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Ghent embarks on a radical experiment today, seeking to make every Thursday a day free of meat and of the fish and shellfish for which the city is renowned.
On the eve of what is being touted as an unprecedented exercise, the biggest queue in the Flemish university town of 200,000 yesterday was for signatures – to collect a bag of wholefood goodies and sign up for “Donderdag – Veggie Dag”, turning the burghers of Ghent into pioneers in the fight against obesity, global warming, cruelty to animals and against the myth that meat-free eating amounts to a diet of soggy lettuce, a slice of tomato, and a foul-tasting bean burger.
The city council says it is the first town in Europe and probably the western world to try to make the entire place vegetarian for a day every week. Tom Balthazar, the Labour party councillor pushing the scheme, said: “There’s nothing compulsory. We just want to be a city that promotes sustainable and healthy living.”
Every restaurant in the city is to guarantee a vegetarian dish on the menu, with some going fully vegetarian every Thursday. From September, the city’s schools are to make a meat-free meal the “default” option every Thursday, although parents can insist on meat for their children. At least one hospital wants to join in.
(via typewriterblues)
Maybe I am the last one to arrive to this party, but let me just say this: I fell in love with Sunshine Monologue (a.k.a typewriterblues). He writes these poems in a typewriter, scans them and posts them on his Tumblr. There is something quite Quixotic in the task. And delightful, oldfashioned even. He is writing a book that, by the looks of it, will be quite handicrafted and unique.
Here’s a marketing challenge: Women’s underwear in Saudi Arabia. One ad creative put forward last year by Ogilvy on behalf of Danish lingerie and swimwear brand Change poked fun at the censorship laws in the region, which results in Western magazines arriving with black felt tip marks over images considered too revealing. Using taglines such as ‘censor anything but the bikini’ and ‘edit anything but the bra’, the whole body of a model was covered up with marker pens except the hands and face. via Social Media Today. Thanks to krekat for the tip!
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Look who was interviewed here! None other than the talented Linda Boucher. It’s a good read, sheding light into the artist’s creative process.
I didn’t know what time it was, Billie Holiday.
Confidential to appliedculture:
I think I need to see photographic evidence, dearie.
Gladly, but you will need to wait until my next trip to Buenos Aires, where my mother keeps such embarrassing memorabilia (as you are well aware, I am not afraid of posting my ugly mug anyway, but those days… those days…).
Worst day had to be when a TV crew stopped me and my friends in a shopping street to film us, like some freak show that should serve as a cautionary tale to parents across the country. I thought it was no big deal, as my parents did not watch that show. Apparently other family members did. And were quick to communicate it. I was grounded for weeks.
Patricia Piccinini’s The Long Awaited. This piece is currently part of the exhibition “Madame Tussauds from Hell” in Amersfoort’s new exhibition hall “KAdE”. via.
