(Source: toulousebasil)

Talk about subliminal advertising. HSBC Bank hired advertising agency Oglivy & Mather in Mumbai to create a campaign for their website, www.globalwarmingsolutions.co.in, designed to call the public’s attention to the reality of global warming.  The campaign entailed placing a bird’s eye view of New York City’s  skyline at the bottom of a pool located in India’s financial capital, Mumbai.  Aimed to capture the attention of unsuspecting swimmers, the stunt is  an elegantly simple idea of what climate change could mean for some of  the world’s coastal cities.
Read more:  ECO ART ACTIVISM: Swimming Above a Submerged City | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
Why have I never been here in Bombay?

Talk about subliminal advertising. HSBC Bank hired advertising agency Oglivy & Mather in Mumbai to create a campaign for their website, www.globalwarmingsolutions.co.in, designed to call the public’s attention to the reality of global warming. The campaign entailed placing a bird’s eye view of New York City’s skyline at the bottom of a pool located in India’s financial capital, Mumbai. Aimed to capture the attention of unsuspecting swimmers, the stunt is an elegantly simple idea of what climate change could mean for some of the world’s coastal cities.

Read more: ECO ART ACTIVISM: Swimming Above a Submerged City | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

Why have I never been here in Bombay?

I wept under water, salt seeking salt.
proustitute:

Nives Widauer, Moonnightatsea, 2009

proustitute:

Nives Widauer, Moonnightatsea, 2009

faradaycagefight:

Monstering Melbourne (by wolfcat_aus)

faradaycagefight:

Monstering Melbourne (by wolfcat_aus)

I wish I could credit this. Swimming pools like this are one of my favourite things.

I wish I could credit this. Swimming pools like this are one of my favourite things.

artchipel:

Florian Maier-Aichen - Untitled. C-print,  183 x 229.8 cm (2005)

artchipel:

Florian Maier-Aichen - Untitled. C-print, 183 x 229.8 cm (2005)

How I wish I could credit this

How I wish I could credit this

proustitute:

artchipel:

Nan Goldin, Guido Floating, Levanzo, Sicily, 1999
[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Many thanks to artchipel and especially rerylikes for having me back to curate today’s Tumblr Monday. I hope you all enjoy Nan Goldin’s photography as much as I do.

proustitute:

artchipel:

Nan GoldinGuido Floating, Levanzo, Sicily, 1999

[Tumblr Monday with proustitute]

Many thanks to artchipel and especially rerylikes for having me back to curate today’s Tumblr Monday. I hope you all enjoy Nan Goldin’s photography as much as I do.