‘Satomi Kobayashi and Mikako Ichikawa nosh down on fresh lobster in Naoko Ogigami’s new film, “Glasses.”‘ The Moment, The Post-Materialist | Japanese Food Porn: “(…) eating and sleeping are their reason for living. If sex is curiously absent, it’s because the eating is sex.” The Independent, YAWN: The new yuppies: They’re back – and this [...]
Entries Tagged as 'environment'
Trend Management
May 19th, 2008
Tags: economy · environment · food · identity · japan · lifestyle · trend
Chris Jordan
February 23rd, 2008
Chris Jordan – Plastic Bottles, 2007. 60×120″. Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes. Detail at actual size.
Tags: art · environment · waste
Big Foot
February 20th, 2008
Michael Specter in The New Yorker, Big Foot. In measuring carbon emissions, it’s easy to confuse morality and science: “Possessing an excessive carbon footprint is rapidly becoming the modern equivalent of wearing a scarlet letter. Because neither the goals nor acceptable emissions limits are clear, however, morality is often mistaken for science. A recent article [...]
Tags: carbon emissions · co2 · environment · food
Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags
February 4th, 2008
London, UK. NY Times, Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags: “There is something missing from this otherwise typical bustling cityscape. There are taxis and buses. There are hip bars and pollution. Every other person is talking into a cellphone. But there are no plastic shopping bags, the ubiquitous symbol of urban life. In [...]
Tags: environment · ireland · shoping
If the water reached this level
October 26th, 2007
De brug over de Schinkel in Amsterdam sinds gisternacht. Maker onbekend. “If the water reached this level we would not need the bridge. Drive on, maybe we will achieve this!” (Foto via Wooster.)
Tags: amsterdam · environment · nl
Breathing Earth
June 24th, 2007
Breathing Earth, Real time displays of carbon dioxide emission levels and birth and death rates for every country in the world.
Tags: co2 · demography · environment · infographic · world
links for 2006-02-23
February 23rd, 2006
DNJournal.com – All Reported Domain Sales of $10,000 or More in 2005 “Downlaod.com $68,000″ (tags: domain web) Public Smog. Clean-Air Park. “Public Smog is a public park composed of intangibles and built in the economic realm of carbon offset trading. Offsets purchased and controlled by the public will be inaccessible to polluting industries. “ (tags: [...]
Tags: domains · environment · landscape · web