A movie about dolphins at "The Cove"

If you haven't seen it yet, or heard of it:
Dolphins arguably are the largest, non-human, brained mammal.

Dolphins communicate through language.

Dolphins have been know to save the lives of humans, sailors drowning have attributed the aid of a dolphin in their survival.

Dolphin meat is sold, loaded with toxic chemicals in place of whale meat and to school children.

A flipper look-a-like sells for $150,000.00

During the Greek era, harming a Dolphin was punishable by death.

In Japan, at a Nature Reserve called the cove, the slaughter of thousands of dolphins is occurring. Their cries for help and their massacre was covertly filmed and recorded by evading the police, hidden cameras, unmanned helicopters and with countless hours spent hiding on the edge of a cliff.

"But in a remote, glistening cove, surrounded by barbed wire and “Keep Out” signs, lies a dark reality. It is here, under cover of night, that the fishermen of Taiji, driven by a multi-billion dollar dolphin entertainment industry and an underhanded market for mercury-tainted dolphin meat, engage in an unseen hunt. The nature of what they do is so chilling -- and the consequences are so dangerous to human health -- they will go to great lengths to halt anyone from seeing it."

This movie has won almost everywhere award available to Documentary film making

http://thecovemovie.com/

Congratulations to Lu Guang

Congratulations to Lu Guang for winning the coveted Grant in Humanistic Photography by the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. He has created striking imagery over the past 5 years documenting the ecological disasters in China.

Born in 1961 in Zhejiang Province, China, Lu Guang has been enamored with photography from the moment he held the camera for the first time in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown of Yongkang County. From 1993 to 1995, he studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Tsinghua University in Beijing. A freelancer since 1993, his focus has been stories on major social and environmental issues in his own country. His photographic projects include essays on gold diggers, small coal mines, the SARS epidemic, drug addiction, AIDS villages in Henan Province, the Qinghai-Tibet railway.

Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China resulting from the rapid growth of the economy since 2005, focusing on environmental pollution and the problem of schistosomiasis (bilharzia). Over the last three decades, peoples' living standards have constantly been on the rise in the country. At the same time, industrial pollution has brought serious consequences for public health and for the environment at large.

A Story of Cuba

This is an artistic short- that is, images set to sounds and music which tell a story of Cuba and it people. These images were taken during the most recent of three trips to the Island.

I encourage you to view this in full screen mode with the volume set high so as not to miss any sound bites and imagery.

For those of you who viewed the first edit, most of the changes come in the last five minutes although some minor alterations have been made in the beginning.

Let this load a minute, you'll avoid it skipping. (the short is approx 8min long)

A Story of Cuba- from Marlon Krieger on Vimeo.

China: A trailer

This is an excerpt from the trailer exhibited at "Short and Sweet" in London about a year ago: