Hastudia #2

It has been almost a year since I first met Ellie & Emma - Hastudia girls. Meanwhile they followed their dream, opened their own place, a kind of workshop where you can come and make anything you want, if didn't have the tools to do it at home. In addition, they have a really busy schedule of all kind of workshops such as: making cutting boards from reclaimed wood, upcycled old pallets to shelves, sewing wallets from inner tubes and more.

Last week I dropped by somewhere between the kid's dinner time and a night's drink. It was a low-tech silk screening workshop, where I met Katya, Suzanne, Shane, Emma and Maayan Gutfeld - textile designer and the instructor. I heard a lot of "wow" that night in this workshop, the kind you hear when you see magic and finally discover how it has been done.

If you are in the neighborhood, you probably a permanent residency there, and if you are a tourist planning to come to Tel Aviv, join their face book page and stay tuned. (There is a lot of English being spoken there because the girls are both Canadian, so you can feel at home).

P.S.

The upcycled dryer is not finished yet, please be calm and stay tuned.

The wild wild west

{who}

Artist Li-Ron Paz

{An old thing}

Tires - collected pedantry by their texture from recycled tires factory.

{A wild and upcycled thing}

A horse swing. There are dears too, and birds are coming up.

{The first horse}

Li-Ron's desire for tires swings is probably a combination of her art studies in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and her former job as an instructor in summer camps in the states, where tires swings are very common. It has taken her more than 10 years till she decided to do it by herself and 12 tires more, (trials) until she came up with her first model of a horse swing. Like a good old wine the waiting was worthy. She managed to cut the material in a perfect and virtuosic way that reuses 90% of the tire (and 100% in the case of the deer's model) 

{A thing to tell your daughter}

It's a hard work to cut tires, you can start with a Stanley knife but eventually you will need also a disc and a saw. Li-Ron likes it. She likes the hard hands work, and she also does the handy work at home as well. She speaks about tool box like a girl speaks about a barbie house, and her spouse is really enjoying his handy woman and bragging this fact to all of his friends.

{A thing to tell her grandchildren}

Li-Ron had met her spouse in her first summer camp, which was in Atlanta Georgia 12 years ago.

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מי: לי-רון פז, אמנית. משהו ישן: צמיגים ישנים שנאספו ממפעל למיחזור צמיגים. ממוחדש ופרוע: נדנדת סוס (יש גם צבאים ובקרוב ציפורים). הסוס הראשון: לירון בוגרת בצלאל, היתה בעברה מדריכה במחנות קיץ בארצות הברית שם פגשה לראשונה נדנדות מצמיגים, עברו יותר מעשר שנים, עד שהחליטה לעשות זאת בעצמה ועוד 12 צמיגים חתוכים (נסיונות) עד שגיבשה בתבונה ובוירטואוזיות את דגם סוס הנדנדה הראשון שלה. משהו לספר לבת שלכם: לירון עושה את כל עבודות האחזקה בבית ומדברת על קופסת כלי עבודה כמו שילדה בת 4 מדברת על בית בובות הברבי שלה. משהו לספר לנכדים שלה: לירון הכירה את דדי, בן זוגה במחנה קיץ באטלנטה, ג'ורג'יה לפני 12 שנים.

{Things to do in summer}

To send my children to a summer camp.

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משהו לעשות עם הילדים בקיץ: לשלוח אותם למחנה קיץ:-) 

The colors of black

When I was a teenager I had this complete perfect image of my future woman's look - wearing only black cloths. Not a black "The Cure" printed t-shirt, but the clever Yohji (Yamamoto) kind of black (in that time I didn't really know who was he).

First time I met Elanit Neutra's bags I knew I love them for they were all black.
Elanit  is coming with the rock-blond-tall girl look, and if one's look say something about one's garbage collection, so tiers would be definitely a perfect match for her.

She studied graphic design (apparently we were overlapped for two years in Wizo Haifa Academy of Design). Than she continued to study interior design, post production and worked as a set designer. In all of that time she was always collecting tiers from the streets and "played bags" with them. Eventually this hobby became her business.

Her work shouldn't be "hash tagged" as fashion unless you consider the "timeless - must have in my wardrobe" side of it.

The tiers arrive on a special delivery from someone who actually sells this stuff. For Elanit, opening that pile of the black treasure and finding out what colors came from the black this time, is the highlight of the whole process. There is something very exciting in opening a box full of surprises, something that recreates our childhood innocent experience.

The tiers come with all kind of texture: smooth, striped, colored stripes, dense stripes. Some look like washed jeans and some have typography on them. The last kind is my favorite.

That's my own interpretation for "The colors of black"

The different variety of the original material are the reason for the "one of a kind" result.

That's the Neutra I'll buy right after I would buy an iPad.

That's the Neutra I'll have for the change from the iPad.

I like that Neutra's designs are flowing peacefully with the material and not giving in to it, that's what makes the result so quietly perfect.

I think this is the version of Neutra for the "Little Black Dress".

And that's my Neutra :-)

Neutra plays for so long with tiers, she knows exactly the way they move, so she moves on designing jewelry, furniture, baskets, planters and more to come.

And as the Yohji said: “Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".”