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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Float


1&2: Sleep Elevations by Maia Flore
3&4: Vintage ads for the "XPAK 400"
5&6: Actual shots of a herd of black rhinos being relocated.
7&8: James and the Giant Peach, vintage paperback scan, movie still. I used to be so terrified of this movie...  
9. One of my all time favourite ad campaigns for one of my all time favourite scents, Miss Dior Cherie. 
10. Unknown 
11. Photo by Erik Johansson
12. Unknown... I stumbled upon this photo and it makes me think of The Golden Compass. I love that movie. 
13. Movie still from UP.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Bottle Lights in the Philippines

My mom emailed me this incredible video. It shows how social entrepreneurs in the Philippines have created cheap, carbon-neutral lighting for low-income homes by affixing plastic bottles in tin rooftops.  How truly simple and brilliant. Growing up in an industrialized country, technology has given us so many convenient comforts but has also made green solutions like solar energy seem foreign and complex. After seeing this, our whole process of burning fuel to make electricity to light buildings during the daytime really does seem like a silly Rube Goldberg project.