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6 environmenTal TeChnology CATCH A GReen fliCk AT A sOlAR POweReD MOVie THeATeR By stephanie rogers | 4/26/09 | earthfirst.com tpburl.com/v4fwsx Next time you’re heading out to see the latest eco flick (hey, there’s a really Oscar-worthy looking Val Kilmer movie due sometime this year!), you could see it in a solar-powered movie theater. At least, you can if you live in Livermore, California. Livermore Cinemas has installed an 18,000 square foot solar installation that will reportedly provide 35% of the theater’s energy needs, and cut its electric bill by 45%. Alternative Consumer reports that the system will provide about 190,000 kilowatts of electricity over the course of a year, and that installation of the system isn’t expected to impact ticket prices. But even if it did – would you pay extra? I think the willingness of consumers to spend an extra fifty cents or so per ticket would encourage more theater owners across the country to install their own renewable energy systems. I’d definitely go out of my way to patronize a movie theater that cares enough to install such an impressive solar array. feaTured PhoTograPher lAuRel DAileY floatfasthummingbird.blogspot.com www.laureldailey.com right off the bat, allow me to completely alienate 75% of our readers by stating that i’m a west Coast girl, born and raised: long Beach by way of oregon. i’ll probably die out here, in keruoac’s “ragged promised land,” buried under a pile of unread books, taxidermied antlers and camera equipment. death by The Big one – an earthquake, that is. i think about earthquakes at least three times a day, but come hell or high water, i’m sticking to my guns. There’s no better place to explore wild unknowns than here: the conquered desert, embittered metropolitan constellations under a starless sky. i was raised in the wild suburbs of oregon and picked up a Pentax k1000 in high school. once i got my proverbial first taste of the stench that developer chemicals leave on your skin, i was hooked. a pile of debt and a few years of education later, i’m still shooting every day. wim wenders refers to photography as “an act in two directions.” as the shutter releases, an image is created that contains not only the subject, but also a vague shadow of the photographer. as The Printed Blog’s Photo editor, it has been my pleasure to cull the depths of the interwebs to bring you the very best acts in two directions; both the images and the artists who created them. an act of defiance in the face of a whimpering economy deserves to be applauded, and so i’m giving you a standing ovation, TPB, as well as you, the readers, who’ve made this venture a success thus far. while i’m taking my final bow as Photo editor, i’m confident that The Printed Blog will blaze right on ahead, exploring those ragged promised lands we all long for. PhoTos Janka Mudrakova | tpburl.com/tf07rj If you want to see a story go popular, choose your tweets wisely. Be a leader and be the first to tweet breaking news that will soon be heard around the world, and go on to make history. Find a story, website or resource with a funny or unique angle that no one else has spread around yet. Or, find interesting images that are sure to captivate and inspire your audience. Whatever the type of content that you choose to tweet about, just make sure that it’s so - awesome that it makes your followers feel they absolutely have to share it with their friends too, which brings us to the next point… Read more from this guide and others at guidespot.com The PrinTed Blog is PrinTed By John s. swifT Co., inC. www.JohnswifTPrinT.Com (847) 465-3300 it’s your spot in the universe The Easy Guide To Making Your Tweets Soar to Popularity By: granolajoe tpburl.com/1q35r6 Twitter is about self expression and person-to-person communication, but its power lies in its capacity as a broadcasting tool. A single tweet carrying the right message can make huge waves across the Twitterverse, and also spread to other social channels on the Web. However, just because a random tweet can go viral every once in a while, doesn't mean you can expect everyone on Twitter to go nuts about everything that you tweet. By following these easy recommendations, you can ensure that your tweets are of the highest quality and get the best shot at going popular. Make Your Tweet Count Get ReTweeted Whether you’re a user with a moderate following or a power user with many thousands of followers, your tweets depend on the community to go popular. When you get retweeted, your story is exposed to the networks of your friends, gaining more potential to go popular as more users retweet it. Not all users will be reading their timelines at once, but it increases the chance of your tweet being seen and clicked through. Keep a steady flow of high quality and interesting tweets and users will take notice. You’ll gain a reputation for making great tweets, get retweeted more often, and you’ll also gain more followers. Get Help From Your Followers and Friends In High Places You may be a user with a solid following who has no problem getting retweeted, but you would still like your content to get more traction than 6-7 retweets and a few hundred clicks. That’s where friends come into play. Don’t make it a habit, but if there is something that you are really passionate about, ask