| [ Total Views: 784 | Total Replies: 10 | Thread Id: 61403 ] |
|
|
 rose
Veteran Volks Folk
doin it for d girls
Posts: 2036
Threads: 308
Registered: December 26th, 2004
Member Is Offline
Location: Maryland - Newcastle
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Red
Mood: always happy
|
| posted on March 27th, 2007 at 04:31 PM |
|
|
This is a worry
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale
photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and
debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without
trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial
revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory
floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound
impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so
powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach
of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness
about the world and the way we live in it.
[ Edited on 27-3-2007 by rose ]
[img][/img]
|
|
|
megalania
Insano Dub Head
Posts: 722
Threads: 65
Registered: May 4th, 2006
Member Is Offline
Location: Melbourne Vic
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Chilled
|
| posted on March 27th, 2007 at 04:36 PM |
|
|
It sure is. I've heard that there are some places in the US that turn old tires in roads. Apparently it lasts longer than asphalt, wears less and is
less harsh on your cars suspension. Looks like it might be an alternative for the future. It seems like such a waste of natural resources.
|
|
|
PrettyBlueBug
A.k.a.: P.B.B....
Veteran Volks Folk
Almost over it...
Posts: 2032
Threads: 70
Registered: May 8th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Melbourne, Australia.
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Purple
Mood: 
|
| posted on March 27th, 2007 at 04:49 PM |
|
|
That pic looks almost photoshopped, otherwise it is indeed a scary sight..... :P
|
|
|
baybuscamperkid
Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber
prince of insufficient light, ruler of heck
Posts: 4316
Threads: 335
Registered: August 25th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Victoria
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: transported
|
| posted on March 27th, 2007 at 04:49 PM |
|
|
theres a guy here in Aus who can recycle 100% of cartyres, was on new inventors, had people all over the world chasing his technology, so those mounds
dont have to exist.
Reimagined/Recycled/Upcycled Cool
|
|
|
remm340912
Officially Full-On Dubber
Posts: 204
Threads: 31
Registered: January 29th, 2007
Member Is Offline
Location: Springvale, Vic
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: feeling old skool
|
| posted on March 27th, 2007 at 05:05 PM |
|
|
its an awful site and i hope that guy in Oz is making a killing selling the technology to everyone. Apparently in america the tyre yards have been the
breeding ground for dengui fever or something very similar to that.
|
|
|
electricmonk
A.k.a.: Jason
Officially Full-On Dubber
Posts: 287
Threads: 56
Registered: August 11th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Adelaide
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Black
Mood: Indego
|
| posted on March 27th, 2007 at 05:06 PM |
|
|
Where is that? I need a set of second hand 195/65 15's to test out on my rims?
But your right the amount of crud thrown out that could be better used is astounding. I also agree that the photo has been chopped, still carries the
same message though
And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, for if you hit a man with a ploughshare, he'll know he's been hit
|
|
|
68AutoBug
A.k.a.: Lee Noonan
Aircooled Master
Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138% - YIKES --
Posts: 11654
Threads: 449
Registered: August 31st, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: SCONE in UPPER HUNTER VALLEY NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Yellow
Mood: Really Mentally Ill - all of the time -
|
| posted on March 27th, 2007 at 05:44 PM |
|
|
I agree..
the photo doesn't look real.....
but used tyres Is a big problem..
Everywhere....
Thousands are Illegally dumped every year....
Lee
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
|
|
|
Spook
Custom Title Time!
Driving the 64 wheeler
Posts: 1168
Threads: 83
Registered: August 26th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Central Coast
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: ALWAYS DARK
|
| posted on March 28th, 2007 at 03:25 AM |
|
|
It's hard for me to "tisk tisk" when I'd be responsible for twenty of them every couple of years or so.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
|
|
|
rose
Veteran Volks Folk
doin it for d girls
Posts: 2036
Threads: 308
Registered: December 26th, 2004
Member Is Offline
Location: Maryland - Newcastle
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Red
Mood: always happy
|
| posted on March 28th, 2007 at 08:24 AM |
|
|
a pick of what's left after the last drag session.
[img][/img]
|
|
|
BASHOdi
Wolfsburg Wizard
Posts: 441
Threads: 94
Registered: November 1st, 2006
Member Is Offline
Location: QLD
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on March 28th, 2007 at 11:20 AM |
|
|
| Quote: | Originally
posted by remm340912
its an awful site and i hope that guy in Oz is making a killing selling the technology to everyone. Apparently in america the tyre yards have been the
breeding ground for dengui fever or something very similar to that.
|
It's called amerikinutus feverus and the side effects include-but are not limited to - a rabid desire to invade other countries, compulsively
detaining allies citizens, gross eating dissorders, (and on the good side ) shooting each other , there are many more prime and secondary side effects
I shall leave them to othes to list should they care to.
:beer
Al .
[ Edited on 28-3-2007 by BASHOdi ]
|
|
|
Wild1
A.k.a.: marty
Wolfsburg Wizard
Posts: 448
Threads: 34
Registered: June 5th, 2006
Member Is Offline
Location: Sunny Melbourne
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Purple
Mood: Green!
|
| posted on March 28th, 2007 at 02:56 PM |
|
|
oxford tyre pile
|
|
|
