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Adventure brings people together! Recently, I learned of Loyal Mehnert and I got super pumped. I like his style. Roaming all around the world AND doing good. Let me tell you a little bit more about the man from his official bio. Loyal Mehnert aka “The Everyday Journeyman” is an award-winning Travelanthropist, mixing adventure travel with volunteer opportunities. From hiking along the Appalachian Trail and Camino de Santiago to racing the Plymouth-Dakar road rally across Europe and Africa, Loyal has traveled to over twenty countries across five continents, going the distance to raise both money and awareness for charitable causes. He’s currently organizing travelanthropic adventures to South America, West Africa, and the Middle East. For more information, you can email Loyal at theeverydayjourneyman@gmail.com and friend him on facebook to follow his travels. So as you can see, this guy is so The Adventure School it hurts. Hit him up and join the movement of travelanthropy! We asked him our usual questions about adventure, celebration and learning. 1. What skill do you want to learn? The travelanthropist in me wants to say something rugged like learning how to build an ice cave or filter water with a sock. Then there is the other part of me who really wants to learn how to play the banjo and bake the perfect cupcake. 2. Food and drink you don’t want to live without? I’m a vegetarian so I absolutely cannot live without veggie trail food. Packit Gourmet out of Austin and Primal Spirit Foods out of West Virginia have kept me fed while exploring the world. 3. The scariest thing you can think of? I don’t have rational fears like the fear of snakes or a fear of flying. My fears are all abstract like a fear of failure or the fear of not being remembered once I’m gone. If you want something more tangible, I’m afraid of/obsessed with Sasquatch. It’s a well known fact that I’m moving to the Pacific Northwest mostly to hunt the North American Great Ape Gigantopithecus. 4. Your favorite party supply? For any party worth its salt, you need good music. Radiohead’s new album has some quality dance tracks. 5. Your favorite book of the moment? I feel like I should come out and say I do read A LOT of comics. But since you asked about books, I’m actually reading The Adventurer’s Handbook by Mick Conefrey. For anyone interested in adventure, it’s an absolute must-read. Lots of great information and insane stories. 6. Describe your dream party place. Some place deep in the woods, off the beaten path. Probably not the best for e-vites. 7. What is the evil version of you like? He has a lot more facial hair, like a twirly moustache. 8. What gives you confidence? Knowing that the work I do as a Travelanthropist is making a real difference. I also have a super supportive fiancée, bless her heart for putting up with my madness. 9. Name four essential elements of a good party. Good music, good people, tasty vegetarian food, and interesting conversation. The fifth element would be Bruce Willis. 10. What do you appreciate most about a party host? Whenever I throw a party, I’m always worried I’m not being attentive enough. If a host can make sure that everyone is having a good time, that’s aces. 11. Favorite adventure supply? A huge part of any adventure is sharing it with friends and family and supporters. I use tools like Delorme Earthmate with SPOT and iPhoneTrip so I can blog and keep everyone up-to-date on my adventures as they happen. It’s tough, you don’t want to be completely plugged in but at the same time you need to keep in touch. 12. Describe the best party you ever attended. I had a great fundraiser/party last summer for my Hike for Habitat across the Camino de Santiago. Just seeing so many people come out in support was incredible. There’s always that fear that no one will show up. The second best party I’ve ever attended was in the tiny fishing village of Dong Xa in Vietnam. I can’t fully divulge what exactly went down or even how it went down. But it was epic. There was also that one time in Shinjuku… 13. Hotel room or campsite? Campsite, definitely. Have you heard of executive camping? Really posh, with toilets, electricity, air conditioning/heating. Part of the appeal of camping to me is going back to basics, a stripping away of all the nonsense. The great poop in the woods. 14. Do you have a style icon? Tom Hardy. More Inception-Tom Hardy than Bronson -Tom Hardy. 15. Where is your next adventure destination? I’m working on The Peace and Progress Build for Nigeria. There’s also this summer’s Pan-Am Highway for Habitat; 16,000 miles, 14 countries, from Alaska to Argentina. I try to plan two big adventures each year and there’s the chance I may race The Petra Rally in October from England to Israel, with stops in France, Austria, Romania, Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt (I’m looking for teammates!!!). 16. If you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what would you teach? Travelanthropy, the marriage of travel and philanthropy is so incredibly important. Not only is it about helping those in need but it’s also about helping yourself in the process. Whether you’re building a home for Habitat for Humanity on the Gulf Coast or biking across Vietnam for charity, you’re pushing yourself both mentally and physically. You’re rewriting your adventure DNA and doing things you previously thought were impossible. 17. What is your motto? Travel light—you never know when you’ll need a quick escape. Also, don’t be afraid to fail. If you don’t fail once in a while you’ll never know how great success tastes. 18. What is your spirit animal? Bigfoot? I think we just went full circle. Any of our loyal PNW readers out there should share hot tips with Loyal about Bigfoot sightings. Last I heard, my mom said that Squatch was over in E. WA in the late 1970s. editors note: Loyal, I am available for your Petra Rally team! Woot!!!
