September 2012
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Farewell, Tumblr. →
We’ve got our new website up and running! Sorta. There are still a lot of kinks to work out, but our new blog is ready to go: http://ruralandproud.org/blog. Epicenter.tumblr.com will exist only as an archive of our past three and half years, and will no longer be updated.
From now on, please follow our daily progress at http://ruralandproud.org/blog.
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Getting Financing for Your Business →
We thought this was a nice little write-up on the Etsy blog that makes the whole world of capital access a little more approachable.
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Cheer Up, Melon Queen →
(via High Country News)
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Designed for Habitat: Collaborations with Habitat... →
Two of our former professors, David Hinson and Justin Miller of Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction, have just released a new publication! The book features projects on which our own Jack Forinash worked. What a great resource for Habitat for Humanity affiliates across the country! Go here to buy a copy.
If you’re looking for ways to give back to...
WatchDing and Dang Canyons: soon to appear on the next set of day trip brochures!
theroadwestraveled:
Dang, Utah! (.info)
As I watch from afar this year’s Melon Days in Green River, Utah, I took the time to compile a little video of a GoPro time lapse from my last Great Hike in Utah.
Ding and Dang Canyons are a series of slot canyons in the San Rafael Swell (full of many amazing slots). 45 minutes...
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Melon Days 2012 Schedule
Friday, September 14th
9am —- Three Man Golf Scramble (Green River Gold Course)
12pm - Dark —- Vendors (O.K. Anderson City Park)
All Evening —- Softball Games (City Ball Fields)
7pm —- Melon Queen Pageant (Green River High School)
7:30pm —- Square Dancing (O.K. Anderson City Park)
Saturday, September 15th
All Day —- Vendors (O.K. Anderson City Park)
All...
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Instagram
We’re on Instagram, and our handle is ruralandproud. Now you know. Also, we recently changed our Twitter handle to ruralandproud (instead of epi_center). We’re so Rural and Proud it hurts.
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Farewell to Our Frontier Fellow, Mr. Flood!
This week, Justin “JR” Flood left the Epicenter after one month as a Frontier Fellow. Below are just a few of our favorite memories from his time in Green River:
1. Reunion with Little Buddy
2. Haircut at the local Cut & Curl
3. Cycling to/from the Beach (often and involving many flat tubes)
4. Redesigning the BEAR logo
5. I enjoyed my conversations with JR on the...
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Community Rebuilds on KSL →
Our friends down in Moab were on the local news recently!
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Announcing Epicenter's Internship Program!
For the past year, we at Epicenter have been developing a way to further contribute to our community using our experience, education, and talents. For example, some of our experience includes working at a multi-disciplinary design office, acting as an architecture teaching assistant in college, and taking art classes through-out life. Our education includes college degrees in architecture, fine...
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Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing by... →
Click here to read this recent article in the New York Times. There’s also an accompanying slideshow of Graves’ sketches and notes.
Our favorite quote: Architecture cannot divorce itself from drawing, no matter how impressive the technology gets. Drawings are not just end products: they are part of the thought process of architectural design. Drawings express the interaction of our...
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August 2012
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FRONTIER FELLOW REPORT: RAPHAEL "RAPHY" GRISWOLD
WHAT’S IMPORTANT ABOUT ART MIGHT NOT BE CONNECTED DIRECTLY TO ART ITSELF, BUT MAY LIE WITHIN THE PERIPHERY OF VISUAL EXPERIENCE - Gregory Battcock, The Wings of Man, 1977
Green River, Utah is a locus for looking. People come to Green River for the view. This precedent was set in the 19th century by John Wesley Powell - Green River’s first visual tourist - when he came to...
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FRONTIER FELLOW REPORT: JUSTIN "JR" FLOOD
Do buildings shape the future?
Do architects shape the future?
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE?
What responsibilities should architects be held accountable for? What happens when architects choose to immerse themselves in the local? Can they be *shaped* by their communities? What if architects could engage in the building process at every stage, even before a building is conceived? How can...
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Why Architecture's Identity Problem Should Matter...
We were literally talking about this issue for two hours yesterday in our office with Frontier Fellow, Justin Flood. Below is an article from GOOD. Enjoy!
Perhaps it was the Legos, or watching Mike Brady belly up to his drafting board on TV. In recent months and years, the likes of President Obama, Brad Pitt, Lenny Kravitz, and numerous other public figures have divulged a love of architecture,...
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Identity Theft & Internet Safety Seminar
Wednesday, September 5th, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Green River High School Auditorium, 745 West Pirate Avenue, Green River, Utah
The Emery County Sheriff’s Office is sponsoring a seminar on identity theft and internet safety. The Utah Attorney General’s Office will be presenting the seminar. Identity theft has been the number one consumer complaint reported to the Federal Trade...
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USDA Official, Center for Rural Strategies,...
As “young creatives” living and practicing in rural Utah (and funded through USDA Rural Development), we wish we had been invited to this conference. Sounds like it was right up our alley especially with Matthew Fluharty and Richard Saxton in attendance and the brainstorming sessions!
Rural communities that find a way to attract and/or retain creative people and organizations are...
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“The main drag of Green River, Utah, is littered with the corpses of ‘70s-era...”
– Emily joins us today to learn more about Green River, the Epicenter, and the Frontier Fellowship.
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Frontier Fellow Report: Raphy Griswold
On August 22nd I began a Frontier Fellowship at the Epicenter in Green River, Utah, USA. For the next four weeks I will be exploring Green River and its surroundings, creating artworks that respond to this environment and conducting visual research that I hope will guide future projects. In support of the Epicenter, I will be developing visual and written resources designed to identify, promote...
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Four Lessons for Financial Success →
Four lessons from the Etsy blog from a Certified Financial Planner about managing your business with a comfortable cushion.
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Contact Information Update
Epicenter’s greenriverepicenter.org emails are being phased out. From now on, please use our ruralandproud.org email addresses only. Also, in much more exciting news: We’re getting a new website very soon!!! Stay tuned to ruralandproud.org.
Email addresses for curent staff:
Jack Forinash - jack[at]ruralandproud.org
Maria Sykes - maria[at]ruralandproud.org
Chris Lezama -...
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What's With August?
Last year in August we had the most people working in Epicenter ever. With three Fellows (Dan Strauss, Miles Mattison, and Nick Zdon), a new AmeriCorps VISTA (Chris Lezama), and three staff members (Maria, Jack, and Hayley) we were up to seven people.
Well, turns out August is a popular month again this year! We already have two Fellows (Sarah Baugh and Justin Flood) and three staff members...
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Green River Thrift Store →
Admit it, out-of-towners. You miss the Green River Thrift Store! Well, miss those sweet goods and wares no longer. We’re helping out the Thrift Store (again) and putting up the “good stuff” for sale online. Follow the Green River Thrift Store blog or like the PACT Facebook page for all of the awesome steals to come.
Spoiler alert: Items to come include vintage wooden tennis...
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Out of the Office
We’re in and out of the office for the next three days. Chris and Maria are attending a B.E.A.R. training in Salt Lake City while Jack is visiting the University of Utah. As always, we’re available by email.
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Applications Due Tomorrow
Applications for Green River City’s CHEER (Creating a Healthy Environment & Encouraging Respect) teen program director are due tomorrow! This is a brand new program that you would help design. It’s truly a unique opportunity. You can find more information here.
