Projects tagged
Digital & Technology
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It Gets Better
Read more: It Gets BetterAfter a spate of bullying-related suicides of LGBT youth, gay columnist Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller decided to launch the It Gets Better project to see what they could do about it. They began with a simple YouTube…
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Putting a Stop to Supermodel Minnie Mouse
Read more: Putting a Stop to Supermodel Minnie MouseWhen Disney and Barneys partnered together to create a runway-ready Minnie Mouse, outrage ensued from size and body acceptance activists claiming that the new Minnie Mouse was too skinny. Ragen Chastain, a leader in the Health at Every Size movement,…
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Little Sun
Read more: Little SunOlafur Eliasson’s latest project Little Sun was first debuted at the World Economic Forum on Africa in 2012. The global initiative is bringing tiny, sunburst shaped, plastic solar powered LED lights to the most marginalized regions of the world. Elliasson…
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The Moon Project
Read more: The Moon ProjectArtists Ai Wei Wei and Olafur Eliasson have come together to collaborate on the project Moon. The Moon Project is an interactive platform that consists of an open online interface, which anyone with an internet connection can access and leave…
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Occupy West Side Story
Read more: Occupy West Side StoryIf you’re a fan of West Side Story (music by Leonard Bernstein), don’t miss this “updated” video. Absolutely first-rate! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wGZRJG4ZJE “Occupy West Side Story” takes aim at NYPD Deputy Inspector Edward J. WInski, the white-shirted bully of Occupy Wall Street,…
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Occupy Ikea: A great tactic behind a questionable cause.
Read more: Occupy Ikea: A great tactic behind a questionable cause.Woman Spent 15 Days And Nights Occupying IKEA A woman, with the help of Portuguese creative agency TBWA Lisboa, went on ‘protest’ at an IKEA store in Portugal. Called ‘Occupy IKEA’, the movement was to urge IKEA to set up…
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Nude Protests and Political Contradictions
Read more: Nude Protests and Political ContradictionsLast month Amina Tyler, a 19 year old Tunisian blogger, posted a nude photo of herself as a protest; she is now under death threat. In her defense, the Ukrainian group Femen [13] staged a global “topless jihad” [14] on…
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Anonymous in Mexico
Read more: Anonymous in MexicoThe notorious, wanted, and merciless leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico,”Jouquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was captured by Mexican Marines last month. This marked a small victory for Mexico’s fight to rid the country of its corrupted drug trade.…
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#Stripforjackie: Lebanese Olympic skier sparks social media campaign about free speech
Read more: #Stripforjackie: Lebanese Olympic skier sparks social media campaign about free speechA Lebanese Olympic skier whose topless calendar prompted calls for a ministerial inquiry has unwittingly sparked a social media campaign backing her, with supporters stripping off in solidarity. Three years ago, Jackie Chamoun posed for a calendar photo shoot. Behind-the-scenes…
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Film and Video Games: A Docugame
Read more: Film and Video Games: A DocugameFROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: ” While filming a documentary about divisive oil refinery ventures in the subzero cold of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the director David Dufresne said he wasn’t considering only pollution in that Canadian boomtown or the vast…