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Run The Numbers

Chris Jordan’s photographic art exposes the detritus of mass consumption.

In what he calls ‘evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse’, Chris Jordan captures the shipping ports and industrial yards of America in a macabre but beautiful way. The shocking scale of western consumption is intensely provocative when seen through his lens. It’s pretty disgusting, all told, and his art does as good a guilt-tripping job as any anti-consumerist propaganda I’ve ever seen.

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By on 15/4/09

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Lane Campaign

City cyclists across the world lack protection. Check out these innovative ideas for ad hoc bike lanes.

Conceived as part of the Power to the Pedal Competition, the Contrail - a name inspired by the condensation trail left by aircraft - gives cyclists the chance to re-write the city to their own specification. A series of chalk trails create a record of their travels and remind drivers that cyclists have just as much right to the road as they do.

The high tech version is just as exciting, although less of an artistic experiment and more focused on a genuine solution. By projecting a lane from under the bike seat via a set of lasers, the motorist can easily become aware of the cyclists and gauge how much room to give. Very clever.

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Categories Art Culture Design Sport Politics Graffiti Tags Cycling Graffiti

By on 5/3/09

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Latest Wwf Ads

 “Our life at the cost of theirs?"

Ogilvy and Mather's Mumbai office have really shone with this spellbinding campaign against animal cruelty. 

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By on 2/2/09

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He-obama

If anyone reading this is an operative from the ‘axis of evil’, then you better watch out! 

Behold, the Obama action figure! It was only a matter of time wasn’t it? Japan have hopped on the Obama bandwagon in their own inimitable way. Extras include alternative hands (pointing, holding, kung-fu grip), samurai sword, lightsaber, street-sweeper (?), and the all american necessity - pump action shotgun. Word has spread with such frenzy that the Gamu Toys website, usually known for its anime figures, has been brought to its knees.

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By on 26/1/09

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In The Arena

For those that do rather than talk. Because great success can't exist without the chance of crushing failure.

Teddy Roosevelt, April 23rd 1910:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

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By on 22/1/09

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Even Better To Share

The people have spoken, but will it stick?

The Gum Election is a guerilla art project that started in New York last month. The result? A lot less gum on city streets, a campaign that can be emailed around the world in seconds and some prescient people that spoke with there slobber and got there wish. Genius.

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By on 5/11/08

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Skeletons And Closets

Opportunistic Favela-dwellers are relocating to central Sao Paolo.

Festival Emergences is an international festival dedicated to electronic cultures and emerging artistic forms. Based in Paris, it’s basically a mash-up of performing and visual arts, multimedia, design, architecture and electronic music. A presentation made by mOmentoMoNUMENTO at the annual event last week has got people talking. 

mOmentoMoNUMENTO is a joint project between Brazilian collective Coloco and the French experimental artists of Exyst (who we’ve written about before). In 2001, Coloco started researching a phenomenon known as ‘Skeleton Dwellings’. They observed, analysed and documented a group of people that were bucking a trend in Sao Paolo, Brazil. While most people were moving to the suburbs amidst economic unrest, war and the ups and downs of the housing market, a few opportunists seized their chance.

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By on 7/10/08

DIVIDED CITY

Divided City

THE KOURTAJME COLLECTIVE DENY A CITY THEY BARELY KNOW.

The picturesque Paris of beauty and high culture is a foreign city to Kourtrajmé. They rarely see it, and they won’t show it. But they are Parisians. Yes, Parisians, driven by the city as they know it, a city of decay, desolation and neglect, but a city of people the authorities would rather forget.

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By on 13/8/08

I MET THE WALRUS

I Met The Walrus

AN INTREPID YOUTH WHO WENT FACE TO FACE WITH AN ICON.

In 1969, the 14-year-old Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room for a chat. The tapes form the basis for this intriguing animated short.

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Categories Music Film Politics Tags Animation Film Lennon Music The Beatles

By on 12/8/08

URBAN EARTH: MEXICO CITY

Urban Earth: Mexico City

I FELT PHYSICALLY SICK WITH FEAR AS WE WALKED. Daniel Raven-Ellison

In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone. For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. But does anyone, anywhere, really understand the truth of these cities?

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By on 31/7/08

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