Baggu

As a self-proclaimed plastic bag hater I always try my darndest to avoid the suckers when I go shopping, even if if means stuffing my purse full of groceries (pocket cheese!) or carrying everything by hand. I try to reuse plastic bags by leaving them in my purse but I never remember to put them back in after I've used them and those reusable bags you get at the grocery store are far too bulky. All that to say I'm pretty excited about the Baggu.


These reusable shopping bags are made from extremely tear-resistant rip-stop nylon, they're super light, they can hold up to 25 lbs of weight and they come in a handy dandy little pouch which means I'm likely to have one on me at all times. I just ordered some. And for some reason I think I'm far more excited than I should be for someone who just paid for bags. Waste of money? Maybe, but I think that money could have been wasted on far worse things, right?


Via Notcot.

You Are Wasteful

Running the Numbers is a great photo series feature in The Morning News by photographer-cum-anti-mass-consumption-activist Chris Jordan. Jordan attempts to capture the reality of American mass consumption by creating visual expressions of statistics. He hopes that seeing the cumulative effect of each individual’s actions will shock people out of complacency. So I’m doing my part by passing on the message. What are you doing about it, huh? Huh?


Depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the U.S. every 30 seconds.


Depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the U.S. every five seconds.

Via BoingBoing.

Little Miss, Little Miss, Little Miss Can't Be Ugly

According to his website, Alain Delorme is a French photographer of a new school of artists that use “the computing tool for the ends of mutation and hybridization of bodies.” Man, I gotta get me one them computing tools! His newest series of photographs, Little Dolls, is meant to be a scathing criticism of Western (particularly American) stereotypes of female beauty. The main subjects of Delorme’s criticism seem to be young girls’ beauty pageants and Barbie. So he grabbed a bunch of little girls (well he probably didn’t just grab them off the street or anything like that. I mean, I’m pretty sure he held like auditions and stuff. Don’t go spreading any rumors now), dressed them up, painted their faces all pretty (read: creepy)-like sat them down in front of various baked goods and snapped photos of them which he then proceeded to “mutate” and “hybridize” with his fancy “computing tool”. The result is this:


Which totally reminds me of those terrifying little girls from the beauty pageant in Little Miss Sunshine, non?