#projecting change

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The whole world is singing. But we’ve stopped listening.

Racing Extinction 

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Kali takes over the Empire State Building (1st Aug 2015)

from Huff Post India  - “Goddess Kali takes over Empire State building in New York. The breathtaking artwork was displayed by filmmaker Louie Psihoyos and his team as a part of Projecting Change. Artist Android Jones designed it”

Kali is the Hindu Goddess of Time, Change, Power, Destruction and Empowerment

[newyorker]

Between 9 P.M. and midnight on Saturday, the southern face of the Empire State Building became a giant projection screen filled with images of a snow leopard, a manta ray, and other imperilled land and sea creatures. The event, “Projecting Change: The Empire State Building,” devised by Louie Psihoyos, the executive director of Oceanic Preservation Society, and the filmmaker and photographer Travis Threlkel, was a union of art, activism, and ambitious publicity stunt, designed to call attention to the plight of endangered species.

Watch the full video, produced by Nathan Fitch, on newyorker.com.

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Static cam view of “Projecting Change” at the Empire State Building, 8/1/15.  

From the Oceanic Preservation Society:

Manta rays, 40 stories high. Blue whales swimming hundreds of feet above the city streets. The vision of Academy Award® winning, RACING EXTINCTION director Louie Psihoyos and world-renowned visual artist Travis Threlkel (Chief Creative Officer of Obscura Digital), this projection event on one of the world’s most iconic buildings will catalyze a movement to preserve the real treasure of our beautiful planet: its life. Music from RACING EXTINCTION by Academy Award® nominated composer J. Ralph. Tune in at 9pm EDT on 8.1.15 and follow along at #racingextinction and racingextinction.com Projecting Change: the Empire State Building is produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society and Obscura Digital, in collaboration with Discovery Channel, Vulcan Productions, Photo Ark, the Li Ka-Shing Foundation and Empire State Building Trust.

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Cecil The Lion Projected Onto Empire State Building With Other Endangered Animals

A glowing image of murdered Cecil the Lion has been projected onto the Empire State Building in New York, to raise awareness of endangered animals like Cecil, who was killed by American dentist Walter Palmer, sparking outrage around the world.

Cecil was among a range of animals projected onto the iconic building, including a tiger, eagle, whale and lizard, in a show which trilled spectators on Saturday night in the US.

The images of Cecil and other creatures covered 33 floors of the building in an eight-minute video loop, and could be seen for miles around.

The "Projecting Change on the Empire State Building" show was created by Louie Psihoyos, director of the Oscar-winning 2009 film "The Cove," which raised awareness of Japan's brutal dolphin-hunting industry. 

The event was created to help promote a Discovery channel documentary, "Racing Extinction," which is set to air in December, but comes just as people around the world are calling out for an end to poaching and hunting endangered animals.

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posted by Margaret

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w91i1X9UgrY)

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"The United Nations Department of Public Information, Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS), founded by photographer and Academy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos (THE COVE), and Obscura Digital, a creative technology studio that has staged multi-sensory media experiences all over the globe, lit up the United Nations headquarters in a revolutionary call to action for citizens of the world to demand action from their leaders to protect the world’s ecosystems.

illUmiNations will also be the culminating moment in OPS’s latest film, RACING EXTINCTION, which takes a candid look at the current state of the planet’s health, exposing the causes behind the rapidly increasing rate of extinction among animal and plant species.

The visual showcase created by OPS and Obscura, was funded by TheDodo.com and the Lerer Family Foundation as well as an anonymous donor, and produced in conjunction with Okeanos – Foundation for the Sea, Vulcan Productions and Millennium Art."