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A New Zealand PSA of Unusual Rhetorical Power
Wow. This works on so many levels. It humanizes the strangers to one another; it points up our liabilities to impatience and misjudgments of risk and distance; and it vividly dramatizes the consequences of casual bad habits, distraction, and inattention. A … Continue reading
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Tagged ads, behavior, cars, crashes, drama, existentialism, Greek tragedy, new zealand, psychology
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Thoreau Cabins on Wheels: The Fiat 500 Series and The Spark
I am soooo in love with the Fiat 500 series microcars, and am tempted to buy one whenever I see them on the road (which is frequently; microcars are everywhere in California). But I already have a small car and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, cars, ecology, Fiat, gas prices, life, thoreau
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Wear Your Seat Belt
An amazing ad that is very near to art: Okay, it is art.
Going Green by Driving Your Car?
Are human carbon emissions actually greening the Earth? According to the UK’s Independent, a new study says that trees today are growing faster in Maryland than they did 225 years ago (the oldest trees in the study), and the researchers attribute … Continue reading
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Tagged autos, cars, climate change, earth, ecology, gaia, green, greenhouse gas, maryland, nature, thoreau
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The Post Carbon Institute’s Richard Heinberg on Peak Oil
Richard Heinberg’s talk on peak oil is very good. Here’s part 1 of 5: And here’s part 2 of 5:
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Tagged America, autos, cars, ecology, economy, George Bush, oil, Peak Oil, Post Carbon Institute, Saudi Arabia, the environment
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To See a World in a Grain of Sand
And an instrument in a Jeep:
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Tagged art, cars, creativity, drumming, harmony, life, music, thinking out of the box, trucks, William Blake
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Peak Oil?
The Guardian today appears to have a big news scoop: The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, cars, ecology, economy, energy, environment, gas prices, inflation, oil, Peak Oil, recession, wall street
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Irony Watch
James Dean cautions against unsafe driving: Until watching this video, I hadn’t registered how closely Brad Pitt channels James Dean.
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Tagged brad pitt, cars, death at a young age, driving, hollywood, irony, james dean, safety
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In the California Summer, Van Gogh Meets General Motors
On an evening walk with my camara I saw a vintage, baby blue truck with a baby blue “Starry Night” sunscreen. It’s an odd combination: high art mass produced for casual visual consumption, and perhaps purchased at a museum store, contrasted … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Apollonian, art, baby blue, California, calm, camara, capitalism, cars, classic cars, Detroit, Dionysian, Dionysus, Enkidu, General Motors, Gilgamesh, high art, Jacob, Jacob wrestling the angel, mass production, meditation, meditator, night, nostalgia, religion, Starry Night, trucks, Van Gogh, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh, yoga
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