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Do July’s Green Thing. Turn Off Those Sucking Machines.
This month we’re wrestling back the power.
You see, we’ve slowly let machines take over – and not even big, scary machines like The Terminator or the Daleks. No, the ones that sit in the corner of our rooms looking all fun and innocent and labour-saving whilst secretly guzzling electricity like there’s no tomorrow.
Because unless you turn them off once you’re finished, they carry on sucking on the teat of your household power supply like needy greedy babies.
So this month, let’s regain control of our electricity bills by terminating our X-boxes, tellies and hair straighteners when we’re done with them.
And once you’ve spent one day shutting down every Sucking Machine you’re not using and snuffing out every light you don’t need, come back and click DONE IT so we can count up all the CO2 you’ve saved.
Machines Suck. Don’t let them.
Things to help you Turn Off Those Sucking Machines...
A plug that looks like a noodle? Electrical cables that look like spaghetti? A Japanese woman who can speak without speaking? From the far east comes a video that’s an installation riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a message about sucking machines.
Machines don’t just suck, they make a sucking racket. Switch them off and step into the world of extraordinary unmechanical music with this surreal one-button game created and illustrated by Luke Stenzhorn, animated by Ashley Browning and scored by Oliver Sutherland.
A second installation by Michael Wright featuring no noodles, one laptop, two monitors, a face sliced in three, a Japanese accent and another sucking pun. Michael Wright did each shot in one take only for minimum production suction.
Machines suck. One way to make them suck less is to turn the sucking things off. The other way is to make suck something other than electricity. This tale, written by the brilliant Katia Wengraf and illustrated by the brilliant Joe Sumner, is not Green Thing's first graphic short story, it's bloody creepy.
If Heroes Takes The Stairs was the cock-rock tease then Heroes, the new single by Justin Hawkins and Hot Leg, is the thrilling lyrca-clad climax. Written by Justin with lyrics by Justin and Green Thing's Naresh Ramchandani, it's a thumpin' rockin' call for people to waste less, drive less, fly less and walk more.
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