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Trend Management

May 19th, 2008

‘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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.)

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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.

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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: [...]

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