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.
Chris Jordan
February 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off
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Wiegende wespentailles
March 12th, 2007 · Comments Off
Noorderlog: “Een wespentaille alleen is dus niet genoeg. Om bouwvakkers aan het fluiten te krijgen moeten de dames daarnaast ook hun heupen in de strijd gooien. ”
“En voor de mannen geldt precies het tegenovergestelde. Om aantrekkelijk gevonden te worden moeten ze niet al te veel taille hebben. Maar ze moeten daarnaast ook niet te veel met hun heupen wiegen en juist wel hun schouders in de strijd gooien.”
Of je moet als man zijnde John Travolta heten. John Travolta Shakes His Money Maker on Ellen.
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links for 2006-03-23
March 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off
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“Hoewel de directe effecten op de economie - denk aan extra consumptie in de horeca - klein zijn, kunnen goede prestaties op het veld indirect wel degelijk een economie stimuleren.”
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“Van alle Amsterdamse fietsen die worden gestolen, wordt na intensieve controles 0,68 procent teruggevonden. Preventie tegen diefstal helpt echter wel.”
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“In the new show, Chef is brainwashed by the “Super Adventure Club” - thought to be a veiled reference to Scientology.”
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“Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore.”
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“American’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesn’t extend to those who don’t believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the University of Minnesota’s department of sociology.”
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“A new jet engine design able to fly seven times the speed of sound is to be test fired over Australia on Friday.”
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“So this will be around for a few years. What happens if YOU die?”
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“Sir, you dropped something! is one of the entries of Positive Alarm, an open call to designers to send statements, products and projects that turn something negative into a positive message or solution.”
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“It is a recent shot of a snowflake that’s been sitting in chemist Tryggvi Emilsson’s desk for 27 years, locked in a drop of that miracle of modern chemistry we call superglue. “
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“London, Paris and New York are dying – the 21st century belongs to the fertile chaos of the third-world metropolis. Rana Dasgupta heralds the arrival of an alternative vision of modernity”
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“It is difficult to think about torture honestly.”
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Howto: second life
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