A real turn-off

It's the little things that count.. especially if millions of people do it.

Terrible Beauty

I am often inspired by "terrible beauty": a violent thunderstorm with dramatic green and black skies; or a moment of sanity surrounded by utter chaos. Chris Jordan uses terrible fact to create a powerful visual statement. Art is power.

Valve Caps, 2006
Chris Jordan
10x25 feet in five vertical panels

Depicts 3.6 million tire valve caps, one for each new SUV sold in the US in 2004.

actual size:

Earth Hour 2008

March 28, 2008, 8pm.
Switch off your lights for an hour and help save the planet. Sign up to support this great incentive and be a part of a great community-based action.

Ms Suzuki, why didn't we listen?

THis is fairly long, but what she has to say is profound for a 12 year-old. This speech would have the same impact today, with the same problems seemingly even larger. We need to find some way to deal with our society's greed, to re-establish community and find touch with our empathy again. We need to alter western society's structure, so that fiscal wealth is not our sole vision of happiness (a vision ably provided by the advertising world), but that happiness can be found through community, love and fairness.
Should we aim to alter society's structure from the top, or the bottom? How do we get to where we all, deep down, want to be? Where on earth do I start?

I freakin LOVE bamboo

I love Bamboo. Seriously. It even sounds cool when you say it. BamBOO! BAM!boo. Awesome.
My favourite floors are made from bamboo, it looks absolutely gorgeous, and is so damn sturdy. My ma has the most excellent chopping board made from it. Some of my fellow queenslanders are making beautiful furniture from it (http://www.wambamboo.com.au). It makes great paper, and now one of my friends tells me she has a bamboo cotton jumper! BAMBOO COTTON!

It makes me wonder why we chop down gorgeous, mature trees when we can use this totally renewable stuff. It grows like crazy. It's beautiful. Vive la Bamboo.