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Amy continues the journey of exploration in the value and importance of her Nüggi product.  Over a period of 4 months, she and her family will distribute the remaining stock of their product to those they meet along the way.  For the next few weeks, they are in the Humbolt Park district of Chicago.

 Nothing says the foundation of our little start-up like the idea of mulitpurpose products.  With all these Nüggis in store, slowly being doled out by the handful to new friends and strangers, we came upon new uses.  This week Nüggi was reinvented into an Üggi for Mark and a Nügglette for baby PJ.  And together only two Nüggis were harmed, so I guess there were casualties.

 In our quest for personal and professional clarity, we see other new ways of using our surroundings. Limited space allows for creative invention and practicality.  We are all allotted a certain amount of space as a voyaging family and when one thing enters, another must leave. One sleeper outgrown, a new fleece pullover introduced.   We are settled into Chicago daily life which involves Ukraniane delis, Mariachi serenades, chiropractors, wet, diagonal snow storms and, the vrai culinary symbol of repurposing: soup.

Nüggi and Üggi at Work

Chicago soups are frequent and the stuff of warm tables and comfort.  Brothy, whole-potatoed soups from the Mexican neighborhood and medleys of homestyle favorites, pepper and smoked meat Goulash, split pea, and golden chicken noodle each for $1.29 a serving at local Polish-Ukraine grocers.  Or the historic Drake‘s Cape Cod Clam Chowder and more signature Bookbinder soup, formerly with Snapper Turtle, now just the fish of the same name and a drizzle of sherry served in small flasks on the side.  Even the Chicago sandwiches are dipped au jus for your pleasure.

This week we visit Fermilab, whose mission is “High-Energy Physics, the science of matter, space and time.”  We’ll be given a tour  by VIP Nüggi fan and physicist Teppei Katori whose knowledge of neutrinos and his innovation with our little Nüggi  product continues to make my head spin and heart blush.  Thanks for joining us on the journey. 

The girls at local Feed got their Nüggis too!

www.mynuggi.com; info@mynuggi.com

A bit of community action by Salt-Gallery.com. This event is free and open to the public- and may many follow! What could be better than a Sunday morning of 1) environmental improvements 2) light refreshments 3) cultural pre-Colombian immersion 4) swimming. For those of you in the neighborhood, please come down and join us on the 28th at Columbus Landing. Here’s the press release regarding the Salt-Gallery.com beach clean that went out to the St. Croix Avis, the Virgin Islands Daily News, and the St. Croix Source today:

For Immediate Release September 15, 2008
Contact: Tomas Lanner director@salt-gallery.com
Phone: 340-514-6664
Salt-Gallery.com to clean Columbus Landing as part of Ocean Conservancy’s Coastweeks

From 9 am to Noon on September 28, 2008, St. Croix based Salt-Gallery.com, will organize a beach clean at Columbus Landing & Lagoon, followed by a short walk at 12.30 pm of the Taino ball court, guided by Brian Updike, our favorite Pre-Columbian scholar and Salt River kayak-man.

The beach cleanup, organized by Salt-Gallery.com is a part of the Coastweeks effort starting September 20, spearheaded nationally by the Ocean Conservancy. ‘We should be encouraging a sensible disposal of our waste. Instead, we leave it behind on our beaches.’ says Tomas Lanner, founder of Salt-Gallery.com, a local art agency consisting of an online digital gallery and brokerage. Lanner would like to encourage other small business owners to promote a change in our community’s attitude towards trash. Salt-Gallery.com is also involved in a collaboration with Walsh Metal Works Gallery and UK underwater sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor to establish a creative artificial reef in the waters of St. Croix.

The debris that is picked up is counted and put into categories, so each participant will have a data card and make note of what they find. The information gathered during Coastweeks provides a picture of what debris lands on the territory’s beaches and, in many cases, where it originates. ‘Since people were responsible for the beach debris in the first place, it’s up to them to remove it’ says Marcia Taylor, St. Croix Coastweeks coordinator and marine advisor at the University of the Virgin Islands St. Croix campus. During Coastweeks cleanups, people scour the beaches for debris. Schools, groups and individuals participate.

Immediately after the 9 am-Noon beach clean on September 28, water & light refreshments will be available for beach cleaners as Brian Updike guides a short walk of the Taino ballcourt at 12.30 pm, also at Columbus Landing. Brian owns Virgin Kayak on St. Croix and is an avid enthusiast of pre-Columbian history.

Before you leave your house, make sure you wear a hat, bring a swimsuit, gloves, extra sunscreen & water and wear shoes suitable for a mild bush walk. So we can get a headcount for refreshments, contact Tomas Lanner 340-514-6664 or director@salt-gallery.com if you intend to help on September 28.

For more general information on Coastweeks, go to the St. Croix Source article.

The territory-wide event is supported by Friends of the Park, UVI’s Marine Advisory Service, the Planning and Natural Resources Department’s Coastal Zone Management Program, the Ocean Conservancy and the V.I. Waste Management Authority. If you have further questions about the Coastweeks effort, or to volunteer, call Kristin Maize at 779-4940 on St. John, Marcia Taylor at 692-4046 on St. Croix or Lihla Noori at 693-1392 on St. Thomas.

New Englanders, New Yorkers, Northeast-types: SALT Gallery artist Jordan Eagles will display a new body of work at REAL Artways in Hartford, CT beginning June 21. Eagles, who lives in New York, employs an abstract painting style in which he uses slaughterhouse blood, thereby producing a severely different form of art than the crisp pop-art playfulness of the pieces on display at SALT. The current body of paintings are large and in charge, cutting to the deep core of our existence as living beings, both with the choice of medium and the rich red expressive yet somehow unreal subject matter; the color palette Eagles maintains is furiously soothing.

See samples of his fabulously satiric computer-generated work here and the blood paintings here .

Details are as follows: ANIMAL-SPIRIT-MACHINE; June 21-July 15th at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT 06106; p: 860.232.1006; f: 860.233.6691; e: info@realartways.org or visit their online presence (REAL Artways is a personal favorite in New England- with a superb film schedule and far-out unique musical performances.)