Loosely Assembled

Amnesty International’s new skateboard and clothing brand. http://www.activist.no

(Via The Inspiration Room Daily.)

While on the topic of trash, seems like a good time to link to the Story of Stuff, a clear, straightforward, powerful video about our consumer culture and it’s implications.

It might be worth watching this on a regular basis, every sunday morning?

Joe H. using his paraSITE shelter in February 2000. Joe is a homeless man who lived on the streets near Battery Park City in Manhattan. In the 1970s, he became a contractor and was responsible for building over fifteen buildings in Brooklyn. He was diagnosed with cancer in the 1980s after being exposed to Agent Orange while serving in the Air Force in Vietnam. After forty-seven different operations to treat the cancer, the Veteran’s Association of America ceased paying his medical bills and he went bankrupt.

(Via Michael Rakowitz – ParaSITE.)