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Freshfield Icefield

LSP — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:06:27 +0000

Part 3 of the beautifully made mini films of last season by Jordan Manley…

Freshfield Icefield: A Skier’s Journey Ep3 from Jordan Manley Photography on Vimeo.

Oil in Eden: The Battle to Protect Canada’s Pacific Coast

LSP — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:40:04 +0000

Props to Kas for pointing me to this…

Oil in Eden: The Battle to Protect Canada’s Pacific Coast from Pacific Wild on Vimeo.

It’s one of the last bastions of Canadian wilderness: the Great Bear Rainforest, on BC’s north and central Pacific coast. Home to bountiful marine mammals, fish, and wildlife – from orca and humpback whales to wild salmon, wolves, grizzlies, and the legendary spirit bear – this spectacular place is now threatened by a proposal from Enbridge to bring an oil pipeline and supertankers to this fragile and rugged coast.

The plan is to pump over half a million barrels a day of unrefined bitumen from the Alberta Tar Sands over the Rockies, through the heartland of BC – crossing a thousand rivers and streams in the process – to the Port of Kitimat, in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. From there, supertankers would ply the rough and dangerous waters of the BC coast en route to Asia and the United States. Dubbed the Northern Gateway Pipeline, the project is of concern for three main reasons: 1. It would facilitate the expansion of the Tar Sands, hooking emerging Asian economies on the world’s dirtiest oil; 2. the risks from the pipeline itself; 3. the danger of introducing oil supertankers for the first time to this part of the BC coast.

Now a growing coalition of First Nations, conservation groups, and concerned citizens from Canada and around the world is banding together to say no the Enbridge project, in what is shaping up to be the defining Canadian environmental battle of our time. Produced by Canadian filmmaker Damien Gillis for Pacific Wild, This 16 min short documentary – featuring stunning images from the Great Bear Rainforest – provides a summary of the key issues involved in this battle over the pipeline, tankers, and Canada’s Pacific coast.

The dark side of the lens

LSP — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:21:35 +0000

Renowned photographer and body boarder Mickey Smith explores his world as a true waterman – both as an athlete and artist – and calls his latest piece The Dark Side of The Lens.

Epic epic footage…really inspiring…

Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan – Brad Kremer

LSP — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:55:08 +0000

Brad Kremer is better known for shooting snowboard movies but he obviously got the timelapse bug a few years back too.

I first saw his timelapsing here.

This is the best one I have seen yet…really inspiring.

Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan from Brad Kremer on Vimeo.

Loads more of his short films here.

Lives of the Artists: Follow me down

LSP — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:41:53 +0000

Lives Of The Artists: Follow Me Down is a documentary about artists on extraordinary adventures. Two of them, freeriders Jeremy Jones and Xavier De Le Rue, go on a maddening pursuit into Antarctica to snowboard down some of the most dangerous and unexplored terrain on earth. It also features James Lavelle as he tours with UNKLE across the world visiting Tokyo, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and London, giving us a glimpse into the energy and ambition behind these creative personalities.

Food Inc

LSP — Sun, 23 May 2010 11:35:03 +0000

I’m a little late on this as it was released in 2008 but just watched this profoundly important movie.
I imagine one of the reasons I had never heard of it is that it was probably denied publicity by pressure from the likes of Monsanto and other vested interests…

It is quite graphic at times, but it is hugely important to gain awareness of where our food comes from…

One of the biggest impressions I was left with was the massive centralisation of power and control in the food industry and the ineffectiveness of the bodies charged with regulating it. It seems that this process is systematic in many of the industries (banking comes to mind!) in the US in particular but also elsewhere in the world.

South Pacific

LSP — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:14 +0000

The South Pacific is a part of the world I have always wanted to visit, and will definitely be doing so in the not too distant future. Before leaving the UK, I watched the first 2 episodes of a great series on the whole South Pacific region, and through the luxury of torrents have been catching up on the rest of the episodes here (BBC Iplayer still hasnt gone international and I havent yet found a way to fool the site in to thinking I am in the UK)
The narrator went to my school too…(yea I know, typical middle England accent…)

Below is an incredible clip from episode 1, well worth downloading the whole thing if you like the look of it…

Another great bit of filming from an earlier BBC documentary: