Lonely George & Luca Finotti's Volcanoes.

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Lonely George & Luca Finotti's Volcanoes.

Lonely George & Volcanoes.

I'm always trying new ways to feature Fashion & the environment.
For readers who read this blog regularly or know me, will know that I’m massively into the conservation and protection of species.

It seem these days mainly due to the human race, that the disappearance of animals and plants has become a natural process or even something that we now expect to happen.

A recent news clip showed that Lonely George or Lonesome George had died. For those of you who don’t know who ‘Lonely George’ was, he was last of subspecies of Galapagos Pinta Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra becki, if you want the real name!) and in his later years of life became known as the rarest creature in the world.

Click here to see Luca Finotti's Film - Volcanoes.

George was first seen on the island of Pinta on 1 December 1971 by Hungarian malacologist József Vágvölgyi. The Islands needs agriculturally and the indigenous had reduced the race down to an individual specimen. George was penned with two females of a different subspecies. Although eggs were produced, none hatched. The Pinta tortoise was pronounced as functionally extinct due to George living in captivity.

On 24 June 2012, Lonesome George died of unknown causes.

I was recently viewing a great clip short fashion film by Luca Finotti called “Volcanoes”.

The clip is featured in a rocky mountainous terrain, surrounded by the ocean. Even though the clip is in black & white and you don’t see the colour of the surroundings you still get that bold, vast feeling on structure and space.