What is pollution?
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Pollution
What is pollution?
what are conveniences for?
Original image: ELLE, September 2009, p.215
Mihye
Turn Your Living Room into a Great Room
Anna Linck
Examples of Music Groups Specializing in Environmental Music
Billy B. Brennan: http://www.billybproductions.com/
Enuf! Planet’s Favorite Band: http://www.enufwaste.com/
The Wilderbeats: http://www.wilderbeats.com/home/
Rosie Emery: http://www.interconnected.ca/
Remy Rodden: http://www.thinkabout.ca/Think_About/Home.html
Michael Mish Music: http://www.mishmashmusic.com/
Friday, August 19, 2011
The Cure Before the Reason
I started with the image of the frog and thought it would be funny to add extra eyes as a statement about cells mutating. The cluster of eyes reminded me of cells mutating. There is something in the air or water that is mutating cells, we don't know. That is why there are torn wholes in the images background. I tied in human cells mutating in the form of cancer. The doctors here have made great advances in finding a cure for cancer but we still don't know the cause. The finger touches the doctors hand as this topic has touched me closely.
Original image: National Geographic March 2011
Lara
It Takes A Lot
Unknown Photographer. New York Times. July 31st, 2001. Section A, pg. 7.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Bieber Fever
"The Kid Just Has It". Vanity Fair, 606, 99.
Clean up the Nursery!
Citation: Original image: National Geographic, p.37 April 2006 Article by Richard Stone, Photographs by Gerd Ludwig “The Long Shadow of Chernobyl"
Silent Nursery
My original image shows the destruction of a kindergarten as a result of a power plant explosion, in Chernobyl. Operators committed errors in a control room of a nuclear power plant resulting in massive explosion. The blast and the lethal radiation killed many people, and demolished the town. In my remix, I cut out a picture of Kermit the Frog from the same magazine. Then, I cut out the shape of the Kermit in the center of the original image and replaced it with him. I glued bright, colorful shiny paper pieces around the edges. The image is now supposed to give the impression of Kermit, inquisitive looking, coming to the nursery to clean up and solve the problem!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
U.N.I.T.Y
I found this picture that looks like a rundown project area, the trees stand tall but yet has no leaves so I remixed it into what unity stand for, being united or joined as a whole. I created a family tree with people from different diversity, children to represent happiness and togetherness then the other stuff I added such as the clouds and the plant are just there to represent nature.
Original image: Unkown Magazine, Wang Di, October 2010 issue
Sandra Germain
Excess
In my remixes I have attempted to portray the importance of downsizing, of leading a simpler life for the benefit of all. The owl watches us, waiting for our decision. The owl is a reminder of what we stand to lose. What path will we chose?
Ronja Geilen
Sources of Images
First Image:
National Geographic Vol. 191. No.3. March 1997.
Second Image:
National Geographic (July, 2001). Urban Sprawl. p. 49
Friday, August 12, 2011
The oil spills affects on wildlife
Artist’s name: Charlie Riedel
Title of work: A bird covered in oil flails in the surf at East Grand Terre Island, La.
Title of magazine: Discovering News website articlehttp://news.discovery.com/animals/oiled-birds-gulf-oil-spill.html
Robin
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Bears shouldn't have doors.
This original image of "Mimmi" the brown bear is in a zoo in Finland. Look at Mimmi and how she is flexibile and poses for minutes at a time "ooowww" (note a bit of sarcastic tone). Then look at her surrounding. She is sitting on a bed of concrete with a concrete wall behind her and a rusted out old door. Just how Happy is Mimmi the brown bear? No water, no trees, no squishy grass, no life, no play mate. She is in a zoo, behind a cage and sitting next to a door. Not where she is intended to live, but where humans have put her. This image makes me extremely sad.
If we are going to continue to have zoos, then give them the habitats they deserve. My remix is how I would like to see this brown bear. enjoying herself in a natural setting, and with at least one more bear. Not posing for the camera. Shes an animal, not supposed to be entertainment.
Ashley
Photo by Meta Penca, "Visions of Earth" National Geographic, May 2011.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Man with Nature
I chose this picture because I wanted to show that through destruction we can recreate with nature not against nature. the first thing that really struck me about this picture was the lack of color. Nature is full of color, so i added many different colorful pictures of nature. The house is built around nature instead of taking down the tree the house will built around the tree. there is also a sanctuary that was built with nature. The point was to show a balance between man made and nature together. lastly I changed the face because it symbolizes a person with nature. It also gives a sense of hope as well.
Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone, August 18, 2011 pg 58-59
Sunday, August 7, 2011
The Harm of Plastic Bags
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Bag Wars
I chose this picture because I was disturbed about the thought of our planet being covered in plastic bags. I used nature scenes to show the beauty and purity of the enviroment. A clean ocena, extravagant trees, open fields and glorious coves seem like the enviroment that we want to keep clean. The children are the alternative to the one guy standing and watching the mess. He looks defeated while the children are enjoying nature. There is also people covered in plastic bags as if the earth is fighting back and covering people with the bags instead.The recycled bags are what we can do to stop this from happening.
