{"id":25079,"date":"2025-06-23T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=25079"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:28:46","slug":"handbook-example-life-of-a-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=25079","title":{"rendered":"Handbook: example page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AK-47 bullet<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Made in Ukraine
Shot in Sierra Leone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KEY FACTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Short film (movie credits)
Duration<\/strong>:
3.01 minutes
Director:<\/strong>
Andrew Nichol
Visual effects supervisor<\/strong>:
Yann Blondel
Watch in:<\/strong>
Lord of War (2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INGREDIENTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

INTENTIONS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Cross cultures
Show capitalist evils<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TACTICS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Make the hidden visible
Follow the thing
Show the violence
Add mood music<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESPONSES<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

LOL capitalism
They aren’t experts
It’s so badly made
That’s racist
I’m humming that music<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMPACTS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Now we’re talking
Activism is publicised<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Life of a bullet<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
IN BRIEF<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Imagine you can follow the life of a bullet from sheet metal in a factory shot into the head of a child soldier, like a Point of View (POV) video game. These are the opening credits of the Nicholas Cage movie \u2018Lord of War,\u2019 set to Buffalo Springfield\u2019s 1960s counterculture song \u2018For what it\u2019s worth\u2019. For some, this 3 minute CGI creation is the best part of the movie. For us, it\u2019s the most brutally clear follow the thing example we\u2019ve found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to read this page<\/summary>\n

We are slowly piecing together a ‘followthethings.com handbook for trade justice activism’ and are publishing the pages here as we write them. This is an ‘example’ page. The wide column paraphrases and condenses this example’s followthethings.com page, section by section. The narrow column contains some details about the commodity, some key facts about the activism that took place around it, and a list of its ‘ingredients’: its intentions, tactics, responses and impacts. These have been identified during the writing of this example page and, as more handbook pages are added, you will be able to click each one to read about it, and there will be links to other examples where we have found that ingredient, and a list of linked ingredients. This hypertext format, we believe, will help readers to understand how trade justice activism can work, and what it can do. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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