November 28, 2008

Seth Price art work
In , artist Seth Price's new book from Leopard Press, reams of information on how to leave your life and escape into the vast cloud of America is culled from Internet sites aimed at helping everyone from abused spouses to off-the-grid hippies. Price happens to be neither, but is a brilliant manipulator and re-brander of mass production. His work is as much about getting found as it is about getting lost. His new book is not be confused with . Reena Spaulings talks with the New York artist.
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November 28, 2008

Hannah:her hands are clean “I can't stand the word "green,” says actress and biofuel campaigner Daryl Hannah. And she's not the only one. All over the environmental movement we' re sick of Greenwash, and we're not going to take it any more.
“It's become a pedantic, smug, judgmental word that is unrelated to the rest of one's life,” she tells The Guardian newspaper. The word ‘green’ “is being so overused as a marketing tool that it has no credibility,” says Hannah.
She is right, of course. Advertising people love the word Green – they have rendered it almost meaningless – reduced it to a mix of lifestyle choices, expensive organic whimsies, unaffordable building codes and ridiculous gadgets such as an over-designed composter for your marble kitchen counter-top.
Their shade of Green is the color of Astroturf – synthetic, ugly and potentially damaging.
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