Wanted: Broken iPods

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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 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"
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...