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The University of Arizona Biosphere 2 science research facility

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This is the second ad for our magazine, for the fictional Museum of Earth and Nature, or MEN. This advertises their world famous Tree exhibition. In our future, development has eradicated most of the trees, further destroying the air, as trees help remove carbon from the air.

This exhibition, shown in a closed ecosystem, like the Biosphere 2 in Arizona, would be one of the few placed where the public could enjoy a mask free experience.

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This is one of our ads in our publication. Luxury air masks.

I wanted it to mirror a lot of high end ads, usually selling luxury cars, or perfume. I also liked the idea of the tag line referencing the fact that being able to see a persons smile would be a precious thing.

If your mouth is covered by a mask, how do you communicate your moods easily, how to you kiss the people you love. It creates a barrier.

I also wanted there to be this irony that a magazine about fighting back against the government and their greed would then have an ad, that advertises air masks.

The ad is painted using photoshop, and the models are referenced from a photo shoot, the two actors are from a TV show called Outlander.

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This movie is a great one for looking at how humans respond to a hopeless future. Well worth watching.

This movie was the seed from where our ideas for our publication grew.

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This movie has similar ideas to our idea of the future using our own air as a commodity. In this movie, time is the commodity, where the rich can live forever, while the poor die young.

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Initial brainstorm of concepts relating to the assessment topic

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ARTIST INFLUENCE: David Belt

‘Glassphemy!’, 2010

In a bid to make recycling more engaging, David Belt, along with his company ‘Macro sea’, created ‘Glassphemy!’ a public installation in Brooklyn in which participants can simultaneously release their aggression as well as do their part in helping the environment.

“People stand on a high platform at one end of the box and a low platform on the other. Those on the higher platform take empty glass bottles and just chuck ’em into the box — aiming, perhaps, at their compatriots across the way, who are safely outside the onslaught zone. The bottles smash fantastically, artfully designed lights flash, and no one is harmed.”

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

“Taking care of the world’s ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today. Not only will this first cleanup array contribute to cleaner waters and coasts but it simultaneously is an essential step towards our goal of cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This deployment will enable us to study the system’s efficiency and durability over time,” Boyan Slat

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of 2 masses of swirling garbage islands, One between Hawaii and California and one near Japan. Plastics and other non-biodegradable materials that are thrown into the world’s oceans are swept there by ocean currents and continue to collect and grow posing an ever-growing danger to marine life.

The ocean can never dissolve the garbage only making it more dangerous by breaking it down to small particles of plastic known as micro plastics which can over time collect in marine animals and bird life eventually killing them. Over 100,000 mammals and over 1,000,000 sea birds die to this micro plastics each year.

Next year, The Ocean Cleanup company, founded by Slat will be deploying the world’s first ever stem to passively can the Earth’s ocean on a large scale. This machine was first generated as an idea when he went on a diving trip in Greece seeing more plastic that marine life. The machine will use the ocean’s natural currents to direct the debris together when it can then be collected into solid floating barriers and be recycled.

The ocean cleaning machine will span 2000m and will be launched off the coast of Japan’s Tsushima island next year starting the world’s biggest ocean cleanup.

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Surrounded Islands

On the 4th of May, 1983, Christo and Jeanne-Claude installed their work, Surrounded Islands, in Miami, Florida. The installation was completed 3 days later and stretched between the city of Miami, North Miami, the Village of Miami Shores and Miami Beach. 11 of the uninhabited islands were surrounded with 603,870 square meters of floating pink woven polypropylene fabric covering the surface of the water and extending out 61 meters from each island. The fabric was generated from 79 fabric patterns to follow the contours of 11 differently shaped island. Surrounded Islands was tended to day and night by 120 monitors in inflatable boats and the man power of 430 people.

Surrounded Islands was a work of art undermining the various elements and ways in which the people of Miami live, between land and water. During the process of installing the polypropylene, marine and land crew collected debris from the eleven islands,  and carted it away after they had removed near forty tons of various garbage that included refrigerator doors, tires, kitchen sinks and an abandoned boats.  

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Sculpture Experimentation

We plan to include a cover story which discusses a social media campaign we called #SAVEURBREATH. We decided to make artworks out of plastic bags to fabricate a creative arts movement that aims to encourage public awareness about the state of the air in a world with little to no breathable oxygen.

These are different iterations of our plastic bag sculpture in several contexts around campus. 

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Magazine Cover Story Photos 

Our plastic bag ‘sculpture’ suspended in the air in different environments. The work was to represent the capturing of air through plastic bags in a bid to comment on the state of the deteriorating air supply - there is irony is in the fact that plastic bags are another environmental concern.

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Another way the Bag Sculpture was documented. Feels a little alien, like space.

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This is one of our sculptures, this one illuminated by led lights. I find the close up shots very effective with the colours and the texture from the bags. The blue glow makes me think of air and water, both containing oxygen, our endangered resource.

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One of our Bag sculptures. Combination of plastic bags and Balloons. This one will also have an illumination element, using battery powered led lights.

The idea behind these sculptures is to have the element of ‘pollution’ hold inside our breath. These sculptures are the artworks of our #saveurbreathe campaigne, as we encourage people across the world to work on fixing the condition of the air, from something as simple as turning off a light, to planting a tree to help purify our air.

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Basic layout of our Carbon. Magazine.

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More exploration of Magazine layout

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Looking into the layout of the magazine.