Environmental
Next week sees the 20th anniversary of the World’s worst nuclear power accident at Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine).
It’s estimated that in about 600 years time that area to the north of Kiev will, once again, be habitable. As for now you’ll only find wolves, wild deer and a young woman tearing up the deserted roads on her Kawasaki ZZR Ninja.
This is Elena and she’s documented her rides through the “dead zone” in her website. Elena’s Dad is a nuclear physicist and she’s no slouch herself so she can get past the security cordons and knows how to stay safe. The images she posts are haunting memories to a thousand displaced lives and untold deaths. Internet rumours speculate she’s sensationalised some of the first person accounts but it’s a compelling site all the same.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Saturday, 22nd of April 2006 Permalink
I expect like me there are many of you that were pretty amazed by David Attenborough’s latest offering Planet Earth, in conjunction with the TV programme the BBC have launched Planet Earth Explorer. If you were hooked on Google Earth then this one will definitely have you in trouble.
Liz Greening
Posted on Thursday, 16th of March 2006 Permalink
All you inner Marthas—the Government Food Shoot Challenge is for you. The competition involves styling and shooting one of those drab, gray meals the US government provides to survivors of disasters and troops in the field. (Not so surprisingly the food packets seem to end up on eBay….).
Thus, in an attempt “to wring beauty out of tragedy, find rays of hope amid grim misfortune and,” as the organizers write, “simply prove that we can do things better than the Bush administration” they have set up the competition. It was kicked off recently with a photo shoot art directed and styled by several of Martha Stewart’s own (including Scot Schy, Will van Roden and Pam Morris). Now the organizers are sending out packets of food to those who enter before April 15 (or they run out of food) and the results will be made into a 2007 calendar with proceeds going to The People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Commission. Just don’t eat the food.
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Jennifer Kabat
Posted on Tuesday, 14th of March 2006 Permalink
The CAMPER store on Westbourne Grove, London is undergoing some long term restorations. A temporary store has been set up whilst they wait for the larger space to be developed. A simple and extremely effected use of shoe boxes combined with doodled graffiti wall decoration creates a superb, original, useful and recyclable retail environment.
Dave Brown
Posted on Thursday, 12th of January 2006 Permalink
