When news first broke a few weeks ago that Jesse Kranyak and I were in the process of buying 209 Pearl and opening Landline Creative Labs, we were interviewed for Concentrate. And, at some point in that interview, I said the following regarding my role in the building’s rehab. “My back is going, so I’m […]
Tag Archives: Shinola
Landline Creative Labs to feature artisanal, locally harvested, Ypsilanti-aged, hand-planed wood floors
Posted in 209 Pearl, Landline Creative Labs Also tagged Best Made Co., Elijah McCoy, Jesse Kranyak 20 Comments
Telling shit from Shinola… It’s not as easy as you might think
I don’t think I’ve ever weighed in one way or the other on Shinola, the somewhat controversial Detroit-based marketer of expensive watches, bicycles and notebooks. As I recall, I may have once noted how incredibly douchey I found the spectacle of four economic development professionals, at some point during a public forum on the future […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged authenticity, Bedrock Manufacturin, bicycles, bougie crap, cultural appropriation, Fossil, gentrification, handmade, luxury goods, manufacturing, marketing, Rebekah Modrak, Tom Kartsotis, watches 92 Comments
Art, Food, Sex and Trauma: Mark Maynard shoots the shit with the most important artists of our day… Episode 2: Rebekah Modrak
In December, I posted something about a brilliant piece of satire directed at the company Best Made and its line of high-end, artisanal axes. The artist behind the work, who called himself Peter Smith-Buchanan, I thought, lived in New York. As it turns out, however, the artist lived just down the road… Today’s interview is […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture Also tagged anxiety, artisanal goods, authenticity, axes, bearded entrepreneurial hipster outdoorsman, BEHO, Best Made Co., brand identity, class, coined phrases, cultural tourism, culture jamming, design porn, family recipes, gender, identity, illegal art, interviews, manly, parody, Peter Buchanan-Smith, Peter Smith-Buchanan, pioneer fetish, plungers, porn, Re Made, Rebekah Modrak, Risto Moisio, River in the Catskills, shopdropping, Stamps School of Art and Design, taming the wilderness, Thomas Cole, toilet plungers, turkey croquettes, University of Michigan, ZaneRay Group 33 Comments