Pollution

What is pollution?

Bottles, cans, diapers and bags,

Computers, ipods, cell phones and more.

Waste, how we treat our Earth.

What is the message that we share?

Buy it, use it and throw it away.

Clog our rivers, dirty our lakes, fill our oceans,

Kill our insects,

Say goodbye to farm life,

See the grass turn to trash.

Our children what will they do?

Where will they play?

What will they eat?

Will it be safe to drink?

Watch as our world gets smaller and smaller

Pollution.

What it does.

It's time to clean it up!

Original Image: Land-pollution:garbage dump britianna.com Rueters/Corbis

by Joan Miller

what are conveniences for?

I picked an advertisement of a new, morden white car with a white background. If I didn't see the documentary, 'a convenient truth' in our class, I could have thought that this looks fancy or attrative. However, I immediately thought about that people badly destroyed natural resources to build the infrastructure for cars. It seems like that people ruin their permanent habitat for the shortterm convenience.

Original image: ELLE, September 2009, p.215
Mihye

Turn Your Living Room into a Great Room

This advertisement for Cisco umi, a camera on top of your TV with a remote to make your "experience" watching TV better as a family, disgusts me. The very fact that a camera and a TV make up a LIVING room does not mean living for me. I remixed this image creating an outdoor world in the TV to signify that families can benefit from being outside together. There is also an emphasis on the tree and how it can offer so much - fruit, nuts, shade, beauty, air, homes, etc. GO OUTSIDE and plant a GARDEN!

Original Image: Turn Your Living Room into a Great Room

Travel + Leisure January 2011 Pg. 31

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/

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 31^st, 2001. Section A, pg. 7.

I choose my original picture because it demonstrates a level of consumerism that I find troubling. Success in school is equated with the buying of things that can be found in a store. I choose to remix the picture by adding pictures of nature and the outdoors. These images demonstrate that the natural environment can provide richer learning experiences than any consumer experience. I covered the straight lines in the original to show that learning should not be contained in the traditional boundaries of school or classroom. Lastly, I added natural elements such as leaves and shells. This tactile element illustrates that learning is multi-faceted.

Alice

Bieber Fever

Original image: Robinson, L. (Art Streiber). (February 2011).
"The Kid Just Has It". Vanity Fair, 606, 99.

In this image, I was trying to shift the obsession of this group of young girl's from teen icon, Justin Bieber, to more intellectual ventures such as nature and the environment. Rather than an obsession with a celebrity, young girls should be passionate about their individual interests and pursuits, whether that be the environment, animals or the world around them in general. To see this level of enthusiasm directed towards a personal interest rather than cultural symbols and icons, would help young girls grow into confident, more worldly citizens.

- Carolyn S.

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!

Remixed by Lauren Alverson

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

Excess

In searching for images for this remix I came across the of image logging and the image of urban sprawl. I could not decide which to use and because I felt that these images are intrinsically connected I included both. The only thing I could think of was how devastating the effects of this kind of excess are. How many ecosystems and forms of life were terminated or put at risk in the logging and building of these places? I think this is a commentary on our societies need for material things. Proof that material things are extremely important in our society. If there is a demand there will be a supply but at what cost?
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

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

The oil spill from the deepwater horizon rig explosion has not only affected the coastline of several states but has also devastated the local wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. I found this image on the Discovery website. The photo depicts a seagull completely covered in a thick glaze of oil. This unfortunate tragedy has taken the life of the bird, so that the bird’s body lays upside down floating in the ocean’s current.

When I remixed the image, I turned the seagull’s body into a rock and placed a baby bird on top of the rock. The young, fuzzy chick scampers about the rock with enthusiasm. In the background, I placed a horizon line and brightly colored clouds. The remixed image represents the beauty of life and nature. We must remember how delicate nature is and must respect the earth by taking care of it.

Robin

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.

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

The Harm of Plastic Bags

For our second remix assignment I wanted to find a way to express my feelings about the seriousness of our overuse of plastic bags. After viewing information in class about how millions of plastic bags end up in landfills and waterways, killing countless amounts of wildlife, I was hit with the question "Why are we not more aware of this?". You can go to any grocery store and see the recycled material "green" bags being marketed in the check-out line. But does anyone really think about why it is plastic bags are so horrible? I feel as a society all too often we are only concerned with issues that personally effect us. Animals are ingesting them, confusing them for food, and dying because of it. They are being tangled up in the bags so they can no longer fly or swim. These facts have to do with wildlife, not humans, so a majority of people are not personally effected and don't care to help. I chose the image from a fashion ad to create a "shock" ad. I have the model with a plastic bag over her head, and bags in the water as well as on animals around her. My caption reads "Beautiful?". I would hope this would make the viewer have this devastation really hit them, and think "Why no, this is anything but beautiful". Although it may be graphic, I feel most people are unfortunately more compassionate when it comes to images of other humans being harmed, rather than other wildlife. Hopefully the message is loud and clear.

Original Image Source: Fortune Magazine. Volume 163, Number 4. March 21, 2011. Ben Hassett for Conde Nast.

Kristen Cuttone