Projects tagged
Film, Video & Photo
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Vacated
Read more: VacatedVacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning’s PLUTO dataset, and it leverages…
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In Search of Dignity and Justice
Read more: In Search of Dignity and JusticeIn Search of Dignity and Justice About 30,000 conservancy workers, also known as sweepers, are employed by the Great Bombay Municipal Corporation. These workers collect the city’s garbage, sweep the streets, clean the gutters, load and unload garbage trucks and…
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Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to him
Read more: Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to himA deaf man was moved to tears after learning that his neighbourhood had learned sign language just for him to promote the heartwarming message: ‘A world without barriers is our dream’. Muharrem was unwittingly placed at the centre of an…
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Activists Use Balloons to Drop 10,000 Copies of The Interview Into North Korea
Read more: Activists Use Balloons to Drop 10,000 Copies of The Interview Into North KoreaA group of South Korean activists is determined to send copies of The Interview across the North Korean border, despite threats from the state to respond with “cannons or missiles” if the plan succeeds. Around March 26, the dissidents will…
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#DearMe
Read more: #DearMeFrom Variety: YouTube launched a campaign with the hashtag #DearMe — encouraging users to upload “video letters” with advice to their younger selves, aimed at helping girls deal with problems — and within an hour it became the No. 1…
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WeiweiCam
Read more: WeiweiCamWeiweiCam is a self-surveillance project by artist Ai Weiwei that went live on April 3, 2012, exactly one year after the artist’s detention by Chinese officials at Beijing Airport.[1] At least fifteen surveillance cameras monitor his house in Beijing[2] which,…
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The Crossroads Project
Read more: The Crossroads ProjectThis month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of China
Read more: Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of ChinaThe Breath of China is a thematic photo exhibition of thousands of air-quality images taken by 44 photographers in 34 Chinese capital cities. The exhibition was displayed on the 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIPF) in Shanxi Province, from September…
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On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens.
Read more: On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens.On the Internet people only look at pictures of kittens. British street artist Banksy has posted pictures and video of works made during a trip to the war-torn Gaza Strip. One shows a figure reminiscent of Rodin’s “The Thinker” —…
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When I Walk
Read more: When I WalkIn 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs had stopped working; his disease could no longer be ignored. Just a few months earlier…