Hasta La Ideas

Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is very enthusiastic about tonight’s presentation from Anne Berblinger of Gales Meadow Farm.

Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Anne Berblinger
Gales Meadow Farm: “What It Takes to Produce Great Vegetables”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, August 6th, 6pm PST

Fresh vegetables produced by conscious, hands-on farming practices are tastier and more nutritious than fresh vegetables produced by industrial farming practices. In this talk, I will get into detail on the specific differences in practices, from the choice of seed to how the vegetables are harvested and cared for after harvest, and how the choices we make in our farming practices make a difference in the quality of the vegetables. I’ll also give a few suggestions on how you can maintain that quality in your own kitchen.

Anne Berblinger and her husband Rene’ began farming in the Gales Creek Valley in western Washington County, Oregon in 1999. Gales Meadow Farm produces more than 300 varieties of vegetables and herbs, including many heirloom varieties. The farm employs up to seven full and part-time workers, several of whom are aspiring farmers. They market directly to consumers through the Hollywood Farmers Market in Northeast Portland, the Cannon Beach Farmers Market, and the Hillsdale Farmers Market; and through sales to several fine chefs. Early in the season, they sell starts of almost 100 varieties of vegetables and herbs to market customers and growers.

Anne is integrally involved in the fresh, local, seasonal food industry cluster in the Portland region through the Farmer-Chef Connection, Oregon Tilth, Slow Food Portland, Friends of Family Farmers, and the farmers market community. She serves on advisory committees for Friends of Family Farmers and Adelante Agricultura. She recently finished serving a term on the board of the Hollywood Farmers Market, and she continues to serve on the HFM Vendor Committee. She had taught classes in vegetable varieties, seed selection, harvest techniques, and post-harvest handling. Anne will be teaching a class on Organic Farming and the Food System at Pacific University in the upcoming fall and spring semesters.

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Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is thrilled for tonight’s presentation from Brett Binford and Chris Lyon of Mudshark Studios, as they share their journey from the basement to their current location in a 17,000 sq. ft. warehouse!

Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Brett Binford and Chris Lyon
Mudshark Studios: “Navigating Uncharted Waters”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, July 23rd, 6pm PST

Mudshark is a private label ceramic manufacturing company that was founded in 2006 by Brett Binford and Chris Lyon and started in the basement of a rental house. In two short years the company grew to need more space but lacked the financial liquidity to afford both studio and house rent, so they purchased a home with 5,000 sq feet of garages in NE Portland. After operating out of the three garages for three years, they found themselves yet again over capacity and looked to expand to a more industrial setting. In the winter of 2011, Mudshark began moving its operation from the garages to a 17000 sq. foot warehouse. in the following year Mudshark grew from eight employees to 24. Brett and Chris currently operate at Mudshark’s Production studio, co-own and operate the Portland Growler Company, maintain a private studio rental facility for eight ceramic professionals, and have opened an all ceramic gallery called Eutectic Gallery. They will be touching on both the business and the artist side of growth as well as showing many client examples and process images.

Mudshark Studios LLC. is dedicated to the development and success of our client’s ideas. We strive to manufacture the highest quality product in a timely fashion. By informing our clients of the various processes used, we can assess and implement the most effective methods to fit their production needs.

Our primary goal at Mudshark Studios LLC. is to meet and exceed our clients expectations. We aspire to promote the creative process in the local community and beyond. We take pride in working with a wide variety of artists ranging from newly established designers as well as accomplished producers and designers.

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For this season’s Quarterly, Hand-Eye Supply is doing something different (we promised never to be consistent in our little publication!). In the spirit of supporting inventive thinkers and makers of the Northwest, we are launching the Industrious Minds Fellowship, a grant program to help cool projects happen.

For 2013’s Summer Quarterly, we’re excited to introduce our first recipients, Escape Collective. ESC Co. is a youthful group of designers, engineers and artists working to build modular habitats in as many beautiful places as they can. Armed with tools and gear from the H.E.S. Summer Collection, ESC. Co. built their first geodesic dome, Escapehatch, at the Sasquatch Music Festival, and the crowd went wild.

Get the full flavor of fanciful fabrication in the Hand-Eye Quarterly, where we’ll supply you with behind the scenes build pictures, design dirt, and inventive inspiration.

To celebrate the release of our Summer Quarterly we are throwing a banging party! Jam out to DJ sets and live music by Pegasus Dream. Installation, illustrations and video by ESC Co. will stimulate your visual cortex. And of course we’ll have refreshments! The party is this Thursday, June 27—RSVP on Facebook

Click through for images of the Escapehatch build-out from the ESC Co. trip to Sasquatch.

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Hand-Eye Supply is pleased to add to their growing collection of utilitarian yet stylish knives the Higonokami Mame, a mini version of the popular Higonokami folding knife. Higonokami (Lord of Higo) knives have been popular in Japan since their introduction in 1896. Today, they are officially made by only one maker: Mr. Motosuki Nagao, who is in the 4th and last generation of blacksmiths to make this knife. The flashy 2″ brass handle and extremely keen edged 1.5″ white steel blade make for a sharp accessory, especially with the included length of 3/32″ rich black shoe string leather:)

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Core77’s Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is overwhelmed with intrigue for tonight’s presentation from Caitlin Porter and Olivia Fabrizio of Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority as they regale us with tales from tall ships on the high seas!

Tonight’s talk starts at 6pm at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, OR. Come early and check out our space or check in with us online for the live broadcast!

Caitlin Porter and Olivia Fabrizio
Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority: “Adventure on the High Seas: Becoming a Tall Ship Sailor”
Hand-Eye Supply
23 NW 4th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, May 28th, 6pm PST

To sea with you! Did you know that right at this instant there are majestic tall ships sailing the worlds oceans? And that the deckhand steering the ship might be someone just like you?

Caitlin Porter and Olivia Fabrizio found this out three years ago and since then have sailed the entire west coast aboard the Hawaiian Chieftain and Lady Washington. They have learned the traditional skills of a mariner–from knots to wooden vessel maintenance, caulking a deck and tarring the rig. Their talk will explain what on earth all that means, teach you some extremely useful knots, and try to indoctrinate you with a desire to go to sea. No experience needed to start, and if you work hard you may find yourself traveling the world as a sea captain.

It is generally accepted that a Tall Ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. There are many different styles of Tall Ships; brigs, brigantines, barquentines, ketches, schooners, sloops, and full-rigged ships. For hundreds of years vessels such as these carried men and women around the world and served as the quickest form of mass transportation.

The Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain will be docked in Vancouver, Washington from May 23rd to 27th as part of a Columbia River tour. With this lecture Caitlin and Olivia will invite the audience to a special Curiosity Club tour of the vessels on a later date (location and time TBA at lecture).

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