Mayday! Mayday! Robots Overtaking Creatives

Before Robots, there lived Creatives. Creatives enjoyed peaceful lives contributing to society by producing works that captured, mesmerized, and held the attention of all humans. Creatives were mostly nocturnal, working diligently through the night, installing works in the deepest hours, when the rest of society recharged between plush, eagle-down filled comforters and organic Turkish cotton bedsheets. The Creative society philosophized as Futurists and knew the eventual forthcoming of what we now know as The Robot Era. They tried to warn society through messages evoked in their artwork. However, the ignorance of society, combined with the indirect teachings of the Creatives, allowed for Robots to inject their tireless bodies into our world, stripping us from any well-paying job.

But all is not lost. We created Robots. We are smarter under a collective stance. I'll do my part and camouflage among the ranks to learn the secrets which can lead to their demise. Let's beat them back with human force! Mayday! Mayday!

I am a Creative. I am a Futurist. I am not a robot.

The Creative Society will live on through Just Living..

Get your eyes checked

Here's a small bit written between gridded pages while I sat for a mid-morning break on a recent R&R to San Francisco.

The Westin: My FIlipino people always working, slaving, heads down, unnoticed. Unaware, both us to him and him to us. Be about it. About our business. Unaware. Mop, sweep, mop. A stoic, yet unchallenging face. Unmoved and of a reverence much like the presidential facades of Mt. Rushmore. My Mt. Rushmore. Bill Clinton stoned. Barack Obama stoned. Mt. CouldbeawholelotMORE. He rears and shuffles backwards with steps that mock a ballroom lead partner. Dirty work, but shirt stays creased, pleated, and tucked. Vest unbuttoned, and laying obediently. *SWIKSH CHK* Oh shit! He's not even Filipino! I'm trippin...trippin in San Francisco.

NorCal.

Silencing the Lambs and Wolves

We're good kids doing good things. Off the streets and in the labs like mad scientists. The results of our inner thigh sweat:

And sometimes our actions have reason. This time around, it's to outfit two young ladies attending KanYe West's Glow In The Dark Concert at the Key Arena. Hiya! Pow! Take it to the house!

Unfortunately, these tees are NOT FOR SALE! But if you see them at the concert tonight, maybe you can buy it off their backs. Do it before they sweat out the cool.

Now back to my own perspiration

Cheap wine, poetry, and the grind

We lean towards words of power delivered vis-a-vis by creative intellectuals that pull us away from the scheduled programs of the black hole tubes. To share this idea, we're sending out a last minute invite to you all to hop up from your reshaped living room couch cushions and make it out to the Hugo House this Thursday to hedonize with rebels, literaries, and the like. Here are the exact details as they were force squeezed from the orals of the mastermind event coordinator himself:

 

I know there are a bunch of readings going on this Thursday, but let's be honest: none of them will be as good as "Cheap Wine and Poetry." Hope you'll make it.

Good-byes are always hard, but like most things in life, they are usually made easier with a little bit of alcohol. On Thursday March 13th at 7 p.m., “Cheap Wine and Poetry” will be testing this theory, as we say good-bye to spoken word poet and performer Katinka Kraft, who is leaving Seattle after many years of work in our poetry community.

Joining Katinka on stage will be erotica writer Jennifer D. Munro, solo performer Seth Rosenbloom, and poet Maged Zaher. As always, the uber-spunky Charla Grenz will host, and the wine is a buck a glass. Open mic too, where the real surprises go down.

So come on out for “Cheap Wine and Poetry” and hoist up some of the cheap stuff for Katinka. She will be missed!

 

WHAT: “Cheap Wine and Poetry” with featured readers Katinka Kraft, Jennifer D. Munro, Seth Rosenbloom, and Maged Zaher. Hosted by Charla Grenz.

WHEN: Thursday March 13, 7 p.m.

WHERE: Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, Capitol Hill.

ETC: Wine: $1/glass. “Cheap Wine and Poetry” t-shirts on sale. Open mic.

 

We'll be the ones in the back corner by the wine bar. Inspire and be insired. See you there.

 

 

Co-sponsored by Richard Hugo House.

For more info check out www.cheapwineandpoetry.com

Mo Products, Mo Problems

What happened to all the cotton goods?

     Lately, we've been receiving emails over the inconvenience regarding our products page. My explanation for this shortstop is that we are spending our time experimenting on the recycling properties of our past season's products to bring a greater awareness of how one can utilize our items beyond the means of bodily decor. In a move to stay environmentally friendly, we've decided to use our own products, regardless of the demand, to create pieces that evoke something more than mere expressions of the mind on the body. Unchanging, we're more than just fashion, we're lifestyle meaning that we look to capture all the six senses of being, and we aim to stay true to that. No half measures.

Are you still producing that fresh shit?

      Along with our Recycled LVG Program, we are currently on track to fulfilling long-standing dreams of producing of our own custom manmade handmade garments. This includes efforts towards cut & sew construction, screenprinting, and packaging. This has been our self-prescribed challenge over the last six months. This is the real reason for the quiet before the storm. Like Grandma said, "You can't make cookies without preheating the oven."

