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Faded Blue Planet

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This is a trailer for a French independent documentary film. Faded Blue Planet. It includes a good segment with Lynn Downey and also the OOE Yofukuten team in Japan. Lynn reminds me of back in high school – the nerdy girl in my class who I had a crush on. When she starts talking about [...]

New Store. Prices Reduced.

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I’ve set up a Shoply Store where I’ll try to sell stock.  All prices are reduced! http://indigofan.shoply.com/

Denim Pollution in China

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Thanks to David who posted me a link to this CNN article & video report by Emily Chang. The article details the extent of pollution being created in Guangzhou China, the primary denim production location in the world. “… blue-jean clad consumers everywhere probably don’t realize the process by which denim is made may be [...]

What killed denim in the 70's? This type of attitude…

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H.i.s.’s Press-Free Jeans (1966) (via Vintage Ad Browser, via Cottonduck i think?) “Be a Neatnick” “Dress-Up Jeans with a permanent crease down the center of each leg…” “Press-Free Jeans by h.i.s.” Yes, you’re thinking what I’m thinking…  it was the Baby Boomers who killed off quality denim!!

The Pacific

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I doubt The Pacific can be as good as Band of Brothers, but I will be watching in 2010 to find out. Just reading through the Wikipedia article on The Pacific, a lot of the filming has taken place right here in Melbourne.  We saw them blocking off Flinders Street stations for a few scenes.

Mount Vernon Mills

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http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/10/30/blue.jeans.mill/index.html Nice article about the Mount Vernon Cotton Mill, one of the few remaining cotton mills in the U.S..  I’m currently reading Rachel Louise Snyder’s book (Fugitive Denim) and this article compliments the current chapter quite well. via ACL