Worldwide Environmental Exchange IV

Top: Africa and Europe - Day One of my time-based biodegradable sculpture
Below: Destroyed Africa after a night of storms :(

Worldwide Environmental Exchange II

RECEIVED VIDEOS
Norcross, GA, United States
Baradero, Argentina
Łeba, Poland
Bangkok, Thailand

FILMED VIDEOS
London, England
Jersey, Channel Islands
New South Wales, Australia
São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
New York City, New York

POSSIBLE VIDEOS
Denmark
Edinburgh, Scotland
India
Canada
Philippines

Worldwide Environmental Exchange I

On Thursday 11th November 2010 I decided to contact people from all over the world and ask them to record a one minute video of their environment.

My plan was to then exchange these videos through the wonder of the internet so that each participating cinematographer would receive a video of a contrasting environment.

More than being about people seeing the videos, it was about each environment 'viewing' another - a concept of transportation, transposition, connection, social networking and technology.

I hope to achieve: clarity of contrast by direct aesthetic and aural juxtaposition

I'd like to give the word a cup of tea

In 19th Century Russia, tea was drank with a white sugar cube held between the teeth.

In Poland, tea is commonly served black with lemon.

Early writings about tea in China date back 5,000 years. Here, a black tea remains black - milk is not added unless to a particularly strong type of specialist tea.

In India, a pot of black tea is often brewed for up to 15 minutes, as apposed to the British average of 3 minutes.

In Australia, coffee surpasses the amount of sales of tea. Iced tea, green tea or fruit infused tea is preferred.

More than half the tea drank in Denmark is brewed from loose leaves, as apposed to the British tea bag.

In the United Kingdom: 120,000,000 cups of tea were drank yesterday.

Everybody has there own way of drinking tea; Worldwide.