Placenta Fruit

August 28th, 2011 - 
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Selah with Quince

Will tours a garden where placentas have been buried beneath trees.

The placenta (for those of you who’ve forgotten 8th grade biology) is involved in fetal development.
It’s where a mother’s blood passes nutrients and oxygen to the blood of a fetus inside her.

With the help of the umbilical cord, it’s how a mother nourishes a developing baby.

For these, it’s how a baby can nourish a young tree.

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Thanks to Molly Graves & Chris Hamilton for letting Will explore the sounds, tastes, and implications of their garden; thanks to Charlie Mintz for editorial advice.

Music by Kevin MacLeod

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Refrigerator Project 1.1

March 2nd, 2010 - 
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The refrigerator is like a holy of holies that each household holds in its kitchen. These images are the result of a 2-day, door-to-door adventure in which about 150 families gave two compostmodernists permission to photograph theirs.

Project 1.0 was a silent slideshow of the reefers themselves, with no voiceover. This version features the voices of Teva Kohavi and Will Rogers.

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