You see, getting ones thoughts down is crucial, but so too is writing to your audience. So I write, Post, and then re-write, and you'll be aghast, I'm sure over how much effort goes into these posts, which may I hope leave you with a lasting impression of 1) how much I care about the subject I am writing about, and B) the importance of just the right touch of that special brand of slapstick humor, that, well let me put it this way, no one has approached me never, ever and said said note worth points Merrill, but you tone of righting is just a bit too caviler, and well, I'm afraid the audience you are trying to reach are just not going to take you seriously (the absolute best case scenario I pray for every day) however the reality is as much as I try, and as determined as I am, to say those things that connect me to the significance of whatever I'm rambling on about––the feedback is always the same––no can care about what your writing because they don't know what your righting about––and up until today, I hadn't really cared. But thanks to my very first VIP Subscriber who does get it, and finally after all these years, weather she knew it or note, gave me exactly what I need and had and been lacking for so long. Affirmation. Don't worry I'll be hitting you with all heavy shit I can through at you, yet Goddess, I pray may I do it with a little more... style. </span><span style="color: #76a5af;"> </span></div>
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I'm finding the questions I'm asking myself the most these days are "<i>Is there enough 'realness' here</i>" or "Ok, that's dome the next step would be what" yet truthfully though its mostly 'You're kidding me seriously, where glasses, again? Things like that, because the more you think about what your thinking about or saying, the more realness you find.</div>
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<br />"'w<i>hat's potential without possibility, anyway?</i>",<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">When </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">If it's possible to look close enough at realness of the reality we inhabit what's really there? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">we find there are many realities, and possibilities of realities, and that the greatest degree of freedom there is an </span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">ability to join, move with, and then </span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">pass through the each of these variables. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">each one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">The Freedom we employ</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> 5to pass through is developed proportional relationship developed between the to the variables which comprise</span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> a sum total of each degree of movement we find ourselves either willing or unwilling, able or unable to commit to. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I believe our innate capacity to be free is a radical statement, it is our willingness to be free, and any six year old can understand that, don't you think?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> movement (this 'passing through' of perspectives). In the simplest of terms our capacity to be free is equal to the s</span><br /><br />Over the past several years, what I've most contemplated is the win-win scenario and how best to best engage, present, enhance this outcome. I was first introduced to the meta-dialog of this particular 'win-win' branding of competition by the reality tv series Project Runway–though I would hardly know it at the time. And then how could I?</div>
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There's a lot I can say (as the well as the people around me who know me best) about my relationship to this reality television program. After the last round of applying to the show in 2013 (mind you this was a program I once vowed you'd have to tie me to a chair Clockwork Orange style before I would ever watch such vile parades of ego's pomp n circumstance)––it was obvious I needed an intervention of some sort, because i had risked everything––and not to fulfill some fleshy fantasy of mine about spotlights and cheering of how wonderful the thrill of victory would be––but actually, just to make it to the next round––and there was good reason to believe I would.</div>
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On September 24th (my sisters birthday) I went to NYC via Amtrack and stood in line and waited in like to apply the next morning (Another Birthday of a dear, dear friend who has supported in me in every way) for The Open Casting Call of PR's Season 13 Redux.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Real & Ready Early Birds – <i style="font-size: small;">Defne Husrevoglo</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> & </span><i style="font-size: small;">Mark E Merrill</i><br />
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I strongly suggest anyone who shares my obsession even if your not really sure or confident about your chances that you do this at least once! A word of advice though to those of you seriously considering taking on this noble journey (<i>and especially if that time you stood in line-all night for Bon Jovi tickets was the best night of your life)</i> let me burst that bubble of you right now, because if you don't walk away from that experience wishing you could find the Red-Cross tents outside prepared for the emergence psychoanalytical counseling you desperately now need, you certainly are more worthy than I. But, if you decide to take that risk, you'll meet people coming from every corner of the globe––with so much passion and so much talent with so many stories of what it took for them to be where they are now... I guarantee you this if you bring with you every ounce of passion you have, and you are willing to engage with those around you, that night itself will be far more rewarding than the fact that you didn't get cast––but really, what are the odds of that actually happening? </div>
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Yet there always will be days of strange and beautiful magic. This is Part 1 of my memory of <span style="text-align: center;"><b>Friday, April 23, 2010 the day after my first application to be considered as a contestant for "the program" was submitted:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Hello–Mr. Merrill? Amanda from Project Runway calling...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>Me: (short silence)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda: Hi, how are you doing today!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>Me: (Inaudible gasp) "Ummm wow, really? I guess I must be doing pretty f**** I guess, remarkable, considering I speaking with now, yea, yup couldn't be better... that's for sure... Hi Amanda! wow</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda: (laughs) I'm so glad to hear that (laughs) that just made may day! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>Me: "No, really, it is wow...."