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I don’t wanna talk about it. Just recognize, Miami’s Little Haiti is FULL TO THE BRIM of awesome hand-painted signage and murals. And the undisputed KING of it all is SERGE.
Tonight! We see the world premiere of a feature length documentary about this man, Bert Rodriguez and his career. If you are not in Miami, here’s the trailer: Why Bert? Bert is the best! He’s also my boyfriend.
We are absolutely thrilled to do a special Wednesday edition of the Adventurer Profile today. Today’s adventurer, long time creative mover and shaker, Grela Orihuela, has recently produced a very special movie called Making Sh*t Up that premieres tonight at Miami’s classic Tower Theater in Little Havana as part of the Miami International Film Festival. To read more about the film’s director, Bill Bilowit as well as the process he and Grela went through to create this feature-length film about the career of contemporary artist Bert Rodriguez, click here. Grela Orihuela is Cuban by birth and grew up in Astoria, Queens. She graduated from the NYU Film School Fine Arts program, and in the early 1980s worked directly for two legendary, iconic men in marketing and promotion: Bloomingdale’s fashion director Kal Ruttenstein and rock ‘n roll impresario Bill Graham. In the mid-1980s, Grela was a producer at WABC-TV news, the executive producer at Telemundo Network, and an independent producer of Spanish-language broadcast programming. She then went on to found several film and multi-media companies, The Show Works, Tareco, and Wet Heat Project with her partner Bill Bilowit. Her most recent work from Wet Heat Project can be seen onscreen in two feature-length films about young artists on the rise, miamiHeights: Hernan Bas and Making Sh*t Up about the conceptual artist Bert Rodriguez, and at the online documentary network wetheat.tv. We asked her our usual questions. 1 what skill do you want to learn? Ambition and / or Patience
2 food and drink you don’t want to live without? Masitas y batido de mamey
3 the scariest thing you can think of? Being a “Real Housewife of Miami”
4 your favorite party supply? Laughter
5 your favorite book of the moment? “The Wild, Wild East” by Barbara Pollack
6 describe your dream party place. Inside my head
7 what is the evil version of you like? She’s blonde
8 what gives you confidence? High heels
9 name four essential elements of a good party. Good guests, good guests, good guests and great guests
10 what do you appreciate most about a party host? Getting the details right
11 favorite adventure supply? The TV remote
12 describe the best party you ever attended. My wedding reception
13 hotel room or campsite? You can’t be serious.
14 do you have a style icon? No
15 where is your next adventure destination? My days-are-numbered storage unit
16 if you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what would you teach? Ethics
17 what is your motto? Everything happens for a reason So, see you tonight Grela. And, dear readers, if you’re in Miami. Don’t forget to get your tickets for tonight’s show.
What a pleasant surprise to awake to find our very own The Adventure Store on the Urban Outfitters Blog for all the Urban world to see! We are so flattered!
Here are some screenshots I expertly pulled from the world wide web. Hooray!!!!!!!
Kyle Johnson is a Seattle photographer who is stirring things up. I have worked with Kyle on fashion spreads for Seattle Metropolitan Bride and Groom magazine and it is such a pleasure. He brings a groovy sense of quiet enthusiasm and jovial stick-to-itiveness to the game. I can sense a deep and abiding positivity and love for nature coming through in his flicks and that makes me feel radical. So here you have it folks today’s adventurer is friend of adventure Kyle Johnson. Keep your eyes peeled for this up-and-comer, his work has been featured everywhere from Wallpaper to Juxtapoz to Vice. His arresting band photos are sure to make a splash in the time-honored tradition of Seattle bands becoming the next Big Deal. See his work shooting musicians on the street corner all throughout Seattle as he shot the City Arts magazine March cover featuring amazing Seattle band The Head and the Heart. We asked him the usual questions. 1. What skill do you want to learn? Letter Press Or Fly Fishing 2. Food and drink you don’t want to live without? A good burger/fries & an Iced Americano (Not together) 3. The scariest thing you can think of? Going Blind 4. Your favorite party supply? Pop Its 5. Your favorite book of the moment? Keith Richards – Life 6. Describe your dream party place. Something with a good mix of amazing outdoor setting and a stylish home. BBQ cooking, and some sort of roof top. 7. What is the evil version of you like? A stubborn non compromising Italian prick 8. What gives you confidence? Ideas & seeing them realized 9. Name four essential elements of a good party. Good Booze/Good People/someone good running the MUSIC/ Uncontrollable Dancing or Makeout Sesh’s 10. What do you appreciate most about a party host? Them willing to risk things breaking for the good of a party 11. Favorite adventure supply? That’s an easy one: CAMERA 12. Describe the best party you ever attended. That’s a tough one . . . different parties have been good for different reasons. This past New Year’s was the best I’ve been to. My friends and I threw a Pagan-themed party and it was a blast! Otherwise, probably a wedding reception in Italy . . . even as the photographer I had a blast. 13. Hotel room or campsite? Campsite 14. Do you have a style icon? No, but Lagerfeld has great advice for any guy. Find a shirt that fits well and buy it in every color 15. Where is your next adventure destination? Palm Springs 16. If you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what would you teach? Photography…but in some ridiculously epic location. A destination workshop would be the dream “class”. 17. Your motto? I deal with the real, so if it’s artificial let it be. — Blackthought 18. What is your spirit animal? The owl
