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Posted by: barbamz, 18. helmikuuta 2013 klo 20:46 (GMT)

Because in the main blog many shared my great amazement of this video I just collected some infos on the film "Chasing ice". I wish I can see the whole film in Germany soon!

"CHASING ICE" captures largest glacier calving ever filmed - OFFICIAL VIDEO

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Chasing Ice (2012) has already won 30 awards at film festivals around the world until now (Feb 2013).

Website of the film: http://www.chasingice.com/

Trailer of the whole film:

Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice, Balog deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate. Traveling with a team of young adventurers across the brutal Arctic, Balog risks his career and his well-being in pursuit of the biggest story facing humanity. As the debate polarizes America, and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Chasing Ice depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to deliver fragile hope to our carbon-powered planet. -- (C) Submarine

PG-13, 1 hr. 14 min.
Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By: Jeff Orlowski
Written By: Mark Monroe
In Theaters: Nov 9, 2012 Limited

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Filming on thin ice: Recording the devastation of climate change isn't easy

Environmental photographer James Balog reveals how his cameras kept getting buried in the snow while shooting the haunting documentary 'Chasing Ice'.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This is certainly true in Chasing Ice, Jeff Orlowski's haunting documentary about the acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog's mission to show people climate change in action.

The film combines human drama, art and science in a way that eluded An Inconvenient Truth, six years ago. That documentary – essentially a film of former US Vice-President Al Gore's travelling Powerpoint presentation about global warming – "did a tremendous global public service in bringing this story out into the general awareness," says Balog across a table in a London hotel.

However, he argues, Gore's political background "allowed the denier community to turn climate change into a political football. I think that's been unfortunate at best. In a lot of respects it's been unethical and immoral... This is a universal issue that affects us all, liberal and conservative, and it should be addressed as such."

Balog, a trained geomorphologist, admits that 25 years ago he was a sceptic, or at least indifferent to the issue, himself. Photographic projects about endangered species, tropical deforestation, and elephants being slaughtered were giving him enough to worry about. "So, when I'm hearing about climate change, back then," he says, "it's like, 'C'mon, leave me out of it. I don't want to hear about it.'"

The turning point came in the late Nineties, when he learned about how bubbles of ancient air trapped in Arctic ice were revealing a correlation between rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and human activity.

"Prior to that time I thought the science was all about computer models, and I knew that computer models were only as good as the data put in," he says. "When I realised that it was about physical evidence preserved in those layers, I thought, 'OK, this is real.'"

The story was so big, Balog couldn't avoid it any longer. He knew he had to find a way to address the issue artistically, and believed that, pictorially, the story would be in the ice in the Polar and Alpine regions.

He had already taken the photographer's first step of falling in love with his subject as a young climber and scientist. Even so, "I didn't know how to do ice in a way that would be compelling enough and unique enough and innovative enough to satisfy me," he says.

Read the whole article on: The Independent

A lot more of reviews and informations on the U.K.website: http://chasingice.co.uk/

Updated: 19. helmikuuta 2013 klo 19:29 (GMT)

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Seasons changing

Posted by: barbamz, 28. syyskuuta 2012 klo 21:36 (GMT)

Very calm Friday evening during snowfall in Mainz (Germany), just around the corner of my place in the midst of the historic city. Dec 7th 2012

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Just some impressions from ten days in Italy / northern Toscana (Tuscany) in September, but first some music we used to listen from dear old Adriano

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Calm winter evening in the old city

Updated: 9. joulukuuta 2012 klo 17:38 (GMT)

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Christmas Star

Posted by: barbamz, 25. joulukuuta 2011 klo 21:24 (GMT)

Merry Christmas to all of you from Germany!Yesterday at Christmas Eve we witnessed a very special Christmas star. When night fell in at 17:30 (5:30 pm), I've been with my family on the highway approaching Frankfurt and it's big airport from the East. Lots of airplanes were in the air. Suddenly in front of us a fireball with a long bright tail gained our attention. Behind us the thing exploded in the sky like a firework (I couldn't see this part of the event but my n...

Updated: 25. joulukuuta 2011 klo 21:29 (GMT)

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Space weather storms

Posted by: barbamz, 8. elokuuta 2011 klo 21:53 (GMT)

Update Aug 10th 2011:Solar Flares: What Does It Take to Be X-Class? Sun Emits an X-Class Flare On August 9, 2011ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The number of solar flares increases approximately every 11 years, and the sun is currently moving towards another sola...

Updated: 11. elokuuta 2011 klo 00:31 (GMT)

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Storm warning by I am Kloot

Posted by: barbamz, 29. toukokuuta 2011 klo 11:08 (GMT)

Nice song for the season by my favourite group from Manchester/UK: Storm warning!Live version:

Updated: 29. toukokuuta 2011 klo 11:40 (GMT)

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