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[8 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Palermo/Sicily, Italy

Found on GCF, photo by Grace Whiteman.
Sing along “Gold (.. gold ..), always believe in your soul. You´ve got the power to know. You´re indestructable..”

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[20 Jan 2010 | No Comment | ]

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[13 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]

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[10 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Still good: A short anatomy of Monobloc repairs

In the West, 95% of broken Monoblocs end up in the trash, which isn´t the worst thing: Polypropylene is a thermoplast and can be recycled easily if the trash is properly sorted. In other regions of the world, the price of a plastic chair often equals a day´s work salary or more, and people go to great lengths trying to keep the furniture. Below a short richly illustrated look at different approaches.

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[8 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Mono on the move II

More monobloc plastic chairs in, on top or some other way fixed to various motorized vehicles..

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[4 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
Wanzhou – Three Gorges Reservoir

An image (click to enlarge) Christian Y. Schmidt took in June 2007, when he traveled from Shanghai to Kathmandu along China´s equivalent to the US Route 66 – the national road 318. In the photo the bank of the Three Gorges Reservoir in Wanzhou, a city that largely descended into the reservoir when the water level rose. In Christian´s book “Allein unter 1,3 Milliarden” he describes the place and the atmosphere half-way through the process quite poignantly.