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Whoa! NPR show on trash today.
Today’s show is all about garbage. Americans throw out more trash than anyone else on the planet: more than seven pounds per person each day. We’ll be talking to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes about the journey our trash takes as it makes its way from our garbage bins through landfills and scrap heaps.
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German garbage collectors + dumpster pinhole camera. I want to go to there.
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Artists transform vandalized library books into art
In 2001, librarians and staff at the San Francisco Public Library started finding damaged books, mainly related to gay, lesbian, and HIV/AIDS issues, shoved under shelves. The vandal was caught and ultimately charged with a hate crime.
“Rather than discard the damaged books, the Library distributed them to interested community members in the hope of creating art.” The artistic responses comprise “Reversing Vandalism,” an exhibition of more than 200 works of art.
Images, via Reversing Vandalism: Online Gallery :: San Francisco Public Library: Altered book pieces by Mary Bennett (top) and Gretchen Schermerhorn and Eric Bu.
In case you missed them: Unconsumption’s collection of library-related posts can be found here; books here.
Yea, sf library
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Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) started with the idea of turning photos into stencils. Instead of using spray paint though, he scratched portraits into walls around Moscow.
Portraits Scratched into Walls
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Reblogged from Can public spaces be virtual spaces? Geocities was a free webhosting provider born in 1999 where 35.000 citizens of the net (or netizens) lived in a huge virtual city divided in thematic neighbourhoods. Before the final erasure the Archive Team has managed to save the community’s files from digital obsolescence: it’s The Deleted City.
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Really loving this guy. Chris Hedges shares a bit more of his perspective on the Occupy movement. Pretty great from start to finish.
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Gary Schneider: ”These photographs, made without a camera, are sweat and heat imprints into film emulsion.”
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