I have been incredibly busy making the best of my last semester at Ohio University and shooting for the Voinovich School and College Green Magazine and Project C: Clicking Creates Change, but have loved every minute of it (well, almost every minute). I've collected some of the fun images I have been making this semester! Take a look :)
Chris Whamhoff, representing the MI-CATS 3, holds tar sands above the crowd of students protesting the Keystone XL pipeline during the XL Dissent rally. Tar sands are mined along the coast of Michigan and are used in the hydraulic fracturing process to obtain oil. The MI-Cats, or Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands, are rallying for three of their members who were arrested recently protesting Enbridge’s tar sands pipeline. The XL Dissent rally was the largest single-day act of civil disobedience in a generation and 398 student activists from across North America were arrested. (READ the story on College Green Magazine)
OU Campus Recycling built an installation of hanging plastic bottles at the top of Morton Hill on February 15, 2014. Students were encouraged to write personal statements relating to sustainability to place in the bottle art.
OU Pres. McDavis looking not so thrilled to be photographed during the 2014 Innovation Gala, March 18th.
A pesto-lentil 'meatball' recipe I made for College Green Magazine. Read the recipe HERE
Ohio University students gathered around an OU bus waiting to pick up the Board of Trustees after the first of their two-day meeting January 23.“For far too long, the board of trustees and executive administrators have treated students like violent consumers. They frequently call us consumers. But we aren’t customers. We are human beings and we are more properly called citizens of the university,” said Jessica Linder, a member of the Student Union at the rally. (READ the College Green Story HERE )
And you can sign their petition HERE to stop the proposed Natural Gas Plant on campus.
Brien Vincent poses with a new stick friend, March 2014.
Along a road trip through Upstate New York, March, 2014.