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Twitterers across the world colored their avatars green to show support for protesters who took to Iran's streets after the country's disputed elections earlier this year. Users of the micro-blogging site might now consider overlaying their avatars with a film of sludge brown as a mark of their spontaneous, collective action to help undermine an attempt by the international oil trader Trafigura to gag a British newspaper's reporting on a toxic-dumping case...
...calcium carbonate and other impurities from the marble. Some 100 factories in the area leave large tracts of the white stuff, which not only contaminate the air, the ground and eventually the waters, but also cause the huge areas of white to reflect the sunlight, creating their own micro-climatic-warming effect in the valleys of the Aravalli Range that form the basin of Udaipur...
...vehicle of choice for taxis, as well as the artist, who once drove the same model himself. Taken apart, the Beetle is not diminished but transformed from a functional vehicle into a creative masterpiece that forces us to simultaneously observe the world around us on both a micro and macro scale. This desire to explore the relationship between objects and ourselves is reflected again in the piece “120 Days.” After reading an article by a market analyst that partially attributed the success of Coca-Cola to the way its original glass bottles mimicked...
...Tolomeo Micro table lamp by Michele Delucchi ($295; momastore.org...
...Your Time to Work • For anyone with a jammed schedule, a new group called the Extraordinaries offers ways to devote even just a few minutes of free time to something worthwhile. Micro-volunteering opportunities abound on BeExtra.org, from using your smartphone to view and label photos (to help digitize museum archives) to snapping a picture of a local park (to help build a map of places where kids can play...