Bye Bye Plastic, Hello Vibes
Life is a Festival #39: Vivie-Ann Bakos (BLOND:ISH)
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INTRODUCTION
If you were an international DJ sensation, how would you use your fame to change the world?
The Canadian duo Vivie-Ann Bakos and Anstascia D'Elene Corniere created BLOND:ISH at a mid-week club night back in 2008. A decade later and after countless parties and festivals, they have parted ways with Viv carrying on the BLOND:ISH moniker and Anstascia performing under her own name.
On the show we talk about the split as well as Viv’s tools for personal development from fire breath to toad poison. We discuss shEOS, an EOS block producer of which she is a co-founder and of course I ask her about her iconic top knot.
The bulk of the conversation, however, focusses on Bye Bye Plastic, a new initiative to create a #plasticfreebooth in dance music, through an eco rider campaign and consultancy services.
So long plastic!
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FEATURED TRACK
TIMESTAMPS
:05 - Viv and I do some fire breathing
:07 - Viv talks about her experience with Kambo
:15 - What is a home run podcast?
:18 - How not to be labeled as a spiritual DJ & the story of the top knot
:27 - Why Viv and Anastacia parted ways as BLOND:ISH
:29 - Why BLOND:ISH?
:37 - Viv’s campaign end single use plastic
:43 - How fans of BLOND:ISH can support the Bye Bye Plastic initiative
:51 - How Viv started working on her own personal growth and her first year at Burning Man
:57 - Viv’s co-founding of shEOS
1:06 - How Bye Bye Plastic exposes “greenwashing” and the organization’s long term goals
1:11 - Viv’s next step: sustainable clothing
1:16 - Featured Track: BLOND:ish-It starts now
1:20 - How’d the podcast go
Graphics Designed by Andy McErlean
Theme song ““Peculiar Colors” [Manjumasi]“ by dj atish