Wanted: Broken iPods
Posted by ugarte
Wanted: Broken iPods
Posted by: ugarte (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: November 01, 2006 01:13AM
My wife and I are embarking on an enviromental awareness project regarding the iPod. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Details below
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A CALL TO ARTISTS - AND TO OWNERS OF BROKEN IPODS
Stay Free! magazine is seeking artists and (broken) ipods for an upcoming project about planned obsolescence. Why does the portable player widely considered the hallmark of savvy design typically die in little over a year? Are ipods "made to break"? Or simply, as some critics have suggested, run-of-the-mill e-waste?
If you know someone who owns an iPod, chances are good that you know someone with a broken ipod. Environment groups have taken Apple to task for its dirty practices, and we'd like to join them - by making lemonade out of lemons.
Here's what we're looking for:
I. TURN (BROKEN) IPODS INTO ART
Transform your broken ipod into something deliciously useless: finger puppet? toy car? coaster? Use your creatively to come with something beautiful, funny, or otherwise engaging. Take a photo and email it us with your contact information at temporary181@stayfreemagazine.org. Favorite projects will be featured in Stay Free! and ultimately exhibited in New York (venue TBA).
Artists unable to find a broken ipod should contact us for assistance (though, due to our limited resources, we recommend asking your peers first).
Deadline: *** Friday, December 8 ***
II. SEND IN YOUR BROKEN IPODS
Don't have time to create something but want to help? Please donate your broken ipods to Stay Free!, a nonprofit organization. Donations are tax deductible. We'll distribute broken ipods to working local artists for this project.
Address:
Stay Free!
23 Hawthorne Street
Brooklyn, NY 11225
For more information about this project, visit [www.iFrod.org].
WHO WE ARE
Stay Free! is a Brooklyn-based, nonprofit print magazine that explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American culture. Stay Free! is published once or twice a year, whenever circumstances warrant. For online archives and information, see [www.stayfreemagazine.org].
BACKGROUND ON THE IPOD
"Good Luck with that Broken iPod"
New York Times - February 4, 2006
"Pain in the Pod" - from Chicago Tribune
Greenpeace's "Green My Apple" campaign
Computer Take Back campaign
WHAT IS PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE?
The iPod Is Bad Garbage: An interview with Giles Slade
Kindly forward with abandon...
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A CALL TO ARTISTS - AND TO OWNERS OF BROKEN IPODS
Stay Free! magazine is seeking artists and (broken) ipods for an upcoming project about planned obsolescence. Why does the portable player widely considered the hallmark of savvy design typically die in little over a year? Are ipods "made to break"? Or simply, as some critics have suggested, run-of-the-mill e-waste?
If you know someone who owns an iPod, chances are good that you know someone with a broken ipod. Environment groups have taken Apple to task for its dirty practices, and we'd like to join them - by making lemonade out of lemons.
Here's what we're looking for:
I. TURN (BROKEN) IPODS INTO ART
Transform your broken ipod into something deliciously useless: finger puppet? toy car? coaster? Use your creatively to come with something beautiful, funny, or otherwise engaging. Take a photo and email it us with your contact information at temporary181@stayfreemagazine.org. Favorite projects will be featured in Stay Free! and ultimately exhibited in New York (venue TBA).
Artists unable to find a broken ipod should contact us for assistance (though, due to our limited resources, we recommend asking your peers first).
Deadline: *** Friday, December 8 ***
II. SEND IN YOUR BROKEN IPODS
Don't have time to create something but want to help? Please donate your broken ipods to Stay Free!, a nonprofit organization. Donations are tax deductible. We'll distribute broken ipods to working local artists for this project.
Address:
Stay Free!
23 Hawthorne Street
Brooklyn, NY 11225
For more information about this project, visit [www.iFrod.org].
WHO WE ARE
Stay Free! is a Brooklyn-based, nonprofit print magazine that explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American culture. Stay Free! is published once or twice a year, whenever circumstances warrant. For online archives and information, see [www.stayfreemagazine.org].
BACKGROUND ON THE IPOD
"Good Luck with that Broken iPod"
New York Times - February 4, 2006
"Pain in the Pod" - from Chicago Tribune
Greenpeace's "Green My Apple" campaign
Computer Take Back campaign
WHAT IS PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE?
The iPod Is Bad Garbage: An interview with Giles Slade
Kindly forward with abandon...
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