New Project: Traverse City Maker’s Market
Posted by Troy | Filed under Art/Design, Good, Traverse City
Early this summer my friend Kelly & I agreed to join forces on the totally awesome event that she dreamed up and founded in 2010—Traverse City Maker’s Market.
It’s been a whirlwind few months (since these things generally take a year of planning), which involved the two of us collaborating on a new website, recruiting over one hundred applications from awesome artists and crafters from all around Michigan, planning and promoting the coolest new thing in Traverse City.
This Saturday—October 22nd—the event finally arrives! (RSVP on our Facebook event page)
We’ve got 25 of the coolest vendors from around the state, plus a half-dozen amazing food & beverage vendors (including hand-squeezed brats!) and local musicians providing a great backdrop for us all day.
(plus some pretty sweet event merch too!)
October is a wonderful time to visit northwest Michigan – come on up this weekend for Maker’s Market!
PS. After-party at Right Brain Brewery is gonna be insane in the membrane.
Here are a few products from our vendors that I’m definitely looking forward to checking out:
Tags: maker's market, tcmm, Traverse City
Last Night’s Dinner: Priceless Lake Victoria Tilapia
Posted by Troy | Filed under Good, Last Night's Dinner, Travel
While in Kenya I lived in the city of Kisumu. Honestly, the city is very, very different than my hometown of Traverse City, MI—in a lot of ways opposite even (like the fact that it is always hot and sunny)
But even with all the differences I felt right at home from the moment I stepped off the plane.
Everything, despite being so different felt really familiar, but the one thing that actually was similar is that the city is right on the shore of Lake Victoria. The funny thing is that I don’t know how many conversations I had trying to describe how large Lake Michigan is (trying to calculate miles to kilometers in my head is hopeless), and my descriptions were never met with the astonishment I’d expected.
Come to find out Lake Victoria is actually larger than Lake Michigan… in fact it’s larger than any other freshwater lake in the world—except for Lake Superior of course.
So as you’d expect, fish is the main export for the region and catching, buying and selling fish is the main source of income for a large part of the population.
Tags: Africa
Dream
Posted by Troy | Filed under Culture, Good
Check out all my Strong Odors artwork via the “original illustrations” tag.
This illustration available as a limited edition giclee print. Visit the shop to get yours.
Attn: Bloggers
If you’d like to use this image for a post on Martin Luther King, Jr. please feel free. All I ask is that you give credit back to this article. Thanks!
Tags: mlk, original illustration
The Girl Effect
Posted by Troy | Filed under Good
I happen to have a girl of my own. I hope someday she knows how blessed she is so that those blessings overflow from her and onto those who need it most.
75 percent of 15- to 24-year-olds living with HIV in Africa are female.
Visit the website to find out how you can stop the cycle for one girl.
(via Paul)
Tags: aids, hope, the girl effect, video
Buckets of Moonbeams
Posted by Troy | Filed under Good
My wonderful and super-cool wife just launched her first Etsy store:
Each of her creations places style, creativity and function on a very high level. She won’t make anything that you can’t use every day.
Any dude trying to think of a gift for your lady… this is the place.
(I think her stuff is way under-priced considering the quality and time and cursing invested into each item)
Just a handful of items up now… so act fast, they’re gonna fly.
Buckets of Rain
Buckets of rain
Buckets of tears
Got all them buckets comin’ out of my ears.
Buckets of moonbeams in my hand,
I got all the love, honey baby,
You can stand.I been meek
And hard like an oak
I seen pretty people disappear like smoke.
Friends will arrive, friends will disappear,
If you want me, honey baby,
I’ll be here.Like your smile
And your fingertips
Like the way that you move your lips.
I like the cool way you look at me,
Everything about you is bringing me
Misery.Little red wagon
Little red bike
I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.
I like the way you love me strong and slow,
I’m takin’ you with me, honey baby,
When I go.Life is sad
Life is a bust
All ya can do is do what you must.
You do what you must do and ya do it well,
I’ll do it for you, honey baby,
Can’t you tell?
Tags: shopping
Feed the Kids Cigarettes for Breakfast
Posted by Troy | Filed under Culture, Faith, Good, Strong Odors, Thoughts
I have a great church and I like my pastor a lot. He is compassionate and loves to study and meets the needs of his congregation well. His words of wisdom on a Sunday 4 years ago altered my view of God for the better and are tattooed on my soul…
A few weeks ago though, I almost walked out of the service.
Tags: climate change, environment, illustration, original illustration, strong odors
