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Photography
Airplane Graveyard
Aircraft graveyards are always a great photo opportunity, and here's a nice selection of photographs of one in the Mojave dessert taken by Ransom Riggs who takes advantage of the HDR technique to bring some impacts full of impact. Sometimes the effect is a bit strong, but when they are done well they don't look alien, and that's what HDR should be about.
Plane Graveyard.
Environment
No Impact Man
Colin Beavan had written a few books about historical events when he had an idea for a new book: live for a year in a metropolis like New York without damaging the planet, leaving a zero carbon footprint, no impact. Nice idea, difficult to carry out when you consider that means not buying anything, not throwing anything away, not using electricity, and no gas/oil/petrol powered transport, but a good idea all the least. They ate local, well not exactly local for us Europeans, they put a limit of 250 miles for their food, that covers a lot of Italy for example, but what a difference that would make for us too.
Oh, and Colin managed to involve his family in the idea too.
Why is it when someone does something like this they get ridiculed? The New York Times did an article with the title The Year Without Toilet Paper, giving a clear message of their priorities. Here was a family that tried not to destroy the planet for a year, and what do we get hooked up on? They don't use toilet paper. Nice. We all live our happy lives based upon torturing and killing, raping and pillaging the Earth for all it's worth, and if someone says, "lets see if we could reduce this" they get ridiculed.
What the hell, we'll all die someday so why not sooner and in pain, right?
So the idea became a book, and now a film, and I for one am interested in seeing how their experience was. Sure, he, they, took it to extremes, but I think there's something in there we can all do to live a little better.
Maybe.
No go eat yer MerDonalds, who cares, right?
www.noimpactproject.org/ Music
Kibuka - Dean Dennis
Kibuka
KIBUKA is a new project from Dean Dennis and his collaborator Snook. Dean Dennis should need no introduction, but I'll just mention he was a member of Clock DVA and The AntiGroup, and that should be enough. KIBUKA (the war god of the Buganda tribe of East Africa) is more beat driven and anti-social than Dean's other projects, and in his own words it is closer to his Clock DVA and early Sector experience. LIstening to the demos on his website you can hear that classic "Man Amplified" sound. Incidentally, if you ever saw Clock DVA perform live back in the nineties, Dean was the one member you wouldn't argue with, but I have to say, he was always polite and quietly spoken. I'll be buying a copy of his album when I have the chance.
http://kibuka.co.uk/