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Rebecca Altman's American Petro-topia
by Rebecca Altman
April 16, 2019
This animation was originally published January 22, 2019 in our Plastics issue.
For all the plastics accumulating in the sea, think, too, on the oft-hidden seas of production wastes that have been made in parallel—the pollutants sent skyward, cast downstream, and as told here, drummed and dumped. When I wrote American Petrotopia five years ago for Aeon Magazine, I had no idea it would resonate as it has, or reverberate in ways that would inspire such a talented team of editors, artists and composers to compress and recast American Petrotopia into such a stark and startling story about the underbelly of plastics’ production. – Rebecca Altman
Written and Narrated by: Rebecca Altman
Designed and Animated by: Sophie Feller
Original Score by: Jacques Brautbar
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Deployment Playlist #1: Dustin Barfield
by Dustin Barfield
April 6, 2018
Every Friday this April, frank news will release a Deployment Playlist. Each playlist comes straight from the source, from a frank contributor recalling what they listened to most while deployed in combat.
#1: Dustin Barfield: