Comments on: BBC follows shipping container around the world http://boingboing.net/2008/12/02/bbc-follows-shipping.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: billtron http://boingboing.net/2008/12/02/bbc-follows-shipping.html#comment-344397 billtron Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-344397 Didn't Dick Hebdige and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts do <a href="http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu/ContainerProjects/index.html" rel="nofollow">something very similar</a> a few years ago? Didn’t Dick Hebdige and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts do something very similar a few years ago?

]]> By: jonathan_v http://boingboing.net/2008/12/02/bbc-follows-shipping.html#comment-344430 jonathan_v Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-344430 Check out "Allan Sekula" and "Fish Story" http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/mShowDetailsbycatAmazon.cfm?Catalog=PK807&i2=3933807654 parts were in the whitney biennal in the early 90s. he's a calarts professor that is obsessed with containers/ports he's the earliest artist i've known of to fixate on shipping containers Check out “Allan Sekula” and “Fish Story”

http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/mShowDetailsbycatAmazon.cfm?Catalog=PK807&i2=3933807654

parts were in the whitney biennal in the early 90s. he’s a calarts professor that is obsessed with containers/ports

he’s the earliest artist i’ve known of to fixate on shipping containers

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/02/bbc-follows-shipping.html#comment-344481 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-344481 QUICK. Someone intercept this container and fill it will radioactive holes. You know, just for fun. Are pirates involved? I'd like if there were pirates. QUICK. Someone intercept this container and fill it will radioactive holes.

You know, just for fun. Are pirates involved? I’d like if there were pirates.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/12/02/bbc-follows-shipping.html#comment-344281 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-344281 ooo! ooo! what's in the box? is it $100-dollar-bills? *runs off to reread Spook Country* ooo! ooo! what’s in the box? is it $100-dollar-bills?

*runs off to reread Spook Country*

]]> By: brainpicker http://boingboing.net/2008/12/02/bbc-follows-shipping.html#comment-344293 brainpicker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-344293 Brilliant. About time traditional media companies took on two of their biggest challenges – the power of word of mouth and the global exchange of ideas – through the dialogue appropriate for these channels. And what better way than a global guerrilla buzz effort? Brilliant. About time traditional media companies took on two of their biggest challenges – the power of word of mouth and the global exchange of ideas – through the dialogue appropriate for these channels. And what better way than a global guerrilla buzz effort?

]]> By: jburris http://boingboing.net/2008/12/02/bbc-follows-shipping.html#comment-344298 jburris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-344298 what about when the box hits a port that has one of those giant stockpiles of empty containers that no one wants to pay to ship back to china? what about when the box hits a port that has one of those giant stockpiles of empty containers that no one wants to pay to ship back to china?

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