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May 2010

Experiments in the urban landscape

On 15 May 2010 Set & Drift hosted a Seed Bombing Potluck at The Farm Proper.

The Farm Proper is an experiment in the urban landscape.
Set & Drift, in collaboration with mi-workshop, have repurposed an industrial dirt lot outside The Bakery in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego, California. The farm is comprised of abandoned/defunct grocery carts filled with vegetables cultivated organically by a collective of artists, designers, backyard growers, and other creatives. It’s a project meant to inspire urban cultivation and pocket farms. Using abandoned shopping carts as our medium, we’ve designed a scenario to take over a temporarily available industrial lot to provide the community with organically grown food. The designer is the new farmer!

Above: An assemblage of artists and designers discuss and farm: Mike Maxwell, Kevin Joelson, Patrick Kenney, Sean Kelley, Scott Ballum & Stacy Kelley

Project details here.

Full Flickr set here.

Below: Architect Miki Iwasaki of mi-workshop builds architecture for the pole bean climbers.

Art & Copy, A Film by Doug Pray

Art and Copy, A Film by Doug Pray, is coming to Birch Theater in North Park June 24th.

ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time — people who’ve profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising’s “creative revolution” of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation…

Details found here.

Potluck at The Farm Proper

Seed Bombing Potluck at The Farm Proper
Saturday 5.15.10 // 2-4 pm

it’s harvesting time at The Farm Proper, and we’d like to share some of the bounty with you! we also have a load of newly acquired carts that are filled with soil and ready for the planting. {we have seeds for you to plant or bring ones of your choosing} …

BYOB for the ice bucket //
we’ll have a couple Farm Proper salads & snacks, bring some farm food to share if you like.

bring friends, bring your shovel, drop by for a few, don’t be a stranger.

The Farm Proper is a mobile, urban farm experiment at The Bakery.

established January 2010 :: photos

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