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- Assorted wearables designed and sewn on Kaua'i, Hawai'i. Began 2007. Owned/operated by Shannon Hiramoto. Nestled in a studio in an auto repair shop in Hanapepe at a place called Workshop.
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me (left) last week. in Hanapepe. at Workshop with my all time most favorite people (linda, right. vanessa, behind the lens). come visit and become a favorite too. fridays 5-9p.
Some recent things at Workshop::
-I’ve discovered that people like free things. Had lots of bananas to give away this week. I’ll try to have a fruit of some sort to give away every Friday night. The Hanapepe farmer’s market (in the park behind Workshop) is on Thursday afternoon—so this is potentially perfect!
-The upstairs of our loft is now a mini-vintage-shop stocked with clothing and afghans and cameras and typewriters and doo-dads and what-nots. Its gives me immense pleasure to hear giggling up there.
-A little gang has begun appearing on Friday nights near the entrance. They serenade with violin, keyboard, steel drum, tung drum, didgeridoo, guitar, and sweet voices. I love them. One of these persons sang a 10 minute machinemachine ballad.
-Shop hours are erratic here. If you want to stop in, Friday 4-9pm, is your best bet; Its the only time Workshop is guaranteed open. Throughout the rest of the week I’m in there sewing up a storm and if so, I’m open; But the hours are not steady. Sometimes I’m doing work at home. Sometimes I’m out to lunch. Sometimes I’m sleeping. Sometimes I’m across the street at the bookstore. Sometimes I’m riding bike. Sometimes I’m having a life. Sometimes I forget what day it is.
-Some of the Kauai artists/brands to be found at Workshop these days: clothing by Kristy Maligro’s The Wren Collection, art by Shannan Morgan, art by Mary B. Sanderson, art by Sean Allen, photography by Kiani Andrade, photography by Blenda Montoro Miller, sunrise shell jewelry by Anuenue Washburn’s Malacologie, beaded jewelry by Amanda Gigi Cabebe
-What I love most about Workshop are things I hadn’t anticipated, hadn’t guessed were available or even existed. Oh, the way life can surprise you if you allow it. I urge everyone to pursue the outlandish/scary/uncomfortable. You’ll be very amused by the results.
this friday i’m going to be here with some things to show/sell, maybe you will be there too?
- Is there a cost for the workshop & how does one sign-up?
hi curious person,
Workshop is actually the title of the physical workshop/store/studio space. Indeed, eventually we’ll be hosting learning-workshops that’ll be open to the public! We’re open to all sorts of ideas and if anyone else wants to host a workshop at Workshop, that’s super-extra-great! The future workshops do not have to be sewing related, in fact, they can be about anything really…..kombucha making, bonsai gardening, book clubbing, banjo lessons….seriously whatever! But all that’s for a bit later; Currently our focus is on creating a shop space, making inventory, and brainstorming fun things for our participation in Hanapepe’s Friday Night Art Walk.
Thanks for inquiring (curiousity is my most favorite quality in a person),
Shannon
some nights i like to go outside, smoke a cigarette, and tilt way back in a chair.
Messier 68
“The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers this delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical, star-filled region of space known as a globular cluster. Mutual gravitational attraction amongst a cluster’s hundreds of thousands or even millions of stars keeps stellar members in check, allowing globular clusters to hang together for many billions of years.
Astronomers can measure the ages of globular clusters by looking at the light of their constituent stars. The chemical elements leave signatures in this light, and the starlight reveals that globular clusters’ stars typically contain fewer heavy elements, such as carbon, oxygen and iron, than stars like the Sun. Since successive generations of stars gradually create these elements through nuclear fusion, stars having fewer of them are relics of earlier epochs in the Universe. Indeed, the stars in globular clusters rank among the oldest on record, dating back more than 10 billion years.
More than 150 of these objects surround our Milky Way galaxy. On a galactic scale, globular clusters are indeed not all that big. In Messier 68’s case, its constituent stars span a volume of space with a diameter of little more than a hundred light-years. The disc of the Milky Way, on the other hand, extends over some 100 000 light-years or more.
Messier 68 is located about 33 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (The Female Water Snake). French astronomer Charles Messier notched the object as the sixty-eighth entry in his famous catalogue in 1780. Hubble added Messier 68 to its own impressive list of cosmic targets in this image using the Wide Field Camera of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. The image, which combines visible and infrared light, has a field of view of approximately 3.4 by 3.4 arcminutes.”
Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA [high-resolution]
Caption: NASA/ESA
a tiny peek at the progress of machinemachine’s workshop construction. what’s next is painting the loft’s floor (mustard yellow?), installing lights, building racks, handpaint exterior and interior signage, acquire plants/palms, set-up furniture, haul in machines+fabric, build inventory, find new artists, put on the music, make some coffee, dance dance dance, and have a party.
opening this workshop is a big change for me. I’ll have to put on real clothing everyday (no more frumpy PJ’s all day long), I’ll have to conform to regular working hours (no more 3pm-2am sporadic work days), I’ll have to talk to people (no more talking to myself), I’ll have to stay firmly planted on the island for at least a year (no more lengthy trips).
it’ll be hard, tough, trying work. yet absolutely worth it. for me, opening a shop has meaning and purpose far beyond profit, in fact to be perfectly honest, profit is the least motivating factor. the riches i seek are increasingly intangible. here are a few of my strong desires::
-to integrate machinemachine with the larger creative community!
