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amidst the ruins of Motor City

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 13, 2009 | 20 Comments »

As goes Motor City, so should go the world – or at least eco-activists might like to argue that. The archetypal home of American car culture, Detroit, has been decaying for years. It’s now collapsed from a city of two million to less than half of that, and in the process it has opened up […]

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finger pointing at the moon

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I know it’s just that they’ve touched my inner goth, but these graveyard photographs really do express something of what I find most appealing about the idea of immanence — that death is in the midst of life, the two entwined like the dying branches encircling the face of living stone in Onkel Wart’s photograph: […]

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polar bag

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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.

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scenes from a recession

Posted in Politics, Visual culture, tagged , 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 […]

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tipping point ahead

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , 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.

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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 […]

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