This is a series of photographs that I took last weekend as I walked from Roebling St in Williamsburg to the Morgan Avenue subway stop in Bushwick.
– Joseph Stodgel 3/13/14
A Photo-Journey from Williamsburg to Bushwick
Category: Photography
My Deep Thanks to Daphne
I hoisted my heavy pack, climbed off the bus and took my first steps onto the pavements of New York City where I would soon begin a ten-week fellowship program with the DO School. After taking some pictures and a short video explaining briefly my setting and location, I glanced across the street to see a sign with the name Dafni on it. Immediately I was reminded of a pressing desire to write a bit about my faithful chariot, a 1990 Honda Civic wagon named Daphne.
Last summer I gathered the money to buy Daphne and give her a couple of new tires. In the months since then I have traveled more than 10,000 miles with her, over many a mountain pass and from New Mexico to California and back twice. We celebrated her 200,000th mile in Oakland, just before she lost compression in one of her cylinders and began a chugging in her engine that continues today. Other smaller issues presented themselves as well and were fixed in turn, namely her brakes, starter and distributor.
It seems that many held the thought that Daphne wasn’t going to make it back to New Mexico this time around to deliver me safely for my impending departure to New York City. I questioned taking my painting rug or massage table, lest I end up putting my possessions on a greyhound or amtrak, but in the end somehow knew that she would make it. Somehow… epically… she made it to Santa Fe. A day later her back right wheel was locked up – she was going nowhere for sometime. Here and now I give her great thanks and a deep bow for all of her oil-burning hard work, and look forward to putting in the hours this summer to get her on the road once more.
The Crowdfunding Campaign for Jo’s NYC Fellowship is Alive!
The many hours of writing, painting, singing, bead-work, metal bending, web design, talking and editing, the crowdfunding campaign for my NYC Do School Fellowship has been released from my humming computer to the vast world of the wide web!
I am excited to post regularly during this month of crowdfunding with photos of the new paintings and artworks that I have made, samples of notes from past educational programs, a random video or song thrown into the mix, and some explanations for why I have chosen to focus on these certain offerings and styles.
Below and here you will find a link to the Indiegogo campaign, the links to the pages I have set up here onsite with a sampling of the artworks that I have made to exchange for your generous contributions, as well as some of the text from the campaign. Thank you kindly and please share it on your social networks and such!
Support and share the campaign at igg.me/at/jsto
Greetings! My name is Jo and I am from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Two years ago I initiated work in South Africa to “upcycle” an old dumping site into the home of the Trash to Treasure Festivals. It is my passion to show people how they can use “trash” beneficially for the upliftment of their communities. I am also a passionate artist and am gladdened by the opportunity to make more art.
I recently was accepted to the Sustainable Cup Challenge Fellowship in New York City with The DO School. The main goal of the fellowship is to prepare and guide young entrepreneurs through the challenges of starting and sustaining a successful project in response to a pressing issue in their communities. I want to build upon the work that I have accomplished in South Africa and establish an eco-brick program in Santa Fe that addresses local plastic pollution.
Your contributions to this campaign will provide me with the support I need to participate in the NYC fellowship, to take my upcycling projects to the next level, and to produce a new series of artworks as well.
Soon to Go Live with Fellowship Crowdfunder
Greetings Spoke of Source Friends!
Yesterday dear friend Rob Woodford put the final touches on the video for my upcoming crowdfunding campaign which will go live in the next 24 hours or so and run through the month of February. The video features some awesome acted parts with friend Nicole Hogan, a song and rap that I composed for the project, and a bunch of the artworks that are on offer as campaign perks.
What is the campaign for you ask? A few months ago I was accepted to a fellowship in New York City with The DO School. Even though my flight and tuition is covered and housing subsidized, I need to raise some much needed money for living expenses and transport in the Big Apple.
The fellowship is designed to give young entrepreneurs like myselfthe tools and knowledge to implement and sustain projects such as those of Only Green Design with my brother James Stodgel and the Trash to Treasure Festivals in South Africa with friends like Candice Mostert and Nicola Vernon.
Stay tuned for the campaign!
Forging the Eco-mullet
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