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Archive for June, 2008

The Bottle Project

Posted in Art, Environment, Recycling, The Stuff of Life, tagged , , , , , , , on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Somehow, I managed to miss all pre-press about The Bottle Project in Atlanta, an installation in a park walking distance to my house. Last night, I was walking over there, and happened upon part of it that remains – it was supposed to be installed through September, but it looks like the Department [...]

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TED: Chris Jordan Picturing Excess

Posted in Art, Photography, The Stuff of Life, Video, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Take a few minutes to watch this video: Chris Jordan Pictures Excess – TED Talk 2008
Artist Chris Jordan talks about his work at the TED Conference earlier this spring – in his own words here from his website:
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a [...]

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Great site for information on Superfund Sites

Posted in Environment, Geography, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Superfund – what’s that? Just a little program that made polluters pay to clean up after themselves – spurred by the infamous Love Canal case. But it was more or less killed by the Bush Administration (well, it has been defunded, which is the same thing).
I just ran across a review in American [...]

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