Sunday, November 8, 2009

Non-reversing Mirrors, Biodegradable Caskets, and Awareness Ribbons

How is my hair, really? We all ignore the fact that mirrors show our reversed image. By putting two mirrors at a right angle the two images bounce off of each other. You can see the reversed image by looking at each mirror, and the true image by looking in the corner created by the two. The patent for a non-reversing mirror was issued to John Joseph Hooker in 1887 who apparently did nothing else. Oh, vanity.

An Ecopod is a biodegradable casket "made by hand from recycled newspapers and hand finished with paper made from recycled silk and mulberry leaves". Its pea pod design can make you feel alive again. Also available is an "Old Country Style" wicker casket. This makes me cringe and at the same time support this idea as the only suitable place for wicker.

There has been an explosion of awareness ribbons. Orchid and orange is for psoriasis, red and yellow is for teen abstinence, and teal is for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Blue seems to have the most different meanings. The root of symbolic ribbons stems from the yellow ribbon that was associated with the US military, followed by AIDS activists using rainbow and then red ribbons in the late 80's.

1 comment:

  1. i want a bio casket!!!!! it will be perfect for me in maine.

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