</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #ea9999;">Amanda: </span><span style="color: #ea9999;">(laughs) </span><span style="color: #ea9999;"> I just wanted to let you know we received your application for Project Runaway today that you overnighted us, and yes, everything looks good, and there's a note here asking me to call you s</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">aying, "Forgot work samples!"</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Ok, so let's look at what you have here, there's your application, I see both cds, here's your head shot, and Oh, isn't that sweet, we <u>love</u> pets here at PR Casting.... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>>insert incidental pet talk< </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><span style="color: #ea9999;">Amanda: ...I'm sure your right, he's gonna bring you lots of luck! (Laughs) </span>Ok, your portfolio, lets see we have sketches, lots and lots of sketches and these are... I see some additional statements written in crayon, (love it), but, yes, that's all that's here, do you think you may just have forgoten to include them?</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Me</span><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">: Well, (nervous laugh) that's because there aren't any, I mean there are but.. No, the show was last night and I had to mail the application and I was still working on the design, but that machine was from hell let me tell you, so yes. I didn't have them... but I've been thinking about this for a while, something said just do it... </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda: I'm sorry, could you run that be me one more time?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>Me: "I've only sewn one dress in my life, and that was yesterday, and there wasn't time to include any photos in my application... because the deadline was yesterday...." </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda: So, let me make sure I've got this right... You didn't send us work samples because you didn't start sewing until yesterday?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>Me: April 10th, 2010 actually. That was when I began sewing, up until then I had never touch</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>a sewing machine before, ever... but I've been designing in my head alot and I been sketching for about a year.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda: And you don't have any photos of this design you did yesterday?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>Me: No I have tons, it was my first show too. Not mine, but you know the first time I had a look walk the runway. I ask every one who took photos at the show they would send me copies because I was applying to the show and it was first design but I didn't want to miss the deadline so I sent them in without any.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda: So you do, if gave you and e-mail could an you send them to us, today, right now?</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Me: There're all uploaded on my blog I can just send you the link</span><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda: Ok, even better here's e-mail it's <insert email address here> and remember send me that link as soon as you get this and I'm going to show this to the producers right now and someone should get back to you, right away, Ok? And if they don't call or e-mail me Ok.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>Me: Of course! Yes, absolutely this is so great, because it's the reason I'm going this that's so Important, you see everyone things I'm nuts, for walking into this with no experience, but to me that's the whole reason I'm so motivated to do this... I mean––really what's at the core of fashion? Because when you begin to pull every apart.... It's the "Thought" (emphasized)... so that puts us on an equal playing field––and that means I'll be solely relying on the creativity of that moment, right then and their an not my pre-conceptions–– that means I won't have any hang-ups... OMFG this would be the best thing in the world... can you imagine... just solely relying on my creativity only to problem solve each challenge, I'm that would be my angle––to have use my creativity alone with no experience, WOW, I mean it's not just an angle, because that's what I would have to do, but WOW could you imagine––this would be my once in a lifetime opportunity to rise above everything everyone knows about fashion, to make fashion from ideas that I don't even have, that's fucking innovation. I'm telling you, and I am so ready to bring it... this is the challenge of my life I've been waiting for... but please for give me I'm rambling on </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda: No that's totally Ok, just send that link to as as soon as you can, Ok?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><i>Me: Ok!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffe599; text-align: center;"><i>TO BE CONTINUED</i></span></div>
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Mark Ezra Merrillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06436376956719546332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181561886445310743.post-65270366561477248912018-04-08T04:04:00.003-07:002021-04-08T13:01:40.090-07:00Survival of the Weakest, Entropy & The Revolution West<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”― Albert Einstein</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"I get a little strength out to you or is it meekness?" </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">–Steven John Kilbey, Paradox</span></i></div>
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The question I'm asking myself the most these days is "How much 'realness' or even 'potential realness' is there really to go around? How real is this? How real am I?<br />
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<i>In the reality we inhabit and there are many realities, and possibilities of realities, I think that the greatest degree of freedom one posses to pass between these many people, places and perspectives remains forever balanced by Newton's 3rd Law of Motion (well, at least on this terrestrial sphere). Therefore Freedom we employ is proportional to that movement (the 'passing through' of perspectives) and this movement is essential is Newton's 2nd Law, meaning it is equal to the sum total of each degree of movement we find ourselves willing and able to commit to. Other words, it is equal to our own innate capacity to do so, and any six year old can Understand that, don't you think?</i><br />
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Over the past several years, what I've most contemplated is the win-win scenario and how best to best engage, present, enhance this outcome. I was first introduced to the meta-dialog of this particular 'win-win' branding of competition by the reality tv series Project Runway–though I would hardly know it at the time. And then how could I?<br />
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There's a lot I can say (as the well as the people around me who know me best) about my relationship to this reality television program. After the last round of applying to the show in 2013 (mind you this was a program I once vowed you'd have to tie me to a chair Clockwork Orange style before I would ever watch such vile parades of ego's pomp n circumstance)––it was obvious I needed an intervention of some sort, because i had risked everything––and not to fulfill some fleshy fantasy of mine about spotlights and cheering of how wonderful the thrill of victory would be––but actually, just to make it to the next round––and there was good reason to believe I would.<br />
