Tastemaker Top Ten, The EcoMan:
Billy Zane’s ecofabulous Finds
ecofabulous is excited to bring you the Tastemaker Top Ten Series in collaboration with The eBay Green Team, where eBay Green Team and ecofabulous readers get an inside look at the top smart and eco friendly product finds of earth friendly influencers from all fields (we have some exciting tastemakers in store for you!). See how top chefs, yogis, and celebrities are living in high style with low impact.
This week we’ve got Billy Zane - who in his spare time from acting in over 80 films and television shows is dedicated to social activism. As a partner in media distribution platform Radioactive Giant, Billy enables not only the agendas and initiatives of his fellow artists, politicians, activists, leaders and citizens, but is soon to launch his own project this September. Here to tell us how sustainability fits into his lifestyle - we have Billy Zane’s top ecofabulous picks.
ecofabulous: What makes you feel ecofabulous?
Billy Zane: I feel ecofabulous when I create an art piece many times more valuable than the sum of all its discarded parts. {see below images}
ecofabulous: At ecofabulous, we often talk about the value (for your pocketbook and the planet) of buying pre-owned and vintage. Is there anything you’re shopping for that’s pre-owned lately?
Billy Zane: I buy vintage clothes often as my style and sensibilities are pretty retro. I prefer vintage boots, watches, ties, and often find vintage and antique items make better gifts. They are well made, often by hand with better ratios of precious metals, and feel like one of a kind. [I buy] vintage frames for shades and specks always - just better looking, better weight, and sense of style. These are my natural inclinations and preferences. I’m so glad they could align with the current logic of environmentalism.
Billy’s Top ecofabulous Picks:
1. Vintage Furniture & Accessories
My neighbor is pretty crazy about mid-century furniture. I had an office and credenza set that she went nuts over and is restoring them and posting them on eBay as I type this. I’m partial to French West Indies, beach house décor with rustic bohemian, provincial antiques and antique instruments. The most modern objects I have in my living room are DJ deck and an HD mounted projector, the rest blew in from Jamaica Inn. A great RE-use of energy. Mixing classics found on eBay and offsetting them with modern staples for entertainment. Although we only spin vinyl in this house. No laptop auto-mixing here friends. Another one for the planet I’m told. Isn’t it great when identifying rare classics, and craftsmanship give cause to celebrate for reasons other than they’re simpe beauty and quality? Ecofabulous indeed!
Shop for Vintage Mid-Century Furniture on eBay
2. Reclaimed & Repurposed Art
I am doing an art exhibit on the 18th in Cambria of original works using recycled items. It’s a group show of GREEN artists. I also have one in Berlin in August during the World Peace Festival there. It’s my thang. Check out www.frankpicturesgallery.com and click on my name to see my solo show at Bergamont Station last summer.
A few of my pieces:
(From Left to Right) Recycled house paint and recycled canvas, Recycled drop cloth, recycled paint on antique Moroccan door, Discarded guitar from roadside, recycled house paint, recycled shipping crate.
Bamboo? Stuff grows like wildfire! Apparently even onto your laptop while you pulled yourself away from your life-sucker for those few seconds of relief. Careful daddy O’. You don’t want to sit there too long just in case you get swallowed as well. Still a good idea balancing all that silicon with some organic compounds other than your carbon structure, because haven’t you heard? We are already 20% Teflon! So, hit the lawn, Pops, stat! But bring that laptop and its smart bamboo case with ya, just in case you get friended by a… real friend.
4. EVOLUTION MAN Recycled Tire Toiletries Bag
I think this item is quite clever. Looks smart too!
Shop for Recycled Tire and Bike Tube Products on eBay
5. Nau Men’s Recycled Polyester Blazer
Though it may not breathe, it won’t wrinkle and certainly never decompose. So rest assured, on your next all-night adventure, your synthetic recycled threads will cover for you during the long walk of shame from the curb to the elevator. Just hope your pants make it.
6. Presso Recycled Aluminum Espresso Maker
If it makes a good cup of coffee, why not be made of recycled materials? Btw, was “Presto” taken? Anybody?
Shop for Presso Espresso Makers on eBay
7. Knowledge Cotton Apparel Organic Shirts
Fine organic cotton and great hand stitching and finishing. If the people who spent the time to make your nifty shirt are seeing more profit, then put the coin in their superbly embroidered pocket, no?
Shop for Men’s Organic Cotton Shirts on eBay
8. Heather Heron’s Rincon Surf Bag made of Vintage Military Materials
This is cool. I just wish it came with a vintage military material surf bus.
I’m not partial, nor loyal to my briefs. So much or little so that I rarely wear them at all. If I do, keeping the closest fabric to the nether regions organic makes good sense to me and the boys.
Shop for Men’s Organic Cotton Underwear on eBay
10. Veja Sneakers
These are groovy creepers! Veggie tanned anything just feels right. Other than my shirt at the juice bar. Tell that to the cow, I know, but hey, at least they are using the skin right?
Well, those be the picks friends. Keep mixing it up.
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A little more about Tastemaker Billy Zane:
Best known for his achievements as an actor in over 80 films and television shows including Memphis Belle, Dead calm, Tombstone, Sniper, Zoolander, Orlando, The Phantom, Twin peaks and of course Titanic, Billy Zane has been dedicated to developing and promoting his passion for social activism. A partner in the top convergent media distribution platform Radioactive Giant, Billy enables not only the agendas and initiatives of his fellow artists, politicians, activists, leaders and citizens, but also his personal project due to launch officially this September internationally on all digital platforms; It is, quite simply and refreshingly…A Good News Network.
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