your friends for some help. Also, if you have a friend with a huge following and your tweet fits their audience, ask if they would consider a retweet. Occasionally you may get lucky and won’t even have to ask, especially if they follow you and take notice. TeCh sTRAnGelY, THe MAn in THis eleCTRifYinG PHOTO is nOT DeAD TODAY By Jack loftus | 4/19/09 | gizmodo tpburl.com/kpbz94 Meet Peter Terren. Inspired by The Thinker, he set out to recreate that classic sculpture using electricity, wire caging, a conductive foil suit, and a death wish. Can’t forget the death wish. Now, we’ve seen Terren and Tesla Down Under’s work before here at Gizmodo, most notably when he put his son in a car and zapped it with electricity. This little project, however, put him in the hot seat. Note the electricity shooting out of his sneaker. Lucky for us all, Terren meticulously documented the entire project with photos and safety-related commentary (“The wig is not ideal and really needs a haircut. I couldn’t light it with sparks so fire risk dr. peter terren seems low”). Terren also outfitted some of the tests with a pentagram boundary, which had nothing to do with Tesla coils or electricity, of course, but certainly heightened the sense of batshit insanity surrounding this little venture. quiCk BluB: sTake your soCial media name now By Jack Peterson | 4/27/09 | marketing Juice tpburl.com/7wmyqv Remember the circus of cyber squatting domain names back in the day? 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PhoTos lifesTyle Brandon Showers | tpburl.com/b5cr3p John parli | tpburl.com/v27zkb ORGAn DOnOR DOlls ARe MORe GORY THAn CuTe By simon Crisp | 4/27/09 | newslite tpburl.com/06g2rp An artist has created a set of vinyl figures which he hopes will encourage more people to donate their organs. David Foox came up with the idea for his ‘Organ Donors’ collection - dolls which have hearts, lungs, eyeballs and brains for heads - after a family member had a double lung transplant. While ‘Uncle Ken’ survived the op, David wanted to use his art to draw attention to organ donation and started work on the 24 doll collection. The £10 figures come in ‘blind boxes’ meaning the buyer does not know what they have got until they open it ... and their gory nature could leave surprised heart attack victims needing a transplant. “Human body parts are interchangeable and as much as we know about the body, there is so much more to learn,” said Foox from Denver. “It is a conceptual way of dealing with our humanity - whether physical or spiritual. It is also supposed to be a lighthearted approach to a serious, bloody, and gory issue.” He says most people have reacted positively to seeing the figures though sometimes people think they are “spooky” or “freaky.” The collection can be ordered online. PoliTiCs THe TORTuRe PATH By hunter | 4/21/09 | The daily kos tpburl.com/1yz8n6 I can only fathom that we are supposed to beg. I think we are supposed to get down on our knees, even grovel for it, and beg that our nation act in accordance with its own laws, with international laws, and with basic decency. We among the more expendable classes are supposed to write passionate editorials; we are supposed to form grass roots movements; we are supposed to make the usual dozens of phone calls, and be ashamed, and debase ourselves - and then, perhaps, if we are very lucky, and if we beg enough and with the right arguments and place enough pressure in the right, most uncomfortable spots, then our own government will relent, and our laws will be followed, and investigations conducted, and if warranted, those responsible will be prosecuted. And we will finally as a nation, at long last, reject torture in practice as well as in words. But they will not do it, unless they are bowed to it by the collective weight of their own citizens. That seems to be, still, the message: they will not acquiesce unless bludgeoned into doing it. It is ceded to us to decide if America will have the smallest shard of conscience, and once again the voices of basic decency will be cast as the unreasonable ones, the foolish ones, the troublemaking rabble pestering those that know better, and we shall have to rise above it yet another time. That is the only conclusion I can come to. It seems transparently obvious to Washington, to the Obama administration and its allies, to the Republicans and the Democrats of Congress, to all the very important people working very serious jobs, that while we can with great fanfare and self-satisfaction no longer torture prisoners in our care -- a war crime, in any context not involving ourselves -- it is far more challenging a proposition to think that we would actually take steps to enforce the myriad laws and conventions against it. And in that sense, torture by the United States of America is as good as legalized, because we have all but declared that it will never be that illegal, the kind of illegal that leads to investigations and punishment. It will merely remain a deplorable act -- a war crime, in any context not involving us doing the torture -- that we will never, ever use, except when we do, and without consequence. We will not condone it but, like in Serbia, or Guatemala, or Cambodia, or the thugs of any one of a hundred pissant groups and countries that used the practice to vicious effect, when to their advantage, we will