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hese photographs of albatross chicks were made in September, 2009, on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. ~cj, Seattle, October 2009
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11 check the rest of his work out at www.chrisjordan.com
http://www.athinline.org/challenge Cell phones and social networks help us stay connected in ways we never could before, but they've also given birth to digital drama that can quickly spiral out of control. MTV, with support from Blue Shield of California Foundation, is looking for new ways to dial down this drama, and if you have a great idea, you could win $10,000!
As part of MTV's A THIN LINE campaign, we're on the hunt for innovative digital solutions that help young people identify, prevent and stop the spread of digital abuse. Digital abuse is an emerging issue that touches a majority of teens today and includes things like forced sexting, cyber-bullying and textual harassment. You can learn more about each of these issues in the "Get the Facts" section of this site.
You can enter the "Redraw the Line Challenge" by yourself, or as a team of up to five members, and if we pick your idea you'll take home $10,000. You may also have a chance to work with MTV– and a development budget of up to $75,000 – to make your idea a reality. The winning idea will be incorporated into this campaign.
Official rules Contest is open to all individuals age 18 years or older who are full-time matriculated students in an accredited institution of higher education. The contest is not open to any resident of the following countries: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. U.S. export regulations prohibit the export of goods and services to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. Therefore residents of these countries/regions are not eligible to participate.
You know I'm going to say each of you should enter this....so this time just enter it for gods sake.
The collectors of compelling package design at TheDieline alerted us to their newly released work Box Bottle Bag, which features the best manifestations of design and innovation in retail packaging. TheDieline gives their description below:
Box Bottle Bag showcases examples of the best of the best from the website, plus never-before-seen projects from top packaging designers from around the world. This inspirational and highly visual book, authored by the site’s editor in chief Andrew Gibbs, showcases examples of the best of the best from the website, plus never-before-seen projects from top packaging designers from around the world. Projects are shown in greater detail than on the website with insightful commentary from the designers. This is an excellent reference for both professional designers and students, or anyone interested in the process of how those enticing packages are developed for the products we buy.
It’s Nice That points us a to an impressive video by Artist Rob Carter. The film, titled Metropolis, shows the evolution of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina using paper-based stop motion animation.
Carter explains:
Metropolis is a quirky and very abridged narrative history of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. It uses stop motion video animation to physically manipulate aerial still images of the city (both real and fictional), creating a landscape in constant motion. Starting around 1755 on a Native American trading path, the viewer is presented with the building of the first house in Charlotte. From there we see the town develop through the historic dismissal of the English, to the prosperity made by the discovery of gold and the subsequent roots of the building of the multitude of churches that the city is famous for. Now the landscape turns white with cotton, and the modern city is ‘born’, with a more detailed re-creation of the economic boom and surprising architectural transformation that has occurred in the past 20 years
Charlotte is one of the fastest growing cities in the country, primarily due to the continuing influx of the banking community, resulting in an unusually fast architectural and population expansion that shows no sign of faltering despite the current economic climate. However, this new downtown Metropolis is therefore subject to the whim of the market and the interest of the giant corporations that choose to do business there. Made entirely from images printed on paper, the animation literally represents this sped up urban planners dream, but suggests the frailty of that dream, however concrete it may feel on the ground today. Ultimately the video continues the city development into an imagined hubristic future, of more and more skyscrapers and sports arenas and into a bleak environmental future. It is an extreme representation of the already serious water shortages that face many expanding American cities today; but this is less a warning, as much as a statement of our paper thin significance no matter how many monuments of steel, glass and concrete we build.
Metropolis is currently being screened at the Museum of Art and Design in New York till April 4th. check out www.psfk.com for more wonderful work.
On December 7th, 2009 at 1:30pm GMT Starbucks invited musicians from all over the world to sing together at the same time to raise awareness for AIDS in Africa. Chuck was a part of this worldwide event.
