Can the Can
June 23, 2016 3:10 PM   Subscribe

 
Don't think their server was ready for this . . .
posted by Bee'sWing at 3:55 PM on June 23, 2016


Oh, now it's working. These are great. Although, the idea of a collection of elderly, rusty sardine cans is a bit terrifying.
posted by Bee'sWing at 4:36 PM on June 23, 2016


Yeah, I was having trouble getting this to load earlier too. I'm glad I checked in again!
posted by queensissy at 5:49 PM on June 23, 2016


I like Guida and Herminia. The portraits stand out even among the wide variety of cans. That may also be the reason I like the one with the cartoon pig, but I'm probably just a sucker for a cartoon pig.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 6:42 PM on June 23, 2016


I really dig these. A friend and I recently made this crude stop motion clip of a boat made from a can of kippers. A lithographed can would have really taken it to a new level.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 8:12 PM on June 23, 2016 [1 favorite]


Oh, sardines. I grew up near California's former hub of sardinery whose story ended poorly. They had cool labels too. The collapse of the fishery was complicated and history making. It should have been a cautionary tale.

There's something profoundly sad when walking around industrial collapse. Peoples lives invested in a massive machine that no longer exists. Even tarted up as it is now, the multimillion dollar skin rests on old bones with a memory of a world that will not return. Bones that watched the small boats be replaced by bigger boats, small nets by bigger nets, bigger bycatch.

You can stand there now and contemplate ghosts and the future.

Halfway around world the same silvery fish slide down silvery chutes to be processed by silvery machines, maybe by people treated like machines. Slice, slice, pack pack. All the oceans into little cans...⛈⛈⛈

Maybe produce?
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:38 PM on June 23, 2016 [1 favorite]


Conserveira de Lisboa

Though in June you're better off ordering fresh grilled sardines, pretty much anywhere in Portugal.
posted by chavenet at 6:50 AM on June 24, 2016


This is the Metafilter I paid up to join 11 years ago.
posted by infini at 2:07 PM on June 24, 2016 [2 favorites]


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