Perhaps you have already seen this, but this band has gone viral in the last few days...



I am enjoying this almost as much as District 9!

An Interview with Ninja and Yo-Landi

Is there ever going to be another ThreadLe Manss with pinewood derby cars?

I had real fun the last time making The Gnome Express

here

add your image to others in music video...

Threadless should start printing on Organic shirts.

I know that American Apparel does a range of organic shirts... so would you pay extra to have an Organic Threadless shirt?

I would!

discuss...

Yay a new Againstbound print!

Congratulations Hector!

Hey guys

If you are interested why note have your say in what the new EU organic logo will look like.

You can vote here

Logo 1


Logo 2


Logo 3


Some background information.

They came up with this logo before:


But it was too close to the ALDI supermarket's own organic label


So there was a competition to design a new logo...

Dear Threadless

Please Print either one of these designs of Lonkiponk's...

I HAVE to have a Lonkiponk Print, and both these are beautiful!

Thanks
Love
Shaggy the Mountain Gnome

Yeah, I am going to be going to India again, this time not on holiday but for my Masters Thesis Research.

I am going to be doing a complete farm analysis on an Organic farm in Auroville. It is just north of Pondicherry in the province Tamil Nadu, which is on the South Eastern Indian coast.



Auroville is a universal city in the making.

"Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity."



In the late 1960's followers of Sri Aurobindo created an ashram in the middle of a barren wasteland. They planted many trees and built the sustainable city around the impressive Matrimandir that you see in the picture above. There are about 2000 inhabitants from 35 different nationalities that live there in peace and harmony.

There are 15 organic farms around the city that supply it with produce, They range in size from small backyards to 50 acre plots. I will be analysing one of the larger ones to see if we can solve some fertility problems they are having, and improve the flows on the farm.

I am really excited, and will be going there in the middle of next year!

At university I am doing a course on Sustainable Organic Agricultural Production Chains. As a case study we are focussing on the chicken broiler production chain. Broilers are Meat chickens if you don't already know.
Here you can see how they are raised conventionally.


warning: This may contain scenes that disturb

This disturbs me...

Well as you may or may not have noticed, i have been very sporadically absent in the last, hmm, lets say 6 months or so.

I've been to India for the first 3 months

Pushkar camel Safari

and then came back to Holland, only to find out I'd lost my job (but with a good payout). The golden days of selling Adobe's products had came to an end.

Never the less, I had been a wise gnome and had saved up lots of money earned on the commissions from my sales, and now had the opportunity to follow a dream.

I took myself off back to my home country South Africa for a month to do and collect some paperwork, catch up with friends and family, and have a little fun.

Once back in Holland I applied to do my Masters in Organic Agriculture at Wageningen University which is just down the road from where I live. They accepted me and I begin in September.

In the last month or so I have been somewhat more active here, scoring designs and commenting here and there, was amazed and intrigued by the 3KBCM debacle and have enjoyed seeing some great new designs and some deserved new Alumni! As well as lots and lots of old regulars!

Well Hey Hai Guys!