Some time ago I decided to obtain a safety razor. For me the easiest way to buy it was online. So I chose a simple one with bamboo handle.
There are many advantages of switching to a safety razor:
It’s traditional and enjoyable.
It’sbetter shaving than while using disposable razor, also safety razor reduces skin irritation and ingrown hairs.
It’sless expensive. Disposable razor cost 1 to even 5$. I bought my safety razor with about 21$ and razors are really chip and fully recyclable. It’s very good way to save money.
I enjoy shaving with safety razor because of the attention I’m paying to it. It demands focus so it helps not to think about anything else. I’m taking careof myself and relaxing at the same time.
I’ve always had a problem with cutting myself while shaving, now while using safety razor I rarely do it.
Furthermoredisposable razors are not recyclable. According to the EPA 2 billions of them end up in landfills every year. Terrible, right?
To be honest I was surprised how easy is the safety razor in use and in fact it’s a lot easier to use that kind of razor. I was also impressed with that feeling after shaving when my skin felt smoother and softer than while using disposable razors!
I highly recommend it to people who don’t want to give up shaving but want to be more eco friendly.
By the way from my point of view it’s also a very good gift idea!
This is the waste I created using a safety razor for 14 months. Eight recyclable blades instead of about 30 disposable razors ;)
And I haven’t change my mind about that topic - I absolutely love my razor ;) Seriously, using it is easier than it seems!
What about you? Do you own a safety razor or look forward to obtain it? ;)
It has been argued by many that one of the great crimes of our times isn’t the product of action, but of passivity. It is undeniable that every waking moment of our lives we are constantly making decisions to do or not do things. Most of these decisions are so small and inconsequential that we aren’t even conscious of making them. However, the realities in the world beyond our decisions are often…
Def: transfiguration a : a change in form or appearance: metamorphosis b : an exalting, glorifying, or spiritual change
In response to the theme of ‘Alchemy’ Woolston presents an installation that places an image of her Orthodox Jewish immigrant great grandparents next to one of Latin Americas largest landfills, skeletal red stag jawbones next to an inter-generationally inherited collection of liqueurs. This is a space of allegory and memento mori, of waste piled high outside a favela and abundant flowers surrounding a cemetery.
‘Robyn Woolston’s work provides the personal linear narrative, but uses internationally significant histories to support it.’
Patrick Kirk-Smith / Art in Liverpool
In the spirit of ‘turning base metal into gold’ the work situates our rites of passage at the centre of a transfigurative narrative.
“By the middle of this century, the amount of plastic items in our oceans will be greater than the number of fish.” Just released a new video that dives into the reasons and impacts of our endless need to consume more:
By now you’ve all seen in one city or another bike sharing programs usually sponsored by banks, or new startups creating two-wheel fleets trying to curb car traffic. It’s a very interesting idea that has made its way around the globe landing in many large cities across countries.
Pilot projects begun very well and pushed their way through their following phases introducing more bikes and moving onto other cities. Riding around downtown has become one of my favorite traveling methods, especially between spring through the fall, where you get to experience the city under a different lens.
It took me a good ten seconds to realize these are not flowers, but an endless stack of abandoned bikes.
Unfortunately there have been some major side-effects where users picking up bike wouldn’t return them from their starting rack. Some were found abandoned inside water canals, other in landfills, other stolen. This is the case of Chinese companies oversupplying the market despite the increase activity of bike sharing.
Bluegogo was the 3rd largest company providing this service but has shut its doors after running out of money, so the rival brand Didi acquired it and absorbed the fleet. Now large cities in China are experiencing a flooding of bikes that have no place to go but the landfill.
China’s emancipation begun with the bike and ended with the bike. You can’t teach old dog new tricks.
Some experts are worried we are incurring a bubble in terms of bike apps and startups, and it’s not even a confined issue in Asia anymore, Europe has its own programs and will likely face the same problems. It may be more a matter of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’.
The shared economy we just entered has showed us all the goodies, but now what it’s surfacing are the aftermath of business who expanded too fast and contracted even faster, leaving behind the unwanted spoils of war cities haven’t had the time to realize it already happened.
Perhaps we ought to go back riding horses since they are living creatures that need to be taken care of, also because without the attention they won’t properly function and cannot be tossed in a ditch when we don’t need them anymore.
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Planet Triage is a projection mapping installation made at the Wageningen University artist in residency program in conjunction with the 100 year anniversary celebration. The artist in residency program sought to facilitate an exchange of ideas between artists and scientists in order to spur creative thinking about scientific issues. Planet Triage, both a place and an action, visualizes the results of this collaboration. Using computer generated imagery, projection, and sculpture, Planet Triage creates a space for dialog between the artist and scientists about hypothetical, radical ways to counteract the impacts of climate change. By depicting these fantastic ideas as if they are already reality (via fictional news broadcasts and commercials), Planet Triage encourages the viewer to think beyond traditional answers and instead venture towards the surreal or absurd.
