From temporary181 at stayfreemagazine.org Tue Oct 31 22:58:00 2006 From: temporary181 at stayfreemagazine.org (Carrie McLaren) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:58:00 -0500 Subject: Stay F---'s Broken iPod project Message-ID: A CALL TO ARTISTS - AND TO OWNERS OF BROKEN IPODS http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2006/10/ipod_broken.html Stay Free! magazine is seeking artists and (broken) ipods for an upcoming project about planned obsolescence. Why does the portable player widely considered the hallmark of savvy design typically die in little over a year? Are ipods "made to break"? Or simply, as some critics have suggested, run-of-the-mill e-waste? If you know someone who owns an iPod, chances are good that you know someone with a broken ipod. Environment groups have taken Apple to task for its dirty practices, and we'd like to join them - by making lemonade out of lemons. Here's what we're looking for: I. TURN (BROKEN) IPODS INTO ART Transform your broken ipod into something deliciously useless: finger puppet? toy car? coaster? Use your creatively to come with something beautiful, funny, or otherwise engaging. Take a photo and email it us with your contact information at temporary181 at stayfreemagazine.org. Favorite projects will be featured in Stay Free! and ultimately exhibited in New York (venue TBA). Artists unable to find a broken ipod should contact us for assistance (though, due to our limited resources, we recommend asking your peers first). Deadline: *** Friday, December 8 *** II. SEND IN YOUR BROKEN IPODS Don't have time to create something but want to help? Please donate your broken ipods to Stay Free!, a nonprofit organization. Donations are tax deductible. We'll distribute broken ipods to working local artists for this project. Address: Stay Free! 23 Hawthorne Street Brooklyn, NY 11225 (347) 715-2013 For more information about this project, visit www.ifrod.org after November 2nd. WHO WE ARE Stay Free! is a Brooklyn-based, nonprofit print magazine that explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American culture. Stay Free! is published once or twice a year, whenever circumstances warrant. For online archives and information, see http://www.stayfreemagazine.org. BACKGROUND ON THE IPOD "Good Luck with that Broken iPod" New York Times - February 4, 2006 http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/broken-ipod-new-york-times.html "Pain in the Pod" - from Chicago Tribune http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/pain-in-the-ipod.html Greenpeace's "Green My Apple" campaign http://www.greenmyapple.org/ Computer Take Back campaign http://www.computertakeback.com/bad_apple/bad_appl e_biz.cfm WHAT IS PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE? The iPod Is Bad Garbage: An interview with Giles Slade http://thetyee.ca/Books/2006/08/01/MadeToBreak Kindly forward with abandon...