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What Would Jesus Buy?

Shep — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:17:42 GMT

What Would Jesus Buy?

A documentary about Reverend Billy's crusade to promote an awareness about our consumer culture.

Tags: consumerism, humour, materialism, change, consciousness, reverend billy, shopocalypse

Masai Giraffe birth

Shep — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:09:01 GMT

Masai Giraffe birth

A not-too-graphic video of the birth of a Masai giraffe. There are a few interesting details about giraffes too.

Tags: life, animals, giraffe, birth

Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Shep — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:47:58 GMT

Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Financial Times Editorial by their chief foreign affairs commentator, Gideon Rachman entitled "And now for a world government".

Tags: conspiracy, globalisation, world government, global governance, question authority, freedom, democracy

Chris Jordan - current work

Shep — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:40:50 GMT

Chris Jordan - current work

Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming. ~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007

Tags: art, impact, consumption, waste, chris jordan

Reality Sandwich | Writing Source Code for Democracy

Shep — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:28:15 GMT

Reality Sandwich | Writing Source Code for Democracy

Our form of democracy is essentially a product of cutting-edge 18th century technology. If we re-wrote the Constitution from scratch, how would we use computers and the Internet to collaborate, manage our resources, and govern ourselves?

Tags: change, democracy, community, cooperation, technology, internet

EcoGeek - Clean Technology

Shep — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:07:50 GMT

EcoGeek - Clean Technology

A simple change, a massive effect. White roofs for a green planet.

Tags: climate change, environment, global warming

Reality Sandwich | Mutiny of the Soul

Shep — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:35:37 GMT

Reality Sandwich | Mutiny of the Soul

An article presenting an alternative perspective regarding so-called "conditions of the mind" like depression, chronic fatigue or epstein-barr syndrome.

Tags: mind, depression, fatigue, feeling good, alternatives, rebellion

Reality Sandwich | The End of Money?

Shep — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:22:15 GMT

Reality Sandwich | The End of Money?

What a great article!

Tags: economics, economy, money, 2012, change, capitalism

Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007 ~~ Entries

Shep — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:55:56 GMT

Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007 ~~ Entries

Fractal Art Contest Entries

Tags: art, fractals