Friday night
19:00 jahsh darker dub
20:30 tim gotch dark ambient
22:00 chris bishop deep, dark, ambient, spiritual, gospel
23:30 jade juhl ( )
Saturday
12:00 teemoney soul on ice
13:30 daps/laurel pardue smith melodiglitch indie-tronica
15:00 we are not pandas chunky funk
16:30 owls are cool
18:00 fuzzboy (live) carefully subdued noise
19:00 little mishka cirque chiaroscuro
20:30 deathray (live) very chill to somewhat upbeat
22:30 missmeliss sweet&savory intermission
23:00 time slips by (live) seeds
0:30 randy jones (live) visual music
2:00 telephone jim jesus (live) down-tempo, break/collage, soundsherics
3:30 caliban musical batter and audio dough
5:00 matt holland ambient, drone, ambinoise
6:30 sig post-matt-holland (music to sleep too)
8:00 david siska (live) ambient
9:30 megan hug shoegaze
11:00 drenalin ambient / shoegaze / acoustic
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Acopa Chameleon - Second Pair
After Acopa read my post: Change the color of your skin - Acopa Chameleon, someone from the company got in touch with me. He apologized profusely and told me that it had to be a manufacturing defect.
We exchanged emails and I learned quite a bit about leather, and dye-transfer.
Here are some of the tasty bits:
Most split hide leather do exhibit dye transfer (feet or skin turn pick up color from the leather). This is because the dyes are water soluble (vegetable process tanning). The only way to prevent this dye transfer is Chromium dyeing which is very toxic to the skin. Although your feet turned green it will not harm you. I have heard of feet turning a little green but nothing this bad.
Is it possible to get this leather without dye?
Yes sort of.... Even "natural" colored leathers have dyes in them. As strange as it sounds the dyes are needed to restrengthen the leather at the end of the tanning process. The most neutral leather we have is the leather used on the Aztec but is a little thicker than that used on the Chameleon (2mm instead of 1.8mm). It also exhibits dye transfer but nobody notices it because it's almost skin color anyway.
Acopa sent me a new pair.
Visually the new ones were a lighter shade of green than the old ones (even after my scrubbing session with them).
My first climbing session with them resulted in my feet turning green again, but not nearly as dark green/black as the original pair. I only had to scrub my feet for 5 minutes to get the color off. I used the opposite end of my exfoliating towel, which is now maybe 25% of the green on the other side. Not great, but an improvement.
I pushed through, and climbed in them on my regular schedule of 4-5 days of climbing per week. Now, my feet still turn slightly green, but a rinse in water with just my hands will remove it.
So, Acopa, you're off the hook.
I'd still like to see a natural leather version. Oh, and raise the rubber on the heel another half inch. They keep slipping on heel hooks.
We exchanged emails and I learned quite a bit about leather, and dye-transfer.
Here are some of the tasty bits:
Most split hide leather do exhibit dye transfer (feet or skin turn pick up color from the leather). This is because the dyes are water soluble (vegetable process tanning). The only way to prevent this dye transfer is Chromium dyeing which is very toxic to the skin. Although your feet turned green it will not harm you. I have heard of feet turning a little green but nothing this bad.
Is it possible to get this leather without dye?
Yes sort of.... Even "natural" colored leathers have dyes in them. As strange as it sounds the dyes are needed to restrengthen the leather at the end of the tanning process. The most neutral leather we have is the leather used on the Aztec but is a little thicker than that used on the Chameleon (2mm instead of 1.8mm). It also exhibits dye transfer but nobody notices it because it's almost skin color anyway.
Acopa sent me a new pair.
Visually the new ones were a lighter shade of green than the old ones (even after my scrubbing session with them).
My first climbing session with them resulted in my feet turning green again, but not nearly as dark green/black as the original pair. I only had to scrub my feet for 5 minutes to get the color off. I used the opposite end of my exfoliating towel, which is now maybe 25% of the green on the other side. Not great, but an improvement.
I pushed through, and climbed in them on my regular schedule of 4-5 days of climbing per week. Now, my feet still turn slightly green, but a rinse in water with just my hands will remove it.
So, Acopa, you're off the hook.
I'd still like to see a natural leather version. Oh, and raise the rubber on the heel another half inch. They keep slipping on heel hooks.
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