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The Loveliest

The woman 
with a 
double chin 
and fat fingers
around plastic bags 
plops down 
in the seat
across the aisle 
and blocks 
my view of the
goddess 
whose magazine 
is filled with 
clothes
she'd fill out 
quite nicely.

The pretty 
and the ugly 
sit side by side
and I wonder 
who is 
the loveliest 
in God's eyes.

February 22, 2002

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

Dustbuster. Black & Decker, 1983
.
#VintageAdvertising #1980sDesign #BlackAndDecker #Dustbuster #Appliances #Advertisement #IndustrialDesign #HouseholdTechnology #ConsumerCulture #retro #Vintage

Reduce, #Recycle, Reuse! What do you have that could be sold, donated or fixed before you replace?

Clever high school student reveals lucrative side hustle: 'The government really does throw away gold' https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/clever-high-school-student-reveals-063000606.html

#waste #trash #consumerculture #upgrades #moneytips

Sale at Brown Thomas

The January sales in Brown Thomas attract many but the shop is a good place to meet someone as I presume this gentleman was, back in 2016.

#BrownThomas #BrownThomasCork #BrownThomasSale #candidPhotography #ChristmasShopping #consumerCulture #contemporaryIreland #CorkCity #CorkCityCentre #CorkStreetScene #fashionAdvertising #IrishShopping #retailPhotography #socialCommentary #StreetPhotography #urbanPhotography

Reality Meets Advertisement

People walking along a corridor in a shopping mall in Birmingham, England. 2022.

#Advertising #Birmingham #BirminghamCityCentre #BlackAndWhite #blackAndWhitePhotography #candidPhotography #consumerCulture #contemporaryLife #England #mallPhotography #modernRetail #Photo #retailSpace #shoppingCentre #shoppingCulture #StreetPhotography #UnitedKingdom #urbanPhotography

😱 Shocking revelation: #Apple hasn't incinerated the Holy Gospel according to Jobs! Relax, fanboys! 🍏 The #iPad is still an oversized iPhone that no one can figure out why they bought. 🤷‍♂️ Keep dreaming of a "computer-like" future while Apple collects your $$$ for fancy window dressing. 🤑
https://victorwynne.com/vision-for-ipad/ #Revelation #Fanboys #TechCritique #ConsumerCulture #HackerNews #ngated

The #Genocide in #Gaza may be a problem for the news and entertainment industries, even #ConsumerCulture.

To the extent that the slaughter becomes something that #Consumers recognise their own complicity in via their governments, the glamour and success of #Consumption is lessened, tarnished by the knowledge of children being killed when consumption is happening.

#ProSportAndGenocide?

And today western civilzation and the cultures within it look to be #Betrayal.

From #Gaza to #DomesticViolence, from #FreeSpeechAbsolutists & #BodilyAutonomyAbsolutists through to #ConsumerCulture and the #MajorReligions, #Capitalism and #Poverty it's betrayal and more betrayal.

And not surprisingly betrayal is today brutally obvious in interpersonal relationships as well.

Options: Harden up, soften, go it alone, seek out more honesty and responsibility, give up, ... ?

How do you do it?

A social & cultural #history of consumerism in 20 c Britain, Ben Highmore's "Lifestyle Revolution" tracks changes of taste & how they influenced the British class system, from #cookbooks #ads & TV shows to shops like Habitat

#CulturalStudies #BritishStudies #ConsumerCulture

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1837638330

Learning is increasingly positioned as a lifelong, lifewide activity, harmonized across formal & informal spaces. It's becoming a lifestyle choice, often commodified, where consuming equals learning. #LifelongLearning #ConsumerCulture

Faces glow with screens,
silent hands reach for more, yet
hearts remain untouched.

@consciousliving
@haiku

#DigitalIsolation #SelfishConsumption #LostConnections #ModernLoneliness #ScreenAddiction #ConsumerCulture #DisconnectedSociety #EmptyHandsFull

@PeterRu #ConsumerCulture does not want to hear this; they rather believe the fairy tale about #GreenEnergy and #AI combined could save the planet. Truth is, they will kill ever more of it.

💰✨ Watch Generation Wealth by #LaureenGreenfield A powerful exploration of our obsession with money and the cost of the American Dream. 📉 It's a must-see for anyone questioning the true value of wealth! #GenerationWealth #Documentary #ConsumerCulture #Wealth #LaurenGreenfield 🎥🌍

⭐https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5268348/

🍅https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/generation_wealth

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfC1AVhfb8

#movierecommendation 🍿

🔍 Commodity fetishism: We create things, but their value seems detached from our labor 🤔 Products shape our reality & desires, not vice versa 🌀 The irony? Non-material entities (commodities) transform social consciousness 🧠💫 Marketing exploits this brilliantly 📈 #MarxistTheory #ConsumerCulture #CommodityFetishism

"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it's hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in a trap of overconsumption, which is as destructive to ourselves as to those we consume."
Robin Wall Kimmerer

#consumerCulture #climatechange #environment

If casual fly tipping is any indication the single biggest "This hideous item has no place in my life now" must be the AV TV stand. Is it fashion or does everyone just nail their TV to the wall now? #TV #FlyTipping #ConsumerCulture #Waste