Shots fired at fast fashion; Skwirl!; How Things Are Made
3 Things this week and a poem
Thanks for spending part of your weekend with Things I Wrote Down.
Schools out, summer's here, and a long weekend is upon us. I hope you enjoy Canada Day or the 4th of July if you're flag has the maple leaf or the stars and stripes, respectively.
Here's this week's link round up and a poem.
Shots fired at fast fashion
What’s the rule? You see it on Instagram, it was viral last week on Tik Tok? Based on that math, if you see it on LinkedIn, it was relevant a few months ago?
The numbers pan out, since this critique of fast fashion hit my LI feed this week and stopped me. The AI-generated image was created by Emanuele Morelli and levelled at Shein to “expose the darker side of our obsession with disposable trends.”
I love this type of provocative art. It reminds me of the Adbusters ad my friend Joel saw years ago that launched Unveil’s first film, E for Everyone: The Mouse and the Elephant.
Don’t pull the punches.
Skwirl!
A dear friend is visiting from Holland and so we all jumped in the SUV and went to the town of Bayfield. Known for its brush with literary fame (Nobel Prize Winner Alice Munro signed books at the inn in town and some of her stories take place in the area), the quaint town on the eastern shore of Lake Huron is fun to visit in the summer. Ice cream, fish and chips, tacos, beach kitsch.
William saw an art gallery and asked if we could pop in. We were so glad we did. If you’re on a summer road trip and stop at Bayfield, make sure you visit Skwirl.
How Things Are Made
I picked up this book at the local library. The title caught my eye. I admit there's very little I know about how the things that I use everyday are made. Tim Minshall who is an innovation expert is here to help and so far I'm finding this book really fascinating.
Here's some copy from the book jacket:
Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products, including furniture, technology, clothing, and even food. And yet the processes by which these things appear in our lives are virtually invisible. How often do we stop to think: Where do the things we buy actually come from? How are they made, and how do they make their way into our hands?
Minshall takes us on a journey through the manufacturing world, from the smallest job shops to mega-factories, from global shipping hubs to local delivery at your door, revealing the inner workings of the system that runs 24-7-365 to make and deliver the things we need.
In a world of fast fashion, tariffs, inflation, and globalism, instant delivery and online shopping, it promises to be a good read.
A poem
