Natural History
The Cove Team Takes on LA
Whilst waiting to collect their Oscar, it seems that Louie Psihoyos, director of feature-length dolphin slasher documentary The Cove couldn’t help but indulge in a little more activisim, this time in a Santa Monica sushi bar call the Hump, which was suspected of serving illegal whale meat. Louie and his team turned up for dinner [...]
Brooklyn Brainery
Brooklyn Brainery is a new kind of night school. It hosts peer-to-peer classes on everything from Applied Meteorology to Paper Arts via Beauty School Dropout (the history and politics of make up), which are described as “book clubs on steroids”. Whilst class tutors know about the subject, their role is more one of guidance than [...]
Streetlight Storm
Artist Katie Paterson was commissioned by Vauxhall Motors to create an art work on the theme of re-inventing British classics. Paterson took a British seaside town as her inspiration and created an evocative work for Deal Pier. Along the length of the pier, out to sea, the lights flicker in time with lightning storms as [...]
iSpot
iSpot is a Lottery funded Open University project that allows people to upload their photos of wildlife sightings and discuss them or ask for help in identification. One of the latest observations is an albino squirrel in Hastings and grey seals near Falmouth. The site is UK focused but does accept worldwide sightings (although it [...]
Chimps in Mourning
National Geographic Magazine published a photo of a group of chimps at a sanctuary in Cameroon apparently mourning the death of one of their own, a female chimp in her late 40s called Dorothy, who died of congestive heart failure. Read the story behind the photo here.
Birdcam
As winter draws in and the birds return to your bird table you might want to make your own bird videos with the Wingscapes BirdCam, which is a weatherproof, motion-triggered camera you can attach to your bird feeder to get up close and personal photographs and moving images of the birds pecking at your nuts.
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Crappy Taxidermy
Crappy Taxidermy is a site dedicated to ill-executed, ill-advised or just plain wrong taxidermy specimens, from a rat covered in blood to a cat that appears to have turned into a vase. Let’s hope Benson – the 64lb 25-yr-old British carp that recently died, and is deeply mourned by the fishing community – doesn’t suffer [...]
The Endangered Species Project
More art with purpose: The Endangered Species Print Project produces prints of species that are at risk of extinction. Prints are $50 each and come in editions of how many animals of that species are left. So, for example, there are believed to be no more than 100 Panamanian Golden Frogs left in the wild, [...]
Do Lectures
Do Lectures – If you feel like you need some inspiration to get off your arras and do something head down to Cardigan Bay in West Wales on 3rd September for five days of inspirational talks in a woodland setting. Well, actually you can’t because you have to apply in advance and go into a [...]
Truck Farm
Truck Farm is a roving farm and film project set in Brooklyn. It’s run by filmmakers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney who have fitted out an old dodge truck with green roof technology and timelapse cameras to grow a flat bed of crops and record their progress. For a subscription of $20 you get updates [...]
