Durango Locals Day at Purgatory

Purgatory’s first Locals Day, sponsored by KSUT, is scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 20, with discounted lift tickets available for purchase with a coupon available in the Dec. 10 and Dec. 17 editions of the Durango Telegraph, on BuzzTown and on KSUT’s website.

Each Locals Day will have a theme.  On Dec. 20, the theme is “Ugly Holiday Sweaters,” so wear the ugliest holiday sweater you own and stop by the BuzzTown booth in the DMR plaza to enter to win a $50 gift certificate from Guido’s Favorite Foods.

Lift tickets for Locals Day are $39 for adults,  $25 for kids, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit KSUT and Manna Soup Kitchen. For the latest information on Purgatory snow conditions, special events and more, please visit www.skipurg.com.

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More on upcoming Locals Days at DMR

DMR received applications from more than 30 non-profits seeking to be this year’s Benefit Day recipient. With so many worthy organizations to choose from, it was extremely difficult to select just one, so DMR decided to add a second charity beneficiary to each of this year’s four Locals Days, which benefit KSUT Public Radio. On Locals Days, discounted lift tickets will be available for purchase with a coupon from the Durango Telegraph. Locals Day ticket prices are $39 for adults and $25 for kids, with portions of the proceeds to benefit KSUT and that day’s charity, scheduled as follows:

Sunday, Jan. 10: To offset the medical expenses of a longtime DMR employee, Barry “Carmine” Kemler, whose daughter, Caitlin, is undergoing medical treatment in Denver for a life-threatening illness

Sunday, Feb. 7: Music in the Mountains’ “MITM Goes to School” program to promote music education in local schools

Sunday, March 7: La Plata Search and Rescue

Local First wants your dollars to stay in Durango

If I do shop online, I buy iso50 or etsy. I heart handmade art & design.

You’ve heard the call to economic arms before:  Think Global, Shop Local.

Local First is part of a bigger international movement led by indepenedent business owners across the world who are busy educating the public about the benefits of spending their money locally.

Basically, they’re the little guys who have managed to stay in business in the face of the nearly impossible price competition of corporate giants like Wal-Mart and the ever-growing number of folks (like me) who prefer the ease and variety of shopping online.  They realized that rather than trying to beat low prices, they’d appeal to a consumer’s sense of community and ask for their money in exchange for locally-grown products and services that are ultimately better for the environment (they don’t travel as far) and better for the growth and health of the local economy (money doesn’t leak out to corporate owners in far away places).

Read more on BuzzTown, the site on which I get paid to write.

The future of La Boca is uncertain

I was one of 20 satisfied families who bought a CSA share from La Boca this year.  I just got this email from La Boca staff.  Read below about the local farm’s difficult legal struggles:

Dear Members and Supporters,

Thank you for your support of La Boca Center for Sustainability (LBCS) this past year. With your help LBCS has accomplished its goals for 2009. With over 1000 visitors to the farm throughout the growing season, LBCS staff has worked hard to provide educational experiences to the public while bringing awareness to the importance of nurturing a strong local food system.

Read more on BuzzTown, the site on which I get paid to write.

Why you shouldn’t start projects on your blog

1970s Japanese graphic design

Yeah, so, I did necklaces for a few more days (pictures to come), but now that I’m back in the daily grind I can’t seem to find the time.  Oh, the hazards of posting “I promise I’ll do it every day” projects online.

Kinsee Necklace Project Day 2

Today I made a necklace for me and Jeff.   They both made me think of Vision Boards and I LOLed. Babies and Brooklyn!

Jeff’s sweet necklace.”, posted with vodpod

 

Kinsee Morlan’s new necklace project

Starting today, I’m making a new collage necklace every day.  I’ll even make one for Jeff every now and then.  The images are coming from the New Yorker, Juxtapoz, Found and other magazines around the house.

 

2010 Durango Snowdown Beard Growing Contest

The first snow

The sky is bright orange and it’s nearly midnight. When it snows, it gets like this. One of my favorite memories as a child — in bed, sleep yet to come….me watching the orange sky and all the flakes flying down, streaming this way or that under the glow of the sole street light.

I’m married now. This is a picture of me watching the rain pour down on our wedding day. The indoor ceremony worked out. Now my favorite thing to watch late at night is Jeff sleeping in bed (he almost always falls asleep long before I). I also like to watch our little dog, Mona, as she barks and runs in her sleep.  She’s ridiculously cute.  Seriously.

I have a new job and it’s keeping me busy. It’s a challenge, to say the least, but I love it. In the last three months, I’ve learned how to do a bit of graphic design using Illustrator and even a little Indesign. And I’ve learned (and am still learning) Final Cut Pro. Here’s my favorite video I’ve pieced together so far. A ripoff from old Mr. Warhol.  So simple, yet so touching for some reason:

Broken but Beautiful

Beauty in destruction.   Reminds me of this dude who wanted to make his own world-renowned creation by destroying something beautiful (Michelangelo’s “David” statue):

In 1991, a “deranged” man attacked the statue with a hammer he had concealed beneath his jacket^[6], in the process damaging the toes of the left foot before being restrained. The samples obtained from that incident allowed scientists to determine that the marble used was obtained from the Fantiscritti quarries in Miseglia, the central of three small valleys in Carrara. The marble in question contains many microscopic holes that cause it to deteriorate faster than other marbles. Because of the marble’s degradation, a controversy occurred in 2003, when the statue underwent its first major cleaning since 1843. Some experts opposed the use of water to clean the statue, fearing further deterioration. Under the direction of Dr. Franca Falleti, senior restorers Monica Eichmann and Cinzia Pamigoni began the job of restoring the statue. The restoration work was completed in 2004.^[7]

Animas High Photo Show

Please join us Friday October 16, 5:30-7:00 PM, for the “Children of the Dump” photography exhibition at Animas High School.  A group of children in Fausto Gonzalez, a Tijuana dump neighborhood, took cameras in hand to document their lives and our students at Animas High School will soon be starting a pen pal program with these children.

We hope you can join us for refreshments at the photo exhibition on Friday.  Donations from the sale of photographs will go towards an educational fund for the children in Fausto Gonzalez.  Please pass this invitation on!!