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On September 24th (my sisters birthday) I went to NYC via Amtrack and stood in line and waited in like to apply the next morning (Dff's Birthday) for the Season 13 (Redux)––after it's my number––again! And I strongly suggest anyone who shares my obsession even if your not really sure or confident about your chances that you do this at least once!<br />
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<i>A word of advice though to you seriously considering taking on this noble journey (and especially if that time you stood in line-all night for Bon Jovi tickets was the best night of your life) let me burst that bubble of you now, because if you don't walk away from that experience wishing you could find the Red-Cross tents outside prepared for the emergence psychoanalytical counseling you desperately now need, you certainly are more worthy than I. But, if you decide to take that risk, you'll meet people coming from every corner of the globe––with so much passion and so much talent with so many stories of what it took for them to be where they are now... I guarantee you this if you bring with you every ounce of passion you have, and you are willing to engage with those around you, that night itself will be far more rewarding than the fact that you didn't get cast––but what are the odds of that? </i><br />
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I first applied for PR in 2010 and got a call back ("Hello, this is Amanda from Project Runway") First time, did I lose my shit or what?<br />
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<b>That conversation, while not verbatim, went something like this:</b><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i>Me</i>: As timid and curious as a church mouse"H-h-hello....."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda</i>, "Hi––thank you so much for applying we just got your application and everything looks good but, everything here your application, your video and yes, your portfolio, but it seems you must have forgotten to include the other photographs of work samples, because there's I only see one.... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i>Me</i>: "Well, (nervous laugh) that's because there's just that one... right now... I just finished it yesterday and the Revolution Runway show was last night and the last day for applications was today... and I didn't have time to make another, I guess but, I've already got an for the next one, and I'm like starting that as soon as I get home from work, and I really, really think that even though I have no experience, I mean I just sat down at a sewing machine for the first time three weeks ago, but I've been designing every night in my head and i did all these sketches and I really think that this is going to work in my favor, serious, because <i>I don't know</i>... (slowing down a bit to annunciate my words) you know what I mean...?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda:</i> "Ok, wow, well, yes, of course, I mean..... so you you're saying you just have that one dress and nothing else and you just started sewing three weeks ago... that's what your tell me, I just want to make sure...."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i>Me:</i> "Yhea, but you see, I think, that's really going to work for me, you see, because, I'm not going to think like everybody else, and I mean––really what's at the core of fashion? When you pull every thing away.... It's the "Thought" (emphasized)... so that puts us on an equal playing field––and that means I'll be solely relying on the creativity of that moment, right then and their an not my pre-conceptions–– that means I won't have any hang-ups... OMFG this would be the best thing in the world... can you imagine... just solely relying on my creativity only to problem solve each challenge, I'm that would be my angle––to have use my creativity alone with no experience, WOW, I mean it's not just an angle, because that's what I would have to do, but WOW could you imagine––this would be my once in a lifetime opportunity to rise above everything everyone knows about fashion, to make fashion from ideas that I don't even have, that's fucking innovation. I'm telling you, and I am so ready to bring it... this is the challenge of my life I've been waiting for... </span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i>Amanda:</i> Oh, Mark, Wow, well listen, I'm going to tell our Producers what you said, and show them what you made and someone get right back to you, Ok?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i>Me:</i> COOL! Wow, OMG, YES I mean I can really DO THIS, YES! Thank you... (welling up with tears)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">Amanda, "Ok, Now I'm going to show this to the producers, but thy are really really busy, so if you don't hear back I'm going to give you my e-mail, Ok?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i>Me:</i> Ok, YES! Of COURSE (Trying to conceal the fact that I'm weeping tears of joy and wonderment) WOW OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH, AMANDA, I MEAN WOW..."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">Amanda, "Ok, here's my e-mail do you have a pen? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Me: (sniffles) "Uhuh.."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">Amanda: Ok, Good, it's A. M. A....."</span><br />
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I MEAN, WOW I CAN"T BELEIVE IT< THANK YOU SO MUCH...<br />
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COOL! Wow, OMG, YES I mean I can really DO THIS, YES! Thank you... (welling up with tears)<br />
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Well I see then, that's interesting Huh, well let me see... I guess<br />
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you mean you don't have other really... no others? Just that one dress is all you have?<br />
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it's the first thing I've ever made and I just premiered it last night and don't have another one to show you... (overnighted it deadline was that day)"<br />
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and if you're open to itand hear their stories, as I did––that is ––because through out you'll hear the most amazing and heart breaking stories there are of how you all came to be where you are now.<br />
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I so greatly looked forward to finally knowing what the aroma of the Pacific Ocean was actually going to smell like. I paused and exhaled deeply. Holding my breath I exited the cab and closed the door behind me. And then it was there, across from <i>The Gap</i> on Columbus and Chestnut I inhaled deeply my first breath of Pacific California West Coast Sunshine Air––and I couldn't be more perplex.<br />
