May 10, 2008

And if this were to be broken down by gender?

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'Developed' vs 'undeveloped' (cont.)

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Green fatigue league table

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April 25, 2008

The fake-space race: Design and the future of travel

My mates at Adobe found some great pix (including this one) to accompany my piece on travel and its substitutes

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With his head in the tagclouds

I contemplated adding a tag cloud to this site - but then decided against it on the grounds that I never use them so maybe they're not so useful after all. Very scientific. Instead, I spring-cleaned the "categories" list on the right: I merged several categories, thereby reduced the total number, and re-allocated some of the 494 (so far) posts. I believe I am being virtuous by giving you fewer decisions to make...

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April 24, 2008

Travel without moving: jacket from Djibouti please

Luca Pizzaroni has been working for three years on building a sculpture which is made of garment clothing from every country in the world. For the artist, this this is a "mind travel escape" - and I know we have visitors from most countries at this blog - so I'm happy to pass on the fact that the labels project still needs an item of clothing each from: Angola, Azerbaijan, Central African Republic, Djibouti , Eritrea, Gabon, Iraq, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Moldova, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Zambi.

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April 21, 2008

Eurotrash

This chilling image, which I saw first at Core 77, is a visualization of space-junk by the European Space Agency.
The images (there's a series) show all the satellites and human-made debris now orbiting space as a result of 51 years of launching devices since Sputnik - a total of 6,000 rocketloads. If you think this looks bad, imagine what a similar image would look like if it visualized all the matter used in the production of cars during the past 100 years or so - at roughly one thousand tonnes per vehicle.

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