     To put our efforts into numbers, I feel we are only 50% there. Sad yet true. However, this is the real bruntwork and this idea to become self-sufficient will lead the determination and drive. In the end, we want production to be as organic as possible; we want to be free of the use of undercommitted chemicals and abusing pesticides...or in other words, and what most know them as, grubbers and middlemen.

So can we still buy your products online?

     We will attempt to support those who support us, but, once again, our experiments under the Recycled LVG Program will allow us to increase the quality of lifestyle items that can be made available to you in the future.

     Contrary to conventional practice, we've been downplaying sales to concentrate on the community, donating our products and generating awareness amongst individuals with philosophies and devoted practices that we feel embody the morals of Just Living. Want some threads? Give us reason.

     Here's a small list of those we seek out while sitting on a bench in Victor Steinbrueck Park:

     - Knowledgeable and outspoken individuals rooted in their beliefs.

     - Passionate individuals who aim to stretch the boundaries of their particular
       interest/hobby.

     - Creative minds that exude positive aural energy.

     - Proactive daydreamers

     - Time travelers

     - Space Aliens

So what do we do in the mean time?

     Get RSS'd, read our words, exercise the senses through the other parts of our world as we do. But even more importantly, enjoy the world out there and your own experiences within it.

 

 

Tightropin on out

Nothin but the dog in me

Why must I be like that? Why must I chase the cat? Beware of chasing more than you can chew. Just living the wild life: When animals attack - Coming Soon. For now, enjoy the sugar coating.

Been Around Long Time

The hair flip, the kick step-many step, the penguin tails and the polished white teeth. Even still, you ain't gettin respect unless you got that stache. That stash?

Tubes down the tube

TVs make you're brain fart, and nobody approves of the action whether it be mental, anal, or oral. So do everybody a favor and get a hold of one of these, the TV-B-Gone, a universal remote capable of killing the life switch on any TV in the vicinity. Free yourself from future ridicule...and straight dumbness.

Now available at your local Adbusters.

 

B.R.E.

Beginning with this line, JSTLVG.com will be affirming all dates with
the presence of b.r.e.

"What does that mean exactly and what is it's relevance with JST LVG?"

     b.r.e. stands for Before Robot Era. It's a perfect end stamp for recording the experiences within our current affairs. It has been adopted by us at JST LVG because of the reawakening and renewed awareness it brings to stagnant repetition within the workplace. For some, it is there only chance at throwing their two cents into the company's "growth plans."

The idea of the Before Robot Era was thought upon during one of my daily strolls through the financial avenues of Seattle. I had witnessed enough adults mindlessly walking straight paths as if being reeled in by big bass fishermen. So suited to appeal to the majority that they consciously step on and over black plastic hot food bags, Starbucks coffee lids, and Taco Del Mar foil shavings rather than taking the extra 9/10 of 1 second to pick it up and keep the world clean. Brain washed, removed, replaced with turning gears that flip a switch causing the infected to crank out solutions to work orders even before making it through the revolving doors. Disgusting. Minds are being twisted, hypnotized in serving the headless corporate pig that squeals "positive yields, accelerated growth standards, financial security." Individuality and free choice are being slashed to allow for a corporate model suit that all must fit into. The real benefit for mechanical obedience? A luxurious office seat to accomodate the only area of human flesh left on the body. Even with, that's 9 hours of typing in jargon and repetitive bullshit. Add pi to the equation. Corporate force has stripped individuality and choice, and has instead taught social apathy insomuch that most must shy away from me and my three questions.

     For those that participated, a great thanks. Which brings me to the next point: I would start simply by asking downtowners where they were headed. "Work," they'd respond plainly enough. Insofollowing, my next two questions yielded these results: less than 50% say that work is fun and enjoyable, with the majority of the same say that work is tolerable because "it pays the bills."

     I take a personal stance against the washing of the minds of our great human race. We should be having fun in life. Nobody should ever have to go to work. Everybody should be leaving the house to have fun.
      Okay, well if it isn't the most perceived and relative reality for you, you can at least best them by adding in the end acronym b.r.e. Make it lavish. Keep it subtle. Scrawl it out so tha others think it's excess ink from your fountain pen. Whatever, make yourself laugh. Make the most of life. Robot's don't have that luxury.

Hit the weights

It's time to lose the winter blubber. Richard Simmons is no longer effective. Intro W, 2008's inspirational fitness guru. Slim the waist, shake the drinks, and envision ripping at the arm seams with those bohemoth biceps.

Just Living on the slopes

We got the mountains covered in threads.

Here's to the season. Enjoy

If you were invited

If you know anything about us, you know we take robotics very seriously. How seriously? Serious enough to throw a 80's Robot Invasion Party. Oh, you haven't heard? Then you probably don't know that we're JST LVG! What the bass meant? Hit it.

Colder than Alaska in an icebox

They're here! JST LVG's ice cold beanies, dropped down today from the ice trays of our fridge. Don't be cold, be cool in the iciest of threadagerie.

I'd be sleeping too if I wasn't just living.

Gotta-Know-Me Orders only. Web orders coming REAL soon.