Beyond the Iron Sky

I found myself spending most of the saturday watching the world’s longest, biggest and whatever superlatives you can come up with concert Live Earth, a 24-hour huge event set up by Al Gore and Kevin Wall. The main aim of the concert was to gain attention towards the climate crisis Earth is facing, and I think it succeeded pretty well. Most of the bands performed at least reasonably well considering how big an event it was and how many artists were playing on the stage after each other.

Most of the show I watched on a stream from MSN (where quality was obviously bad), but also on our TV as well (and no, I don’t have digibox). Too bad YLE thought that horseracing and mobile games had more important message than Live Earth did (and I was amazed what kind of an idiot extravaganza they had called to the studio as commentators…), so there was only small fraction of the concert on Finnish national TV.
Between the bands there was a set of short films from 60 directors which offered a different kind of ways to deliver the message. Many of them were either boring or too educational, but some of them were able to shine above the rest with a humoristic approach or just plain good idea. You might want to check out the following ones:

Chris Bran: Switch On, Switch Off

Sophie Keller & Oli Barry: Bob & Harry: The Last of the Polar Bears

Joe Cole: Lighbulb

Sam Arthur: Super Power Bloke

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