FLASH FLOOD media and photos

The Nov 20 Flash Flood art action in Santa Fe was more gratifying, beautiful, and seamless than I ever could have hoped for or imagined. More than 1,500 people turned out to the dry Santa Fe river bed in order to simulate a human river or flash flood that was documented by crane, helicopter, and satellite. Our action was one of 16 global actions chosen by 350.org in dialogue about climate change in the world's first galactic art show. The aerial art will be projected at the Cancun Climate Change Summit this coming weekend, and the dialogue it has been stirring so far is remarkable.

To follow is a selection of the wide variety of media we are receiving from the action. I'll reflect on the process and the followup on this blog eventually.

Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS224805504020101119

AFP (distributed across Europe, US, Canada, and even China!): http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/arts/2010/11/23/280963/Art-on.htm

Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/350-earth-a-planetary-sca_b_786776.html

Daily Kos: http://m.dailykos.com/stories/2010/11/22/922629/-.html

Santa Fe Reporter: http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-5775-zanes-world.html

http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-5778-flash-forward.html

Santa Fe New Mexican: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/localnews/Making-waves

Albuquerque Journal North: http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/21233756state11-21-10.htm

Wired Blog: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/save-the-earth-from-above/

UTNE: http://www.utne.com/Arts/350-Earth-Climate-Change-Art-Project.aspx

More Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/photos-mega-climate-art-f_b_788694.html#s192553

Audubon Magazine Blog (we were their favorite eARTh piece!): http://magblog.audubon.org/pale-blue-dot

Sierra Club Blog: http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2010/11/climate-art-visible-from-space.html#more

Climate Progress: http://climateprogress.org/2010/11/21/mckibben-on-earth-earth-art/

International Rivers Blog: http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/blog/katy-yan/2010-11-23/earth-art-sends-powerful-message-cancun-climate-negotiators

and more.... We even made some anti-climate change people angry: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/21/wuwts-flash-flood-has-a-much-lower-carbon-footprint-that-bill-mckibbens-350-org-flash-flood/

I will update with more media, as we get it. The global project website is earth.350.org and the Santa Fe Art Institute website is sfai.org