My brother Reay sent me a link to some very interesting art by Chris Jordan of Seattle. Jordan describes it thus:
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 [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under Activism, Art, Culture Consumed.
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I recently built a new speechwriter’s site for Colin Moorhouse. Over the years I’ve helped Colin with his websites, bailing him out of trouble when things got too technical or fixing them when his WYSIWYG editor messed things up. Now that it’s in WordPress he’s updating like mad, and it’s wonderful to watch it come [...]
Posted: March 1st, 2008 under Activism, Culture Consumed, Design.
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If you haven’t seen BBC’s Planet Earth series, I can’t tell you enough to watch it.
As an artist I find the eyecandy fabulous, inspiring, dumbfounding. There are so many incredible shapes and patterns in nature. The variety of behaviours and habitats is stunning.
It’s also a series full of complete wonderment. I found myself at times [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2008 under Activism, Culture Consumed.
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I’ve written about Quest before; they’re a fabulous Vancouver organization that diverts surplus or near-expiry food from becoming waste so it can feed people in need. Last year they helped about 60,000 people per month and prevented about 3300 tonnes of viable food from ending up in local landfills. Wow!
Their winter newsletter has the following [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2008 under Activism.
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It will be neat to see how Rosa Loves develops. The concept is fairly unique:
A personal story of need is heard, and inspires a t-shirt design.
The design is printed on the outside of the t-shirt. On the inside, next to the heart, that personal story is printed.
Proceeds from the sales go to meet that need.
All [...]
Posted: January 1st, 2008 under Activism, Art, Design.
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Zodomatica is the personal site of Tzaddi Gordon, a web designer from Roberts Creek, BC, Canada. I'm passionate about design that balances form and function. I design, code, and hack other people's scripts. Lately I groove on WordPress as a CMS.
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