Today is the 50 year anniversary of the birth of the standard industrial shipping container. Hats off to the age of containerization.
Back in grad school, myself, Matt Hope and Nathaniel Clark started MESH.FM with a bang by doing many events in a large trash compactor, much like the industrial shipping container.
I just ordered Marc Levinson’s book, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.
The enormous container port of Hong Kong :
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=hong+kong&ll=22.329157,114.128702&spn=0.01308,0.020041&t=k&om=1