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awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
The Dalai Lama and Mr. Rogers
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When you throw your e-waste away (or use a feel-good recycling facility) it is separated from American landfill waste and sent to China.
E-waste means: batteries, phones, TVs, personal computers, tablets, iPads, etc.
Poor people, most of whom are former farmers, strip any and all valuable metals off of the motherboards of these devices. The remaining parts (plastic, silicon, highly carcinogenic wire harness insulation) are then burned in open-air pits in medieval scrap yards or simply buried in a Chinese landfill. Or, in an act of pure, almost evil callousness…shipped off to dumping grounds in Africa.
For those of you who have ever witnessed a car or a computer on fire - - the material used to shield electrical wire is so poisonous that in most cases, fire departments will simply let a car burn hot before approaching it. By the time you can smell the acrid odor, you’ve inhaled enough to give yourself cancer 10 times over.
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Food for thought while you are camping out overnight at the Apple Store, waiting for the latest device which will become obsolete in 90 days.
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(via incollaborationwithdeath)
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If the opposite of pro is con, what is the opposite of progress?
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UX: THE NEW FRENCH HACKER-ARTIST UNDERGROUND
A mysterious band of hacker-artists is prowling the network of tunnels below Paris, secretly refurbishing the city’s neglected treasures.
UX’s most sensational caper (to be revealed so far, at least) was completed in 2006. A cadre spent months infiltrating the Pantheon, the grand structure in Paris that houses the remains of France’s most cherished citizens. Eight restorers built their own secret workshop in a storeroom, which they wired for electricity and Internet access and outfitted with armchairs, tools, a fridge, and a hot plate. During the course of a year, they painstakingly restored the Pantheon’s 19th- century clock, which had not chimed since the 1960s. Those in the neighborhood must have been shocked to hear the clock sound for the first time in decades: the hour, the half hour, the quarter hour.
Eight years ago, the French government didn’t know UX existed. When their exploits first trickled out into the press, the group’s members were deemed by some to be dangerous outlaws, thieves, even potential inspiration for terrorists. Still, a few officials can’t conceal their admiration. Mention UX to Sylvie Gautron of the Paris police—her specialty is monitoring the city’s old quarries—and she breaks into a wide smile. In an era when ubiquitous GPS and microprecise mapping threaten to squeeze all the mystery from our great world cities, UX seems to know, and indeed to own, a whole other, deeper, hidden layer of Paris. It claims the entire city, above- and belowground, as its canvas; its members say they can access every last government building, every narrow telecom tunnel. Does Gautron believe this? “It’s possible,” she says. “Everything they do is very intense.”
(Source: Nerdcore)
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Fixed that for you OP
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Do-Ho Suh, Paratrooper
(The threads are attached to a cloth of embroidered signatures of soldiers who died in war)
This is beautiful.
THIS IS SO INTENSE.
Hillary will love this.
(via thatssowong)
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(Sunshine On My Mind by amamak photography on flickr)
This is a little something from a project we’ve been cultivating for a little while now. We’re pretty proud of how it’s shaping out.
It’s a double exposure created in Photoshop (not in-camera) of a medium format shot from last winter and a digital shot taken this summer in Cape Cod.
If you’re interested, you can purchase a 12x12 print of it (and others!) on etsy.
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