Summer's over? Are you kidding me? I'm not sure where it went! We're getting ready for San Francisco's hot and sunny fall and excited for our upcoming October 25th multimedia fashion extravaganza. Yes, you're invited. Can't wait? Sneak peeks this weekend and throughout October. Hope to see you there! Can't make it? stay tuned to the website for our videos and photos! check out this photo shoot from this summer: http://pandorastrunk.com/events/2009july.html
This weekend:
Summerland street fair at mint plaza
http://www.summerlandmintplaza.com/
Saturday, Sept. 26 11am-5pm
The 10th Annual Expo for Independent Arts!
http://artsandmedia.net/expo/
Saturday, Sept. 26 11am-6pm
Golden Gate Park Music Concourse (between the De Young Museum & Cal Academy of Science) .... the Bay Area's only grassroots connection fair for independent arts, music & culture
catch us at these other events coming up:
Castro St Fair - October 4th
Decompression - October 11th
.....and.......
Pandora's Trunk presents
1001 Fabulous Nights
a runway storytime adventure in three acts
multimedia fashion performance, live music,
& lobby bazaar with indie clothing, art, micro foods, and more!
Sunday October 25th
7-11pm
8pm showtime
$6 poorboy special 6:50-7pm
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
pandorastrunk.com
featuring designs by:
medium reality
sustainable as hell menswear
miss velvet cream
for tomorrows urban nomads
ghetto goldilocks
tamo design
dollymop
tj hooker
gelareh design
curiouser & curiouser
...and many others!
including performances by:
fou fou ha
animated slapstick cabaret
sf boylesque
re-imagining vintage burlesque
dreamtime circus
live video and other wizardry by:
ammo sf
at Brava Theater
2781 24th St near Bryant
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Clothing Is a Technology (whether it lights up or not)
Here is the gist of a speech i gave on the Cypress Stage at Maker Faire, at the conclusion of the Pandora's Trunk runway storytime show. It is a topic I feel very passionately about!
It occasionally seems a little funny, right, robots and steam engines and fire and machines all mixed together with knitting, and sewing, and clothes. Garments are a technology, though, turning flat sheets into close-fitting three-dimensional shapes with subtle engineering. This isn't just about design. Garments trap a small quantity of air near your body; their close fit allows this amount of air to be small enough that you can regulate it with your body heat. This innovation is what allowed mankind to leave Africa and settle the temperate zones - without clothing, even here in San Francisco, you would die from exposure. Energy expenditures necessary to heat buildings and public spaces enough for naked people would bankrupt us all. Sorry, nudists. When the wind blows, we need jackets.
This technology has become so ubiquitous that it's unremarkable, like some kind of black box magic that just always works.
This industry that is so basic to our survival, like all modern manufacturers,is now faced with problems of scale and accountability that need innovation to solve them.
We are the designers of Pandora's Trunk and we assert that all manufacturers should be accountable for their ecological footprint, and that communities function best by marshaling their resources locally whenever possible.
It occasionally seems a little funny, right, robots and steam engines and fire and machines all mixed together with knitting, and sewing, and clothes. Garments are a technology, though, turning flat sheets into close-fitting three-dimensional shapes with subtle engineering. This isn't just about design. Garments trap a small quantity of air near your body; their close fit allows this amount of air to be small enough that you can regulate it with your body heat. This innovation is what allowed mankind to leave Africa and settle the temperate zones - without clothing, even here in San Francisco, you would die from exposure. Energy expenditures necessary to heat buildings and public spaces enough for naked people would bankrupt us all. Sorry, nudists. When the wind blows, we need jackets.
This technology has become so ubiquitous that it's unremarkable, like some kind of black box magic that just always works.
This industry that is so basic to our survival, like all modern manufacturers,is now faced with problems of scale and accountability that need innovation to solve them.
We are the designers of Pandora's Trunk and we assert that all manufacturers should be accountable for their ecological footprint, and that communities function best by marshaling their resources locally whenever possible.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tiny Sewn House
Gearing up for the winter half of the year (headlog rush to Christmas) and building some little tiny projects into the schedule that will give me sheer art joy. It's fun to layer things on top of each other, connecting disparate projects and finding venn-diagram ways that they overlap and are relevant to each other. Art can be better at marketing marketable goods than feeding me directly! So, what fun marketing can i make?
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Funk n Trunk this Saturday
I'm not doing many straight-up trunk sales any more, but here is an oldie-and-goodie. Many of Pandora's favorite designers will be at Funk and Trunk this Saturday, including Medium Reality sustainable menswear, Pieces, and Tamo.
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