ignore the laws, the treaties and conventions, and we will not prosecute our torturers. Or, God forbid, those that specifically ordered the practice. Or those that sought to legalize it, on pen and paper, with arguments comprehensible only to sociopaths or monsters. It apparently needs to be stated, yet again, that this is not a case of seeking vengeance. When powerful people are caught in illegal acts, it is nearly always the case that they claim prosecuting them would be “vengeance:” it never enters the minds of our leaders, whether they be in government or in business, that perhaps the law should be applied to them simply because it is the law. There always needs to be additional motive attributed; it goes nearly without saying that, without the additional motives of vengeance, or revenge, or punishment then naturally those in power are not held to the laws required of the rest of us. You know you have arrived, in America, when you can break a law at will and have the government itself argue against your prosecution on the grounds that doing so would be controversial or divisive. Whether or not any of the parties involved are actually convicted, whether even a single one of them see a day of jail time is not the question. Whether we preclude that possibility, as policy of government, is the more damaging question. For in precluding even the possibility of justice, we immunize the act, and if we immunize the act then it is not, in any meaningful sense, actually illegal. It is not about revenge: it is about demonstrating that even for the most powerful among us, even for our own government, there are laws, and they are not optional. It is about demonstrating that we are a country in which law has a substance that overrides the credentials of the person breaking it. It is the brightest shining example of what we as a nation are or are not: it is our moral measure. Knowing that torture was condoned in our names is an abominable thing. This parlor game of moving forward, not backward, of letting bygones be bygones, admitting error, and just getting the hell on with our days is just as dismal, because this, finally, internalizes the message that we citizens, our government, and other nations will take from this sorry affair, which is that while we begrudgingly acquiesce to stopping, we will, even now, refuse to recognize the act itself as truly criminal. There is absolutely no pride to be gained in no longer torturing, but blocking justice in those instances in which we have. It is no act of courage; it is no enlightened position. It is merely the easiest path, and the one followed in nearly every instance by nations proven to have committed foul acts. Sorry, but we’re not about to do anything about it. We’ll stop, but in exchange for stopping we expect the episode to be forgotten. What would count as a war crime for you other countries counts for us as an internal matter, and we consider it closed. I do not feel like begging. After years of railing against the practice (to be largely ignored, because in those days the majority of voices presumed torture to have positive effects, and therefore be justified), after years of government denial that any such thing was happening (in spite of clear and demonstrable evidence that it did), the last thing in the world that I feel like doing is once again begging, at long last, and to the supposed reasonable people that replaced the last reasonable people, that we actually follow our own goddamn laws, or treat crimes by our powerful with the same grave manner as we do crimes by anyone else in the nation. I am fucking sick of it, and I am fucking sick of hearing how we have entered a new age of enlightenment merely because we have stopped a transparently abominable practice, one that we condemn with vigor when undertaken by any other nation. I am fucking sick of myself, my compatriots and the rest of the public having to act as collective conscience for all those in power that, apparently, have long since evolved past even common sense, much less common shame. I know by tomorrow or next week I will relent, and I will start the cause anew, and I will join all the others in penning yet another fervent message explaining why, at long last -- at long fucking last -- we cannot simultaneously condemn torture and yet declare a casual, dismissive amnesty for all those that ordered it, and planned it, and justified it, and executed it, under the usual theory of the powerful that crimes by the powerful simply cannot be prosecuted lest chaos or embarrassment ensue. But for today, I can only say damn you all to hell. Damn you all for making us -- us, of all people, average citizens with no positions of power, with no power at all save whatever we can wring out of the thin air, and with nothing at stake but a sense of shared, basic, foundational morality -- yet again rail for our own country to exercise a shred of the morality, the justice, the national greatness that it professes for all to hear. I was once outraged; I was, after that, ashamed; now I am only incredulous. With every passing day my nation acts less like a guiding beacon, and more like a crook. PhoTos Johnny daigneault | tpburl.com/mhqcp2 VieWS expReSSed in Content do not neCeSSaRily ReFleCt the VieWS oF the puBliSheR oR the pRinted Blog inC. 7
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