The YACHT Trust is a loose organization of people committed to furthering and administering the tenets of the YACHT Mission. They are like the Knights Templar of YACHT; valiant in form and deed, but separate from the band itself.Tumblr (3.0; @trustyacht)http://trustyacht.org/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzvlnzXQRQ1r3ztrpo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzvlnzXQRQ1r3ztrpo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzvlnzXQRQ1r3ztrpo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzvlnzXQRQ1r3ztrpo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Images taken by <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://abramdeyo.tumblr.com/post/18165571275/yacht-on-tour-forever">abramdeyo</a> of YACHT on tour in China in 2009. </p>http://trustyacht.org/post/18169865437http://trustyacht.org/post/18169865437Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:39:18 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzptugiaty1qc0u6po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://trustyacht.org/post/17976594783http://trustyacht.org/post/17976594783Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:42:16 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36789299" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>The new YACHT video for <em>Shangri-La</em> features an extended cast of members of the YACHT Trust, participating in a physical and mental Utopia of their own design. Active involvement is tantamount to the success of the Trust!</p>http://trustyacht.org/post/17975504170http://trustyacht.org/post/17975504170Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:24:00 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzcj3vqfbZ1qc0u6po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Claire took some time to spin tunes on </span><a href="http://turntable.fm/">Turntable.fm</a><span> and chat about Sasquatch, dweebiness, and the other Sasquatch. </span>(<a href="http://thehairpin.com/2012/02/yachts-claire-evans-on-first-concerts-and-cryptozoology">Claire Evans on First Concerts and Cryptozoology</a>)</p>http://trustyacht.org/post/17561099389http://trustyacht.org/post/17561099389Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:21:30 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3vw3Xzgr1qc0u6po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>YACHT from behind the stage. Bellingham, WA. </p>http://trustyacht.org/post/17301097139http://trustyacht.org/post/17301097139Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:19:15 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxynzKMUA1qk9nymo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://katie-erin18.tumblr.com/post/17118422041/check-it">katie-erin18</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Check it.</p> </blockquote>http://trustyacht.org/post/17125101955http://trustyacht.org/post/17125101955Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:28:45 -0500<a href="http://www.thesnipenews.com/music/interviews/claire-evans-yacht-interview/">Claire L. Evans' Road to Science Fiction Expertise</a>: <p><strong>Shawn Conner</strong>: You seem to have a lot of diverse interests, and I wanted to know where they branch out from – where your initial interests lay?</p> <p><strong>Claire L. Evans</strong>: I’ve always been into sci-fi. When I was a little kid I read a lot of <strong>Ray Bradbury</strong> and <strong>Arthur C. Clarke</strong>. </p> <p>I studied literature in university. I wasn’t into science at all, especially in school, I was always intimidated by science. It seems like a totally different method for understanding reality, which at the time freaked me out. I didn’t like going into Biology 101 and not knowing how to write a lab report and feeling like an idiot when I considered myself kind of an intellectual. But it’s a different way of being of intellectual.</p> <p>That frightened me for a long time. Then I realized, that’s fascinating, actually.</p> <p>I feel like science and art, or science and literature, whatever you’d call the humanities, are just two very different but fundamentally similar approaches to the world. They’re about trying to understand the universe, and make sense of it and our place within it, and come to a place where answers can potentially arise that bring meaning to life. </p> <p>Scientists want to decode, and scientists I think have this really fascinating historical approach. No single scientist thinks they’re going to figure this all out, it’s just a never ending lineage where through time we get closer and closer to a solution.</p> <p>Whereas artists are more individualist about it. They have less of a concern for the heritage of building towards a greater solution. Artists want to, maybe not decode everything, but they certainly want to make sense of things.</p> <p>When I started thinking about it that way I realized, everything I was interested in as a kid – I mean, science fiction is a place between science and the humanities using narrative techniques to decode a technological, scientific world.</p> <p>I think Jona and I both consider ourselves to be polymaths to a certain extent. We like a lot of things and are interested in a lot of things, we try to have as many skills as we can, and access what we do from as many different approaches as possible. We don’t like to shutter ourselves to just think, We’re a band so we have to have musical influences that are clearly discernible in our music, and that’s all we do.