The "Others"

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Just a quick post to mention a site I came across last week, 7 billion Others. This is a project launched by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (author of Earth from Above and the director of the fascinating documentary Home) with Sybille d'Orgeval and Baptiste Rouget-Luchaire. The project is a collection of 6,000 interviews filmed in over 80 countries by about 20 directors who went on search of the "Others".  Questions were asked of the participants to help find out what separates us and unites us. There is hours of footage on the site organized by theme/concerns of "Others" around the world. It's worth checking out.

"Today, we have at our disposal extraordinary tools for communication: we can see everything, know everything. The quantity of information in circulation has never been greater. All of that is very positive. The irony is that at the same time we still know very little about our neighbours. 

There are more than seven billion of us on Earth, and there will be no sustainable development if we cannot manage to live together. "

                                                                                   Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Manitoba Love

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Canadian Geographic publishes a special Travel edition of their magazine 4 times a year. For May 2015, the theme of the magazine is Manitoba! I haven't seen the print edition yet, but there is a lot of great stories and photographs that celebrate the places, people and traditions in our province in the online issue.  Of course there are videos (such as catfishing and the polar bears at Assiniboine Park Zoo, for example) on the site as well as a number of "online exclusive" photo galleries that you won't see in the magazine. There's also a great photo essay about the diversity of Manitoba's people by photographer David Lipnowski. His entire photo-a-day collection can be seen here - maybe you will see someone you know!