Miami is awash in color in every way possible. Fonts, signage, street art, murals and outdoor exhibitions blast your face from every angle. The Wynwood Arts District and the Design District are dressed up in jazzy clothes every December in preparation for Art Basel Miami Beach. You can tell Basel is coming when street artists are present around-the-clock, spray can in hand, the results are the stunning and sometimes barftastic bonkers street murals you will see below. I really love it. Besides the colors and the chaotic feeling that I get being surrounded by so many colors, the thing I adore the most about the whole situation is the massive scale. Each painting is huge, some are whole warehouses, some are just the sides of huge warehouses, some are several stories high. It rules! I walked and drove around The Adventure School Miami HQ neighborhood, Wynwood, to take a few photos to share here on the adventure blog. After an hour or two I already had over 70 photos, only the tip of the coloriffic iceberg. As I investigated the neighborhood, my guide and boyfriend of adventure, Bert, told me what he knew; mainly that many of the murals are organized by groups. One in particular focusing on a concentrated epicenter of Wynwood called Primary Flight explain that they are creating the World’s Largest Street Mural Installation. They have a map. I took some pics in Wynwood Walls, curated by now-defunct Deitch Projects and saw lots of other folks there taking pictures too. You can even take a biking graffiti tour with local guides, Street Art Cycles. Art it up!
I will be posting these in no particular order.
I could go on forever, but I won’t, you will just have to visit Miami for yourself. Stay tuned for more Dispatches from Miami: Taking it to the Streets; Design District, Little Haiti, Downtown and South Beach, all to come in the next few weeks. Keep your blogdar locked here: The Adventure School Blog.
Today is master adventurer Aviva Palmer’s Birthday! Happy Birthday! Thirty-Onederful!
In her honor, download and make these party hats for free! Instructions here.
Attack of the screen shot. Sorry guys, but I’m dead-set on brushing up my photoshop skills. Just to let you know we’re in the Daily Candy Weekend Guide. So if you are trapped at home in the snow and need some retail therapy or you are in a nightlife capital and need to buy a friend a present, The Adventure Store is open for business. We have so many awesome things this month, but watch out because the merchandise is likely to change faster than the seasons. Don’t wait to pick up the undeniably chic Aztec Bag or the softest shirt on the block, The Adventure School Tee. If the trendsetters at Daily Candy are sweet on it, you never know how fast it will go! When you have picked your adventure pick you will feel sufficiently exhilarated, I think, to brave the elements and dash out of the house to go to the Northwest Film Forum to see The Woodmans and hear a talk by the always lovely and informative Associate Curator of the Henry Art Gallery, Sara Krajewski or hop in the car and head to Open Satellite, a true treat in the NW to see the new exhibition by Mitzi Pedersen. Have a lovely weekend. Adventure always!
In honor of yesterday’s NBA All-Star Game, our adventurer today is noted sportswriter Nathaniel Friedman. He is the main contributor to the blog, FreeDarko, an entertaining analysis of all things NBA. Nathaniel or Friend-of-Adventure-Friedman as we call him here in Adventureville has authored (with other FreeDarko contributers) two books; 2008′s FreeDarko Presents… The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac and his latest work, FreeDarko Presents: The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, released in November 2010. As we have had e-commerce on the brain around here, let me just point out that team FreeDarko is selling stunning prints from the latest book here. Personally, I think the prints would make a great gift for the basketball lover in your life or you could even hang one in the room of an infant you would like to become a basketball lover/player. Get to know Nathaniel below as we ask him the usual questions, or if you want to get to know him in real life, make sure to head down to this FreeDarko event this week in San Francisco in support of the new book. Thursday, February 24, 2011 Rockit Room Shoals (Friedman’s pen name), Tom Ziller and Eric Freeman come together for a panel, moderated by McSweeney’s Eli Horrowitz and sponsored by Green Apple Books. 1. What skill do you want to learn? 2 Food and drink you don’t want to live without? 3 The scariest thing you can think of ? 4 Your favorite party supply? 5 Your favorite book of the moment? 6 Describe your dream party place. 7 What is the evil version of you like? 8 What gives you confidence? 9 Name four essential elements of a good party. 10 What do you appreciate most about a party host? When you can’t differentiate him/her from other guests. 11 Favorite adventure supply? 13 Hotel room or campsite? 14 Do you have a style icon? 15 Where is your next adventure destination? 17 What is your motto? 18 What is your spirit animal? P.S. Happy President’s Day, I hope you are not working and in fact BBQing in honor of Obama or some other president that tickles your fancy.
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