Posted in creativity, tagged photography, World Art on December 13, 2008 | 27 Comments »
sarah maple | born in 1985 sussex | feted as next next tracey emin (acclaimed turkish-british artist known for her provocative autobiographical art) | inspiration| being brought up as a muslim, parents of mixed religious and cultural backgrounds, issues of identity
work| often fabricated scenes and situations | affected by art world friends family television popular culture [...]
Posted in creativity, tagged art, design on December 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Like any of those Marc Newson Ikepod Design watches? You’ll need some spare pocket money in the vicinity of US$ 39.000. Better start saving.
Posted in creativity, tagged music on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Meet the icicle orchestra. Pioneering percussionist Terje Isungset plays instruments made from a 2,500 year old glacier; ‘the instruments belong to nature’.
Isungset conjures the majesty of Norway’s natural beauty through sculpted ice percussion in London (November 2008). The video is featuring vocalist Lena Nymark and incorporates the [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged global-warming, politics on December 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is the man who chaired the UN Climate Conference in Bali as well as the recent one in Poznan. In this remarkable Guardian video, George Monbiot charges him with lacking ambition for a global emissions deal, and takes him to task over expensive carbon [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged global-warming, politics on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another example for the corporate takeover of states – in this case Germany. And again: it’s the system that is the problem. As long as we solely concern ourselves with single issues like climate change policies, we’ll see these issues change at a snail’s pace. In the absence of relevant mass movements challenging our socio-economic [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged global-warming, politics on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We think the Australian government sets a bad example by not announcing it’s climate targets till next week, instead of following Europe’s ’shining example’. Well, Europe’s leaders are not doing their job on climate change either, argues Greenpeace executive director John Sauven. That’s not surprising of course, given that Governments all over the world are [...]
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