Twin Peaks, David Lynch/Mark Frost
~ The Pleasures of Ignorance, by Robert Lynd, 1921
A newly arrived box containing seeds from Japan and America is carried into the international gene bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault outside Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen, Norway, March 1st 2016. Credit: Reuters/Heiko Junge
This is pretty cool… and kinda apocalyptic.
A guide to the “10 Signs of Greenwash”:
- Fluffy language: Words or terms with no clear meaning (e.g., “eco-friendly”).
- Green product vs. dirty company: Such as efficient lightbulbs made in a factory that pollutes rivers.
- Suggestive pictures: Green images that indicate a (unjustified) green impact (e.g., flowers blooming from exhaust pipes).
- Irrelevant claims: Emphasizing one tiny green attribute when everything else is not green.
- Best in class: Declaring you are slightly greener than the rest, even if the rest are pretty terrible.
- Just not credible: “Eco friendly” cigarettes, anyone? “Greening” a dangerous product doesn’t make it safe.
- Jargon: Information that only a scientist could check or understand.
- Imaginary friends: A “label” that looks like third-party endorsement — except that it’s made up.
- No proof: It could be right, but where’s the evidence?
- Outright lying: Totally fabricated claims or data.
AquaSonic
Project by FuturePerfect and the Between Music ensemble is music performed underwater in specialized water tanks designed for the musicians:
AquaSonic is the most ambitious project to date from Danish musicians Laila Skovmand and Robert Karlsson, in collaboration with members of their ensemble Between Music. The work presents five performers who submerge themselves in glass water tanks to play custom-made instruments and sing entirely underwater. Transformed inside these darkly glittering, aquatic chambers, they produce compositions that are both eerily melodic and powerfully resonant. AquaSonic is the culmination of years of research into the exciting possibilities of submerged musical performance, breaking barriers and challenging existing paradigms. The artists conducted countless experiments in collaboration with deep-sea divers, instrument makers and scientists to develop entirely new, highly specialized subaqueous instruments. These include an underwater organ or hydraulophone, crystallophone, rotacorda, percussion and violin. The team also perfected a distinctive vocal technique for underwater singing. The result is a concert experience completely out of the ordinary; a deep dive into a magical new universe of images and sounds.
amazing
(n.) cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together. -Carl Sagan