Free Range Studios
Free Range Studios is a marketing and advertising firm based in Washington, D.C. and Oakland, California. Free Range works with companies and organizations to create story-based brands, producing media in various formats from interactive and mobile to print and video. They are known for their creative services and films promoting social change.
Beginnings
Free Range Studios was founded by Jonah Sachs and Louis Fox in 1999 as Free Range Graphics. Sachs and Fox had been childhood collaborators on amateur film and video projects.
After years of experimenting with various media, the pair decided to form a print design firm, working exclusively for non-profits who promoted social change. Within six months of its founding, Free Range was working on national campaigns for Earthjustice, SEIU, and Amnesty International.
Free Range began offering poster and brochure design, identities, annual reports and website design.
New media
In early 2000, Earthjustice, a national environmental group, approached Free Range with an idea to create a short internet cartoon about the problem of mountain top removal in West Virginia. Using Flash Animation, a rudimentary 40 second cartoon was produced. The movie explained, in cartoon format, about the problem with mountain top removal mining and then offered users the opportunity to take action to stop it.
Free range
Free range denotes a method of farming husbandry where the animals, for at least part of the day, can roam freely outdoors, rather than being confined in an enclosure for 24 hours each day. On many farms, the outdoors ranging area is fenced, thereby technically making this an enclosure, however, free range systems usually offer the opportunity for extensive locomotion and sunlight prevented by indoor housing systems. Free range may apply to meat, eggs or dairy farming.
The term is used in two senses that do not overlap completely: as a farmer-centric description of husbandry methods, and as a consumer-centric description of them. There is a diet where the practitioner only eats meat from free-range sources called ethical omnivorism, which is a type of semivegetarian.
In ranching, free-range livestock are permitted to roam without being fenced in, as opposed to fenced-in pastures. In many of the agriculture-based economies, free-range livestock are quite common.
History
If one allows "free range" to include "herding", free range was a typical husbandry method at least until the development of barbed wire and chicken wire. The generally poor understanding of nutrition and diseases before the twentieth century made it difficult to raise many livestock species without giving them access to a varied diet, and the labor of keeping livestock in confinement and carrying all their feed to them was prohibitive except for high-profit animals such as dairy cattle.
Free range (disambiguation)
Free range may refer to:
Agriculture
Movies
Movie Studios
Films
Video Games
Parenting
See also
Free Range (film)
Free Range (Estonian: Free Range: Ballaad maailma heakskiitmisest) is a 2013 Estonian drama film directed by Veiko Õunpuu. The film was selected as the Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
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by Mutton Birds
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by The Fall
FREE RANGE
by: Mutton BirdsFrank bought a heater
An electric heater
The elements were made of wire and clay
He reached out to touch and he heard a voice say
And he heard it say
"Come on and plug me in
I want to feel that heat begin
Don't move till the morning comes
And you can fly up to the sun
So come on and plug me in
Plug me in
Plug me in"
Frank liked his heater
His electric heater
Upstairs alone with the elements
He dreamed of gold and frankincense
(frank, frank, frankincense)
And he heard it say
"Come on and plug me in
I want to feel that heat begin
Come close and listen while I sing
I won't melt your precious wings
So come on and plug me in
Plug me in
Plug me in"
"Come on and plug me in
I want to feel that heat begin
Although my body is rusting through
I have carried this song for you...
It's from the Sphinx and the Serpent too
So plug me in"