-to bring something fresh+exciting to the kauai shopping experience!
-to showcase+nurture neglected/unseen artists’ visions!
-to have a social life and interact with other humans daily!
-to create organization and better manage my company (i.e. create a healthy boundary between myself and work)!
-to offer new products!
-to host workshops and be a resource!
-to inspire via internships, exhibitions, and residencies!
-to meet my customers face-to-face!
-to enable custom design work!
-to stay challenged, never stagnate, keep pushing, and to do things just for the smell of it!
So it was about time I went to Iceland. There’s an urgency about going. I had to. I found myself with an opportunity to do a machinemachine trunk show at a beautiful shop called Kailani in Montauk, NY. (Which, by the way, was great fun!) Traveling to the east coast left me 2/3 of the way somewhere I wanted to be. Badly. For years now, always dreaming about this strange cold volcanic friendly place. Booked a ticket, hired a car, suggested my friends to join me, and spent the last 3 weeks in a very happy place. I highly suggest this country for you. Do it anyway you can. We drove+hosteled, but other great adventures would be hitchhiking+camping or bussing+trekking or RV-ing+camping. Next time. I’m eager to implement what Ive observed into new clothing designs/prints as a TravelFound: Iceland series.
I leave in one week for the east coast for a trunk show in Montauk at a sweetsweet shop called Kailani. Then I venture on to Iceland; Where we shall drive, pointlessly, in search of nothingness, all I want is more nothingness; Nothingness everywhere. I urge my eyes to fall upon vast barren fields, endless waterfalls, and a land without people. My mind, I urge to be still, thoughtless, devoid of its spiraling, seeking, monkey-like yearnings. My hands, I know will be antsy as they are always. So I will urge them to write; Write about anythingness; Anythingness everywhere. I go because I can. And I must because I should. But more than the obligation, I do this to be nearer to myself; Whom I miss so much when I’m at home, comfortable, happy—living in shaveice bliss and tradewind warmth.
some dudes, although they were more like a cross between porpoises and wombats, came from the land down under to kauai. we did fun things. made me (sort of) want to travel less and host more. they do their various porp-bat things here: www.seaulcer.tv
oh, yes. incredibly eager to begin working on this space; converting it to a workspace/showroom/shop for my company. its something i’ve been dreaming of for a very very very long time…i cannot even begin to describe the boundless excited energy i have for this endeavor. more details will be available when its ready for visitors and a grand opening, which realistically will not be for quite a while. but im not thinking about any of that. right now im busy frantically jumping up and down while simultaneously meditating on god, grace, and gratitude.
- put those ears to these speakers and put those feet on the floor and off the floor and on the floor and off the floor Uproot Andy’s Techno Rumba
(No streaming audio available)16193 plays - want more aural twinkles to create/move to? enjoy! DJ DAVE NADA presents: MOOMBAHTON MONDAYS MIX:
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - its sunday:::all my friends are down at the sunny beach. i am up in my rainy house, sewing my life away as i prep for this week’s Art+Flea. BUT, at least i get to work to this kind of music. playing super super loud. if you thought sewing and dancing were exclusive to each other, you thought wrong. (DJ Mix-I-Can AKA DJ Tit-O)
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- Whew, I finally made new Little Hand non-watches and posted them up in the webshop www.machinemachineapparel.com
- yes ma'am!
- updated the webshop. click thru if you feel inclined. www.machinemachineapparel.com
- Packing up all all sorts of goodies and flying to Oahu for Art&Flea tonight at Fresh Cafe on Queen Street---I love this event, so excited!
- Did I mention that I opened up a shop last week? Primarily it's my studio...but Workshop (what I dubbed it) is a whole lot more than just that! More info here:: www.Facebook.com/workshopkauai
- Something told me it needed puffy paint & 2x4's
- I created a FB page just for Workshop...check it out for new pictures of its development, artist information, learning-opportunities, friday night special events, inventory updates, and more!
- opening October 12....come + say hello!
- Hey Friends! I need your help. I'm excited about opening my brick+mortar headquarters (WORKSHOP) in a couple weeks (Oct.12) and been throwing around some ideas that might appeal to you...such as a buy-back program::: Would you like to trade in your old machinemachine garments for partial store credit towards new ones? Would you be interested in buying pre-loved machinemachine bargain garments? Would you bring in your old machinemachine garments and have me sew some new life into them for a small fee (e.g. change a dress into a skirt, or change a maxi to a mini, etc.)? Do you have other interesting things you wish to see happen at WORKSHOP?
- Love this solid lil' sewing tank! (follow me on Instagram @ machinemachine...to peep inside the process and progress at my newly founded handmade headquarters a.k.a WORKSHOP)
- shop update:: new hats in the webshop! www.machinemachineapparel.com
- oh, its a bit of an arbitrary cause for a "Yippee!", but our page breached the 1,000 likes mark! I'm looking forward to the day it reaches 10,001 likes...simply because then it'll look like one shaka ;)
- Are you ready Kaua'i? My family and I are building a special place where you can see my making-process first hand and enjoy strange&beautiful creations from other talented locals. Details soon!
- Currently enjoying stepping out into adventure-time in Iceland! Curious to know where you've been this summer or where you're going this fall for YOUR adventure-time---tell me!
- From a Kaua'i shore to a Montauk store:::: We're heading out to see the islands of New York tomorrow...machinemachine+halele'a trunk show at Kailani boutique this Saturday!
