May/100
I Should Be Asleep
I blew it on the bike so I’m forced to mellow out. I really can’t tell how injuriously effected I am cause all the cutting is beneath the skin and the pain meds mask really well. Leave a comment so I know someone’s paying attention and go to the FB thing and be my Fren: Micah on the FB. Oh and the store page is at http://Facebook.com/HELDVeganBelts please click whether or not you like it.
If you are disfunctional enough to subscribe to my YouTube situation then you can experience the fine film to accompany this great photo. The store is so much fun you have to come check it out. OK now I can sleep.
May/100
HELD Vegan Video
Okay we got a camera so I’m going to figure out how to stream some video here from the finest Belt factory ever. We’ll be having all sorts of special guests and all types of music going on. I’m a performance artist so I love LOVE love to put on a show.
I suggest grabbing the video player and putting it on your desktop and just letting it run whether people are on it or not cause something is bound to happen that just might surprise you. I’ll try to get the player to work here but go to the link below and see all the options on there.
The URL: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/heldveganvideo
Apr/100
Innovation For Thee
Entire slew of fine characters and so idea springs forth out from the gaping hole. Soon more custom type stuff I’ll show you later. For now look how perfect this person fits the purse I made, wow. Sales are fine but I might need more volunteer help making them.
Speaking of help I finally made a “Donation” button on the m3house website after being told to do it enough. So please if you can give a couple bucks that’s how.
Extraordinary amount of pain right now I don’t know why. I’m healing still and my nerves are finding there way home and I’m on four kinds of opiates and still hurts like fuck! When people are talking about interesting things it goes away. I’ve implemented a few strategies that help but I can’t do them all the time. I’ve been working on several new cool belt designs and making the “Save Micah Perry” cause on Facebook work. They are saying its a Dental issue so I have to cough up $18,000.00 after Insurance. I’m a little spazzed come visit that always helps.
donate at M3house.org Thank you.
Aug/094
Sewing Thick Natural Rubber
I thought I was going to throw the sewing machine through the window yesterday. All day long fighting with the damn machine. It would go good for like ten stitches and then start getting all messed up, building up giant loops on the bottom. Then when I would finally fix that it would go well for half a second and I’d start feeling victorious and then the bottom wouldn’t grab at all! Ahhhh all day long back and forth good, bad, good, bad. I don’t think I was able to finish a single item but I guess I came further in design. Some of the material is so rad I can’t wait to get this new line going! AHGHH!
Aug/091
Sewing This Week
After catching up on orders… I think, well okay-after catching up on most of the orders I think we can start working with the new (used) sewing machine. I’ve never used an industrial machine but it looks sweet, really sweet. No extra buttons and knobs to fidget with which is good for me cause I get distracted. The motors on these things are so wicked they have to bolt them to the side. The one I got is old but the motor is new and it hasn’t a single scratch or dents and its a lovely blueish periwinkle color.
So what should I make? I’ll start with some easy little zipper pouches but really I have heaps of salvaged material to work with. All colors and types of vinyl, fabric, plastic shipping material, flat inner tubes. I need to make more inner tube wallets people dig those. I’d like to try to make some shoes, thing is, we have to be able to do it quick to keep the prices low. My thinking is that high prices and sustainability/greenery are not in the same group. Not even the same universe, uh oh don’t get me started on greenwashing. These people really piss me off to no end with all the effing hype about how GREEN they are because the jet they use has recycled pop bottle cushions. Give me a break!
Oh I almost forgot; if you haven’t heard we are looking for a store to open around Alberta or SE 12th, something similar to those. and…
The fabulous employee of the month award is not given lightly but this one works so hard and puts up with the most difficult employer in town that she deserves all the accolades that come with such a prestigious award… Courtney Flummoxed Otter Kintz you are the new Employee of the Month!!!
She makes the best Vegans!
Thank you Courtney for all the hard work. HELD would not be nearly as good with out you!
Jul/090
New Collar Now up
At M3house.org
For info and ordering go to http://m3house.org/HELD/SpikeCollar.html
Jun/090
So now we are making the HELD HELL line of goodies which include vegan floggers, whips, slappers, restraints for various body parts, harnesses, and straps of various sizes. We launched the new line at Deacon X Fetish night and had a good time, made some new friends and danced some. Of course we don’t have any pictures of the goods yet but we will likely have a new web page up soon enough. In the mean time come to the next event or Portland Saturday Market to see Portland’s own vegan s/m b/d gear.
Here is a local made video I found if you have any questions. All the gear is tested and guaranteed to last. Our ethic is built upon sustainability and rights for all animals human or otherwise.
Jun/090
Village Building Convergence
City Repair is doing the ninth annual VBC right now with a zillion speakers and workshops and delicious food (mostly) and dancing and clapping and singing along.
So why am I there? Well I may not be a hippy but I am an environmentalist and I also think the gap between them and the vegans is unrealistic. Vegans are environmentalists and environmentalists if well informed and ethically sound should be vegans. We brought along a whole bunch of “Meat is not Green” literature to freely pass out. They are seemingly scared of us the way people are at the Portland Saturday Market. Ee gad man look it’s the “Vayguns”!
I realize they are serving mostly vegan food at this conference so they won’t have to talk about so it’s important that we show up to bridge the gap. Please come and support, it is very hard to face this adversity everyday all day long. It is exhausting.
PS. the patent system was set up by wealthy corporations to protect themselves. No way I could afford a patent to prevent evil corporations from destroying all the work HELD has done.
May/090
Portland Saturday Market
Many more belt and cuff styles coming this weekend. Stylish fancy belts, bondage belts, more studs and spikes. Sunny and warm down at the market- you should come and hang out with us, plenty of laughter going on.
May/090
Now at…
Antic now carries our stuff. Actually they have some of our best stuff- we dropped off a bunch of sweet cuffs and working bondage gear. Isaac immediately started rubbing his stink onto a belt, so now you can get HELD ANTIC Belts! Store
Now we are also at two Buffalo Exchanges one in SE and the other on NW 11th and Burnside. Click here for more on that.
Renee owns this rad Vegan store at the Jantzen Beach mega joint and it is nothing like Herbivore- not a single t-shirt. She now has HELD Vegan Belts!
Go support these places they are locally owned by good people who do good things don’t smell half as bad as I do. Well I don’t know about Buffalo Exchange though.
