Archive for the ‘People’ Category
My Words Are My Shelter
Mira Bartók, artist, blogger, and author of The Memory Palace, has started a project to help The Norma Herr Women’s Center in Cleveland, OH. The Center is there for women who have fled domestic abuse, are struggling with substance abuse, or are afflicted by poverty or homelessness. Women at the center are encouraged to empower themselves and part of the empowerment process is keeping a journal. This particular Women’s Center is especially dear to Mira, as it was where her mother sought help, and is now named after her mother.
My Words Are My Shelter, Mira’s project, is aiming to donate a box of journals and pens and pencils for each woman at the shelter. Any proceeds above the cost of the journals will be donated to the Center. If you want to and have the ability to help her out, please visit her blog.
If you would like to find out how to help out women’s and homeless shelters closer to home and are in MA, you can find the shelter near you at the Massachusetts Coalition for Homelessness website.
The Memory Palace
We here at Skytemple are excited to show you our latest project! We’ve been working with Mira Bartók, building a website to showcase her newest book, The Memory Palace.
The memory palace, also known as the method of loci, is a technique of placing information or memories in an imagined spatial context to help in remembering those things. Building memory in this way takes the rememberer on a journey of images and places. Author and artist Mira Bartók in her new book, The Memory Palace, takes her reader on such a journey through her own shattered memories. Mira’s memoir relates the pain of growing up with a schizophrenic mother, and the continued impact her mother had on her and her sister’s lives. Written after Mira had sustained a severe brain injury in a car accident, the book is as much about her story as it is about the act of remembering that story.
The book’s release date is January 11, 2011, so keep a look out for it at your local bookstore (independent booksellers are awesome, find one near you)!
Turning Trash Into Treasures
There is a former art teacher in Florida that is doing her part for the environment and making some unique jewelry. Ann Skydell Harmon, founder of Ann-Made jewelry, is using recycled soda can tabs as the base for her bracelets, earrings and pendants. Her venture has earned a Green American Seal of Approval and recognition from many sources.
Who knew that soda can tabs could look this good?
Strandbeest Wander the Sand…
How would you feel if while sunbathing on your favorite beach, a large tube structure walked up to you all on its own? If you are in Holland, that could be a possibility.
Art is a fantastic thing, but what good would Theo Jansen’s beasts do, populating the beaches? We don’t know about the beasts on the sands, but this application of Jansen’s mechanical systems is pretty dang cool.
Snapple Tri Club
Are you a triathlete? Have you ever wanted to participate in a triathlon? No matter your level of experience, if you are interested in triathlons, check out the new Snapple Triathlon Club.
For $125 membership dues for the 2011 year you get: clinics with elite athletes, some awesome discounts, and Snapple Triathlon shorts and top (with a lovely logo by none other than Skytemple Design)!
The regional clubs are based in Boulder, Hartford, Philadelphia, Tallahassee, and Washington DC. If you have any questions about the club, shoot an email to Snappletriteam@gmail.com.
