Accra - Agbogbloshie Sodom and Gomorrah uncommercial-Short-Mood-Documentary
by Chris Caliman
2011
Canon 7D
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla - Can Light Be Found in the Darkness?
Agbogbloshie is a suburb of Accra, Ghana known as a destination for legal and illegal exportation and environmental dumping of electronic waste (e-waste) from industrialized nations. Often referred to as a "digital dumping ground", millions of tons of e-waste are processed each year in Agbogbloshie
Processing electronic waste presents a serious health threat to workers at Agbogbloshie. The fumes released from the burning of the plastics and metals used in electronics are composed of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. Workers often inhale lead, cadmium,dioxins, furans, phthalates and brominated flame retardants.
Exposure to these fumes is especially hazardous to children, as these toxins are known to inhibit the development of the reproductive system, the nervous system and the brain.
This short Mood-Documentary is recutted from the material of the german Documentary "Die Kinder der Toxic City" which i shot this year as a second dop with Jürgen Steiger as the first dop with Christian Bock
-director- in Ghana.
Bologna - Teatro Comunale È un popolo morto Quello senza un anima. E noi, la nostra, l'abbiamo svenduta al peggior offerente. Nniiccoollaa February 2011
"cascato è il cavo cielo & la cometa
cresta è di cotte croste & cruda creta:
celibe è il cosmo, in chiara crisi cronica,
cubo cilindro & circumsfera conica:
crocida il corvo, cuculia il cuculo,
chiucchiurla il chiurlo & crepita col culo:
cecato mi è il colòn, cacato ho il cazzo,
chiudi 'sta cantilena, can cagnazzo:"
Valencia - Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias FutureStation Valencia-Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències-
Nikon D90 + 18-105mm HDR Raffaele Preti September 2011
San Francisco - Bikeway mural USA, San Francisco, StreetArt : bikeway mural
www.monacaron.com/mural.html The Bikeway mural by Mona Caron
"The mural celebrates and enriches the car-free public space created by the new Duboce Avenue Bikeway-the first time cars have been excluded from a San Francisco street to make room for bikes and pedestrians. The mural emphasizes the special role in the city of the bikeway itself: At the center of the block long, 6,075 square foot mural is a depiction of the bikeway itself, (complete with its mural,) in geographic and historical context along the ancient streambed which cyclists follow to avoid hills. (The zig-zagging route is now known as "the Wiggle.") To the east of the Wiggle is Downtown, to the West, residential neighborhoods, Golden Gate Park and, finally, the beach. The mural extols the joys of bicycling, walking, skating etc, but it also alludes to the political and ecological implications of choosing to get around by non polluting, low budget means: Towards the west (right) end of the mural, a close up view of the ground, where plants and the footprints of animals mingle with a bike track, symbolizes the closer connection to, awareness of, and low impact on nature that such a choice brings. At the east end of the wall (downtown), Market Street's bicycles are seen transforming into pedal-powered flying machines which rise out of the morass of pollution and gridlock. The scene alludes to the subversive nature of Critical Mass in particular, and generally symbolizes the freedom experienced by those with visions of alternatives to the status quo, represented in the mural by frowning corporate skyscrapers. Each of the flying contraptions trails its pilot's dream of utopia in the form of a golden banner. The whole rest of the mural, westwards from this scene, starts in the shape of one of these golden banners, suggesting that this mural depicts just one of many ideas that make up our collective vision. Ours happens to deal with the issue of transportation, and the City depicted in the rest of the mural is a traffic and pollution free one, where the community takes back the space which now fragments it: the street."