Woo hoo! The Mission Aquarius video series we made at One World One Ocean was nominated for a Webby Award in News & Politics!
A big honor, considering the company we are in: NY Times, Washington Post, ABC News, the Daily Beast, etc. This couldn’t have been done without incredible teams (both OWOO, and Aquarius Reef Base), and an incredible story. Read about Mission Aquarius here, and watch the video series:
A little visual stimulation courtesy Sean Hunter Brown, from a post of mine last week on The Water Column.
After establishing himself as one of the best in the surf stills game at a young age, Morgan Maassen went and created this new motion reel. Lovely ocean imagery, captured quirky moments, artful composition, breezy music, and a few pretty faces (guys and girls). This is your 3 minute break in the day. You’re welcome.
Aquarius Reef Base is an incredible resource for ocean exploration and understanding of our planet and we almost lost it. After budget cuts it was slated to be shut down, but after a ton of effort by numerous teams and individuals, to bring attention to the issue, new leadership has stepped in with funding to keep it open. While this is due to numerous factors, we’d like to think our team at One World One Ocean had a good deal to do with it.
Read the post on our blog, The Water Column, here.
This was first posted on the OWOO blog Jan 9.
I first saw a trailer for this film by Chris Jordan months ago. It was beautifully shot, with a haunting message. Thousands of miles from the nearest humans, a seemingly paradisical island inhabited by sea birds is slowly being strangled by our plastic discards. The beautiful creatures go on eating bits of junk they think is food, filling their stomachs with something that will inevitably kill them slowly and quietly, out of view of the world. The pure innocence of animals, beauty of natural ecosystems, and and unintended cruelty of our wasteful ways is powerful.
Jordan asks a simple question: “Do we have the courage to face the realities of our time, and allow ourselves to feel deeply enough that it transforms us?”
The new trailer is even better than the first one. Here it is.
MIDWAY : trailer : a film by Chris Jordan from Midway on Vimeo.
Here are my top 10 ocean stories of 2012, on the OWOO blog. Number one was the Arctic. Check it out.
A polar bear swims in a sea with less and less ice. Photo: Florian Schulz.
First posted yesterday on the OWOO blog.
As a reminder of my time on the other side of the surfing coin, living in the mountains, riding snow, I still occasionally get powder alerts from various ski resorts. It’s a little painful when we’ve had a long flat spell and I sit down at my laptop to see Snowbird got 20 inches last night. Especially when the water temp drops, the offshores blow cold out of the canyons, and the north swells have yet to show – it starts to seem like all the chilliness is for naught. But then a slide like this comes across the light box and it all makes sense – yes, we have our white winters here at the beach too.
