PEARLING

We coined the term "pearling" in a rather circuitous way. Shortly after we had forged our partnership, and we were exploring where we wanted to take it and what we wanted to do with it, we naturally had to discuss various philosophies and ideas and draw on other entities to help define our own. We realized that what we were attempting was a bit like parkour, a sport that sees and embraces any environment as a playground of benign obstacles to be creatively traversed. With our dancing, as with parkour, the world truly is one's proverbial oyster. Naturally, that led to a discussion of oysters and the process by which they create their pearls. A grain of sand or other foreign object becomes lodged in the oyster's shell. As it irritates the oyster's flesh, the oyster secretes a hardening substance called nacré, with which it coats the irritant in an effort to quell the agitation. The interesting problem is that making a pearl doesn't get rid of the irritant, it embraces it and allows it to..