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 (http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2006/10/ipod_broken.html)
Stay Free! magazine (http://stayfreemagazine.org) 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 http://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 http://www.stayfreemagazine.org.
BACKGROUND ON THE IPOD
"Good Luck with that Broken iPod" (http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/broken-ipod-new-york-times.html)
New York Times - February 4, 2006
"Pain in the Pod" (http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/pain-in-the-ipod.html) - from Chicago Tribune
Greenpeace's "Green My Apple" campaign (http://www.greenmyapple.org/)
Computer Take Back campaign (http://www.computertakeback.com/bad_apple/bad_apple_biz.cfm)
WHAT IS PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE?
The iPod Is Bad Garbage: An interview with Giles Slade (http://thetyee.ca/Books/2006/08/01/MadeToBreak)
Kindly forward with abandon...