December 24th, 2007 · Comments Off
“At a Whole Foods in New York, Jen Armstrong and Ryan Watkins-Hughes stocked a shelf with cans carrying art-infused labels.”
NY Times, Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage:
“This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it’s also the season of spirited shopdropping.
Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.
Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with political messages onto shelves while religious proselytizers insert pamphlets between the pages of gay-and-lesbian readings at book stores.”
Tags: art,consumerism,shopdropping,shopping
June 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
Kitsune Noir: “MPRIES is a family owned Austrian supermarket chain that employs up and coming architects to design the most amazing supermarkets I think I’ve ever seen.”
Zie ook The Guardian in 2004, Happy shopper.
Tags: architecture,austria,design,food,mpries,shopping
September 18th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Below is an A-Z of retail tricks that we have compiled to empower you before you go out shopping, so that you can buy what you need and collapse our economy! More will be added as we root them out.”
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“how likely are you, statistically speaking, to die from a terrorist attack?”
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“HandBrake is a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.”
Tags: architecture,marketing,os x,shopping,terrorism,video
March 13th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“The entertainment industry claims it has file-sharing sites on the run. But Sweden-based torrent tracker The Pirate Bay says it isn’t going anywhere. And there’s a national movement behind the site.”
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“The intelligent dressing room (…) scans your measurements and lets you see on a projection screen how a piece will look on you. “
Tags: bittorrent,p2p,shopping
