target

After finishing the project i figured that the items in target (wrist watches) would have been made in a vast amount of different locations, yet every watch that i looked at was primarily made in china.  A few of the other pieces were made in japan and other places like that, but mostly the same.  And they all seemed to have a very similar packaging on them, just with a differnt brand name; i thought that was pretty interesting.

movie

The movie we watched in class today was a little to slow for me.  I was already overwhelmed without even finishing the long intro of the enrtire facotry.  There were some powerful pictures though, and i had never see that sort of destruction at that large of a scale.  Im sure if the documentary would have had more action or even dialog i probably would have been a littler more interested.   It did have an impact on me though, because after the film i thought about when stuff like this was going to be stopped.  Doing things like this to the earth can only last so long before some serious consiquiences take place.

El dorado was a very cool place.  to me it seemed like they had great location downtown in a pretty sweet building.  I like how the company keep it remotely small with their projects and did their work in there smaller sized shop (compared to the others weve seen) downstairs.  They kinda prided themselfs of being able to do what they do with the "basic"  tools that they had on location.  I also like their idea of having an open working environment. and the inside side of course was very modern and cool looking.  To me it seemed like a great place to work, not to mention that after work they go down into the shop and drink beer together.

mardi made in china

i thought the film was interesting. i deffinitely never thought of it like that.  I enjoyed how in depth the film maker went into the working at the factory.  i do agree that its a problem and a huge waste of materials and create and enormous amount of wast for practicallyh no reason.  it take time, and requires a lot of people to produce these beads just to be thrown away in a few minutes.  based on that it is pretty messed up,  but you cant just compare the price the beads are sold here for how much the workers are being paid.  Because the price of items and even services are different here than they are there.  Sure they only make a few cents an hour but over there (from what the film said) wasnt that bad of money, of course it would be here.  It sucks that that much waste is produced from that short of an event.