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By the next exhale everything went all Keriok (and I'm a Burroughs man through and through) and I'm enveloped by this thick perpetually fresh aroma of the richest dark brew coffee bean––who new the Pacific had no oder? That messed with my head, royally. But I continued to live in San Francisco from September 1988 until June 6, 1995 (apparently if you do the math as i did on that long bus ride back homeward, and if you exclude my time spent in Victoria, Seattle and Arizona I was leaving SF exactly Six years, Six months, and Six days after I arrived––I don't know but it all seemed about right). But this was just the first of many revelations.<br />
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This year our 'happy trip' is to Wells Beach, Maine––and this time I know something no on else does about this demarcation point, abd this is the momnet I know I'm no langer a child. I'm no longer a child. But even for a ten year old a 2.5 hr car ride seemed all of eternity. And it was always the same story just 3/4 of the way in either our infighting caused the hammer to crack down on us and we'd ride the rest of the way in icy silence or we'd have fallen asleep or just about thought you could no longer take it and die right there on the spot, but after the dearcation point all would be forgiven. because last year when dad was with us I marked the spot visually on the way in and then on the home home got the millage from dad, and I now knew how far it was in in both directions and I was gonna impress in a big, big because I was in love with my best freind in a big big way even though we we'rnt sharing the front seat together...<br />
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It was about three weeks after my life in North Beach that I witnessed the first expnsion of my conscounsees as it related to social naritive and public discouse of public/street/and graffitti Art. As I had noticed one particular small sized stencle usually in white or white and red EVERYWHERE. I'd turn a corn boom there it was... glance down at the pavenent before crossing the street boom.. there it was... out side the grocery story boom, telephone pole boom. bust shelter. News rack. Mail box. And after seeing that same stencil, I became that 1ooth monkies because I stopped in my tracks and thought to myself, "Ya... What is it?"What is it that I value?" And yea.... what is it all you muthr fuckrs vallue." I was now a street artist, but didn't know it then either.<br />
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I do find a still point in acts of creation, usually further down the troth in ‘the’ design process. Aughh... and yes, the machine forth sewing... how it does bring forth that still point... the textiles, smells, the aroma, the act itself a marvelous dance that every oz. of my being is applied. Why were we, as an organization, so reluctant to go back there? I think this is the right question to ask. </div>
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I fear this question is far from rhetorical. I’ve spent the last year charting a value system that I wish to see a non-profit founded upon––specifically to promote Fashion Art/Public Art––and the possibilities those two forces combined could manifest. These ideas have been put to the test, given their <i>ritual run</i> here at the MSM and now have been spit out––like a seed to sprout-up elsewhere––as have I, but un-like Jonna I never asked to be separated from the entrails of this non-profit––yet neither am I casting aspersions––everything has a reason, if you can find it––and really want to.... Yet for this no-fault travesty, I can see how it begun, and yes, it was the election of Donald Trump, herself (and yes, that does need a bit of explaining!)<br />
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There is an art to masculinization, as there is to feminization. In the wrong hands, or applied for the wrong reasons such elements are either taken for granted or misused entirely. If the use of the feminine pro-noun ‘her’ associated w/ one DT causes you discomfort or anxiety--there certainly is enough of that these days to go around, now isn’t there? I should like to write more about this feminism prospective and Trump I've conjured, but I’m not here at this moment to promote this thesis, not quite yet.<i> </i>But let me say this: <i>the pen is mightier than the sword; and not just because it can sign checks--digg it? </i> <i>(Read: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs">Charles Eisenstein’s writings on the Gift Economy</a>)</i></div>
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Of the many things one can say I do not lack is vision. Since 2012 this vision has been to bring Educational Outreach Programming to this community, specifically an education far from academic.<br />
This determination is based solely on first hand observation of need within certain "underserved" populations of our community.<br />
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One of the first ‘unexpected’ consequences of DT was the backlash that this organization and I, myself, personally experienced--not direct towards--but coming from the most liberal of all factions. This was devastating and soul wrenching and remains completely unexplained other than by some collective/progressive mass hysteria (a positive feminine force of (<i>blind</i>) justice countering the (<i>random feminine</i>) power of creation/destruction––now symbolized by the very weak male identity of DT <i>himself</i>.).<br />
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April 4th is the anniversary of the Main Street Museum’s foray into fashion. There is no real reason (for what I see as a travesty) other than the failure of a sustain vision of what once was and the potential of what could be––and for this failure, I, indubitably, see a direct connection to the 2016 presidential elections––and am somewhat bewildered that no one else in my immediate circle sees this connection as i do––but then again, how could they... LOL<br />
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In 1992 the eccentric, David Fairbanks Ford (DFF), opens his home--the abandoned lunch counter, Lena’s Lunch’ on the newly ‘up 'n coming’ S. Main Street here in White River Junction, VT--as an exhibition space an cabinet of curiosity. Fast Forward >> to 1997 when I come into the picture--The Main Street Museum of Art (the ‘of Art’ later formally dropped) had become an Alt. Phenomena in & of itself, so much so, that DFF expressed a desire to incorporate as a non-profit, and at this point I become in action and on paper the MSM’s ‘vice president’––just like Clair Underwood once was. </div>
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In 2005, I assist on yet another start-up, The ‘J.E.W.E.L. School’ (Justified Education With Experiential Learning) later to become ‘Bryant Academy’ (BA) in Claremont and Henniker, NH. In 2008 I leave the MSM and immerse myself full-time in the field of primary and secondary education and see the career path ahead as an academic one (mind you it would be another two years before I would ever press the peddle of a sewing machine). Fast Forward again to August 2012 and everything changes for me when my home in Claremont, NH is robbed and vandalized--to such an extent that I leave Claremont and return to White River to work full-time once again with DFF & the MSM (Bryant Academy having since closed it’s doors in 2010–via a perfect storm involving state DOE corruption--oh, let me tell you what a joy that was).</div>
