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After neatly stacking dirty plate pyramids in our communal kitchen sink, ReadyMade got to work on an Organization Issue. Tidy up everything from a bathroom cupboard to your ever-swelling magazine collection. Plus: Make a rug from felt, a floor lamp with a camera tripod, and a new chair from an old cable-knit sweater.
Inspired by our Expedit-clad offices and websites like Ikeahacker, we appointed three designers to reimagine our favorite squarest-of-square shelving units. Boldly rising to the challenge, our team came up with a custom coffee table, credenza, and more for our Get Organized Issue.
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Downpour! Our offices in Berkeley, California are tres damp. Many of our staffers’ umbrellas have been savaged by the walk to work and are begging for retirement. Conveniently, this month’s MacGyver challenge is to creatively reinvent broken ‘brellas. Maria Javornik and Jennifer Salas of Madison, Wisconsin have shown us what to do with our battered bumbershoots and our bountiful stacks of back issues (Thanks for the magazine rack, ladies!). Check out the always amazing runners up.
Up Next - Luggage: Has your suitcase on wheels quit, you know…rolling? ReadyMade challenges you, MacGyver-style, to take those old bags to new places. Deliver your luggage re-design instructions or photos to our offices by March 17, 2008 for the chance to win a year’s subscriptio and a ReadyMade T-shirt: MacGyver Challenge, 817 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94710 or articles@readymademag.com.
First five readers to email the names of 10 friends who would like to receive ReadyMade’s newsletter win a pair of tickets to Southern California’s modern design and architecture show, CABOOM!
NoisePop » San Francisco, CA
The Bay Area’s best-loved celebration of indie music and culture. Events include a film festival, independent music, panel discussions, a local indie craft expo, rock poster show, special acoustic performances, gallery art shows and literary events as well as rollicking after-parties. ReadyMade sponsors the NoisePop Expo.
When: February 28—March 2
Web: www.noisepop.com
SXSW » Austin, TX
ReadyMade hosts an event with the online indie music review Pitchfork, dubbed ‘the most influential tastemaker on the music scene’. SXSW is a weeklong music, film and interactive media fest in Austin, TX that attracts over 1,500 bands and 10,000 concertgoers, reinforcing Austin’s reputation as the ‘live music capital of the world’.
When: March 14
Web: www.sxsw.com
CABoom Architecture and Design Show » Los Angeles, CA
CA Boom is a design exhibition with an emphasis on prefab housing, fine furnishings, green living and design, architecture, modern parenting, and modern pets. CABoom also features Design & Architecture Tours to 15 contemporary projects in Santa Monica, Venice, and Pacific Palisades.
When: March 14—16
Web: www.caboomshow.com
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Stay tuned for not-to-be-missed features including: the "staycation", adult camp, and how to compost in a non-gross way. Send outdoors projects for every skill level to julia@readymademag.com.
Baby Dee
Safe Inside the Day
(Drag City Records)
On her new album, Safe Inside the Day, Baby Dee—singer, harpist, pianist, songwriter, and transsexual queer activist—offers her listeners a jolt of staggering musical storytelling, set in falsetto. We’re as taken with her vaudevillian theatric sensibilities as we are with her surprising song titles and lyrics (“I’m looking back from eyes that roll back white, and I talk in tongues of blood and bite,” from “The Only Bones That Show”). Teaming up with indie favorites like Andrew WK, Lia Kessell, and Max Moston (from Antony and the Johnsons), as well as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and Matt Sweeney (who also produced her album) is just icing.
» Claire Donato
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