I recently helped the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) re-dub Royal Bank of Canada’s new Olympic Flame Trail commercial. The new and improved voiceover better represents the bank’s dirty investments: since 2007, RBC has given about $17 billion dollars in loans to companies operating in the Alberta tar sands – more than any other bank. Not only is it one of the most environmentally destructive energy projects on the planet but expansion of the tar sands is trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples, destroying North American water systems and significantly increasing Canada’s carbon emissions.

Category: tv commercial
Topic Tags: advertising, banks, corporations, energy, environment, identity correction, oil

A political mash-up video combing McCain, Bush and Obama speeches on energy policy created by the stimulator over at submedia. The video shows all three politicians saying exactly the same positive things about polluting, dangerous and unworkable energy alternatives. Basically all the US presidential candidates have been “drinking the Kool-ad” on nuclear, ethanol and the ridiculous lie of “clean-coal”.

You can also see and remix this video on RemixAmerica.org, a project which invites you to make your own remixes right on their website.

Category: short film
Topic Tags: bush, coal, energy, environment, mccain, obama, oil

My latest Identity Correction remix, this time taking aim at the Chevron corporation and their new rather Orwellian slogan “Human Energy”. Created by combining and re-cutting movie footage, TV commercials and the audio from Chevron’s latest PR blitz. The video focuses on the corporate search for profits through control of global oil supplies and the connection with aggressive American foreign policy.

You can also see it on my blip.tv channel:
http://blip.tv/file/1001293

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Category: tv commercial
Topic Tags: advertising, chevron, identity correction, iraq, oil, war