On an assignment to produce videos promoting Cross River gorilla conservation to indigenous communities in Nigeria and Cameroon, I invited community members to join me. I followed decolonising and feminist methodologies to develop a form of participatory video production, 'Folk Filmmaking', in which participants present their own accounts of wildlife, …
the National Institute of Oceanography's ( nio ) Bioinformatics Centre has put together extensive information on the marine life of India. The facts and figures wrapped up in enticing pictures and graphics are available in three compact discs ( cd ) bought out by the Centre. It's first two cd …
he changed the way most of us perceive popular entertainment and went on to become a teen phenomenon. Even today he remains an icon invoking nostalgia through his songs and films. But there is a place where Elvis Presley, the uncrowned King of rock
Stanton Magnetics of Plantview, New York, USA, wants the DJs to "feel' the music they play. The company has devised a system that lets someone listen to one sound source through headphones, while feeling vibrations of another. So now, a DJ can cue up music on two turntables simultaneously. The …
A camera primarily built to assist golfers study their swing, is helping traffic police cut the number of accidents in Tokyo. Mitsubishi Electric in Japan has developed the camera. The microphone of the camera picks up the sound when a golfer takes his shot. Instantly, the system activates to keep …
With the opening up of the Indian economy, photography has become an affordable hobby. Reflecting these changes, a slick new magazine Better Photography , has hit the stands. Tata Donnelley, publishers of the magazine, "see it as a vehicle that would provide a big stimulus to the photography hobby in …
Catch 'em young What have been the achievements of independent India and how much further does the country need to go to fulfill the dreams and aspirations of her people? To commemorate the 50th year of India's independence, the foundation for Univer- sal Responsibility (fur), established by the Dalai Lama, …
A high-speed camera that allows aircraft to take pictures through cloud, smoke and water has been unveiled in the US. The camera was originally designed to photograph nuclear weapons tests under water. But now that nuclear testing has stopped, researchers are applying this technology to spot sea mines and for …
A new palm-sized digital recorder, Total Recall, serves as a good replacement to the current dictaphones. Being digital, Total Recall offers several advantages. As there are no tapes, endless rewinding or fast forwarding to find the wanted segment can be done away with. Existing messages can be selectively erased or …
Music will soon be sold and delivered over the telephone. Deutsche TeleKom (DT) is to offer a dial up audio-on-demand service in Germany later this year, allowing customers to compile their own music collection. DT will offer the ,,service by digitising music and compressing it to a twelfth of its …
police officers may soon be equipped with a hidden watch-size camera that sends pictures back to their police stations. The spy camera, developed for military use in the us , has a lens only two mm wide and the complete package of camera, radio transmitter and battery measures only 24 …
THE exhibition of Jerry Uelsmarin's photomontages featured the photographs taken by him over the past 35 years, documenting his contribution to 20th-century art. Uelsmann's works trigger a response, but never quite reveal their meaning. He is a master of illusion. An understanding of his difficult-to- comprehend style will perhaps be …
'THE camera of the 21st century' was launched on February 1 by the big five of the photographic industry -Kodak, Fuji, Canon, Minolta and Nikon. Called the Advanced Photo System (APS), it is designed to overcome what these camera-makers believe are the traumas of photography: loading the camera and handling …
A WHOLE new world of recording on a blank compact disc (CD) is now emerging. Researchers in Japan and The Netherlands are working on the concept of using a CD recorder at home to copy favourite music tracks on blank CDs or record film sequences on blank video CDs. Hi-fidelity …
Is there a person in the urban high castles who wouldn't like to hear the sounds of jungle birds piped in through his cable? A sonic expert, S Sivaprasad, has made this possible. His recordings of birdsong are the first in the subcontinent. In An Audio Guide to the Birds …
From the lush jungles to the marshes, Krishnendu Bose is travelling fast in the field of wildlife filmaking. Having made his debut in the world of wildlife documentaries with his Elephant - Last Giants on Earth he is now on to his second venture. This time he is trying to …
One of the country's best illustrators, Suddhasattwa Basu. has decided to use animation to promote social messages. His 16mm film Rakhee and Mausee is a story that aims to empower women. Basu tackles this dry subject in an entertaining visual and narrative element. He and his team are working on …
All of us at some time or the other ha wondered what it would be like to hear the sounds of our favourite jungle birds sitting at home. But one need not wonder any longer because S Sivaprasad has made this possible. For the first time. birdsong has been recorded …
INFUSING public interest messages into soap operas, television's most popular programmes, requires a delicate balance between entertainment and education. The telenovellas of Mexico's Televisa and Brazil's Globe TV are regarded by communication specialists as models for development-oriented soap operas. Extending this approach, 3 of Sri Lanka's top cinematic storytellers have …
THE Resource Art exhibition at New Delhi's Max Mueller Bhavan took a lateral -- often oblique -- view of the interaction between people and nature. Based on a show of contemporary Installation Art in Berlin, the Delhi version comprises photographs of the original works and the artists' explanations. The individual …
"TO BE or not to be": one is immediately struck by the stark bipolarity suggested by the title. The show, presented by Max Mueller Bhavan and the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature, is about the destruction of nature by industries: it would seem that the alternative to nature being …
