Jul 5, 2008
The Rise and Demise of the Oil epoch
Image: Bart Pogoda
Late night drive on an empty city with nothing but a pair of cigars and decadent thoughts.
Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom – Rise (DFA remix)
Italian #1 (Italians do it better, 2007)
Panthers – Goblin city (Holy Ghost! Extended disco dub)
Goblin city 12″ (Permanent Vacation, 2008)
Prototypes – Synthetique
Synthetique (Minty Fresh, 2008)
Glass Candy – Beatific
Beat Box (Italians do it better, 2007)
Agoria feat. Scalde – Baboul Hair Cuttin
Baboul Hair Cuttin (Different, 2006)
Over the past century, the world burned through a trillion barrels of oil. Another 1.2 trillion barrels of known conventional oil reserves wait to tapped, according to BP, one of the world’s biggest oil companies. It sounds like a lot. But given the current rate of growth in demand, a trillion of those barrels will be used up in less than 30 years.
What then? Many analysts estimate another trillion barrels of yet-to-be-found oil remains, but in remote places like the Arctic Ocean where it will be expensive to extract, or in countries that might restrict access.
The big oil companies have been in a global dash to find and pump more oil. But it takes time, sometimes a decade, before the first barrels from a newly discovered oil field are pumped and sold.
- The future of Oil. Jad Mouawad for the New York Times.
Great phrase…
Great selection…
Great reflection…
Regards from BCN city.
This one is highly mixable with this playlist, expecially with the Panthers’ track.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7LJFv94jMg
Excuse me if I’m overloading this page dedicated to comments, but I would like say that the photo you used for the cover remember me a place not so far from the city I was born. I have found a picture of the view you can have from this place: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/331304158_e8918cba1d.jpg?v=0
The mountain on the lanscape is the Vesuvio and the lights are the cities on the south side of the vulcan.
The picture you chiised is beautiful, bacause in my opion wants to compare one particular person with the while undefined human (living) beings. The perspective of the building draw an arrow that points to the valley, the enlighted windows recall the red rip on the sky without clouds, the girl looks at her device as Prometeus shoud have looked to the stolen fire.
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I wrote some thoughts about the movie Wall-E and human extinction. When the oil runs out, what then?
http://www.social-cache.com/2008/06/wall-e-conscious-machines-and-a-parable-about-our-potential-extinction
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Thanks.
I like your analysis of the photograph jungle, I never noted how in fact the building represents some sort of arrow, the composition is truly beautiful. Pogoda has several great photographs on his site, be sure to check them out.
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