With fronds like these, who needs anemones?
Anemones make it to prime-time! Let’s hear more of our ocean friends in popular music.
Tag Archives for art
Colors of Cold
What color are the cold Pacific Northwest waters when you get below the surface? This movie answers that question in spades!
Contemplative Filmmaking
Does every movie need a plot and a punchline? I’d argue that it depends on the purpose of the movie. As both an approach and a practice, Contemplative Filmmaking is a way of seeing. It’s an expressive form with a kinship to poetry.
The Printer’s Catch: An Artist’s Guide to Pacific Coast Edible Marine Animals
Forget your parents’ admonitions to not play with your food. This book will guide you in the fine art of playing with your food in a way that will leave you with some fun art-making experience, a good dinner, and some insight into what these creatures do for a living. Where else can you view
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference, 2011
Not your father’s science conference. In addition to the usual, this one featured a gallery art show and a film festival.
THE DUCKS & US SONGBOOK MOVIE
This musical in a book is a refreshingly new treatment of diverse mindsets coming to terms with their relationships with the environment.
John Hemmen Art
One thing I especially like about the work of John Hemmen is exemplified in the accompanying image: showing not just fish but relationships.
Art in the Company of Science
The International Marine Conservation Congress (May 14-18, 2011 in Victoria BC) distinguished itself by incorporating art into the long days of technical talks by scientists. I reported earlier on a beautiful and moving song by a 10 year old who performed at the conference. A tall totem pole, a permanent part of the conference center
Bear & Salmon
This speaks of the full circle of life and how we are all connected. The bear feeds on the salmon and as it travels it contributes to the growth and well being of all that grow on our mountains.
Jan Kocian
Jan Kocian adorns his incredible underwater photos with drawings that allow the collages to tell more complete stories than the photos would by themselves.
Recent Media Articles
Ian’s Ride
In Ian’s Ride, Karen Polinsky tells an inspiring story of Ian Mackay learning ways to approach life after he had been paralyzed from the neck down. One of the things I especially liked about the story was how it focused on the process of finding solutions rather than dramatizing a negative view of the situation.
Our Oceans
A five-episode series, each one about a different ocean. The underwater video is stunning, and it does a good job of pointing out ecosystem interconnections.
The Accidental Ecosystem
Cities do, indeed, have their own ecosystems. These have developed over centuries of city growth, suburb growth, and other human impacts on the lands. This book added a new dimension to my understanding of how we are impacting nature.
Earth For All
Earth for All was published in 2022 as a report to The Club of Rome. As I read it, I realized that it was part of a “new wave” of literature about addressing our current global problems — a wave that was based on systems thinking.
Homewaters
I highly recommend Homewaters — for the way it introduces the components of the Puget Sound ecosystem, but especially for how it weaves the various parts together.