Archive for June, 2007
June 12, 2007
Most of Africa has no garbage collection, so people leave their garbage exactly where they are finished using it. Village roads are lined with plastic bags and bottles, streams are plugged up with people’s unwanted items. Seeing the garbage blowing in the wind, getting caught up on trees, and floating in the puddles makes me [...]

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Time Magazine’s recent photo essay, “What The World Eats,” documents grocery purchases in 15 different homes around the globe. All the photographs taken are from Peter Menzel’s Hungry Planet. With families in the US to families in Africa, “What The World Eats” is an eye opening illustration of the relationship between location, food and [...]

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June 8, 2007
In response to the barrage of low quality, poorly designed and highly un-original sneaker collabos comes The Ten Sneaker Collaboration Commandments from Sneaker Freaker.
In the words of Gary Warnett, ” Collaborations. Everyone’s at it – stores, brands, websites, blogs, magazines, toy companies, musicians and pretty much anyone who wants to get involved. The more the [...]

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June 6, 2007
I was really shocked to find out that the Japanese sex doll industry - independent from other forms of pornography - generates hundreds of millions in revenues per year. For many entrepreneurs, this unique obsession with fake pussy has led to a series of highly successful spin-off industries.
Take La-La’s for example, a brothel that rents [...]

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June 5, 2007
Sean Beolchini and the Beckerman brothers, the creators of Italy’s Pig Magazine, are the latest to reproduce the classic Ray Ban Wayfarer and call it their own.
The first and only design from the new line of shades, Retrosuperfuture, is the Super Retro (above) quoted by Caliroots as: “inspired from the classic Wayfarer.” In terms of [...]

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June 4, 2007
The Summer of Love was more about a state of mind than a period of time. Considered by many as one of the most epic moments of the 1960’s, young people from across the U.S. congregated in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood and took a stand against all that was considered wrong with mainstream America.
For the [...]

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