Ever wonder what London might look like should ocean levels rise due to global warming? Production company Squint/Opera envisioned just this scenario for the 2008 London Festival of Architecture. Taking their cue from Victorian Landscape painters, Squint/Opera used a mix of photography, digital manipulation and architectural renderings to create stunning, if not idealistic scenes that beg the question, “Would it really be so bad after all?”
“Flooded London is a series of images that will present Squint Opera’s long-term view of London and how the population has adapted to raised sea levels. The general scenario is set 80 or so years into the future, long after the sea levels have risen. The catastrophe side of the sea coming in has long since past and the five images are snapshots of people going about their lives, long since having adapted to the worlds new circumstance. The five scenes shown through light boxes present London as a tranquil utopia with the architecture of the distant rat race suspended below the water.”
Browse through these images here
Orange Girl changed my life.
The encounter happened while visiting my friends design studio one afternoon, early in my first semester of Art College. Her studio walls were covered with bits and pieces of creative inspiration, and crowded within all of this visual pudding was an Orange Girl postcard … then another … and another. Up until then, I didn’t know what creative career to choose, and as I stood memorizing each detail of Kirsty Tweed’s images, I decided photography would be the path I would take.
Now, as fate would have it, I work for Veer, and Orange Girl is part of our collection …
Check out some of her images in a lightbox I created here or, visit her website at www.orangegirlphotographs.com and click on Orange Girl to see the full series.
Orange Girl may not change your life, but it might just make your day a bit more colorful.
Alberta-grown wheat straw will, for the first time in print history, be used to publish the Canadian Geographic annual environmental issue. As they mention on their website, “It’s our message to magazine publishers and pulp-producers alike, that adding agricultural waste to pulp mix can offer farmers a new source of revenue and cut down on the demand of pulp from our boreal forests.”
Grab your copy today, and support this initiative which, I hope, will revolutionize the print industry in North America!
