Comments on: Available Online For Free http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/available-online-for-free/ Broken City Lab is a creative research group based out of Windsor, Ontario. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:36:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lindsay http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/available-online-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Lindsay Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:25:00 +0000 http://www.brokencitylab.org/?p=1172#comment-624 This is kind of like a project i just did for Intermedia about a month ago. I printed up labels and placed them on several items in stores simply stating, "Lindsay's Favorite!". These stickers were placed on these items from a concept I had kind of mark what I liked. I wanted to do them to c.d's in music stores originally, but it branched out to all sorts of products and books. It turned more into a tracking method of myself as a consumer, which was neat, but unintentional. I want to continue, but I think I want to hit up Cosmo magazines with labels that critisize the wild, and totaly bogus stories they publish. I like the idea of marking products, it may not throw off the groov of consumerism, but it throws a little fun in the mix. And why not? This is kind of like a project i just did for Intermedia about a month ago. I printed up labels and placed them on several items in stores simply stating, “Lindsay’s Favorite!”. These stickers were placed on these items from a concept I had kind of mark what I liked. I wanted to do them to c.d’s in music stores originally, but it branched out to all sorts of products and books. It turned more into a tracking method of myself as a consumer, which was neat, but unintentional. I want to continue, but I think I want to hit up Cosmo magazines with labels that critisize the wild, and totaly bogus stories they publish.
I like the idea of marking products, it may not throw off the groov of consumerism, but it throws a little fun in the mix. And why not?

]]> By: Carolina http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/available-online-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Carolina Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:42:59 +0000 http://www.brokencitylab.org/?p=1172#comment-610 Steven, apparently your opinion is well shared: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/19/when-media-pirates-a.html Steven, apparently your opinion is well shared:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/19/when-media-pirates-a.html

]]> By: Steven http://www.brokencitylab.org/blog/available-online-for-free/comment-page-1/#comment-602 Steven Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:33:28 +0000 http://www.brokencitylab.org/?p=1172#comment-602 And now it will be some poor kid's job to remove all of those self-aggrandizing little gems (at a whopping $7.15/hr). I didn't pay for my copy of Office, either, but is it really necessary or productive to mock those who would in sticker form? And of course those stickers went on CDs, LPs, and movies, as well—no doubt some of them independently-produced or -distributed. If I were showing in a commercial gallery and somebody came at the work with those things, I would bust out my knife and my fork, roll up my sleeves, and stone cold eat a bitch—TRUST. And now it will be some poor kid’s job to remove all of those self-aggrandizing little gems (at a whopping $7.15/hr). I didn’t pay for my copy of Office, either, but is it really necessary or productive to mock those who would in sticker form?

And of course those stickers went on CDs, LPs, and movies, as well—no doubt some of them independently-produced or -distributed.

If I were showing in a commercial gallery and somebody came at the work with those things, I would bust out my knife and my fork, roll up my sleeves, and stone cold eat a bitch—TRUST.

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