a ecosystemic soundscape project!
Lake Clifton Festival Sunday 18 April from 10 am In the grounds of Cape Bouvard Wines – via Lakeside Parkway or Clifton Downs Road. Bring the family, bring the picnic basket, buy a bottle of vino/lunch and enjoy the music, art, walks and surrounds…
A message from Mandurah: Let’s get passionate about a silent, patient, unique and quite extraordinarily beautiful space in Mandurah that was recently recognised by one of the world’s foremost landscape writers as the most spectacular place he has ever visited. About the fact that one of its natural features* created the very first oxygen …
Released yesterday by the Minister for Climate Change and Water, the Hon. Penny Wong, the report forecast reductions in runoff in South West Western Australia up to 49% over the next 20 years.
We disturbed a spoonbill roosting on the thrombolites. Musk duck calls out his territory in the water nearby. These were quite squishy to the touch and birds had been pooing on them. Close up of one of the lithified stones. I think this has been turned over when they dug the drain. It shows …
On Monday (8 February) I visited Lake Richmond, Lake Walyungup and Lake Clifton. At each site I saw pelicans in the sky.
Wish I had been there… http://blog.humlab.umu.se/?p=1356 multidisciplinary seminar to take place in HUMlab on December 16th. 1-5pm. 16 December 2009, 1 – 5pm, ?HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden The seminar explored questions such as: How does GPS affect our understanding of landscape? What are the cultural implications of GPS and GIS for the audience and for …
Well are they dead or are they alive? There have certainly been considerable changes in the microbial communities in the thrombolites in the last 10 years. Yesterday the Lake Clifton thrombolites were listed as critically endangered under the Federal EPBC Act under the following criteria Criterion 2 as critically endangered because its geographic distribution …
Lake Clifton thrombolites declared a critically endangered community Read More »
Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. This is a film called Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip by Leo Murray. Does it explain or hinder? Does it paralyse or promote action? Rhetoric or persuasion? I liked the poor man carrying the fat man …
Taken at sunrise at Lake Hayward it represents to me the complexity of ecosystems which I wish to convey in the final work.
Unfortunately no image but an interesting project: Birdland is an immersive sound work. Set in a 3D game construction space, visuals are minimalised and sound is maximalised in order to experiment with sensations, perceptions and flows of listening. Within the space, the user glides freely around sculptural, architectural and topological formations. The project aims …
Banks Island, Canada – Expanded Ranges. The Inuit now regularly see species common much further south that previously were never seen on the island, such as robins and barn swallows. Thunder and lightning, never before recorded in Inuit oral history, have also been reported. http://www.climatehotmap.org/namerica.html
Wash and Spin Cycle Threats to Tropical Biodiversity by Lian Pin Koh, Jaboury Ghazoul, Rhett A. Butler, William F. Laurance, Navjot S. Sodhi, Javier Mateo-Vega, and Corey J. A. Bradshaw An article arguing that both sides of the environmental debate can put out gloss, misleading or unsubstantiated claims about tropical deforestation. Greenwash is corporate, …
