SWAP-ERATION

CLOTHING SWAP AND ALTERNATION/MENDING WORKSHOP

In a two part project, jay and I will be hosting a SWAP-ERATION.

Part one of the project is data collection on http://fiberawareness.blogspot.com/

Part two is where we bring it around town/full circle, and encourage everyone to waste and purchase less. The clothing swap is an opportunity for ya'll to bring clothes you'd like to trade, bring clothes you need help mending or altering.

Bring your own booze, we'll have snacks, bring a favorite record or cd, bring any thread or needles you have.

Jay and I will be working on a crazy costume out of the unwanted clothes, so feel free to help out with that!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

12-5pm

come anytime! 714 E 2nd St Bloomington IN 47401

Map update!

Alright, so I've been told I post too much. Now I feel bad for not hardly posting at all in here. Anyway, here are the new updated images for the map. I got a wonderful response from the local International community here in town. Once again thank you to everyone who took the time to email a response before and after I posted the previous thank you. It was much appreciated and it really helped fill out the map. ;)

Okay enough talk, time for pictures. ^_~

Thank you Lwin

I received this email today and decided to share it. Thank you very much for your response Lwin, we appreciate it!

We're asking all visitor's to this site to tell us what we're wearing right now (or your five favorite articles of clothing):



a. The country are you from (for the US what state are you from)?
Burma

b. Pick out three to five items of clothing (shirts, jeans, etc)

1) Longyi (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longyi.jpg)
   made in Burma
   made of cotton

2) Shirt (attached picture, the pants that go with the shirt is was actually bought in the USA (at Gap) and imported from China) :)
   made in Burma
   made of cotton

3) Shan Pants (this picture is of Thai pants, but they are pretty much the same. http://www.flickr.com/photos/peacefulbean/2686370513/)
 made in Burma
 made of cotton


Best,
Lwin
--
http://lwinmoe.friendsofburma.orgwas

Thank you!

I just wanted to send out a thanks to the following people who responded to my email in the last 48 hours. Candace and I really appreciate it and I hope all of you see this. So, a big thanks goes out to:

Lwin Moe, Qi Sheng Liang, Nancy, Hendra, Jingya Wang, Sang Keo Yoo, Yang Li, Alexandra

Sorry if I missed anyone. I'll get up dated pictures of the map to put up as soon as I can. :)

A Shot!

So a while back I asked a question, not really expecting to get an answer. Well, I got up today and was checking through things emails, deviantArt and such. A friend of mine on DA gave my question a shot. *chuckles* Thank you, Rick. :)

Did you know that in North America alone, that around 1.4 billion cotton t-shirts are sound ever year? Talk about another big number that's hard to comprehend. I don't know about you but it's hard for me to wrap my head around something like that. If you took 1.4 billion t-shirts out into a field and piled them all into one big pile how big do you think it would be? If someone who knows how to do things mathematically and wants to give it a shot, please do.

" So... If you take 1.4 billion T-shirts and pile them up, figuring you can pile (my wild guess) 3 T-shirts per inch, the answer is 7365 miles.

1.4 billion T-shirts is ~4.5 T-shirts per person in the US.  

Hey, you're welcome. They'd make a tall stack, which would reach into "medium earth orbit", higher than the Hubble telescope. If it fell over, it would stretch farther than New York to Beijing." V.


I heard a guy give a lecture one time about people and their environments and... He got to talk about numbers somehow and how we have a hard time comprehending really large numbers or distances. This is rather like that for me. It's like whoa that's big and yet I completely and totally can't even picture it (accept in cartoon style animation ^^: Little people running away, random chicken little moment, "The Sky is falling!" and so forth.)