Category: Social Consciousness
Angels above Berlin.
What an incredible day to be in Berlin. This is just one of the performances earlier today, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Along the former border between the Brandenburger Gate and Potsdamer Platz living angels have settled on the city’s rooftops.
Wings spread wide, they observe the faraway human life down on the ground, they observe events in Berlin on the twentieth anniversary of the day the wall came down:
A silent encounter, a silent circle of angels.
A poetic image for the peaceful reunion of a once-divided city.
A performance installation by Theater Anu and Bartel’s living statues.
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Announcing our latest launch – Thule.com
After a two-year gestation period, the baby has arrived. Thule, a world leader in transportation accessories, now has a beautiful new international site – Thule.com – with a customized Sitecore CMS. It was designed by our multi-talented brand experience team and built by our big-hearted, over-caffeinated and sleep-deprived developers. And it couldn’t have happened without our account service/project management wizards working behind the scenes, guiding the project to completion.
Thanks to everyone on our extended Thule team, in North America and Europe/Asia, for working together to make this complex, amazing solution possible.
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Another Perfect Stranger video this is it dvd If you don’t own a car rack, you may be wondering – what’s a Thule? We’re glad you asked. Here’s how they describe themselves:
Thule is the world leader in sports and utility transportation. But that’s not all we are. We are an international group of passionate outdoors-people that delivers safe, easy and stylish solutions for active families, professionals and other outdoor enthusiasts to transport their gear, so that they can start having fun almost as soon as they get out there.
We offer load carriers for vehicles such as rooftop boxes, roof rails and bike carriers. Plus, the company offers snow chains, trailers, towing systems, organization solutions and accessories for RVs as well.
Please behold the magic at THULE.COM.
Trek Lime wins Cooper-Hewitt 2009 People’s Design Award
Many, many congratulations to our client, Trek, on winning the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt People’s Design Award for the beautiful Trek Lime bike. We were proud to be a part of the Trek Lime story and are happy to see Lime’s product design get the recognition it so very much deserves.
From the Cooper-Hewitt press release:
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presented its fourth People’s Design Award to the Trek Lime bicycle Thursday, Oct. 22, at its 10th annual National Design Awards gala in New York. Tyler Florence, host of Food Network’s “Tyler’s Ultimate,” announced the winning design and presented the award to Hans Eckholm, senior industrial designer for Trek Bicycles.
After thousands of votes were cast during the course of one month on Cooper-Hewitt’s Web site, the Lime–a coasting bike designed for the casual rider interested in biking for recreation and convenience purposes–emerged as the public’s favorite design.
WATCH THE VIDEO: Tyler Florence, host of Food Network’s “Tyler’s Ultimate,” announces the winning design and presents the award to Hans Eckholm, senior industrial designer for Trek Bicycles.
Ad Council Creative newsletter.
My Year Without Sex hd One newsletter (amongst the hundreds I get every month) that never fails to entertain or educate me is my Ad Council Creative newsletter. Each month they highlight a number of their public service campaigns that are beautifully conceived, designed and executed. Some are funny, some are heartbreaking. But they never fail to get my attention. Here’s the latest:
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Click here to sign up for their newsletter.
p.s. On a personal note, the Cheerleader one is my favorite. R-O-W-hoo!-DY!
Save Handmade Toys!
If you’re a fan of handmade toys, you might want to take a minute – right now, if possible – to vote to amend the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008.
In August 2008, after numerous incidents of unsafe toys imported from China, Congress passed the CPSIA to hold manufacturers accountable for ensuring their toys are safe. Unfortunately, the Act, as written, does not exempt small businesses or individuals (such as Etsy download Men in Black II dvd sellers) from the same expensive testing and labeling standards as large manufacturers.
The act goes into effect on February 10, 2009, so please act now.
Get more info here:
Handmade Toy Alliance :: Help Save Handmade Toys in the USA from the CPSIA
Vote here:
CHANGE.ORG :: SAVE SMALL BUSINESS FROM THE CPSIA Freezer Burn move
(click the “vote” button at the upper left of the article)
(Irma The Pig available at Mahar Drygoods
, a retailer and supporter of gorgeous handmade and vintage toys.)
Outdoor Recreation in Urban Spaces
A half-block from our studio there is a bridge that I walk under almost every day. Well, actually using the word bridge is selling it short, it’s actually an overpass for a section of freeway
that cuts right through the heart of Milwaukee. The space is somewhat typical of what happens in urban areas under overpasses – it’s used as a parking lot, left feral or otherwise ignored. Despite its present undeveloped state, this location has a few things going for it. It’s across the street from the Milwaukee Public Market, it abuts Milwaukee’s River Walk Ridicule hd pedestrian thoroughfare and is right next door to a public launch for kayakers, canoeists and rowers who use the Milwaukee River. Here in the heart of the city, in an otherwise unused space and surrounded by such great attractions, seems like the perfect place to create an urban park focused on active recreation.
