Transparency is a noble pursuit in this age of business2.0, and we’ve seen companies like Chumby and TCHO benefit from free press and a boosted brand identity in exchange for posting their entire process on-line for all to see. So what happens when a company that makes bad products still practices transparently? Flickr introduced me […]
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under the catwalk
I received this slide show purporting to document labor conditions in an Indian shoe manufacturer for a brand called Catwalk – although it’s hard for me to confirm any of this information. If you know about it, let me know, otherwise these are still pictures of people at work producing remarkably polished products in slave-like […]
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tracking pills
By one estimate at least 15% of all drugs sold are counterfeit resulting in thousands of deaths. One reason Vardex Laser developed a technique to etch individual pills with 2-D bar codes in a process that takes “less than a millionth of a second” to mark a product in a process that is completely “clean […]
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green walls 2
While in Paris I was fortunate to come across two green walls in the city: the first is a massive three-story vertical jungle atop a loading dock for a department store in the Marais by Patrick Blanc (above), the second was a billboard for a green cleaning product near the Sorbonne (below). While I generally […]
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darth vaderama
The Palais de Tokyo in Paris is officially my favorite museum in the world. I was recently treated to the awesome experience of Last Manoeuvres in the Dark by Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni: “Since 2007 Fabien Giraud and Raphael Siboni have shared an attraction towards community-based practice, bad taste and the different forms of […]
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banana propaganda
Turns out that bananas are evil – the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) was a force of imperialism in Latin America, and now they’re being decried for being a monolithic monoculture based on artificially low costs, achieved mostly through cheap labor in destabilized countries. But it wasn’t just the supply side of bananas that discovered […]
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freaking surveillance
Annina has found a way to confound the watchers and make them think that the machines they are using against us have turned against them. link
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black tin
Glory is at it again with this amazing report on how tin metal is largely mined and exported against the law. Since the 18th Century tin has been mined and exported from the Indonesian island of Bangka, named after the word “wangka” meaning “tin.” Mining expanded until the 1990s when it was banned by the […]
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