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djxradtke:

guttur:

Hearing Aid Ear Plugs Concept by designaffairs

Rising self-confidence is taking prostheses to another level. People don’t try to hide their handicap anymore.Show what you‘ve got, don’t make a fuzz about your problem. Wear your hearing aid like a piece of jewelry, a stylish accessory. Be individual, be cool, be yourself.

Hearing aid is made for customers with a medium level of hearing disability. In case of a severe hearing damage one could order the PLUG which contents a more powerful system.

This is nuts

dynamicafrica:

Born Thomas Baptiste Morello in Harlem, New York, the US Grammy Award-winning guitarist of bands such as Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, is a relation of the first elected president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.

Kenyatta is Morello’s paternal great-uncle.

Morello’s parents, Ngethe Njoroge and Mary Morello - an Irish-Italian American, met at a pro-democracy protest in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1963. Njoroge was an active participant in the Mau Mau Uprising, and also served as Kenya’s first ambassador to the United Nations.

Upon discovering her pregnancy that same year, Morello’s mother returned to the US in November with Njoroge and they soon married in New York City. However, 16 months after his birth, Morello’s father denied the paternity of his son and soon returned to Kenya.

As a result, Morello was raised in a single-parent household in Libertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Interesting. Going to see if there are any other sources on this.

andrewfm:

Here are three maps depicting the “Advertising and Street Trade Restrictions venue restriction zone” to be set up in London during the 2012 Olympic Games. From Kosmograd:

Within this area… no advertising for brands designated as competing with those of the official Olympic sponsors will be allowed. This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing clothing prominently displaying competing brands, or from entering the exclusion zone with unofficial snack and beverage choices. Within the Zone, the world’s biggest McDonald’s will be the only branded food outlet, and Visa will be the only payment card accepted.

The increased presence of the security state in England here dovetails with business influence to carve out a new corporate geography for the purposes of marketing. This spatial strategy is a neoliberal twist on the historic creation of colonial states administrated by businesses (consider the historic case of Rhodesia). Of course, police measures designed to restrict one form of personal expression can also just as easily restrict others, so it would hardly be surprising to see anti-corporate clothing forbidden in a similar manner to wearing the wrong brand’s clothing. Nevertheless, it seems to be an ironic twist that wearing corporate, rather than political, imagery and messaging is the expressly forbidden and subversive act within these exclusion zones.

It is through this neocolonialism at the urban scale that we see, utterly exposed, the political nature of economic practice. Corporations compete for spatial monopolies through reconfigured property arrangements, both with and without the help of the state, with purportedly fundamental liberal rights trampled on in the process.

Beeeeautiful maps. The detail! Too bad their purpose is for evil schemes. Never heard of the terms “corporate geography” or “spatial monopolies” before.