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| feral trade Cube-Cola |
| Open source cola, wildcrafted in Bristol UK since 2004, a production process merging domestic and scientific methodology. 1x (LG) 56ml cola concentrate yields approximately 14L Cube-Cola.
http://cube-cola.org.
ferally traded since: 15/06/06.
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| | FER-1482 | | Cube Microplex Bristol, UK to Banff Centre Banff, Canada | | dispatched 18/02/09 delivered 25/02/09 |
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COURIER:
 kate rich
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Cube Microplex-Bristol airport-Newark Liberty airport-LAX Los Angeles airport-Los Angeles Union Station-Materials & Applications-Calgary Airport--Banff Centre |
| Cube-Cola Cube Microplex to Banff Centre
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| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1482 import purchase & freight
| | 8 x Cube-Cola bottle | gross | per bottle |
| car and driver cube to bristol airport courtesy arnolfini | £15 |
£1.88 |
| flight bristol-calgary courtesy banff centre (CAD) | $930 |
$116.25 |
| return fare LA Flyaway airport bus (USD) | $12 |
$1.50 |
| banff airporter shuttle calgary-banff courtesy banff centre (CAD) | $44.52 |
$5.57 |
| | Courier Report FER-1482 DISPATCHED: 18/02/09 DELIVERED: 25/02/09 kate rich shipped with a consignment of robotic dogs (FER-1474) travelling bristol to new york (FER-1475), 4 bags coffee for toronto (FER-1471), mixed goods (assorted british groceries) to LA (FER-1475) and salt from Gujarat to Grizzly street Banff (FER-1481) . Departed cube 730AM courtesy driver / famous bristol musician rasha shaheen to bristol airport. smooth transit through check in queue where travellers are routinely interrogated by US border officals with wheeled laptops on their identity, history and travel arrangements although they did ask me if i packed the robotic dogs myself. continental airlines' eastern european desk agent wordlessly upgraded courier to frequent flyer 'elite' status, to allow 2 giant boxes to be checked in without excess charges. delivered mini-artist talk on robot dog artist natalie jeremijenko's behalf to the oversized items desk agent, explaining the modified toy dogs' capacity to sniff out and converge in a pack on concentration gradients of common environmental toxins such as neighborhood drycleaners, after which boxes departed on baggage conveyer belt. rearranged other items to appear as 1 carry-on and cleared security without incident. 1015AM continental departure to newark, new jersey departed on time, watched bullit and read a hardback thriller about environmental justice called water inc. landing at newark 13h was ultra turbulent, threw up. it took approximately 1 hour to transit US immigration which requires now 2 thumbprints and 2 sets of 4 fingerprints from all non-US arrivals. picked up boxes from the luggage carousel, cleared customs and just prior to the bag recheck area, repacked, removing dogs and boxes to recheck 2 entirely different bags for the connecting flight to LA. 16h rendevouzed with natalie jeremijenko and car service car opposite terminal B starbucks, the dogs departed in car trunk for manhattan. After that, re-traversed Newark Liberty airport security for the 1825h Continental airlines departure to Los Angeles. LA Flyaway bus from LAX arrivals green zone to Union station for truck pickup by jenna didier of Materials & Aplications, drove to M&A for 6 days stopover, winer sun. 2 colas delivered, to M&A (guest gift), 1 unit sold to a student at Art Center for Design Pasedana, and 1 plus 1 Cube-Cola teatowel to M&A collaborator Jimu, in exchange for 3 bags passionfruit marshmallows handcrafted by his wife Kai. 25th feb 5 remaining cube-cola concentrates departed M&A by 530AM taxi back to Union station and Flyaway bus back to LAX, smooth transit. Checked in bags reweighed down and marked fragile with California dried goods for mountain survival at United desk. 745AM flight to Calgary as scheduled, dozed. At immigration, sent to secondary for questioning on what a Peer Advisor actually does. Cleared baggage check and caught last seat on 1230 banff airporter shuttle to banff with a pack of skiers and 1 wealthy woman using collective transportation out of desperation. minus 20 degrees and snow. Slept through mountain transit, alighted banff centre reception around 3PM. |
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| freight and handling Cube-Cola to Banff Centre sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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