Thursday, October 10th, 2013
New York City
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Let's Look At This Brooklyn Place Everyone Is Talking About
Alex Balk @ 10:00 am


Those of you who believe that the best view of Brooklyn is from anywhere else will appreciate this video and its preview of 'All Day,' a digital art thing that "lets viewers virtually fly over Brooklyn thanks to photographs that were shot from rooftops around the borough. The work will play on the giant outdoor oculus at the Barclays Center," which I guess is where those of you who are okay with the view of Brooklyn from within that borough can go to see it, starting today.

ach of us, sometime and somewhere in our lives, has been profoundly moved by a piece of art; a song, a poem, a book, a painting or a film. The values and desires inherent here become absorbed into our psyche, they inform our response, and are embedded to form the person we can be and the societies we construct.

With this notion Cape Farewell has, since 2001, been collaborating with the world's leading climate scientists and our most influential artists to create a cultural response to climate change. Climate change is a by-product of our over stimulated complex societies. The solution is not complex: replace our energy supply, currently dependent on burning coal, oil and gas, with something a little more sophisticated and environmentally friendly. So far we haven't figured out how to do this.

We believe climate change is a cultural, social and economic challenge, and we have to move beyond the scientific and rational debate to address it. By bringing together artists, scientists, communicators and cultural opinion formers, we endeavour to develop creative 'works' that act as a catalyst for change. Using creativity to innovate, we engage artists, writers, poets, musicians and filmmakers for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating - on an emotional level and on a human scale - the urgency of the global climate challenge.