January 2010
38 posts
WatchEnvisioning Workshop video by Wes Funes, intern
Saturday became a work day when students and teachers from the University of Utah Architecture + Planning visited. We assisted in having an envisioning workshop to discuss the wants and wishes of Green River’s citizens. People + Questions + Answers + Discussion ACTION!
Interns' Weekly Report, No. 2
January 25, 2010 To: EPIcenter Crew Re: Weekly Report, the Second Authors: Wes Funes and Josh Hilliard Song Playing: It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday by Boyz 2 Men
This week was a little strange, a little awkward, but another fun and eventful week in Green River. Monday started with our morning meeting. ‘Goals’ was the theme and we set some. We then immediately made our way to the Baxter...
The Epicrew is one less
Rand Pinson came to Green River April 1st of last year, inspired to work on the Baxter Building and turn it into a beautiful space to become the housing resource center that was in the process of being formed. Rand aided in the arduous task of submitting the RBEG grant that is funding the renovation, which was finally received in September. This delayed timeline, where summer turned to fall and...
weekly interns' report
To: EPIcenter Crew Re: Weekly Report Authors: Wes Funes and Josh Hilliard
The week started with our first complete Monday Morning Meeting:
Baxter Bldg plans were discussed and a skeleton of a weekly plan was created. Monday we situated the office. Wes joined Jack, Maria, and Joni on a trip to a Habitat for Humanity monthly board meeting. This was his first experience dealing with a board that...
home-ownership class tomorrow!
Tomorrow (Wed 20 Jan 2010) we are hosting a home-ownership class that will be taught by Toni Johnson of CDC in Price, Utah. Home-owner responsibilities, credit, savings, real estate contracts, financial documents, home insurance, and debt will be just a few of the things that will be covered in this 4-hour class. The class is the first-half of the 8-hour class required by USDA to be approved for...
WatchWe attempted to record a song via phone teleconference. The song, “Switchback Heartattack,” was about our adventures en route to the Grand Canyon this past summer. The switchbacks refer specifically to the death-defying switches entering down into the Valley of the Gods from the north. Sadly, technical complications (from a double trouble “conference call” settings)...
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So apparently you can call Tumblr and leave a...
“There was a mythical character who used to roam around our camp (camp Ahmek),...”
– Inspiration for the Best Made Co.
“I just want to wake up when it’s light, eat because I’m hungry, shower because...”
– Official Epicrew Mantra, recited each morning upon arriving to work, hand over heart.
OUR ETHIC//
We are entrenched within the community. From this place, a microcosm of so many others, we will make our best effort as we redefine the role of architecture + citizenship. As Young Professionals, we value the potent effect of collaboration over credit, community participation over subversive upheaval, and local solutions over top-down decrees. To this Great Revolt we hereby pledge allegiance.
Anonymous asked: Is most of Green River wired (internet access)? And do the majority of the community members own a device through which to access the internet? If not, does the community offer what you would consider "acceptable" public areas for community members to access the internet (private stations, parental controls in place for kids, reasonable download speed, ability to print for a modest fee,...
generation gtd →
hayley’s take on this whole nuisance ordinance fiasco. definitely worth reading!
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ask us anything →
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Green River needs dance parties.
Spontaneous...
green river needs
Below is an in-progress list of businesses and/or services we wish existed in Green River. Anyone want to give it a go? You’d have our full moral support, ideas, connections, business, and design services.
Hardware store
Pharmacare/soda fountain (with six large glass 12-diameter heavy-lidded jars full of brightly colored candy, a bar-style soda fountain, and inexpensive over-the-counter...
obsolete?
These are things that will be obsolete in this next decade according to the Huffington Post. 1. Land lines 2. Phone calls (being replaced by texts) 3. Wires 4. CDs 5. Classified Ads 6. Encyclopedias 7. Film and film cameras 8. Yellow pages and address books 9. Catalogues 10. Fax Machines 11. Hand written letters 12. Dial-up internet Consider this a list of the Top Eleven things Young...
new beginnings
Today is the fifth day of a new year, 2010 to be specific, and our first real day back to work in Green River after the holidays. On this day the EPIcrew grows in number by two (Wes + Josh are in full work mode already!)… totaling to eight locally (fourteen crew members internationally). What a way to begin the new year! New blood. New ideas.
This will be the year of the Green River...
