the nature company (in honors of ians birthday)

Max: rainsticks are th best
Ian: i know.
Max: did u guys have a nature company in providence when u were gowin up
Ian: yes
Max: my favorite store
Max: hands down
Ian: loved it.
Ian: crystals, nature sounds.
Max: polished gem stones
Ian: wind chimes
Max: blow up animals
Max: dozens of CDs of native american flute music
Ian: frog shit
Ian: yes.
Max: i think its out of business now
Max: but it was the best
Ian: that's a shame :((
Max: im gonna start a thread about it
Max: the nature company is post-noize
Ian: lol
Ian: ambient nu age jamz galore
Ian: field recordings of nature company stores would be such hits right now
Ian: maybe lay a little fuzzy synth over it
Ian: boom
Max: ian that is GENIUS
Max: holy shit

http://www.studio-hinrichs.com/work/branding/images/natureco3.jpg

Nature Company Stores were recognizable by their stone entranceway arch and water feature, customized to each location. All stores had extravagantly built custom cabinetry to showcase the maps, fossils, minerals and gems that were sold. The original store concept was designed by the San Francisco office of the award winning retail architect Richard Altuna. Later stores in the chain were designed and rolled-out by the San Francisco office of the firm NBBJ.

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What became of the store The Nature Company?

Hello ,
The Nature Company was sold to the Discovery Channel in 1996 and started to convert them into Discovery channel stores. The chain shut down in 2007.

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i KNOW u were down w/ TNC joe

nature company was dope for sure, have to admit i was more fascinated with brookstone/sharper image tho

2 sides of the same coin in many ways

btw the world would be a better place if this is how conversations always started

Max: rainsticks are th best
Ian: i know.

totally forgot about this store. was awesome.

put me & ian in charge & every treaty will begin with a preamble reaffirming the bestness of rainsticks

GENTLEMEN GENTLEMEN ORDER ORDER PLEASE *bangs gavel* now we obviously all agree that rainsticks are the best

if we can all agree that rainsticks are the shit, then maybe our differences aren't so great after all

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they were really into tongue drums at this store iirc:

http://www.one-world-is-enough.net/acatalog/tongue%20wood%20drum.jpg

frog shit

Ian: field recordings of nature company stores would be such hits right now

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<3 nerd stores
always coveted the telescopes. had old-school clunky binoculars instead - not good enough to see the stars well tho, ohwell. i did have some of those wooden 3D dinosaur models and glow sticks. i still wld like an indoor waterfall that plays ambient nature songs (with fuzzy synth).
rip the nature company, at least we still have planetarium and science centre gift hops

shops

i knew youd post in this thread rrrobyn

i would've posted earlier but was superbusy working
these shops and planetarium and aquarium and science centre giftshops were 1000x more awesome to me than toy stores when i was a kid. i mean, if these had had science-princess space-explorer barbie i wouldn't have cared abt toy stores.

my favourite stuffed animal for a long time was a dolphin my dad bought me for my birthday at the vancouver aquarium

i wish i was in the nature company right now. so relaxing.

these shops and planetarium and aquarium and science centre giftshops were 1000x more awesome to me than toy stores when i was a kid. i mean, if these had had science-princess space-explorer barbie i wouldn't have cared abt toy stores.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Monday, December 20, 2010 7:21 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes i totally agree, i have probably eaten more vacuum-dried ice cream than any other food in my life

the best was the air and space museum gift shop in DC, basically one of my top 10 favorite places in the world till i was 12

i think my parents still have a life-size vinyl blowup penguin (pause) from tnc somewhere in the house

i had one of those, named albert, it was a time of appreciating science at one remove

frog shit

― sleep, Monday, December 20, 2010 7:00 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

also rainsticks ARE the best

always used to gawk at the replica fossils in these stores

would buy you all these hillbilly hotdogs on your birthday

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looks like you were already there though

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those eight tracks fucking rule. great photo.

btw bert jansch can still play a fuckin guitar.
he did two jackson c frank songs. you can guess the two.
and my favorite song of his! 'it don't bother me.'
and a song from a brendan behan play, his own arrangement. the old triangle. it was gorgeous. i didn't even know brendan behan wrote songs.

i have been to pubs named both the old triangle and brendan behan

fyi...

http://wizardishungry.com/rainstick/

it didn't work well for me in firefox but in chrome it's fantastic :D

awesome!

protip: dont click on it fifty times really quickly if you have headphones on and the volume turned up loud

in honor of this thread i am busting out this fine volume of the folkways library:
http://www.displacedsounds.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/frogs.jpg

^^^ this record makes kitties kinda nutty in my experience!

haha, end of the second band on side 2 makes Ivan wake up and look around all alarmed. smallest toad in north america with the highest pitched call! love it.

it's beautiful that they play these frogs and THEN slow them down and play them again at the lower speed, for comparison to other frog voices.

luv when animal and human entertainment overlap