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No (Luxury) Logo
When I saw a video of designer Tom Ford saying last week that he doesn’t have a logo in his menswear collection, it reminded me of Naomi Klein’s book No Logo. That might seem like a weird connection to make between an ex Gucci luxury designer and a famed anti-capitalist. In that book Klein wasn’t Read more
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Gyva Lithuania
“Gyva Lithuania” Land of water and wood, of witches and whiteness, ancients and patience. Flat lands of high hopes, dreams and screams, in creation. The raw heart of Europe, Gyva Lithuania. Jem Bendell, Vilnius, August 22nd, 2007 Authors notes: After a week in Lithuania, part business, part pleasure, part personal exploration, I wanted to capture Read more
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BBC Airbus-ting
Most days I look at the BBC website. This week I found theyve started carrying advertising. But not any old advertising… no less than adverts saying that flying Airbus is the greener thing to do. See the screen shot below at the foot of this posting. The inaugural flight was from Singapore to Sydney. I Read more
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Total Woman
I read that authorities in the canton of Glarus, here in Switzerland, where the woman known as ‘Europe’s Last Witch’ Anna Goldi was beheaded back in 1782, rejected a motion to clear the woman’s name but has instead ordered an official study into the life of Ms Goldi, to determine, scientifically, if she was indeed Read more
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On Bumble Bees and Brahmins
You may have heard that the bumble bee is in trouble. That the buzz from these servants of life is growing quieter in many parts of Europe and the US. I read that the populations are collapsing. In November last year, the New York Times helped bring attention to what researchers are calling “colony collapse Read more
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The Law of Distraction
Heard about the Secret? I watched the DVD at a meeting of a ‘book club’ in Geneva. After an hour I started to get a bit uncomfortable… and as others got excited about it, I wondered how much of a party pooper I was going to be. Something just felt really wrong about this DVD… Read more
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