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Deeply saddened by the closing of BA two years prior, I am overjoyed to bring a new skill set to my new directive of community arts & education. In 2015 we launch the MSM’s first EOP (Educational Outreach Programming)––the Fashion Arts Collective and beginning a year of planning for it’s second EOP--‘Representation Matters’ and in 2016 we are wildly successful with each--and begin planning for a Mural Arts and Visiting Artist Program until in 2017 when it all falls apart (after I might add the largest, and in many, many ways the most successful MSM Fashion Arts event of them all) . If you’re involved with this institution I'm sure you may have your own opinion as to the ‘state of things’ but I see it like this: Those who fear losing everything will risk nothing, while those who have nothing to lose, will bet everything they have again & again & again––until they get it right. </div>
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I was sure in 2012 that by going all in at the Main Street Museum I was getting it right (and I’m still not entirely convinced I have not). ‘Stronger Together’ was not simply a campaign slogan as much as it is a philosophy––once which I ascribe to completely. I wonder how many ‘break-ups’ and splintering and failed attempts at very worthy causes you, yourself, have experienced since her majesty DT has taken office? (and for those who see my gender-bending commentary as a derogatory comment towards women, "Yes, to some at first it may seem as such, but trust me, it's not", said the white privileged male).<br />
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With out our symbols, or rather without the faith in these symbols, we are nothing. As of Nov 10, 2016––these symbols are now gone––all of them, and some will argue they were all gone well before that––that is if they ever existed at all. So, there ya go, you can finally get a good nights sleep––it's only the total obliteration of our most deeply held 'collective subconscious symbols' (not like it hasn't happened before). So now, considering this dialog how far-out out on this 'collective' limb are you willing to crawl out? This is the deepest insecurity of them all, because we now do it for ourselves and crate our own––in this shit show (boycott school kids).<br />
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Of DFF and the MSM I will never say an unkind or untrue word, as the founder of this institution is long suffering, generous to a fault as well as a man of equal vision. Our visions are just different and now diverge. My vision is to expand, explore and adapt. While David's (<i>I suspect, you'd have to ask him)</i> wishes to contract, specialize and focus. And all of these goals are worthy to their cause, it’s just that silly ol' meme come to life–––sort of––"<i>this on-profit ain't big enough for the both of us</i>..." and sure maybe 200 years ago the right thing to do would be to duel it out in the streets—but this ain't <i>Back to the Future Part III</i> either... because we both seek the win-win scenario.<br />
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<span class="s2">Please join us for <b>Sunday, January 29th @ 2:00pm </b>for our first development meeting for the Main Street Museum’s Annual Spring Fashion Event.</span></div>
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<span class="s2">White River Junction refuses to stop innovating. If you’ve been wishing there’ll be something you can really get behind in 2017, the wait might be not too much longer! After nearly two decades of inspired, revolutionary DIY fashion events, WRJ will soon get its first look into a new two-year <b>FASHION ARTS DEGREE PROGRAM</b> under development at the Main Street Museum.</span></div>
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<span class="s2">For the <b>2017 Spring Fashion Collective</b> we currently have volunteer and paid positions open for the following Department Teams:</span></div>
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<li><b>Team Chevron</b>––Swag Gatherers, Tickets Management, “Day of” Ushers & House Management</li>
<li><b>Team Neoprene</b>––Social media, Web-management, Publications, and Photography, Direct Advertising</li>
<li><b>Team Tartan</b>––Gofers, Model Wranglers, Backstage Manager, Hair & Make-up Technicians.</li>
<li><b>Team Stretch Denim (Black)</b>––Sound & Lighting Technicians, Pre, Post, and After Manager & DJs</li>
<li><b>Team Faux Fur</b>––Designers, Models, Lead Developers, Organizers, Fundraisers</li>
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If you’re interested in being a part of our<i> very dynamic production, </i>please contact me e-mail at <a href="mailto:markezramerrill@gmail.com"><span class="s3">markezramerrill@gmail.com</span></a> <span class="s2"></span></div>
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In 2002 Kim Souza began a Revolution, and I don’t just mean the eclectic boutique in the Gates Block where you’ll find thoughtful selections from the most recognized names in the industry right-alongside the latest from local fashion designers. Perhaps you’re aware (if not already having personally benefited from) the latest Renaissance of White River Junction beginning in 2002 and continuing to present. Recently inquiring about our neighboring sister to the south, Claremont, NH, Senator David Pierce asked, “What formula” was responsible for WRJ's current boom years? If I were to attempt to answer the Senator’s question I’d have to say, “It was… R e v o l u t i o n ”.<br />
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On the surface, the Revolution of WRJ is quite simple, people with similar or common purposes form alliances to better serve a community as a whole, and over time develop infrastructures, each supporting their own unique economy of culture, which ideally, enriches a community by offering more opportunities to those who live within it. Souza’s Revolution has done precisely this by forging a much recognized and celebrated cultural economy, she has simultaneously nurtured the emergence of a visible and active Local Design Community. And so it is, after 24 seasons, when sheer success and the popularity of Kim’s Tip Top Couture Spring and Fall Fashion events roused a production scale too large to manage bi-annually, WRJ premiered its first annual Spring Collective in 2015, a new runway event hosted by the Main Street Museum featuring 100% local designers.<br />
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What’s next you ask? Well, you can never plan the future by the past, or at least so says Edmund Burke. But if you ask me, it’s the mojo responsible for the success of Kim Souza’s Revolutionary Runway and birth of Main Street Museum’s Spring Collective that has the potential to take things to another level. Right now, the goal is the continued growth and nurturing of our local design community. Later, who knows; White River Junction is home to a Cartoon School, so why not a new Fashion Institute as well? </blockquote>
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Designer & Co-founder Fashion Weekend White River Junction 2016</blockquote>
