Thursday, November 26, 2009

Scream My Name!!!

Objectified.


Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?

Friday, November 20, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

FYI...earth2100


The two-hour special explores what a worst-case future might look like if humans do not take action on current or impending problems that could threaten civilization. The problems addressed in the program include climate change, overpopulation, and misuse of energy resources.
"this program was developed to show the worst-case scenario for human civilization. Again, we are not saying that these events will happen — rather, that if we fail to seriously address the complex problems of climate change, resource depletion and overpopulation, they are much more likely to happen." -Executive Producer Michael Bicks


Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009

A Plant's-Eye View of the World


BOTANY OF DESIRE tells the utterly original story of four everyday plants and the way they have domesticated humankind. In 1983 Michael Pollan and his wife left New York City to make a new home on an abandoned dairy farm. Pursuing a childhood fascination with gardening and an old-fashioned hubris about his ability to control nature, Pollan set about creating a garden. He had no way of knowing that it would eventually lead him to an original and provocative re-interpretation of the relationship between plants and people. This two-hour documentary, based on Pollan's best selling book The Botany of Desire, takes viewers from the potato fields of Peru and Idaho to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from the tulip markets of Amsterdam to the medical marijuana grow rooms of the United States. Along the way, the program will explore the natural history of the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato– and the human desires that link their destinies to our own

Full-Length Program:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1283872815/

http://www.michaelpollan.com/

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

317 & COUNTING...

For over two decades, Steven Meisel has created every cover and lead editorial story for each issue of Vogue Italia. 317 & COUNTING gathers the 317 covers made by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia from 1988 to 2009. Published by Mallard/Javier the limited edition is still on sale!
http://www.mallard-janvier.com/