Cette expédition du CNRS en Amazonie fait passer Koh Lanta pour une promenade de santé. GUYANE - Koh Lanta?
Une promenade de santé comparée au "raid des 7 bornes". A compter du 1er juin, une expédition de chercheurs du CNRS et de légionnaires part à l'aventure aux confins de la forêt amazonienne pour un "trek" de 320km à pied. Un défi logistique, scientifique et humain hors norme. Ce "raid des 7 bornes" fait référence aux 7 bornes en béton plantées au début des années 60 tout au long de cette hypothétique frontière franco-brésilienne, au tracé parfois hasardeux. Il conviendra de la préciser, relevés GPS à l'appui. L'objectif est à la fois scientifique (relevés géographiques, inventaires botaniques) et militaire (mission de renseignement sur les activités humaines dans la zone frontière et perfectionnement des techniques de progression) dans ce milieu sauvage, très chaud et très humide à la luxuriante et dense végétation foisonnante d'insectes parasites.
"On espère réussir mais nous n'en sommes pas sûrs" Retracer la frontière franco-brésilienne au coeur de la forêt vierge. "1945-1998" by ISAO HASHIMOTO. Plum' - La part du colibri - voix intro : Pierre Rabhi / prod. Ed Bazz.
SUPER TRASH LE FILM que fait VEOLIA des cercueils dans la décharge supertrash un film de Martin Esposito. Vidéo super trash. Playful Animal Sculptures Made of Salvaged Materials. The Small Forest is an exhibition featuring a series of animal sculptures by Japanese artist Natsumi Tomita created with found objects and salvaged scraps.
Using anything from a broken umbrella and bike parts to discarded cans and kitchen utensils, the gifted sculptor manages to reproduce the likeness of various creatures with a playfully creative aesthetic. The clever creations are an amalgamation of unconventional items found in the street that have been repurposed and, thus, given a new life. The artist says, "Each of these things, which we usually use everyday, once had a story, until they were thrown away. There are bicycles that were once ridden, broken dustpans, signboards from loan sharks, lost umbrellas. Every object had purpose and meaning before they were tossed away.
A selection of Tomita's wonderful work is currently on display at Galerie 412 through September 14, 2013. Chris Jordan - Midway. On Midway Atoll, a remote cluster of islands more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent, the detritus of our mass consumption surfaces in an astonishing place: inside the stomachs of thousands of dead baby albatrosses.
The nesting chicks are fed lethal quantities of plastic by their parents, who mistake the floating trash for food as they forage over the vast polluted Pacific Ocean. For me, kneeling over their carcasses is like looking into a macabre mirror. These birds reflect back an appallingly emblematic result of the collective trance of our consumerism and runaway industrial growth. Like the albatross, we first-world humans find ourselves lacking the ability to discern anymore what is nourishing from what is toxic to our lives and our spirits. Choked to death on our waste, the mythical albatross calls upon us to recognize that our greatest challenge lies not out there, but in here. ~cj, Seattle, February 2011 Midway film trailer Donate to the Midway Project.
Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers. Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics.
Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Chris Jordan met en images des statistiques qui choquent. Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers. Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics.
Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. 100,000 Stars. Mirtho Linguet Photographe.