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Sound As You’ve Never Seen it Before
People become trains, trains become movement and sound, and time blurs into past, present and future simultaneously. Meet Semiconductor, a Brighton-based artist duo obsessed with our environment, landscape, architecture, chaos theory and other subjects. In creative and original fashion, they have been creating cutting-edge digital artworks – their sound films – since 1999.
Continue reading...When Seagulls Attack!
Monday, September 21, 2009
The squawking laughter is enough to send a Hitchcockian chill up anyone’s spine, though if you live anywhere near the coast – or increasingly in cities further inland – seagulls are as ubiquitous as pigeons. But bigger. And much more vicious. Every year, new reports telling similar stories rear their ugly head, with headlines shrieking warnings about gulls terrorising people, particularly in the soft underbelly of the British Isles. Hold onto your chips.
Continue reading...This is What Happens When it Snows in Britain
Thursday, February 5, 2009
It’s not all that often it snows heavily throughout the UK, but when it does, boy do the Brits revel in it. Amidst all the disaster stories and tales of transport network chaos – talk about not being able to cope! – there is a brighter side to the good old cold stuff. Indeed, all the recent snowfall seems to have gone to people’s heads – and certainly brought out their, erm, creative sides if these pictures are anything to go by.
Continue reading...The Crazy World of Extreme Snowboarding
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
For most of us snowboarding is pretty exciting, riding down mountains strapped to a board is something many of us either love or would love to try. However, some have been left wanting more and these riders have been at the forefront of the scene known as extreme snowboarding. To do this it means that you need to be an accomplished rider in good physical shape and with a great knowledge of the slopes and their dangers.
Continue reading...WTF? Vessel Too Toxic for Bangladeshi Ship Breakers Sent to UK
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Image by Flickr user Peter_32 Ship breakers in Bangladesh toil in conditions that resemble hell on earth, breaking rusting hulks by hand for little more than a dollar a day. But should we allow a former French aircraft carrier considered too dangerous for even these workers to be [...]
Continue reading...Eco-Nightclub Launches: Dancers Generate Electricity
Friday, June 20, 2008
Image by Steve&Sara With a bouncing floor and a series of power generating blocks, the first eco-nightclub in Britain will open its gates on July 10, in London. The bar is supposedly powered by renewable energy and will serve organic spirits in polycarbon cups. It also has plans [...]
Continue reading...Amazon Selling for $50Bn, Brazilians Not Happy
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Image from Keepps Johan Eliasch, Gordon Brown’s deforestation advisor took a step towards joining the ranks of American politicians who don’t know what a national border and sovereignty means by claiming that the entirety of the Amazon rain forest could, and should, be purchased in order to protect [...]
Continue reading...Grand Theft Magnolia: Brits Get Gardens Looted
Monday, May 5, 2008
Image from Wikimedia Commons We’ve already established my gardening bona fides, so you’ll understand the abject shock that I came under when the following item came to my attention: plant theft is sweeping the British Isles. I’ve always been surrounded by trees and flowers and shrubs. I still [...]
Continue reading...Biofools
Monday, March 24, 2008
It would be great if biofuels provided a magic method for us to combat carbon emissions without changing our lifestyles, but sadly they don’t. Image via thoughts on global warming Impacts of adoption of biofuels on food prices are already well documented. Now scientists are
Continue reading...Mutilated Dolphins Wash Up on UK Beaches
Monday, March 24, 2008
Conservationists are in a panic over the increasingly large numbers of mutilated sea mammals appearing on British shores. Image by Kiwi Sonja 28 dolphins and porpoises have been found dead on southwest England’s beaches since the new year, compared to 80 during all of 2007. Conservationists
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
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