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Orbital - The Box

The lethargic state of being in this Orbital videoclip reminds me about Oliver Sacks, Awakenings.

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We just got back from a very good Bonobo Live perfomance (+band). In 2005 Bonobo released a six track EP with live sessions. One of those recordings - Nothing Owed, my favorite track of 2005 - was at that time available as free download.

http://www.scissorkick.com/blog/music/bonobo_nothingowed.mp3

[audio:http://www.scissorkick.com/blog/music/bonobo_nothingowed.mp3]

update: More photos by Skoop

A NY Times magazine must read about the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota. Using research, focus groups, smart long-term thinking and user friendly/centered design Toyota will soon be the largest car company.

[...] Toyota spends $20 million a day, Jim Press told me, on research and factories. “They are outspending G.M. in R.&D., product development and capital spending,” says Sean McAlinden, an economist at the Center for Automotive Research, a not-for-profit consulting firm in Ann Arbor. “If that trend continues, we’re dead. The problem is, suppose we made a car” as good as a Toyota. “Then we only have a car as good as they do. It’s not just about catching up, or getting into the game. You’ve got to get ahead somehow. But how?” [...]

Prefuse 73 - The End of Biters

Yesterday Stewart Elliott reported Volkswagen withdraws an ad because it involves a suicide attempt and thus organizations complained. The weird thing is you can’t withdraw a commercial anymore. You can stop buying airtime for it, but data never dies. Once the clip is out a newsmessage like this could make it an instant YouTube-hit. In this case I think the commercial is boring and will go silently.

What is more interesting is how Volkswagen is marketing cars. It looks like they go back to the roots. A good low priced car affordable for everyone. View the complete serie of ads (3) @ Adgoodness.

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link to the video (the pixels you are looking at is a deer)

We are regular beach visitors (it is just a few miles away). We are used to a certain amount of junk on the beach. Maybe it was because of the wind, but yesterday the amount of trash was overwhelming. The beach had a long line of trash with the length of a few miles.

I like plastics (my jacket, kite, sunglasses all plastic), I think most of western wealth and our current state of living is related to the invention of plastics. I also think new plastics produced from renewable energy sources like corn, etc. will eventually have the same qualities as oil based plastics.

Everything that is waste is useless and costs money, why make things you don’t use? It is commercially interesting to reduce or stop to produce waste materials. (Dutch/English documentary: waste equals food)

What really bothers me are the people that just dump trash/plastics everywhere. My parents would have kicked my ass if I even dropped the smallest paper somewhere - and parents should. I can’t understand that people think it is normal to throw your trash on the street, beach, forest, sea, e.d..

Here are af few pictures of the junk found on the beach, more on Flickr. In Spain they use this great ad to get attention for sea junk.

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