This is the six-minute Tree of Life video that appeared on the BBC One programme Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life narrated by David Attenborough. The BBC also developed an interactive tree-of-life.
In the year 2008, for the first time in history there is more people living in cities than in rural areas. The number of people living in slums is expected to exceed 1,000,000,000 very soon. The Places We Live by Jonas Bendisksen is an interactive art project that documents life in 4 slums in the cities of Venezuela, India, Jakarta and Nairobi, including photos, interviews and 360-degrees panoramas of people showing their homes.
Heifer whines could be human cries
Closer comes the screaming knife
This beautiful creature must die
This beautiful creature must die
A death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder
And the flesh you so fancifully fry
Is not succulent, tasty or kind
Its death for no reason
And death for no reason is murder
And the calf that you carve with a smile
Is murder
And the turkey you festively slice
Is murder
Do you know how animals die ?
Kitchen aromas arent very homely
Its not comforting, cheery or kind
Its sizzling blood and the unholy stench
Of murder
Its not natural, normal or kind
The flesh you so fancifully fry
The meat in your mouth
As you savour the flavour
Of murder
No, no, no, its murder
No, no, no, its murder
Oh ... and who hears when animals cry ?