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<span class="s1" style="font-size: x-large;">Under the charm of the Dionysian not only is the union between man and man reaffirmed, but nature which has become alienated, hostile, or subjugated, celebrates once more her reconciliation with her lost son, man. Freely, earth proffers her gifts, and peacefully the beasts of prey of the rocks and desert approach. The chariot of Dionysus is covered with flowers and garlands; panthers and tigers walk under its yoke. Transform Beethoven’s “Hymn to Joy” into a painting; let your imagination conceive the multitudes bowing to the dust, awestruck - then you will approach the Dionysian. Now the slave is a free man; now all the rigid, hostile barriers that necessity, caprice or “impudent convention” have fixed between man and man are broken. Now, with the gospel of universal harmony, each one feels himself not only united, reconciled, and fused with his neighbor, but as one with him, as if the veil of Maya had been torn aside and were now merely fluttering in tatters before the mysterious primordial unity. In song and in dance man express himself as a member of a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying into the air, dancing. His very gestures express enchantment. Just as the animals now talk, and the earth yields milk and honey, supernatural sounds emanate from him, too: he feels himself a god, he himself now walks about enchanted, in ecstasy, like the gods he saw walking in his dreams. He is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: in the paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the primordial unity. The noblest clay, the most costly marble, man, is here kneaded and cut, and to the sound of the chisel strokes of the Dionysian world-artist rings out the cry of the Eleusinian mysteries: “Do you prostrate yourselves millions? Do you sense your Maker, world?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;"><b>d i s i t e r a t e</b> –– the term, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">to my knowledge, </span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">first</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;"> imagined by <a href="http://disiterate.com/index.php?/about/biography/" target="_blank">ethan showshan</a>, <i>a</i> <i>young</i> <i>radically-hip </i></span><i style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">self-proclaimed urban social ecologist,</i><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;"> as an etymological, albeit aesthetic, deconstruction –– </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">lends itself to </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">White River Junction's first </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">"one of" spring fashion show to be hosted by the phenomena, which is the </span></span><a href="http://www.mainstreetmuseum.org/" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;" target="_blank">Main Street Museum</a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">. Stay-tuned for up-coming details!</span></span></div>
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<br />Mark Ezra Merrillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06436376956719546332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181561886445310743.post-17043835131456436542014-08-26T03:17:00.000-07:002021-04-08T13:01:48.908-07:00Culture vs Economy vs Community<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="font-size: small;">Khulekani Msweli is a designer and entrepreneur visiting the Upper Valley from the Kingdom of Swaziland on a fellowship to Dartmouth College. He was selected to participate in the 2014 Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and will be visiting Washington DC later this year to be adressed in a private ceremony by President Obama. I asked Mr. Msweli, </i><i style="font-size: small;">after meeting him at Revolution last week,</i><i style="font-size: small;"> to share some thoughts on fashion, design, and community...</i><br />
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A design community, to me, means being surrounded by like minded people within the design industry, who are not only there as designers doing their own thing, but are collaborative, incubators of innovation, and are there to grow with me, hold my back if I'm falling and celebrate our victories. I'm one of those people that did not grow up dreaming of becoming a designer, I was more into fine art and I had taken that as a subject, in school. The tipping point came during my last years of high school when I had to start thinking about my career choice, naturally I had thought Fine Art is my direction, which then posed many questions to my parents as they asked me to research more in to it and see if it offers much in terms of a sustainable living. That halted me in my career steps but then led me into fashion, as I had been accustomed to my family habits of custom made tailored clothes, thus fascinated by it all. I then thought I can combine my art skills with the business of fashion. With more research, I actually realized that I can study fashion design and later on become self employed, running my own company, and that was very appealing to me. My parents were very supportive of the career choice and have continued to be my greatest fans, so great in fact my father is a share holder in the company that I eventually started.</div>
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<span class="s1">That then led me to studying Fashion Design with Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University in England. My time in England, especially interning at the Marios Schwab studio, in London, taught me a lot about the industry, sharpened my focus and positioned me to be able to take my acquired skills back to my home country, the Kingdom of Swaziland, and start my own business. The journey has not been easy but being awarded with various accolades has helped in soothing some of the pain and taking a deep breathe towards the following day. </span>I'm currently the founder and co-director of JEREMPAUL, which was established in 2010 as a fashion brand but has evolved into a lifestyle brand, as we are now not only producing and selling clothing but also home ware, food and art. My role is to create the annual collections across the divisions of fashion and home ware, creatively direct the vision of the company and make sure that innovation and high quality remain intact. Due to the nature of how all JEREMPAUL products are designed and produced, following ethical principles, having them locally handmade, and utilizing the best possible materials, has made our products to fall within the premium category.</div>
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<span class="s1">Doing all that would not be possible without an amazing team and our patrons. At JEREMPAUL I pride myself in having a really mind boggling team, that goes from young to really old. All the people that I work with are very special because they have specialist skills in old age skills of fabric dying, beading, embroidery, weaving, tailoring, knitting and wood carving. We have become a family that is bound by excellence in what we do, pushing the limits of creativity, yet doing what we all really enjoy. It is trying at times, as I constantly have to seek markets that would be buying into our products, which can be very challenging, yet I push myself to the brink because a lot of families depend on JEREMPAUL remaining in business. So it's never about me but about us and how we can continue to make JEREMPAUL to be amongst the world's most sought after design brands with ethical principles. We believe that we create products that are not fast and disposable but ones that are cherished and passed onto the next generation. </span><br />
