Posted on June 27, 2008 by safeliving
Next month during the Designing Safe Living conference in Lancaster, director Lynn Hershman-Leeson’s film about the artist Steve Kurtz called ‘Strange Culture’ will be screened on Friday, July 11th. Lynn will then be giving an interview live on Second Life after the screening.
Strange Culture examines the case of artist and professor Steve [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by safeliving
Eco coffins are made from environmentally sound plain cardboard (they can be customised too) to cater for a non wasteful funeral and your last dying wish.
Reflecting a worldwide trend towards environmentally friendly burials, eco burial sites are popping up all over Australia. Relatives and friends will require a satellite navigation device to find graves [...]
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La Boucherie’s most popular dish: The MRI steak.
The Chef at La Boucherie select the most beautiful anatomy from the original animal with which to work.
An image showing the process of production. A mould is made and different meat cultures sampled from various location on the master animal are grown inside, to form MRI steak.
An example [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2008 by safeliving
Posted on June 9, 2008 by safeliving
Just 5 minutes from where I live is a ghost bike: a painted white bicycle that has been locked to a fence to act as a memorial to a recent bike fatality in the area. I ride past it every day and every time I see it I am extremely aware of how easy [...]
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Posted on June 4, 2008 by safeliving
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