Sometimes in restaurants, when my mom wants to get the waiter’s attention, she raises her hand gingerly, ever so slightly, a gesture so demure that it’s guaranteed to go undetected by not only the waiter, but by everyone but me.
Our trash is not often other people’s treasure, long forgotten and hopelessly misplaced. But flipping through the 90+ pages in each issue of FOUND is much like taking a trip down someone else’s hilarious and heartbreaking memory lane.
For over 55 years, Philadelphia’s Photo Process Screen Manufacturing Company has been providing amateur and professional artists all of their screen printing needs.
Jackie Backer
Favorite designers: Givenchy, Acne and Proenza Schouler
Favorite Philly boutiques: The Salvation Army on 21st and Market
Definition of your personal style: Miss Piggy meets Woody Allen
Definition of Penn style: BlackBerrys, logos and pajama pants
Favorite item of clothing: My gold beatle boots or things that don’t match.
If you could be in any fashionable city in the world, where would that be? Stockholm or Tokyo
Veliz Perez
Favorite designers: Yves Saint Lauren, Alexander McQueen, Manoush, Ralph Lauren and anything Chanel
Favorite Philly boutiques: Joan Shepp, Adresse, EchoChic
Definition of your personal style: Class, sass and grandmother chic
Favorite item of clothing: Vintage clip-on earrings
If you could be in any fashionable city in the world, where would that be? Paris — brie and red wine in hand.
Street: Tell us about your work as the director of Community Schools Student Partnerships.
Blanchard Diavua: We are a community orientated student organization that tutors and mentors K-12 grade students in West Philadelphia schools after the regular school day.
After six days of training in Maryland, one month of “freedomizing” lesson plans, and three days of Trading Spaces-esque classroom setup, I donned my uniform t-shirt and boarded the 10 Trolley West.
Originally started by two Philadelphia bike messengers frustrated with their bags, R.E.Load Baggage has grown from a service spread by word-of-mouth to a company that sells their bags in bike stores all over the country.
As the garbage trucks roll through West Philadelphia at 6:30 a.m., John MacDuffie Woodburn is roaming the streets on his bike.
Might this guy on a bicycle be your new garbage man?
Woodburn is the founder and director of the Pedal Co-Op, a Philadelphia company that performs trash pick-up, composting, and deliveries for small businesses — all on two wheels.
The idea is about going green: in performing these daily duties by bike, the aim is to reduce the harmful effects hulking garbage trucks have on the environment each day.
College senior Mike Zorger knows how to work under pressure. Whether overseeing SPEC Connaissance as its director or selecting distinguished movers-and-shakers for a university-wide audience (what up, Madeleine Albright), he has what it takes to make moves on campus.
Street: What’s your favorite thing about being on SPEC?
Mike Zorger: Doling out your tuition money like it’s my job.