2011

Patagonia

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2011, Back Issues
Set amid glorious panoramic landscapes – the verdant Welsh hills and the golden wilderness of Patagonia – at the southernmost tip of Argentina, the film acknowledges aspirations of an earlier…

Reducing Landfill With Spencer Brown

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2011, Back Issues
‘I’d like to buy your trash.’ That request earned Spencer Brown, a product designer and founder of Rent-a-Green Box, plenty of sceptical looks when he stepped onto a southern Californian…
Vincent Leguay

Blue Sky Thinking

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2011, Back Issues
Sublime: Do you think it’s inevitable that we would be heading towards a climatic catastrophe, with key movements such as the industrial and scientific revolutions shaping the way we live?…

Out In The Open

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2011, Back Issues
We’ve just begun the interview, and American artist Spencer Tunick receives a call from his wife. She asks him to read the grocery list: eggs for the two children, waffles,…

Clothed In Purity

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2011, Back Issues
Gearing up to showcase this year’s Autumn/Winter collections, New York, London, Milan and Paris were hotspots for the most outlandish, head-turning outfits – and that was just the press. But…

Hold That Horse

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2011, Back Issues

Here is a naked truth, as many neuroscientists see it, based on their recent research into how the human mind works both individually and collectively. Groups of humans sink too easily into dysfunctional ‘groupthink’, wherein some of us become so blind to rational argument that evidence, even if irrefutable, can actually drive us deeper into our own particular belief system.

Waste Land

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2011, Back Issues
Long camera shots give a unique perspective of the vast scale of this colourful moving mountain of refuse, and the ant-like industry of the numerous catadores that live off its…