Sezio

The Donkeys Still Hanging On in America

It's been a month of hot 8-hour van rides and The Donkeys are five shows away from the final stretch of road that will bring them home.  Pray for traveling mercies and make sure to have a pint (16 oz) ready when they return.

Morgan Goes Pacific : Departure

We ended up leaving Brooklyn at a ripe 6pm, got stuck in wicked traffic in Soho, made it out of NY, through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and through a torrential downpour to Maryland.  We're at my friend Charlie Immer's awesome house in Hagerstown.  Tomorrow we might swing back through Baltimore to check out the current show at Nudashank and visit a friend of Michael's, then proceed to or through West Virginia and finally camp.  My mom packed us some mini boxes of cereal, so I'm pretty excited to eat Frosted Flakes out of a little wax paper pouch inside a perforated cardboard box, like we did when I was little.  Not much has happened yet, except that we sat up on a really high part of Charlie's roof and there were bats.  I got four hours of sleep last... morning and am beat so now I will retire to this air mattress.  Cool!

- Morgan

Artist Series and Online Shop

After years of garage screen printing and teasing our friends with very limited-run apparel, Sezio is launching an Artist Series and online shop.  We're honored to kick things off with four good friends and incredibly talented artists: Wes Bruce, Andrew Heine, Joel P West, and Mike Maxwell.

Each has adapted one of their original pieces of artwork into a t-shirt screen for this series.  The profit from each shirt will be split evenly with the artist, providing an added source of income for participating artists and furthering Sezio's reach as a non-profit organization.  Click through to our retail home and style out your summer.

MVM : Bowerbirds

The Bowerbirds are one of my favorites right now and just happen to be coming to the Casbah this Wednesday. Both albums, old and new, are awesome and worth a listen. Here is the music video for "In Our Talons" from their first album Hymns For A Dark Horse - complete with awkwardly romantic praying mantises.

Actual praying mantis = not that loving

Growing Places this Saturday!

Flourish is the name of the game for Growing Places, the first of the annual food and farm art extravaganza benefitting San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project (Roots). Roots is a non-profit organization of volunteers eagerly and excitedly seeking a more connected and honest food system in San Diego.  

Growing Places, on Saturday, August 1, 2009, is both a celebration of the agricultural abundance and potential of our region and a call to action on behalf of people in the community to all people living in San Diego County and beyond: know your food, know the people who grow it, and where it grows, and have fun with it!

Growing Places will also feature a loungy food and art reading room, art+response projects, art installations featuring issues about food and water, a raffle of prizes from San Diego’s top business that encourage the local arts and local food currents, 100% local treats, and local craft beer.

Food-and-farm themed art in all styles and media, made especially for Growing Places by residents of San Diego County, will be showcased in a silent auction to raise money for Roots’ farmland project and future education center. From 7:30 pm into the night, three local San Diego bands will play live original music: Unum, Old Man Hands, Skavolutionary Orchestra.

Folks can get in for an easy $10, or less if you bring organic vegetable plants or non-perishables for the donation station, to be donated to Victory Gardens SD and SD Food Bank. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased for only $7  at The Linkery, 3794 30th St 92104, North Park’s restaurant-hero of local food, and City Farmers Nursery, 4832 Home Ave 92105, the homegrown and delightful urban farm and organic garden center.

Growing Places starts at 3pm on the fourth floor of Front Place, a business building located at 1446 Front Street (92101). This event came together because of an increasing rally for a sensible and enjoyable food system and many hands doing the work of creating it.