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We cannot create another Earth, therefore we have to be very responsible about how we conduct our lives, having checks and balances on whether we are having a positive or negative impact on the planet. That might sound like the old record playing over an over again but unfortunately it has not played long enough because if it had there would have been drastic changes by now. The design industry, especially fashion, has a huge role to play in designing products that are not as disposable as the fast fashion industry has become. Yes, we all have to make a good profit, but when does it become enough and we actually satisfy the needs of customers who are ill informed about the cost of finding a 'bargain' and being able to choose new collections every second month? The future is very frightening from that point of view because the customer and the fashion conglomerates have become more greedy and unsatisfied. On the positive side, the future will be having green shoots of resilience through the design companies that are bringing back the focus to quality over quantity, ethical business and sustainability for all. It is the toughest route to take but I believe it's one that requires all of us designers, throughout the various spectrum of design, to be innovative about how we make these principles mainstream. We, the designers, hold the keys to the creation of a better future, we are the people that start trends, bring ideas to life, so lets not make excuse and point fingers but just create a better future.<span class="s1"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">As a young artist, I was deeply concerned with my 'idea' of artistic purity. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The artist, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">as far as I could tell, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">was the most responsible for the preservation of the highest ideals of all man/ womankind, the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">priestess-king, poet-warrior, and </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">purveyor of truth and beauty.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> I</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">n my mind, the <i>artist</i> was the only antidotal response</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> to our worlds failed instituions. Likewise, I believed nothing embodied </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">their</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> enslaving principles and false ideals </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">better</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> than the <i>fashion industry</i>. F</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ashion, to me, represented everything that 'art' wasn't. Those who created it were suspect, their motivation no doubt nothing less than </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">egotistical glamorization</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> of greed. Nothing good could come of it, this I was certain. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Yet, unlike the enduring distaste of professional sports, there were time to time, in my mind, exceptions to this rule.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The first 'fashion designer' that I ever made any kind of cerebral connection with was <i>Jean Paul Gaultier</i>. <i>Leigh Bowery</i>, a figure I assume we will never fully grasp, yet w</span>hat I saw of his work accomplished everything I believed was good and healthy about the artist's own meme and <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">yet did everything right in my eyes concerning all things fashion. Striking a simular and particular peculiar cord in my heart, <i>Little Edith Beale</i> completed my unholy trinity of fashion icons [</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> could I be the visionary I suspect; see Galliano 2008]</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">. Yet, the more I ponder my development in these years, the more I sense fashion's influence seeping out into my inspiration. Case in point, the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">2004 painting series, </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Woman Standing in Garden,</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> attempts my </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">abstract realization of the life and work of Isabella Stewart Gardner. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Isabella, one could say, was the Heidi Klum of her time. She, herself could have coined the phrase "Fashion Forward" in the 19th century by defying conventions and ushering in her own infectious sense of style. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Whether we care to acknowledge fashions impact</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">, or not, the industry, its history, and its designers reach everywhere and touch everything. This insight, despite my personally held prejudices, would appear to be, sometime later, as plain as the nose on my face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">After </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">my staunch boycott of its first two seasons, I was hooked. Two years later designer and friend, Sigrid Lium (whom I relentlessly cajoled to apply to the show), strongly encouraged me to examine this growing obsession, and dared me to ask the question – was there a latent designer somewhere deep inside of me? </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">It would be another two years before I answered that call and put my lingering suspicions to the test. On April 23, 2010 I turned the sewing machine on for the first time and created what is still fondly referred to by my dearest of friends as "</span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Krazy Kimono</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">". Fast Forward >> present day and I've spent the past four years honing my design skills, creating customized and one of a kind pieces, and educating myself on the key players and practices that does a successful designer make. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Without hesitation</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">, if there is any one person that I can accredit to the impetus behind this transformation, undoubtedly that person would be, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><i>Tim Gunn</i>.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">A read through his "Guide to Style" or "Golden Rules" offers a refreshingly enlightened antidotes to the fashion world's persona non grata. At the heart of my</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> fascination lies</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> an </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">unbridled enthusiasm for </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">what</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> this man does, and </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">how</i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> he does it! <i>Make it work</i>, that is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">When opportunity knocks, and if intuition listens, inspiration may open a door. I've always hoped that w</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ith age, comes wisdom. Now, somewhere in my late 40's if there's a lesson to be found I would say it's this – </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">hedge your bets wisely – determine your strategy quickly and stick with it. