Container Spotting

Here is an account of an interesting obsession with containers…  I wonder what Allan Sekula would have made of this love of the technological sublime:

http://www.ediblegeography.com/container-spotting/

There are still many unanswered mysteries that the duo hopes to get to the bottom of in their research. Where are containers born? (Cannon pointed me to this video of a Chinese factory, which we both recommend watching on mute.) Can you tell the age of a container from its exterior? (Discontinued logos such as the MOL alligator provide one clue.) How many containers lie at the bottom of the ocean? Are there container hospitals, or do damaged ones just get scrapped?

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