The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Virtual travel to help save the planet


Above is a screen image from the  Fedex package tracking system.  To play this game you go to the Fedex (or UPS)  tracking page and keep making up package numbers until you find one to track. Please do not order anything online to do this since it takes fossil fuels to get the package to you.  When you find a package to track look at the cities listed in the package and then use Google maps with street level pictures to see what the Fedex trucks see as the package travels while pollution pours from the trucks carrying it.  You can feel good to know you are seeing the world but you are not polluting it with CO2.  Here is a sample of what you might see: 

   

The picture above is of the now defunct Drew's Brewpub which used to serve Bouncing Butterfly beer.  

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