We Rule from Catherine Chalmers on Vimeo.
Catherine Chalmers follows leafcutter ants and won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her project series in 2010.
We Rule is from “The Leafcutters” series – a project that includes video, photography, drawing and sculpture. It was shot in Panama.
At one point, we see a grasshopper and the “La cigale et la fourmi” came to mind. On another scene, an ant is dragging a spent [probably] dandelion seed and I can hear [in my head] the other ants shouting at him, “Leaf. We want leaf.” My active imagination can also picture these ants dinosaur-size cutting huge swaths of limestone out of mountain sides and buiilding, what, the pyramid?
Recommend you watch this delightful video to the end (or skip to the 2:18 mark) for the grand finale ending complete with eerily sound effects by Charles Lindsay. Mmmmm, me think those ants may have gotten some help in cutting those suspiciously-looking alphabet shapes.
You can view more videos at: Catherine Chalmers and on her Vimeo page.
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Paul French, dressed as a Star Wars Stormtrooper, is on a 4,000 kilometre [earth] trek across Australia, from Perth to Sydney. If you see him, honk but a ride you shall not offer — unless you have a storm trooper bike. Otherwise, his plan is to walk 35-40 kilometres a day, 5 days a week, until he reaches Sydney around Christmas.
