real. has so much love for bali, we've found heaps of old film and luckly are never with out a least a couple cameras. Here's a sneak peak at some of our photos so far.
Lisa's Closet is an eclectic mix of bohemian fashio and homewares for the independant spirit based in Byron Bay NSW. Real. worked with Lisa on her logos, website, swingtags and bringing to life the prints on the back of her kimonos. Lisa's Closet will be launching on March 30th check it out here.
Paul drops into the studio once and a while with ideas, chats and boards. He shapes them from old boards, giving new life to foam from the dumpster. It takes something like 10,000 years for a surfboard to breakdown in a landfill. Shaping since he was a grom not only is he doing a little bit to reduce his footprint but he is also coming out with some super rad looking shapes. He brought this one by with whales on his brain and asked us to go to work. If you are wondering this bit of fun is for sale. You can check out his boards with our art at Mac's Cafe on Bangalow Rd, Byron Bay.
Saturday was a big day at the real. studio, we sent away heaps of art, boardbags, clothes and goodies with some very special people. Thanks to everyone that came out and picked up some treats. We are now in Bali land, stay tuned for updates and see all you lovely people when we get back!
Great Pacific Garbage Patch adventurer visits Mullumbimby and Lismore with alarming news
Central Coast (NSW) environmentalist Tim Silverwood is visiting Mullumbimby and Lismore as part of a nationwide tour following his return from a research expedition to the North Pacific Gyre, aka Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Tim will be giving presentations on his experience and showing the award winning documentary ‘Bag It’ with the aim of raising awareness about the consequences of plastic pollution in our oceans and the simple things people can do to make their lives a little less plastic.
In July 2011, Tim spent three weeks sailing over 5000km from Honolulu to Vancouver with scientists, environmentalists, artists and filmmakers as part of the expedition coordinated by Algalita Marine Research Foundation.
What he discovered is that the description of the Garbage Patch as a ‘floating island’ of trash is far from the truth.
“In fact it’s much worse than that”, said Tim. “If it were a floating island of trash it might be feasible for us to go and clean it up but unfortunately it is more like a plastic soup. Larger plastic items like bottles, bags, buckets and crates don’t retain their structure for long as the sun’s rays beat down and the waves toss them around, they break apart into millions and billions of plastic fragments that then remain in the ocean. They don’t biodegrade though, that’s the scary part.”
“There is this notion that when we throw ‘away’ the growing amount of silly single use plastic items we use in our lives that they just go ‘away’. Unfortunately, ‘away’ isn’t always landfill or a recycling centre, a huge amount of our waste ends up in the environment and a growing amount ends up in the ocean,” Tim added.
The evening will include personal accounts from Tim’s adventure to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a Q & A and the Bag It film, which he has screened around Australia to rave reviews. “This film is fantastic in that it explains this major environmental issue in a light-hearted way that anyone can digest. The main character Jeb Berrier is an average Joe who first examines his own ‘dependence’ on plastic bags but uncovers the frightening world of plastics, the impact plastic is having on the environment, our oceans and even our own bodies. It’s a must see film.” Tim said.
Take 3 encourages every person to take an active role in reducing plastic pollution by taking 3 pieces of plastic away next time they visit the beach and encouraging people to reduce their dependence on single use disposable plastics.
“Take 3 are developing educational resources and ongoing initiatives to raise awareness of plastic pollution in our oceans but we need lots of help. We need funding, volunteers and pro bono help to develop our organization. We want to make sure that every Australian knows what is happening out there and what they can do to help,” Tim said.
The event in Mullumbimby is being supported by the ‘Say No To Plastic Bags’ group and Transition Byron Shire and will be held on Tuesday 20th March at Byron Region Community College from 6.45pm.
The event in Lismore is being proudly supported by Lismore City Council and Lismore Community Sustainability Forum and will be held at Lismore Workers Club from 7pm.
What started out looking like a pretty miserable day turned into a perfect market Sunday last week in Byron. We partnered up with Matty Atkins from BoneMachine and hung out in the sun selling art and handmade surfboards. This week we featured work by Christy Rigby, Harry the Hat and Justin Crawford. Everyone was out enjoying the surprise of a day, even Donovan fresh off the heels of doing a free east coast tour stopped in for a chat and picked up a palm tree photo set of our resin tinted off-cut wood blocks to take back to Hawaii with him. We completely nerded out and got a photo with him, don't judge us.
If you missed us at the markets swing round the studio this sat from 8-3 we are having a big ART/Vintage/Garage Sale.
