アーティスト兼デザイナーのKorakritが作ってくれた手作りのスウェットシャツとTシャツを、たったいま、お店（ラフォーレ原宿のWALL）へ送りました。彼は最近DELLコンピューターのヴィデオにもフィーチャーされたんですよ。彼が渦巻きプリントをどうやって作っているか、見てみてください。
I've just sent a handful of sweatshirts and t-shirts to the store by artist and designer Korakrit. He was recently featured in a video for Dell Computers. Take a look at how her makes his swirling prints.
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最近、 私は自分が生物学者になれば良かったと思っています。保全生物学者になれば良かったのに。私は、動物や植物、すべての野生動物が大好きです。この気持ちをもっと多くの人たちと共有したくて、最近、ある本当の生物学者が作ったペンダントを店のために買付けました。Tanja Sovaは、色んな種類の動物の模様を、複雑で美しい焼付けとして木に施し、ペンダントを作っています。裏にはそれぞれの動物の学名が書かれていて、それがまた本当にステキな感じなのです。写真ではうまく表現できていないので、ぜひ、ご自身で店頭に見にいらしてください。
Dave works at an organic farm store near us. The farm store is part of a bigger community that includes the actual farm, a bakery, a school for students from early childhood to high school, a school for adults learning to be teachers, as well as an alternative book publishing house. The community centers around "social and cultural renewal through education, agriculture, and the arts". It's pretty neat. Recently they had a Fall Farm Festival so I went along with Dave's parents to check it out. There were blacksmithing demonstrations, booths with beautiful locally hand made objects, farm tours, and lots of food. Our favorite parts were the talk and demonstration by the wildlife rehabilitator and the falconry demo. The wildlife rehabilitator showed us birds that were brought to him that were injured but were not able to be fully fixed and that now had to be taken care of. Normally he releases all of the wildlife that are able to be rehabilitated fully but sometimes he has to keep taking care of ones that will not be able to live on their own anymore. The falconer had all sizes of owls, hawks, and falcons that were trained to hunt. He showed us how he hunts with them but used a fake rabbit instead of a real one. Phew! I'm glad it was a fake one. I have been thinking lately that it's too bad I didn't become a biologist. I would have liked to have become a conservation Biologist. I love animals and plants and all wildlife. I wanted to share that with more people so I recently bought some pendants made by a real biologist for the store. Tanja Sova makes beautifully intricate wood burned pendants that depict different animal species. She also writes the scientific names of each animal on the back which I think is a really nice touch. The photograph doesn't do it justice so please come take a look in person. |
ハンナ・フシハラ・アーロン
ショップ“HaNNa”のクリエイティヴ・ディレクター兼バイヤー。夫と1匹の犬、3匹の猫とともにNYに暮らし、自宅の一部を“Little Cakes”という小さなギャラリーとして開放している。アート、色、工芸、動物、自然、環境保護に興味がある。万物は見えない力で繋がっているのだから、自分たち以外のものに対しても責任を感じるべきだと信じている。
