I have a tendency make the objects I use last as long as they can and use them for the life of the object. After all, if it works, why bother getting a new one? One extreme example of this is my beach towel.
I still have the beach towel I acquired (20+ years ago) as [...]
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The Twenty Year Towel
Posted in Random, Reduce | Reuse | Recycle on 2009, February 10 | Leave a Comment »
Finding the Humor in Spam
Posted in Random, tagged art, spam on 2008, September 5 | Leave a Comment »
Check out Kipling West’s clever illustrations inspired by spam headers.
I am inspired by spam; taking something that is intrusive, annoying & stinky, and seeing beauty (or at least a bit of entertaining weirdness) in it. Spam, like another common commodity, is plentiful, everyone deals with it daily, and it can be a rich fertilizer if [...]
A Visual Quantification of Waste
Posted in Random, tagged art, waste on 2008, April 22 | Leave a Comment »
Cell phones #2, Atlanta 2005 44 x 90″
Powerful images of the sheer volume of waste is captured by photographer Chris Jordan in his series of photographs from 2003-2005 titled Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption.
