The Eye of the Storm explores ways people find peace in a world of chaos.
As our world becomes more complex, it can feel more chaotic or stormy. Where do you go to find peace?
We asked people this on an individual level, as well as ways of thinking about how we move forward as deeply interconnected peoples around the world.
The Eye of the Storm is a website, a public installation and a story.
How do you find some peace in your own life? What do you think about chaos?
If you have something to say about how you find peace, or experience chaos, film it, record it, or write it down and send it to us.
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A review of the installation at Supersonic Festival
by Michael Wallace-Pigott The first thing we see on arrival in Birmingham is a free installation piece at Moor St. Station entitled There Are No Others, There Is Only Us. This open, airy station (more a big iron, glass and brick canopy than a building) is a surprisingly great location for work like this. Having already read some promotional stuff I had imagined it to be some sort of unavoidable large screen piece, to be experienced by those passing through the station whether interested or not. However, it was in fact separated from the main thoroughfare, enclosed in its own temporary tent. Inside, on a heap of fat nylon beanbags, we watched as a wide white screen slowly filled with…
Creating the music with Ben Frost in Iceland
This week Marc is working with Ben Frost creating the music for the 9 minute film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Frost_(musician) http://bedroomcommunity.net/Site/news/news.html http://greenhouse.is/
Eye of the Storm on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2008/11/12/eye_of_the_storm_feature.shtml
The video edit without the sound done yet!
Images from the shoot
Sunset
Hiding in the rushes, waiting for the birds
Sunrise in the rain
The cameras set up to film the wide sky
Near to where the birds roost
Sunrise
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