2 posts tagged “vox”

It's a men's small. And I have to say that I like it better than I like their girly t's. For the most part, anyway. It is a bit long and makes me wish I had a serger that worked so I could shorten the shirt to be where I want it to be, which would be longer than the chubb exposing length that the girlie t's come in. Now I'd never go out and buy an American Apparel t-shirt. Why? Cause Dov Charney is a jagoff. But I like what the company produces, for the most part. And I like that they got hipster America thinking about the quality of the living conditions of the people who make our clothes. There are several other American-owned and run t-shirt companies in this country who don't exploit their workers (either sexually or financially) that are fabulous and I could see them giving American Apparel a run for their money by all the fine folks who are annoyed with Dov Charney's (you can't sue us cause we made you sign away your right to not be sexually harrassed at work). But they don't have websites. Not at all. Not even a little placeholder for their address, phone number, and fax number.

So if someone like Vox could come along and get companies like this to get their catalogs online, that would be a revolution.

umsa umsa umsa umsa

(That's the dance track running in the background.)

I had the pleasure of attending the Vox launch party tonight that was hosted by SixApart. It was a far cry from the party that Ben and Mena Trott had three years ago when they showed up to talke about this crazy cool software that they were hoping to make successful called Movable Type. They gave a presentation at Seabury near the Northwestern University campus in Evanston and then all the geeks tagged along with tem as we went to Nevin's Pub for a brew or two. Thankfully the hordes (okay dozen or so) bloggers huddled around them to keep them warm since it was fuh-reezing! and they're from San Francisco where it usually doesn't get very warm and it rarely gets cold, let alone the ass-bite cold we had going on that night.

Fast forward three years and Mena is wearing a super-fantastico Marimekko inspired dress, Blue Sapphires are being drunk like mad (hello! it's all booze and its blue!). Tuna tartare in cute little maki are being passed around, along with salmon apps, and white bean paste with prosciutto on crostini. Many of the local bloggeratti were there. Ron May, Mr. "Who are you? Eh, nobody? next!" got bored by our little group ver, very quickly. And I met a wonderful friend of Matt's who I hope to see again. Sigh, I wish I had time to see all the friends I've made through Movable Type more often than I do and yet I know that I don't have time to really invest in making new friends, despite my desire.

But the wonderful moment in the evening was sheepishly saying hello to Mena Trott. I continue to be charmed by her creative, wonderful, comfortable, friendly, happy self. She is yet another person I wish I knew better in person. Maybe someday if I move to San Francisco or more likely, maybe Chicago will become SiliCone Fields and she'll move here. I introduced myself to her, and yet she knew me. And I was surprised by that because she meets thousands of people every week and yet she remembered me from meeting me three years ago. To say that I was surprised would be an understatement. Of course I did make her a handbag with the old Movable Type gears logo on it and while she was cool popular then she was nowhere near as cool popular as she is now. But she remembered me, and she's used the bag and I'm touched. As geeky as it is, I owe SixApart (and specifically BenAndMena) a big thank you. It was only after utilizing their software that I met other people who were in thesame geeky way as me and my friend circle bloomed. And while I rue the fact that my sweatshop calls my name far louder than my friends can, I love that I have friends who understand that I have things that I do and that I won't see them as often as I'd like, but for the most part it is okay because they have things they do that keep them busy. And these people? I might know them without my blog, but I doubt it. And admittedly, part of me wants to see the bag that I gave Mena three years ago. Cause I've gotten so much better since then and I want to know how bad I really was. I don't hae any bags that I made from that early and I'm worried that it would hurt my head to see how bad I was. So maybe it is best that I don't/won't see it.

And to people who might say: "how are you going to post here when you rarely post on your own damned site", I say "I know." But the thing about this is that I can make posts private. I can write about things here that only friends and family get to see. Which means I just might be more comfortable writing about some of the things that I've wanted to write about lately without having to worry about my ma finding it as easily, or Andrew's family (cause boy howdy! have I got some shit to say about them!).

And I got cinnamon.vox.com. My first name with no qualifiers. That never happens so I had to do it.