Sending an SOS from Antarctica

Photographer Sebastian Copeland and artist John Quigley on their 2006 project to create an SOS image on the ice in Antarctica. Check out the book at http://antarcticabook.com.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• antarctica
• SOS
• global
• warming
• climate
• glacier

[hookedonbloom]

As much as I like Orlando Bloom too, there is more to this video than figuring out if Sebastian is Orlando's cousin. This video is important, and moving, and it's sad to see you just watched it for Orlando.

[palacepress]

thanks for your thoughtfull comment and perspective. This is indeed about more than celebrity.

[hstey11024]

very true..it has. But it has done so with the natural elements of earth.....what we are seeing here, is the affect on the environment by powerful synthetic compounds made by man. Never has this affect ever occurred on planet eart in all its billions of years.

[SneakyC9]

Tens of thousands of years ago, my state of Michigan looked just like Antartica. Must've been those darn cavemen and their pollution that melted all the ice here, eh? I'm with GAZ40, this planet's been warming and cooling for billions of years, deal with it.

[gittetheone]

sebastian copeland was BRIGITTE NIELSEN's husband (1990 - 1992)

[gaz470]

The planet has been warming up and cooling down for millions of years, why should it stop now?? We are just seeing it warming up from the last ice age.

Even if the earth was getting colder Im sure our government would still use it as their excuse for more tax. This is the only action they ever take on anything....

[sanhan66]

Thank you for showing people this moments!!!Not a lot og ice-bergs in Norway,but we have a lot of the rest og it :-))So come on and take pictures,you take photograps like I've never seen....Ireally men it!!

[Dislb]

Looking at these images makes me feel so small and helpless! It's overwelming how these photos make you think...

I haven't seen Orlando either, but although I agree that famous people help a lot with these campains, I also have to agree that that's the most important thing about this video.

Thanks for posting the video.

[Kimberleg]

That SOS made out of people on that iceberg is so cool - it is fantastic that people are not ignoring this really serious and important issue. Antarctica is so beautiful place and it would be heart-breaking if it disappeared from our planet forever.

btw, where was Orlando in this video - I didn't see him! lol I think it's also great that people like and Leonardo DiCaprio are doing their bit for the planet. When famous people stand up and do things like this, other people do take notice.

[orlibloom4]

I'm really happy to see that people understand that global warming is not a joke! It's not about the people in the video, it's about what people are doing to the environment!

[hookedonbloom]

Thank you also for not taking my comment in a bad way. I am pleased to hear that you understood my comment, and that I wasn't trying to be mean, I just want people to realize that there's more going on, than just getting a quick look at Orlando.