1w26 An Inconvenient Truth

An Oscar winning 2006 documentary film directed by David Guggenheim and features former US Vice President Al Gore.  Gore presents his campaign on global warming and offers some startling facts and figures.  His passionate research details the patterns of nature that the planet endures and looks at predictions of the Earths imminent environmental collapse.

What I found particularly interesting were the charts and graphs that Gore presented, looking at the patterns of temperature over millions of years, this one showing the concentration of co2 levels measured in Hawaii over  a fifty year period

1w26 Environmental Risk Assessment Rover-AT by EcoArtTech

Produced by EcoArtTech in 2008, the Environmental Risk Assessment Rover-AT (ERAR-AT) is a mobile networked video installation, powered by GPS and solar power. When placed in a selected environment, the unit will collect data from its immediate surroundings, evaluate the threats and risks posed by global warming in the vicinity and then deliver its assessment through a projection that is displayed on the current surroundings, whether it be an architectural or organic space. Below is a typical projection showing a tiered threat level, along with a data recording and another view of the installation

More information can be found at http://www.ecoarttech.net/erar/index.html

1w13 Donggwang Solar Village, Jeju Island

I visited this village on Jeju Island, South Korea, last weekend.  The village is completely energy independent due to around 40 photovoltaic panels situated on the roofs of many homes and the local school.  The Korean government paid around 70% of the cost of the project to create the leading example of a state-of-the-art renewable energy village.  The surplus energy not required to power the village is distributed to the national energy grid.  I have tried to include power cables in some of the shots to enforce the fact that the solar panels generate electricity.

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Trying to capture the spirit of the solar village was quite disappointing really, as there was not much movement within the sequences.  On the last sequence, I realised that by increasing the length of time between the exposures would create movement of the shadows, as the sun was setting at the time.  The sequence consists of only 75 frames (3 seconds of footage) but taught me a valuable lesson that will be implemented when recording such scenes in the future.

1w13 Jeju Island Wind Farm

This weekend I flew out to Jeju Island to document their leading examples of renewable energy.  The first location I visited was Haengwon wind farm on the west of the island.  Although some of the images are lacking aesthetic quality, I feel that they will indeed support the debate.  I also feel that when the images are processed in HDR, they will contain more detail and therefor will have more appeal.

As the turbines provide electricity, I have tried to include power cables in some of the shots to enforce the fact that they generate power.

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