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...same level as “gold” and “majesty.” The world only exists in “some kind” of things, indistinct and vague. Nonetheless, this unreality is finally comforting; “some kind of plastic?? is depicted as a sort of blanket. We may be surrounded by the synthetic, but in the end this artificiality can be used as something real, even useful and protecting...
...line and light drumming, singing, “Up on melancholy hill / There’s a plastic tree / Are you here with me? / Just looking out on the day / Of another dream.” Reality does not exist in this world where nature is “plastic?? and days are nothing more than “dreams.” What is tangible, however, is the meaning of human connection—“Well you can’t get what you want / But you can get me / So let?...
...Canyon Cinema collective he’s a member of) in winter. The San Francisco winter is a period of rainfall and subsequent rejuvenation—dark, confused, populous, and ready to blossom again. One of its concluding passages explores a bundle of cherry blossom stems wrapped in plastic??one moment among many where Dorsky uses unconventional angles and framing to make the banal, well, beautiful.It’s a good word for describing Dorsky’s work. Aesthetically, his passages are stunning, and their sheer beauty would risk descending into sentimentality were...
...likely upshot of banning plastic is an increase in the use of paper bags, which cost more energy to produce and take up more space than plastic. Supposedly, paper is better anyway, because it has a higher recycling rate than plastic??around 20 percent versus a rather dismal one percent. But the comparison is not entirely apt: The country currently uses only 7 billion paper sacks per year, compared to 100 billion plastic bags. And paper has an organic, green image, making its users more likely to be the recycling type. When the average consumer, no more...
...Instead, when I attempt to relay my destination, they invariably turn to me, raising their eyebrows through the standard plastic panel that encases the driver’s seat. For the first few days, I thought (or hoped) that their looks of confusion had more to do with the plastic??maybe they couldn’t hear me through its one-eighth inch thickness...