</p>http://trustyacht.org/post/17105643817http://trustyacht.org/post/17105643817Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:13:07 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyt3bysyBR1qc0u6po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://trustyacht.org/post/16966942784http://trustyacht.org/post/16966942784Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:26:22 -0500<a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FukE6jFv0&h=HAQGq-IfxAQGRExAK6Tb6DXCemqwO9ZguYqmjKzBIIBqSyg">The Secret Teachings of the Mystery Lights EBook</a>: <p>In 2009, YACHT released <em>The Secret Teachings of the Mystery Lights: A Handbook on Overcoming Humanity and Becoming Your Own God</em>, their first book. It was described as the text version of the philosophical ideas set forth in the album, <em>See Mystery Lights</em>. For years, the physical book was only available person-to-person at YACHT shows, so that YACHT could monitor each purchase. Now the book is available as a <strong>FREE</strong> EBook for the iPad; the original text has been supplemented by two out-of-print YACHT pamphlets, the Official Tattoo Policy and “On Mantra.” It also includes the entire <em><a href="http://teamyacht.com/blog/yacht-catalogue-of-influences-07-09/">Catalogue of Influences</a></em>, which was originally released as a large-scale poster grid of images. </p>http://trustyacht.org/post/16855263447http://trustyacht.org/post/16855263447Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:55:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lP66dL8xHfM?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://yacht.tumblr.com/post/16829836731/amazing-kids-from-the-school-of-rock-in-portland">yacht</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Amazing kids from the <em>School of Rock</em> in Portland playing our song <em>Paradise Engineering</em>.</p> </blockquote>http://trustyacht.org/post/16836051000http://trustyacht.org/post/16836051000Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:51:29 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lynb0g709u1qc0u6po1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://trustyacht.org/post/16803978559http://trustyacht.org/post/16803978559Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:26:40 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymg7iHj7r1qzqi9uo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Commitment. </p>http://trustyacht.org/post/16770667684http://trustyacht.org/post/16770667684Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:20:38 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymg9uQvri1qzqi9uo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>According to a series of cryptic animated GIFs on the YACHT tumblr, it seems that new things are on the horizon. </p>http://trustyacht.org/post/16770442271http://trustyacht.org/post/16770442271Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:24 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydatau9gz1qc0u6po1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>YACHT photographed for <a href="http://poshmag.com.mx/#/magazine/29/48-49">POSH Magazine</a> in Guadalajara, Mexico. </p>http://trustyacht.org/post/16473209920http://trustyacht.org/post/16473209920Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:46:21 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly9n13W5R21qc0u6po1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Found online, but unknown who the creator is. Please contact us if you know who made it.</p>http://trustyacht.org/post/16359281643http://trustyacht.org/post/16359281643Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:19:51 -0500“You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.”<br/><br/> - <em>Robert Anton Wilson</em>http://trustyacht.org/post/15692725289http://trustyacht.org/post/15692725289Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:41:44 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxnnc7oQGG1qc0u6po1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.lacanvas.com/blog/?p=1583">A collection of outtakes from YACHT’s LA CANVAS photo shoot</a> with Albert Kodagolian, which serves as a secret glimpse into Claire and Jona’s Los Angeles YACHT HQ. Of note: greek columns as furniture, some pretty psychedelic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0224029363/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=spacan03-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0224029363">product placement</a>. </p>http://trustyacht.org/post/15688230584http://trustyacht.org/post/15688230584Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:19:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxandxsUVI1qc0u6po1_500.png"/><br/><br/><div> <p>YACHT photographed in their home in Los Angeles by Albert Kodagolian, for <a href="http://issuu.com/lacanvas/docs/e_issue">LA CANVAS</a> Magazine. </p> </div>http://trustyacht.org/post/15309800672http://trustyacht.org/post/15309800672Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:51:33 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxagxhbqFS1qc0u6po1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>YACHT photographed in their home in Los Angeles by Albert Kodagolian, for <a href="http://issuu.com/lacanvas/docs/e_issue">LA CANVAS</a> Magazine. </p>http://trustyacht.org/post/15303326898http://trustyacht.org/post/15303326898Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:32:05 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rW3Gxr7kuUs?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>An interview conducted for the <a href="http://fuckyeahyacht.tumblr.com/">Fuck Yeah YACHT</a> Tumblr by members of the YACHT Trust, <a href="http://iamwhateveriwishtobe.tumblr.com/">Argyle Rings</a> and <a href="http://27equations.tumblr.com/">Aurora</a>, in Philadelphia. As YACHT has stated, “like the Ouroboros forever eating its own tail, we no longer know where YACHT ends and its perceivers begin.”</p>http://trustyacht.org/post/15250396220http://trustyacht.org/post/15250396220Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:26:09 -0500