Ambient electroacoustic artists Stars of the Lid do a beautiful job with thisEnvironmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video. The other ads in the series can be viewed here.
Archive for the ‘Visual culture’ Category
polar bag
Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged animals, animism, eco-art, ecomedia, mortality on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
scenes from a recession
Posted in Politics, Visual culture, tagged eco-art, economy on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are some great pictures to be found here, at The Big Picture: abandoned subdivisions and building sites, landscapes of unused freight containers (#34) and disused newspaper racks (#30), and “Free Weekly Tours of Quality Foreclosed Homes, Prices Won’t Last!!!” (#9, from Las Vegas). There’s something Ed Burtynskyesque about them… On the topic of Ed […]
tipping point ahead
Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged ecomedia, environment on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s an effective little media piece: Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. Full screen is particularly nice, and the well referenced script gives it substance.
this moment
Posted in Politics, Visual culture on December 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…the moment Wall Street crashed into the woods, its train having pushed as far as it could go off the rails it thought it had built. The photo is from my series of Haida Gwaii nature-culture collaborations, where the detritus of industrial civilization, having reached as far as it could — in this case, the […]