i love DRIVE and i can't understand anyone who doesn't appreciate the perfection of that film and ryan gosling's [ and the
other's ] acting ability.
the same applies to FIREFLY and IT'S
ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA .
i'm a bit off philadealphia actually.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
the book and the 95 adaptation, nothing else .
and JUSTIFIED the best thing ever on tv except for FIREFLY.
San Francisco artist mends clothes and builds community
Daniel GorrellThe Luggage Store lets Swaine keep his cart inside, so he only has to roll it out into the alley every month.
Once a month for the past 11 years, Michael Swaine has mended clothing for free on the San Francisco streets.
At first, he did a five-mile route through the city, from dusk to dawn, with a sewing machine covered by an umbrella on wheelbarrow wheels. He loved the route, but it was exhausting and often folks didn’t have their torn clothes with them when he rolled by. He eventually settled at the Luggage Store, a nonprofit artist collective in the Tenderloin District, a tougher part of town. He’s so committed to the project, the Free Mending Library, that he’s only missed three months out of more than 130.
Swaine is an artist, an active member of Futurefarmers (a loose collective of artists, designers, farmers, and computer programmers), and a ceramics instructor. “Most people think of me as a fibers artist. Or a social artist,” he says in a video. “There’s all sorts of strange words [that] people say to me. I try to ignore them.”
I first came across Swaine in Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change, a wonderful little book about the folks who are rethinking fashion and trying to create a more sustainable clothing industry. Swaine took the time to chat with me about the beautiful things that happen on streets, our throwaway culture, and the strangest thing he’s ever fixed.