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Other municipalities have done this with great success already. Portland, Oregon has the Burnside Skatepark, located under the Burnside Bridge. Built originally without permission from the city, this skatepark is now officially supported by the city and creates a public recreation area in a dense urban area that’s sheltered from the weather due to it’s location under such a large structure.
The Devil’s Own trailer A Hanson Dodge Creative colleague of mine sent me a link to the Colonnade Mountain Bike Park in Seattle, Washington. I can’t describe this place it’s so insanely inventive. It’s truly a new model of how urban “in-between” spaces can be dramatically re-imagined and converted from grafitti-strewn dirt patches into urban playgrounds. The park features mountain bike trails and obstacles, at various ability levels, in an unbelievably small footprint under a brige.
I walk by that mean space every day on my way to work and I imagine opportunity for joy in the heart of the city. Here’s to hoping it doesn’t become just another parking lot.
Mmmmm. Sandwich Bike.
I love the idea of putting a bicycle on the market that is useful, trendy and twice as cheap to produce — so buying the product for a regular price leaves means enough to donate one to someone who cannot afford one. This company’s whole design philosophy is pretty cool.
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Inspired by the concept of flat packing and home assembly made popular by companies like IKEA we finally made a bike out of two wooden plates. Hence its name: The Sandwich Bike. The absence of welding joints makes the frame very easy to produce and [...] materials used can vary according to the client’s demand. This way the bike can be kept simple and cheap, or aesthetically and structurally supreme and therefore reasonably expensive. Just like an IKEA product the bike will be delivered in a flat cardboard box and can be assembled at home with a single tool…
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For more information, visit the designer’s website: Bleijh.
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Eco-Running – Fitness for a cleaner world
I first became aware of eco-running this past spring when my urban neighborhood, Riverwest, thawed out, and a winter’s worth of litter emerged from the melting gray snow banks. Every spring the neighborhood has to deal with the garbage that the thousands of people passing through insist on leaving behind. This year, however, we were introduced to a new, simple and ingenious approach to the clean up, courtesy of local resident and endurance runner, Sam Huber – aka The Eco-Runner.
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Sam incorporates scooping up litter into his running regimen and is on a mission to convert people to serving their environment by simply picking up the trash in their path. Sam’s grassroots project is getting national attention
and attracting new eco-runners (or in my case, eco-walkers) every day.
Visit Eco-Runner Civil Brand dvdrip
to follow Sam’s progress and learn more about how to green your exercise routine.
Have Less Stuff
Hulk dvd Since June first, we’ve had the most rain ever recorded here in Wisconsin. Rivers and streets are overflowing, basements are flooded, and you may have read about the lake that washed away. Here in Milwaukee, the floods we’ve gotten aren’t as devastating as those in Iowa or even a little further west in our state. After suffering mostly wet basements and some mildew, local news coverage is filled with people in boots trying to salvage their soaked possessions.
But what was interesting to me was a throwaway comment one man made on the news. Standing in two feet of water in his basement, he said he was “getting rid of all the stuff he didn’t need anyway.” It made me think of something I’d read recently about a new grass-roots movement, The 100 Thing Challenge
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The premise is this: if you have too much stuff, it can weigh you down. Editing your personal living space down to 100 things will help you let go of the past and move forward. Added benefits are that you can easily find things and you will gain a sense of control over your life. And who wouldn’t want that? Whittling your stuff down to 100 items is a little hardcore, but I think we could all stand to “challenge” our things, one by one, and get rid of what we don’t need.
Of course, I’m not advocating throwing all your stuff away in the trash. Gently used possessions are always welcome at Goodwill
, and for more beat up items, try offering them on Freecycle, an online collective of community-based giveaway programs. In fact, I just used Milwaukee Freecycle to give away 12 pairs of ripped jeans to a teacher who will use them for an art project.
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Ditch the gym membership… grow a garden!
It’s a shame our leaders can only tell us to “buy, buy, buy” during an economic downturn (slump, recession, whatever you want to call this). As the price of fuel and food climbs upward, they should be urging us to grow Victory Gardens, pitching in to sustain ourselves and reduce our dependence on industrial methods and foreign fuels. When economic recession coincides with a global climate crisis, it makes even more sense.
When you grow even a small portion of your own food, you reap manifold benefits. You get the satisfaction of reducing your dependence on others for your most basic needs. Vegetables are absolutely the best thing you can eat, and when you grow your own they are cheaper, fresher and tastier. You get to control what fertilizer is used (or not) to grow them, and no petroleum is required to truck them to your kitchen. You get to slow down a bit and maybe connect with your neighbor to swap surplus tomatoes or borrow a shovel. Best of all, you get to be out in the fresh air, using your muscles with a real purpose and not just completing sets of reps. It’s the perfect solution: get in shape while improving your diet.
Michael Pollan makes the point more completely in his essay, Why Bother?:
It is one of the absurdities of the modern division of labor that, having replaced physical labor with fossil fuel, we now have to burn even more fossil fuel to keep our unemployed bodies in shape [i.e., driving ourselves to the gym].
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