(This Photo: Book Shelf, Paper and Wood, by Pascal Soboll. Installed at IDEO.)
IDEO hosted a dinner presentation by photographer, and TED Prize winner, Edward Burtynsky.
He has a wonderful series of photos on the theme of nature transformed through industry, with an emphasis on the age of oil, and on photos of immense scale. The enigma of beauty pervades his works, from shipbreaking to quarries. (He hasn’t covered the strip mine in the middle of Silicon Valley yet. =)
Check out his Three Gorges Dam portfolio. It is the world’s largest construction project. “When they filled the reservoir, scientists on the other side of the planet could detect an induced wobble in the Earth’s rotation. It will generate the equivalent electricity of 18 nuclear power plants. In 6 months, China relocated 1.2 million people and leveled 11 cities in the flood plain.”
Another quote from the evening: “Stills give veracity to reality.”
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