Daren Wang Does It Again
Decatur Metro | August 5, 2009He’s founded a book festival and come up with the idea of selling a beer for upwards of $2,000 in order to help locals in need.
Now Decatur’s Daren Wang has another article to stuff in his folder of “Crazy and Crazy Successful Ideas”: banner tote bags.
First introduced at the Decatur Book Festival launch party last month – though I don’t recall him saying the idea was his – Wang came up with the idea of recycling old DBF banners into messenger bags and totes. He worked with Ann at Mingei World Arts to find a craftsman to fashion the bags and the rest is history. Well, the rest will soon be history.
On Monday, in addition to tackling the document-heavy DeVry annexation, the Decatur city commission approved the “recycling” of old city banners into totes, fashioned by Colombian refugee Maria Cristina Giraldo Echeverria. Echeverria is guaranteed $10 an hour for the work and 10% of sales from the fund go to Decatur Youth Fund, according to an AJC article this morning.
The AJC was so excited about this fashionable recycling story – especially in comparison to that snoozer topic of DeVry annexation – that they put a tease for the story in that little “metro” box on their front page this morning.
But the real question is, what will Daren Wang come up with next? A beer-powdered lawn mower? Dog collars that call 911 when your dog senses danger? Sponsored port-o-lets? Oh wait…
ALSO: Both my wife and Carl alert us to today’s Daily Candy that features Himalayan Trading Post Candles from Mingei.
A beer-powered lawn mower would be a horrible waste of beer-unless of course it was Coors or Miller Lite.
I have to agree that a beer-powered lawn mower is a bad use of resources. I know this is a family-friendly blog, but might I suggest a urine-powered lawn mower instead? That way, there’s a good excuse for drinking beer both before and during the grass-cutting process.
Also, Cheryl Burnette was selling portapotty sponsors long before I was. She was just too humble to brag about it.
We have a sneak peak of the bags over on AsianCajuns today. Go take a look. My favorite is the bee tote- so cute!
We salute your salute to Daren, DM
Just checked out the bags on AsianCajuns–adorable!
Here’s the permalink for the AsianCajuns post.
http://asiancajuns.blogspot.com/2009/08/of-books-and-bags.html
Neat! Very witty post, love it. Also love the title and pictures on the AsianCajuns post; its cool to see the bags right next to the banners like that.