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| | Tags: | art, baby supplies, consumer, crafts, entertainment, environment, food, insanity, parenting, politics, religion, science | | Time: | 02:39 am |
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| Infodump time!
Gacked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nightxade: My Little Darth Vader and the other pony toys bizarrely transformed by movie fan - These are AWESOME, and be sure to check out the artist's gallery too.
Of 'Greenwash' and Image Management - interesting article about varying levels of truth in eco-marketing.
Rocket Fuel Ingredient Found in Powder - as in, infant formula powder. Yum. This is so wrong.
A few weeks ago I was listening to a science podcast and they were talking about how anti-evolutionists like to name ten or a dozen scientists who don't believe in evolution, citing that as reason enough to doubt the theory. Well, the science community's response is to be able to list 1000 scientists that do believe in evolution...all of whom are named Steve (or some variant thereof, including feminine and non-Anglo). I laughed out loud when I heard that! See Project Steve for more info.
PBX Hell: 50-Plus Hacks and Tips to Get to a Real Person at Any Corporation in 10 Seconds or Less - Some are more potentially useful than others, but a good list if you hate waiting on hold.
A FLEET of UFOs in formation has been photographed - on Google. - Hahahaha, it's a tabloid, don't get too excited. It alleges that Google's street view in London shows some UFOs. Well, really, after the Daleks and then the Cybermen and then the Daleks vs Cybermen and all of the other alien-trashing of London that I've seen on that documentary about that time-travelling fellow, I suppose some flying saucers is probably just routine to Londoners now, eh?
Here's something potentially useful to other cooks out there:
What To Do With Egg Whites
Left Over Egg Yolks
In each case, what can be done in terms of storage and recipes with the leftover portions of egg after you've used the other bit. I actually find that I avoid recipes that want me to use only part of an egg unless the other part comes in later, but now that I know I can freeze them...hmm... | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Disguised As Dishcloths Pile, Man Hides Inside IKEA
And when someone posted that they wanted him to have jumped out and scared people, this was my response:
I think the point is more to highlight the vast inconsequential nature of all of the piles of consumer goods and their associated refuse surrounding anyone at any given moment. It's more meaningful in that context to have people just walk past and not notice, or be vaguely curious about slow movement and be forced to think about the giant pile of X, than it is to play a childish game of BOO.
If the point was to spook people, I'm sure he'd have lots of videos of himself doing that. That's not the point, and actually counterproductive to the point I believe he's trying to make.
Given that it's made me stop and think about the relative insanity of a store having SO MANY dishcloths - and now I'm thinking about the IKEA here and other similar bins full of rugs, ice cube trays shaped like fish, etc - and it is all kind of an orgy of manufacturing and consumption all manifested in one big pile of stuff that most people just walk by without noticing. I guess, since I'm thinking about it now in a way I never did before, that means the art was successful? I usually think most performance art is pretentious crap but I guess this one affected me.
Mind you, I'll still be shopping at IKEA. But I guess now I might be more mindful of the vast quantities of things people probably don't need (although I have kind of always wanted the ice cube trays shaped like puzzle pieces, but I never buy it because I can't really justify it). | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| Spencer Tunick was requested by Greenpeace Switzerland to do some of his "living sculpture" photos with Switzerland's Aletsch glacier as the backdrop to highlight the vulnerability of the glacier with global climate change.
The awesome photos can be found here, with a note that Tunick uses hundreds/thousands of nude people in his photos so they might not be considered work safe, even though they are clearly artistic.
I particularly like the ones where the people are standing and facing the camera but on different levels with different amounts of focus, because I find those very striking in the juxtaposition of flesh versus ice, but also the stratification of the people like that kind of implies speaking out for everyone, including those who are powerless and/or too far removed to have sufficient say in the global climate change crisis. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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