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Growing rooms, buildings & cities
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Full Story: Next Nature
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Online game teaches immigrant kids about rights of due process
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
ICED puts you in the shoes of an immigrant to illustrate how unfair immigration laws deny due process and violate human rights. These laws affect all immigrants: legal residents, those fleeing persecution, students and undocumented people.
Play the game
This game is from the immigrants right organization a href=”http://www.breakthrough.tv/”>Breakthrough
Virtual Wall: traffic light of the future?
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Info and more: Yanko Design
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Bakeries urge customers to plant wheat in their lawns
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
From Day to Day:
To combat the skyrocketing price of flour, several Massachusetts bakeries have taken on a project that’s part Little Red Hen, part World War II Victory Garden. The bakeries are recruiting their customers to till up their lawns and gardens and plant wheat.
Listen to it at NPR
This sounds like a better solution to […]
Wishful thinking
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Please see update/correction in the comments
Two economic crises face the world today: the credit crunch resulting from the subprime mortgage crisis, and the food prices crisis precipitated by the demand for biofuels. Both are problems we should have identified and solved years ago, but didn’t. Why did we ignore the warning signs and allow ourselves […]
“These come from trees” stickers for paper towel dispensers
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
These Come From Trees.
Banksy and Bristol article in the Telegraph
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
It’s not just Banksy who is getting Bristol noticed at the moment. This year sees the release of new albums by a number of Bristol bands who first came to prominence in the mid-Nineties - Portishead, Tricky and Tricky’s former collaborator Martina Topley Bird. It also looks like being an unusually busy year for Massive […]
Is your child a tagger?
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
My child? A tagger? It’s more likely than you think!
(via Wooster Collective).
Deadly levels of formaldehyde reported in the trailers that still house over 110,000 Katrina refugees
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Filmmaker Kevin Leeser:
The recovery from Hurricane Katrina is far from the front pages these days. There were still 30,000 families (over 110,000 American individuals) still living in FEMA trailers earlier this month (feb 2008), when the “news” of deadly levels of formaldehyde in the trailers was finally reported.
I began filming this story one month after […]
Portland braile graffiti art on Current TV
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
They talk to my friend Kelly at the beginning.
Banksy art in Bethleham
Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Banksy contributed several pieces to Santa’s Ghetto an “anarchic concept gallery” in Behleham.
Times Online story.
BBC gallery of Banksy’s pieces.
Santa’s Ghetto web site.
(via Digg).
M.I.A: remixing the future
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
I have a piece up on Alterati today about M.I.A and her new album Kala:
M.I.A’s new album Kala whips listeners through the poorest corners of the world, moving too quickly to quite distinguish between the various locales. Is this Rio or Trinidad? Calcutta or London? Wait, the Australian outback? It’s all blurred, mashed-up.
M.I.A brings […]
Mobile technology and public space pt. 2
Monday, May 7th, 2007
Something’s bothering me about my mobile technology and public space post (besides sounding like an anarcho-hippie by talking about “reclaiming” something), and no one’s called me on it. I utterly failed to make a case for why these changes to public space might be bad.
My attitude towards social change is usually brutal: evolve or die […]
Mobile technology and public space
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
This post Is The Bedouin Worker Killing The Third Place? got me thinking again about the subject of mobile technology and public space. Years ago, there was thread on Margin Walker about “third places” and the concept of “fourth places.”
To sum up, the “first place” is home, the “second place” is work and the “third […]