Loose Krew

This is a brand that Nick Lee and I hope to launch. Right now, we are in the process of creating designs. The designs that we have so far are T-shirts and tanktops, but we hope to expand to possibly sweatshirts, snapbacks, etc. We will have to start with Nick and I wearing the brand, and also some friends, just to promote it; And when more and more people start wanting the shirts, we will have them posted online for a price.

We don’t have our website up and running yet, but we hope to have it working soon. We also have a Facebook page running so that we can get as much exposure as possible. We will be posting our designs there as well as on our website. That way, people can give feedback on which designs are their favorites.

The goal of Loose Krew is to get people active and to get people heard. We want people to be interested in being outside and being active. We also want those kids that don’t get heard to be able to express themselves. These shirts will be a way of saying, “This is me, so deal with it.” Skateboarding and snowboarding are both extreme sports and we hope that this brand will appeal to those people who participate in them, but will also get people more interested in those sports.

Some challenges that we are going to face will definitely deal with audience. Getting our products produced and out into the world is going to take time and effort. It is going to take a lot of work to get a decent sized fan base. The main way to achieve that goal is to make products that mean something to those people, and that is our plan. We want to produce clothing that people will WANT to wear and be proud to wear it. It doesn’t matter if you have some “loose screws”, it’s who you are and it’ll stay that way!

Adobe Illustrator is our main source for designing our products.

Our original question was, “Who will this appeal to?” We wondered what type of audience would be intrigued by our products. We want Loose Krew to appeal to people who want to be heard, people who want to be noticed.


The Rosetta Project

http://rosettaproject.org/

This project is amazing and has such an important meaning. Language is one of foundations of the human species. Each time we lose a language, we lose a little more cultural diversity. A whole history of different people is lost when we lose a language. The prototype for this project is incredible. A three inch nickel disk has 14,000 pages of information etched onto its surface. Digital obsolescence is a major problem and this project focuses on a new way of archival storage. It is important to preserve these thousands of languages. Each one tells a very different story.

10,000 Year Clock

http://longnow.org/clock/

This is an awesome project. This clock will play a different melody for 10,00 years! It raises a lot of questions in the aspect of long-term thinking. One really interesting question that this project raised was, “If the Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish?” That is a really interesting concept and I believe that question will be seriously considered and there will soon be some sort of project that requires multiple generations to finish.

They Rule

Theyrule.net is such an interesting website. It shows us all of the people that have a part in big corporations and companies. It shows every director and how they are connected to different companies. It is also very interesting how people connected to more than one company become a little fatter. All of these people affect our lives. They make decisions that come into play in our lives. It is weird to think about that, but it is true. These people are affecting us in one way or another.

The Yes Men

This was by far one of the most courageous things that I have seen. I still cannot believe that one of the Yes Men went on live television as a representative for DOW. Also, the fact that he completely spoke for them and said things that a normal DOW representative wouldn’t have said, like the offer he made. “After 20 years, we are finally taking responsibility for what happened.” These two men had very good intentions while pulling these stunts. They were trying to make people realize right from wrong. They were trying to make DOW chemical take responsibility for what they did years ago. It was a pretty amazing stunt that they pulled and I don’t know if anyone will top that.

Every Icon; John Simon

This is one of the more interesting projects. To think that it will eventually create every icon that is possible in a 32 by 32 grid is unbelievable. And also, that it will take 10298 years to complete. This goes to show that not every project is simply just done and completed by the artist, sometimes it takes time to complete or make. The only question I have for this project is that, is anyone going to be around to see it finish?