Shell Wildlife photo exhibition gets painted
NYFM | 05.02.2007 02:35 | Rossport Solidarity | Climate Chaos | Ecology | London | World
A short video of the Shell Oil Wildlife Photograph Exhibition at the London Natural History Museum getting polluted with sticky black stuff.
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good action - crap video
05.02.2007 11:19
Great to see someone is making the effort of grabbing a camera and filming the action. Wouldn't it have been perfectly feasible to have a short interview, a bit more explanatory non wobbly footage (even with non recognisable faces if this was an imperative)?. This video will not reach many people I'm afraid. Good action anyway.
media activist
Interest
05.02.2007 14:58
So, if your intention was to further alienate those who could be convinced to stand up and be heard in the fight to save the environment, well done, you've excelled yourselves once again.
James
Fair point above, this may help to explain...
05.02.2007 16:24
I used to think this was mindless violence by people who just wanted to do some violence too, but given some time to think about this and to meet some of the people who do it, I've realised that most direct action is very very well thought out and conducted by intelligent, thoughtful people who use it as just one way of expressing their passion about things like the damage Shell does to the immediate and wider environment.
It's brilliant that the reasons for doing this get brought up by people like the previous poster because this view is really common and anyone doing direct action needs to remember that and think what can be done about it.
wildlife lover
Clearer
05.02.2007 20:44
James
Stupid, stupid idiots
06.02.2007 10:45
Anyone who has been to that exhibition would know that the photographs are absolutely beautiful and inspiring. I have been to it for the last 4 years or so and there is nothing like it in London for depicting the fragility and awe of the natural world.
Yes, it is sponsored by Shell which is an amazing hypocrisy. In the past it has also been sponsored by BP. But by visiting the exhibition, people are not giving any money or support to Shell. In fact it costs Shell money.
If you want to raise awareness about the links between Shell and the environment, far better would be to leaflet people coming out of the exhibition, or leaving leaflets in dispensers inside. That way you are far more likely to get the message across and engage people in thinking about the issues. Or maybe removing / obscuring the Shell logo from the exhibition and materials would be more intelligent.
Damaging works of art and preventing people from seeing this amazing and positive exhibition is just shameful yobbishness, and you give all of us who care about the environment a bad name.
Mercury Kev
Actually, i quite like it
06.02.2007 13:44
Photography and even use of mobile phones is banned from the gallery so it was difficult to film openly and once the action started it was all over within minutes and those attempting to film were obstructed by staff. However only about 6 seconds of usable footage was required as the footage and photographs were intended for mainstream news coverage.
Nobody was up for interviews to camera and with the limited footage available I didn't expect any video to be published on indymedia beyond a couple of short clips so it's great to see this. It could however have included the Real2Reel footage which does capture the actual initial act of sabotage.
r
To Media Activist
06.02.2007 18:43
If you think you can do better, get a camera and do it yourself.
I look forward to the results.
NYFM
Nice action and reply to 'James'
10.02.2007 16:10
Yurts For Victory
leaflets
13.02.2007 16:46
wildlife lover