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This three-day workshop ([WWW]InterAccess, Toronto, 1-3 May 2009) will explore the theme of E-waste and environmental data. Working in small groups, participants will be given the task of hacking some typical consumer e-waste to create reflective technological assemblages that incorporate 'nature' in some form while calling one or more of our basic assumptions into question.

Mike Winkelman of Beeple has created an animated editorial on over-consumption. His short video features a spinning house being upgraded, expanded, and refurnished over and over again. The rotating and rebuilding visuals are completely captivating. The whole thing makes you question your own need vs want, consumer self. I will even, just this once, forgive them their isometric ways (perspective people, PERSPECTIVE).

That ad-space put up there and lovingly maintained by JCDecaux? There for the taking - for the company with the right augmentable-ad-platform, the right amount of consumer pull.

The Information Ecology group (formerly the Physical Language Workshop) explores ways to connect our physical environments with information resources. Through the use of low-cost, ubiquitous technologies, we are creating seamless and pervasive ways to interact with our information—and with each other. We focus on projects that harness the ecology of consumer electronics and sensor devices—present and future—to more smoothly mediate the boundaries between the physical and information worlds we inhabit.

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inspired by the intimate size of my favorite japanese stationery journals, this li'l journal is filled will herb drawings, originally made into posters. each journal features five different, full-color herb-illustrated spreads; some with graph paper, some not. printed on 30% post-consumer waste recycled paper with conventional inks.

France (the world’s largest producer—some 18,000 tons in 2005—and consumer of foie gras)

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