Saturday, August 2, 2014

Death Dust




I chose the original image because I found it disconcerting that a child was looking at toxic dust approaching while her father stood there, smiling.  I decided to switch the "spectacle" to a battle between Toxins and Mother Earth- two winged warriors battling.  The man is now smiling because Mother Earth is gaining ground.  I chose to make the image more ethereal to reach out to the child in the original image.
By Meghan 

Original Image Citation: Death Dust: The New Yorker January 20, 2014




When I first saw this photo, I thought WOW! Beautiful.
This place is environmentally conserving without knowingly doing it.
They reuse, repurpose, which in term refuse.  The only thing to add is the words I feel when I look at this picture.  The woman is an elder in her community and she positions herself as such. Regal.
I am talking about the woman, but that how I feel about how they treat their environment.
By Patricia

Original Image Citation: Artist Chris Jordon


"I'm Lovin' It"


 

Remixed Image

When I first looked at the original image found in Rollingstone Magazine, I felt that the viewer was being faced with a silly decision. In today's society we are challenged with unlimited choices. Most of these choices involve product selection and consumption. Through my remix interpretation, I wanted to give the viewer a more dire problem to be challenged with: such as the consequences of our dependence on plastic.

Rachel Bailey's Remix August 2, 2014
Original Image Citation:
 McDonald's Dollar Menu Ad found in Rollingstone Magazine, Issue 1208, May 8, 2014


Clean Energy and Healthy Environment



The long term effects of nuclear disasters can often spread over thousands of years. It is estimated that Chernobyl area won’t be inhabited for at least another 20,000 years.

1-The Chernobyl Nuclear disaster (Ukraine 1986) is widely considered to have been the worst power plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
2- The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (Japan 2013) was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima cause by a tsunami
Russia 1957 – The Kyshtym Nuclear disaster was a radiation contamination incident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Soviet Union.

-The nuclear industry still has no solution to the waste, and its transportation of this waste poses an unacceptable risk to people and the environment.
-There is a potential terrorist threat to the large volumes of radioactive wastes currently being stored and the risk that this waste could leak or be dispersed as a result of terrorist action.
Wind power consumes no fuel and no water for continuing operation, and has no emissions directly related to electricity production. Wind turbines produce no carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, mercury, radioactive waste, particulates, or any other type of air pollution, unlike fossil fuel sources and nuclear power plant fuel production.
Solar energy is not only sustainable, it is renewable and this means that we will never run out of it. It is about as natural a source of power as it is possible to generate electricity.
The creation of solar energy requires little maintenance. Once the solar panels have been installed and are working at maximum efficiency there is only a small amount of maintenance required each year to ensure they are in working order.
They are a silent producer of energy. There is absolutely no noise made from photovoltaic panels as they convert sunlight into usable electricity.
There are continual advancements in solar panel technology which are increasing the efficiency and lowering the cost of production, thus making it even more cost effective.
During operation solar electricity power plants produce zero emissions.

By Antonio Barros

Connolly, S., Mason, A., Muirden, J., Sonntag, L., Steele, P., & Thomas, J. (1996). Circling the globe: A young people’s guide to countries and cultures of the world. Richmond Hill, ON: D.S. MAX


This is a School Garden



This is a School Garden

I chose this picture of a beautiful flower garden that happened to have the words Growing Up on it, it was accompanied by an article about how to create vertical flower gardens. This made me think about how my childhood experience was growing up outdoors and playing in the woods and exploring the plants and flowers and bugs in my mother’s flower and vegetable gardens. I was imagining how to create an outdoor classroom where young children can explore and learn about the plants and animals that live in their yards and how to care for them and protect them. I imagine part of the outdoor classroom as a flower garden where monarch butterflies can grow and feed on the plants. The children can observe and learn about the process of growth in many ways in their school garden.

By Laura Perry

Original Image Citation: Fine Gardening magazine, February 2007, page 56

Camel




The image I chose was an ad in the July issue of Us Weekly for Camel cigarettes. It depicted a cigarette box resting on a harmonica, with the statements: "Mark the moments. Taste it all." sThe bottom left corner had, of course, the surgeon general's warning signifying that the product endorsed on the same page causes lung cancer, heart disease, and other medical ailments. I have always found this to be a sad and ironic chapter of advertising history - that the product being marketed as "cool" and full of "taste" is right next to an overt warning saying that it could kill you. It also bothered me that Camel cigarettes uses an animal to showcase their cigarettes. I sought to transform this image to make it into something truly "cool" - with the same camel on the cigarette box, in the desert walking towards a cool oasis in his natural environment. I wanted the image to be a hopeful message that we can help our environment and make it "healthier."

By Caroline Tobey

original image citation: no photographer/title given, Us Weekly Magazine, July 27 2014, last page.


How Does Your Garden Grow?




The original image was taken from my roommate's April, 2014 Anthropologie catalog. The theme for the photo spread was spring: green, growing, verdant, steamy, gardens. The floral prints throughout the spread were alleged to be inspired by nature yet seemed too overly geometric and controlled to connect the model to her greenhouse surroundings. I decided to make her clothes over to better fit her environment. The prints used to clothe the model in the remix image are taken from images of growing plants and bird feathers. These lush textures better fit the tropical theme aimed for by the stylists of the original image.

By Meg


original image citation: no photographer / no title given, Apnthropologie Catalog, April 2014 p. 14