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Buy jewellery direct from the makers!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I don’t know the other names but they are probably really good too if they are kicking around with Mark Vaarwerk. I think his Jewellery is great. He has even used our discarded milk bottles from Urban Grind in some of his pieces. It was very cool of Mark to take our bottles and re-purpose them.

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BAD - Designer Fight Club

Monday, June 16th, 2008

This should make for a great local event. As I understand it, the idea is to sit down 12 designers, present them with a concept and give them 10 mins or so to come up with a visual design. The best designers move to the next round until there is only one standing. This Thursday the students get to put the gloves on and next month the pros do it. Should be an interesting show. Urban Grind has provided free coffee cards (Davros designed them) for the event as door prizes. Speaking of prizes, there are some wicked ones up for grabs with the major prize being a fully spec’d iMac.

You can register and/or get more info here:
bigfish.tv/designerfightclub
Zoo Website

It’s not too late to register as a contestant but hurry!

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Some Urban Grind Demographics Facebook Style

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

So Urban Grind has a Facebook page, we have have nearly 100 fans too, which is cool. I have just been playing with the page and stumbled across some demographic stats which might be of interest. Was to me.

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Coffees for Mobile Phones

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

For a while now Urban Grind has had a Mobile Muster Box. It is great because you can not only throw in your old mobile phones to be recycled but you can also throw in all of those accessories you you never use.

I try to think of Urban Grind as a community hub which is why I requested one of these boxes. You can find them at places like Cartridge World but a lot of the places you find them are once in a while places. The places that every time you go in and see the box you smack yourself in the head for forgetting that old mobile phone again. But Urban Grind is different, most people are there day after day (God love em!) so it only takes a couple of forgetful moments before the phones start rolling in.

To help those who are extra forgetful, Urban Grind will see Mobile Musters tree and give you a free coffee for turning in your old mobile phone. If you want to learn more about Mobile Muster please read on.
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Local stuff for Free or For Sale.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Recently I have started using www.scoodi.com to keep an eye out for things that people in my area might be wanting to give away or sell cheap. Scoodi sends me a daily update of new items but only within a 20km radius of my address. This means that someone on my street might be wanting to give something away that I need and I will find out. Maybe even meet some new people in my local area.

Rach and I plan to do a clean up soon, so you might find some of our stuff on there soon. The site is a nice idea and worth checking out. Takes no time to register, and being a part of it just means scanning a very quick email each day.

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Fuel warning and what it means to food.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Did anyone read page 3 of last Saturday’s Courier Mail. Not something that I would normally recommend doing but due to the heads up that I was given I can recommend that you read it now. Here is a link to the article online: Drivers in line for fuel ration shock.

Without getting into a rant on this one I would just like to point out that we need to be seriously having this discussion. Government is often the last to catch on, and if they are finally convinced that things are really bad then it might just be too late. So lets learn a new word…Locavore:

Oxford Word of the Year
Locavore on Wikipedia
The Locavore in South Australia
www.locavores.com

Oh, why the new word? Well the way we consume food contributes in massive ways to our fuel consumption. Listen to this short talk for a very good overview of how it all works: Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat?

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We have moved.

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

It is probably about time that I officially mention that we have moved. Our shop in Paddington is now closed and we have reopened in New Farm at 530 Brunswick St. We greatly miss all of our Paddington friends and hope to cross paths with each of you eventually. It truly was our customers that made Urban Grind Paddington what it was. It has been a wonderful 3+ years of growing, learning and sharing that I know the whole Urban Grind team was sad to see end.

I would like to take the opportunity too to give an extra special shout out to Sophie. I know you all joked about it, but it’s true we would never have made it as far as we did had it not been for Sophie. We love her, we adore her. She stuck with us through everything and never for a moment gave anything less than more than she was asked. She was a friend not an employee and remains one of my best friends. Thank you Sophie… love love. She saw you all as friends too and I promise you that you meant more to her than you can ever imagine. For 3 and a half years you played a part in raising an nurturing this most beautiful soul. I could thank each and all of you for so many things but this one probably means the most to me. Thank you for being so much to Sophie.

So tell us a bit about New Farm. Technically I think it is actually Fortitude Valley, but we sit right on the border and there is New Farm sign outside. So we went with New Farm. We are actually on the corner of Harcourt St. It’s near Burger Urge, only about 4 or 5 blocks up from the mall. Still can’t place it? Ok, well I gave you a chance… do you know the dodgy Laundromat with the prostitutes? We are virtually next door. I can’t recommend the prostitutes but I can recommend the Burger Urge burgers. Fully wicked! I am addicted to the Portobello Mushrooms and grilled halumi cheese burger. But here are a couple of tips. The sweet potato chips are awesome but if there is only 2 of you get a burger to share if you are having chips too. Also for those that can’t eat a whole burger I believe that you can get all of their burgers without the bread. Colby is a really nice guy and until now it was a secret that I wanted a Cuddly Dora Doll.

What else? Well it is a lovely little building that we are in. They tell me that it is Tudor style. Anyway the best part about the building is our landlords. Clearly God felt really bad about the Paddington thing and thought she would cut us a break this time and send us a couple of landlords that are true gentlemen. These guys see our success and happiness as theirs. I am most grateful to them, for not only are they simply awesome to do business with, if they had not offered us this space there might not be an Urban Grind of any kind right now.

So in short, we look forward to a wonderfully fun future at New Farm. See you soon, I hope

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Pangea Day 08

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Today started at 2:30am for me and my family. Today was World Pangea Day. Which is an event designed to bring the people of the world together by helping us to look at our similarities instead of our differences. Our local event was hosted by map magazine in their office in Newstead. We all started arriving from about 3am onwards for a 4am start. You see the idea was to get as many people as possible around the world watching the same world changing films at the same time. This meant a 4am start for Brisbane.

The show started right on time. It was a seamless effort and for me a very emotional experience that was very hard to pull away from. I was supposed to leave early but couldn’t. I now can’t wait for the next Pangea Day. I strongly urge you to visit the Pangea Day website where you can watch all of the films that were shown during the event and even reply the event which is well worth the 4 hours.

If you do find it inspiring then head to TED.com where it all started. TED is also a great way to keep the conversation going.

Tags: friends, peace
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Facebook

Monday, February 4th, 2008

So it can’t hurt, but I might get picked on a bit for it. I am not a big Facebooker but I did notice the other day that you can set up a page for your business, so I did. I think it might have some useful tools, but it is all about getting fans. So if you are a Facebooker and you have had a good experience at Urban Grind, please consider becoming an official (Facebook) fan of Urban Grind.

This is the link:
Urban Grind on Facebook

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I gave blood today.

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I finally pulled out the ‘Change the World for Ten Bucks’ book and started to see what little things that I could tick off. I still have, giving my contact details to my neighbour and sending a post card to someone that has inspired me, but today I managed to tick off giving blood.

Here is what the book said:

ACTION 26 - GIVE BLOOD
One in three Australians will need blood in their lifetime, yet only one in thirty currently donates.

Who would have thought that something so easy to do could have such profound effects? Your one donation could help to save up to three people’s lives.

Bloody fantastic.

To make an appointment, call 13 14 95 or visit www.donateblood.com.au.

It really was easy. So if you are looking for a way to get 10 mins of book reading done, grab your favorite book and head to the blood bank. Or organise all those interested in your organisation to go as a group. I think you can do that. Oh and don’t forget to drink heaps of water and eat before you go.

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