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">here are times, yes – when risking everything in order to </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">go all in and shoot for pie in the sky seems the only <i>real</i> choice to make. Yet, h</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ow many times can one afford to loose everything? L</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ike</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> every good obsession, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">insight wears down until it</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> starts to </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">continuously </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">grind </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">against introspection. And it's a</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">fter you've listened </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">long and </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">hard enough </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">to this noise</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">that a </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">possibility of </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">catharsis appears. At this moment the calculated risk now appears to be the soundest of all bets. The connections I choose to foster therefore lie within my immediate environment, as everything I could ever want is here already. The metaphor at work is plainly obvious: problem solve your little heart out; and then seek every opportunity to fix your mistakes. And t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">his just the tip of what begins the upheaval of an assumed point of view. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">When the idea of competition becomes an <i>internal measure, </i>one of stamina, creativity, and resourcefulness – the conflict with the <i>other</i> as the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">antagonist who </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">determines ultimate failure or success – is resolved. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">F</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">olks are often surprised and even resistant to following a logic that suggests </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Project Runway in fact presents a 'win''win' brand of competition. If I imagine a litmus test of this senario, it might look like this: </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The 'win''win' acknowledges compromise, degrees of flexibility, and the inherent unevenness of the playing field on which we all compete. It </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">compensates for this unevenness by allowing as many variables as possible to achieve success while imposing set standards and parameters aplicable to all. S</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ubjectivity is necessary to define meaning, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">assess outcomes or their relevance. This is</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">no a three strikes and you're out ballgame – </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">there's nothing to lose, really, but everything to be gained. It's about how far you can make it, who goes with you, and why you might want to bring them along. A dialog</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> that </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">presents the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">'win''win' </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">as a viable competitive </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">scenario, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">even when that model is fueled</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> by the agenda of popular media, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">may garner enough momentum to finally pushback against </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">outmoded paradigms which demand compliance to a dysfunctional status quo. Yet t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">he world around us changes relentlessly. What once was an idea of <i>artistic purity</i> I now understand as an imperative to nurture the most instructive and constructive opportunities already about us. And when we finally embrace lasting and enduring change, wholeheartedly </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">– it is because this change is good. And </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">I can't think of anything to be more excited about.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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Mark Ezra Merrillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06436376956719546332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181561886445310743.post-43949327222122587802014-05-14T14:04:00.000-07:002014-05-27T11:16:29.649-07:00Passing of an Archetype On May 12, 2014 Hans Rudi Giger passed from this world due to complications of injurys sustained from a fall down a flight of stairs. He was 74. Giger was a definitive archetype of style, and personally, for me, he was the first artist to open otherworldly doorways for my pre-pubescent mind. Giger's designs will never cease to inspire fascination and wonder. They will continue to remind of us of the fragil yet ever-present connection of the wo/man-machine. Like so many visionaries before, Giger birthed a new concept into the dialog of western discourse, that of the <i>biomechanoid. </i>Rest in peace Hans Rudi - for it is you, who are my real father.<br />
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Polish Fashion Designer <i>Malgorzata Dudek </i>brough Giger's inspiration to her ideas of style beginning in spring 2012:<br />
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<i><i>The idea of 'now' is loosely abstract yet tightly woven around the fabric of our lives. </i><i>By c</i><i>hoosing to penetrate its mystery, we choose also to confront this 'idea' of self. </i></i><i><i>Yet we cannot abandon the 'self' anymore than we can abandon the 'now' – we simply must pass through it. </i></i><br />
<i>From the halls of antiquity to the most post-modern sensibility, the great '</i><i>seers' and 'doers' will </i><i>concede that </i><i>the rarest of all gifts – </i><i>are those expressed by an individual voice within a collective identity – one which predisposes the very idea of art, </i><i>science, and, yes, even religion. </i><i>Eventually, every 'idea' merges back into one</i><i> seamless whole. </i><br />
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