June 14, 2004

6/14 - ANNOUNCING THE SB PHOTO AND CAPTION CONTEST: Deadline July 20

It's going to be quick, simple, and will hopefully produce some interesting submissions. Everyone has a month to send in their photos and descriptions, the details are here. The hallmark of our whole Shifting Baselines project to date has been the two pairs of before/after images created by Hollywood effects companies which we turned into lenticular images. As powerful as those images are, we figured it would be equally compelling to see people's real life version of them, or any other aspects of shifting baselines.

We have five excellent judges. Chuck Davis and Bob Talbot both live in Monterey, California, took part in our Roundtable evening last year (you can see them in the video) and are highly acclaimed underwater photographer/cinematographers. Dr. Jane Lubchenco of Oregon State University is a marine biologist who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recent recipient of the Heinz Award and a MacArthur Fellow. Dr. Steve Palumbi is a marine biologist at Stanford University who shook up the whale world last year as a co-author on a genetics paper in Science that questioned the baseline for whale population sizes.

And Norman Lear well ... according to the website of the Museum of Radio and Television, "no single individual has had more influence through the medium of television in its 50-year history than Norman Lear." I met with him over the weekend to discuss our project and I have never seen anyone grasp the concept of shifting baselines as quickly as he did. At 82 years of age he has watched a lot of baselines shift over the years, which is why he is working full time on his personal project, "Declare Yourself," a cross-country tour of college campuses to encourage new voters through PSA's, live spoken poetry, and music shows. And guess who does his website -- our own Tree Media.

Please spread the word on the photo contest. We're up for considering any and all submissions so long as they relate to shifting baselines and the oceans.

Posted by Randy Olson at June 14, 2004 11:39 AM
Comments

Absolutely, I'll support this VERY worthy cause. I've listed your contest on proofpositive.com's Photo Contest page.

http://www.proofpositive.com/contests/photocontests.htm

Melanie

Posted by: Melanie at June 16, 2004 09:55 PM