Currently the entire world has their eyes and ears glued to the media that is coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, depicting the travesty and devastation around the BP Oil Spill. This man-made natural disaster is slowly destroying the natural landscape and wildlife of the Gulf of Mexico as an underwater oil rig leaks thousands of crude oil into the open water.
Many unsuccessful attempts have been tried to stop the leak and yet the oil still pours into the ocean. A community effort has spawned into a national event to bring together information, photographs and insightful advice as call to action for a much needed, better solution to this crisis.
On June 28th TEDx Oil Spill will be held in Washington, DC to bring together informative talks with creative and scientific individuals who have witnessed this crisis on the front lines of the gulf shore.
Just preceding TEDx Oil Spill, a Gulf of Mexico expedition has been planned in extreme effort to get to the bottom of the supposed media blackout that has emerged in information that coming out of BP, the Gulf of Mexico, the Oil Spill clean-up effort and the devastation that has happened since the initial leak. Static Photography photographer Kris Krüg and TED event photographer Duncan Davidson, along with the help of Static Photography studio manager Danielle Sipple, will travel to the Gulf of Mexico in attempts to photograph what has yet to be photographed.
The main goals of this expedition are to bear witness to the crisis that is happening and to create insightful media that can give a more concrete perspective of what is actually going on in the South.
There will be additions to the expedition team during the week, including videographer Pinar Ozger, writer Darron Collins and many others. This expedition is a collective effort, working with locals and onsite individuals from the New Orleans area as well as TEDx Oil Spill organizers in Washington, DC and beyond. Everyone will be inputing information and tireless energy into a effective presentation that can initiate a global perspective change to the Gulf Oil disaster.
The journey officially starts tomorrow morning but the initial leg work has been going on for weeks, often fuelled by the passionate resiliency to know the truth of devastating situations. The Static Photography blog will be host to photo essays during the journey as well as Kris Krüg's flickr photostream hosting the entire collection of photographs that are to come from the expedition.
Please check back for updates and photographs. There may be individuals heading down to the Gulf coast during this expedition but it is woven with the support and desperate motivation of a global community that connects everyone to this journey.
This expedition is an individually funded effort of documentation. There has been a TEDx Oil Spill Expedition donation page set up for anyone who wants to donate financial support. There are other ways to get involved as well.
Over a dozen and half global community meet-ups have been scheduled around the TEDx Oil Spill event on June 28th. Each of these meet-ups will meet in spirit of the effort that is happening during TEDx Oil Spill and could be simple as watching the event on its live stream to as grand as holding a similar event in order to gain a greater global perspective over the Gulf Oil disaster, our dependency on oil plus alternative ways to energy and fuel.
More information:
Donating to TEDx Oil Spill Expedition
Why we are going - Duncan Davidson
Taking Action: TEDx Oil Spill - Dave Troy
Event Registration TEDx Oil Spill
The Oil Spill, the Scandal and the President - Rolling Stone
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BP is such a joke… they should all be arrested along with the US govt. How long ago did they cap the leak? And how many legitimate claims are still “pending” from damages they suffered back in the beginning of the summer? I happen to know three people that were affected directly by BP’s shady PR tactics and manipulation of our laws, one of whom was a journalist who was almost arrested and charged with felonies for taking pictures of oil covered animals near the coast. Not only is it bad enough that thousands of fishers’ lively hoods are ruined for god knows how many years to come, they were paid a pathetic amount of money to clean up BP’s own mess. To add even more insult to injury, BP used Corexit 9527, which contains mainly 2-butoxyethanol, which is very toxic. You wouldn’t have to be a scientist to know that, since in the first week of using it over 70 fisherman ended up at the hospital. Of course if you even inquired about this, I’m sure the govt (which is pretty much owned by oil companies) would deal with you quite quickly, let alone taking pictures of it in an attempt to run a story on it. If you didn’t know already, the govt is doing what they do best… crapping on the 1st amendment: naturalnews.com/029130_Gulf_of_Mexico_censorship.html. My friend who almost got arrested on felony charges simply went out on a boat into about 30 feet of water and used a water proof cam to photograph one of the many oil plumes forming at the bottom of the surface (which BP vehemently denies). Now here comes the hilarious part. He switched the film in his camera with a blank one in the event they were stopped by police, which they were as soon as they got back to shore. They let him go but still took his name down, and what do you know... later that night, 2 guys wearing black hoodies attempted to break into his house. He caught pics of them on his home security system (he saved the pics… adt wireless alarm system break in photos). Hmm, I wonder who paid these guys to break in and what they were after? Definitely not BP or our govt, that’s for sure!
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I like the pictures.. It seems that the photographer is already professional.. Good job and I hope your expedition will be successful..
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