Archive for the ‘Real Links’ Category
These are the sites, articles, and interesting online content we’re finding that have to do with Authenticity. Read on.
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July 25th, 2008
Wedding cakes with a twist | CNN
Fun Cakes Rental rents (or sells outright) “fakes cakes” that rival “real cakes” as wedding day offering. So now you can “eat” your cake and have it too!
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July 17th, 2008
Home Is Where the Head Is |The New York Times
“Emotional architecture” takes a first step toward designing homes explicitly on the basis of conforming to self-image, matching the design of one’s dwelling with one’s (psychological, emotional, etc.) self.
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July 15th, 2008
Businesses Emerge to Help School Fund-Raisers Go Green | The Wall Street Journal
Start-up businesses offer greener, more authentic alternatives to traditional, plastic (or plastic-feeling) promotional items for school fund-raising. Similar companies will surely emerge to offer similar alternative to all the fakeware handed out at trade shows and conferences.
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July 5th, 2008
www.helpthehoneybees.com
One principle for natural authenticity that we wrote about in Authenticity was to Stress Materiality, and we asked: What one raw material might serve as a unifying force in rendering authenticity? In a clever twist on that question, Häaggen-Dazs asks: What one creature might serve as a unifying force in rendering authenticity? Their authenticity-rendering answer: the honey bee.
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June 30th, 2008
Rickshaw Bagworks
The folks who founded bag mass customizer Timbuk2 are up to it again, this time with a website that subtly appeals to authenticity in many ways (including the “works” in the name).
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June 29th, 2008
“Voices of Genuine Originals, Chosen by One Who Should Know” | The New York Times
Country music artist Emmylou Harris describes five fellow musicians who, personally determined by her, are the real thing.
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June 29th, 2008
“Snack Mentality” | New York Times Magazine
Consumed columnist Rob Walker on what makes Pirate’s Booty brand of snacks so darn Arrrrr-thentic.
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June 28th, 2008
www.teva.com
The curbside collection teva (pronounced “teh’-vah”) which means “nature” in Hebrew, has appealed to natural authenticity from the very origin of the company some 20 years ago. It continues that heritage with its new line of shoes, called the Keagan Canvas and presented to customers as part of “the curbside collection.” The company says the casual shoes are “loaded with trashy features like post-consumer recycled PET canvas upper and recycled rubber outsoles.”
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June 27th, 2008
“PR Fairy Tales Pitches Disguised as Children’s Books” | Inc. magazine
These fake books deliver real value by juxtaposing the media and the message.
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June 27th, 2008
“My Top 10: Will Arnett” | Entertainment Weekly
In an age where authenticity is becoming the new sensibility (cue violins), the Real/Fake Matrix takes Hollywood by storm! Or at least it makes Arrested Development’s Will Arnett’s radar screen — see #6 in his Top 10 list here.