Nikki
Sea of wave, Rolling Stone, April 4, 2011, Pg 37, Alessandro Geigeaton
Free the Fish
The original image that I chose to use is a mass of dead fish in the Salton Sea. I altered it by cutting out the shapes of different sized fishes. This is representative of the disappearing of sea life as humans continue to pollute our earth's waters. Then I glued the cut out fish all over the edges of the image, showing their freedom of pollution. Additionally, I placed a silver layer under the image, visible through the cut out fish shapes. This, a long with green seaweed, and blue string lacing the image, represents the hopefulness of a cleaner and more healthy ocean.
~Original image: National Geographic Magazine, February 2005, P.88, Photos by Gerd Ludwig
Lauren
A Healthier World
Children need to learn at a young age about good nutrition.
What better way than to plant, harvest and prepare?
I believe that if children took a more active role in food that they would make better choices!
I feel that they would be more apt to try new foods if they had a role in it from beginning to end.
How to do this when parents work all day and children are being raised in childcare centers?
How do we as educators make the time to hoe the site, plant the seeds and watch it grow when the state says planned curriculum and the children say emergent?
I am looking to answer these questions and many more.
How can I get the children involved in their lives?
Original image: Rolling Stone, February 17,2011, Theo Wenner
Joan
Reclaiming Abandoned Spaces: Nature as a Tool of Transformation
ELLE Magazine. April 2011: p. 310. Print.
I chose this photographic image because it shows the gradual decay of abandoned buildings and the ways in which we as humans change an environment and then neglect it once it's use has been served. The current economic crisis has led to thousands of abandoned buildings and spaces where the natural environment was bulldozed and covered by cement parking lots and structures. This level of abandonment can be seen in rural and urban areas plighted by unemployment and neglect.
In this piece I hope to show how nature can reclaim these abandoned spaces, and how humans can reintroduce native plants and vegetation to aid this transformation through the creation of community gardens where people of all ages can commune with nature. The central figure in my image is transformed from an apathetic model to a young girl examining the roots of a plant she has pulled, bridging my images from one of inaction to one of action.
- Carolyn
Golf Ad- Tim
Could you perhaps sink this putt elsewhere?
Look around you, look at the mockery of nature.
This green lush grass, the water fountain, the trimly cut trees, all of this is fake!
Look at yourself, as you squat there.
You look onward to a false hope.
You couldn't be here, in this space, without machinery and gasoline.
So I doubt, you could ever get that ball in that hole.
So go on! You practice, as you play. But also you practice as you live.
But you live full of filth and disgust.
Thank you, for destroying my native habitat.
Everyday you waste natural resources.
Everyday you waste water. You are the reason we have drought.
And everyday you use chemical fertilizers.
So, no wonder, why I am mad!
If you want to make this putt, you will need to change your life and that is a fact.
Plant grasses.
Plant flowers.
Plant trees.
And soon enough, bees and other insects will slowly come back.
After that the animals will soon arrive, and the forest will become alive.
While you may always have trouble getting a ball in a hole, you will sink the putt of life and restore harmony to others including yourself.
*And that was that, and the habitat was restored and while there wasn't any golf in the world, everyone lived happily*
z
It's Natural
Lara
How do we use our earth?
My original image was the photo of an archaeological site from National Geography. I had to think about how people use the environment from generation to generation. The earth where we are now living used to be the home of our ancestors. And that is the place my son and family will be living in the future. But how are we using our environment? We built buildings, dams and destroyed the nature as we misunderstood that it belongs to human. It is such a chaos. We have to rethink that earth is not ours. Earth is not something we can change or destroy. We only borrow it. We have to return!
Mihye
A Cure for the Common Condo
-Anna Linck
La Nature
Source of image: unknown author,"Yankee New England Magazine" september 2008, p.52
Sandra
Recreate a Balance
When I looked at the original image I felt that the jumble of tangled wires were hectic. In today's world we have the tendency to over use this wired mode for communication and many other things. In a way it can cause a disconnect with the tangible world of communities and nature. We are turning more and more inward into the tangled web of technology. In my remix I tried to express the need for balance. A balance in our lives of the technological world and the world of nature. Can we stand equally in these two worlds? Can we restore a balance? This remixed image is an attempt to bring awareness to the idea of recreating a balance as well as a renewed respect for the natural world.
-Ronja
Source of Original Image:
Hennevogl, P. Harpers, August 2011. p. 20
House or Home?
By Alice
This summer I have begun to think about buying my first house. In my excitement, I have found myself sucked into the consumerism depicted in the first image. I have become obsessed with square feet, condo fees, and 1.5 bathrooms. But in creating my transformed imaged, I wanted to remind myself (and others) that a home needs more than a beautiful exterior. In my transformed image, I have added joy, love, warmth, health, nature, and music. I have created a home from a house.