SYNOPSIS

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from

his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim

Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of

“catadores” — self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint”

the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they

recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the

catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives. Director Lucy Walker (DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND,

BLINDSIGHT and COUNTDOWN TO ZERO) and co-directors João Jardim and Karen Harley have

great access to the entire process and, in the end, offer stirring evidence of the transformative power

of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

www.wastelandmovie.com

TRASHed :: Art of Recycling celebrates 7 glorious years at Coachella in 2010.

If you were born with the artistic ability to design a recycling bin like no other…
If your notebook doodles or murals alongside the 101N leave more to the imagination than
the mayans, the ghost kid from three men & baby + the dinosaurs COMBINED…
Then we invite you to participate in TRASHed Coachella.

Everyone from Hunter S Thompson to Fugazi has represented during the past 7 years.
Now hereÕs your shot to make the history books and get your redesigned recycling
bin in front the world.

ThereÕs two rounds of competition. Winning Northern America and then the world competition. 20 finalist will be selected each receiving tixs and vip passes for Coachella Festival 2010.

We invite you to submit your artwork and be considered to design one of the 20 recycling
bins featured at Coachella. What’s even better is that the non offensive redesigned bins
will be placed in schools throughout Southern California after Coachella to inspire the future
recyclers of the world! Next steps? Send us a link to your artwork, concept and/or website.

On February 20, 2010… 20 artists and 5 alternates will be selected to redesign 96 gallon
recycling bins.  We donÕt charge an admission fee, but any bad idea or artwork will be
passed along internally at your expense.

Now email us at :: Coachella@globalinheritance.org
Let the games begin!

We teamed up with Global Inheritance to start this CARPOOLCHELLA program back in 2007. Carpool with

(4) or more to a vehicle and you might win..

PLEASE CARPOOL

CARPOOLCHELLA

We teamed up with Global Inheritance to start this CARPOOLCHELLA program back in 2007. Carpool with four (4) or more to a vehicle and you might win…

VIP TICKETS TO COACHELLA FOR LIFE!

+ many other Prizes…. Such as

ALL ACCESS GUEST PASSES

VIP WRISTBANDS

PHOTO PASSES (get up close)

$50 COACHELLA MERCHANDISE VOUCHERS

GOLF CART RIDE TO FRONT ENTRANCE

A DATE WITH SKIP

Participate by simply writing the word CARPOOLCHELLA on a 8×11 piece of paper (or larger - Get CREATIVE and be easy to SPOT) (You can also just easily PRINT THIS CARPOOLCHELLA pdf ) and place on the dash and arrive at the festival anytime over the weekend before 2pm on Sunday. During the weekend (Thursday - Sunday), a SECRET SPOTTER will be out at the parking and camping entrances watching people drive in. At random times, random cars with 4 or more people with a CARPOOLCHELLA sign on their dash will be approached for questioning and might possibley win a VIP ticket/pass for Life starting in 2011 or one of the other prizes drawn randomly (listed above).

*read official rules

THE 2010 VIP for LIFE WINNERS were……..

Andrew from Albuquerque, NM

Lucinda from Albuquerque, NM

Christopher from Denver, CO

Amelia from Parker, CO

SOME 2010 CARPOOLCHELLA PARTICIPANTS & WINNERS:

DJ Coachella With A Little Help From Your Friends

Energy FACTory DJ Mixer Returns To Indio

Here’s your chance to spin in front of thousands of people at the Coachella Music & Art Festival.

First there’s a catch! With great opportunity, comes great sacrifice. You cannot perform on your own.
You’ll need at least 18 friends, family members or fellow festival goers to power all your equipment. Your team will be in the Energy Playground (next to the stage) riding hamster wheels, tour de energy bikes, energy swings, energy see-saw, turning hand cranks plus more!

All the energy created will be stored in our lithium-ion battery Energy Wells that will power your DJ equipment.

Lastly, you must be able to rule the decks. Send us your website or sample tracks (any email received over 2mb will be blacklisted) so we can listen to your set.
Set times during Coachella are 40 mins. If your friends are in great condition and you’re owning the audience….this time period can be extended.

Email :: EnergyFACTory@globalinheritance.org for more information and/or submit your music.

View 2010 Energy FACTory DJ Mixer Photo Gallery :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/74696088@N00/sets/72157623893411726/
View 2010 Energy FACTory Video :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KFHzxoNgrs&feature=related

The Energy FACTory DJ Mixer is a massive undertaking so if you’re an electrical engineer,
energy expert, sound technician, solar guru, movers, mathematician, trucker or the second
coming of MacGyver…and are interested in joining our crew, send us an email :: coachella@globalinheritance.org

Coming to a theater near you! The Energy FACTory DJ Tour will visit west coast college campuses this spring. Visit the Global Inheritance website for more details or email :: info@globalinheritance.org

Every year at Lollapalooza there are always great alternative bands that headline the Budweiser stage. Phoenix, a band who has been present in the alternative scene for about ten years, was welcomed to headline the stage this year on Saturday night. Their ambient music was a nice counterpart to the opposing band, Green Day,  playing a few hundred yards across the park. Before their latest album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, their fan base in America included french following indie trendsetters, but with their latest album, their sound and lyricism has expanded. Now they have are one of the most popular bands in  mainstream music. They have acquired new fans without losing their unique sound that made them independent in the first place. Their performance at Lollapalooza was not as groundbreaking as their music, it was reserved as far as live performances go. Fans were pleased to hear the similarity between the live performance and the tracks on the album, but their was hardly an additional accent that came from the musicians in their live set. The members did not step out in front of the crowd to show something that is not already in their music. Maybe they have reached their edge.  Still, it was still a pleasure to mellow out and recover for day three of Lollapalooza with Phoenix.

Every year at Lollapalooza there are always great alternative bands that headline the Budweiser stage. Phoenix, a band who has been present in the alternative scene for about ten years, was welcomed to headline the stage this year on Saturday night. Their ambient music was a nice counterpart to the opposing band, Green Day,  playing a few hundred yards across the park. Before their latest album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, their fan base in America included french following indie trendsetters, but with their latest album, their sound and lyricism has expanded. Now they have are one of the most popular bands in  mainstream music. They have acquired new fans without losing their unique sound that made them independent in the first place. Their performance at Lollapalooza was not as groundbreaking as their music, it was reserved as far as live performances go. Fans were pleased to hear the similarity between the live performance and the tracks on the album, but their was hardly an additional accent that came from the musicians in their live set. The members did not step out in front of the crowd to show something that is not already in their music. Maybe they have reached their edge.  Still, it was still a pleasure to mellow out and recover for day three of Lollapalooza with Phoenix.

If it’s August, and you’re in Chicago, you know it’s hot. If you’re in Grant Park between Friday and Sunday, it’s even hotter. And bigger, too. This year’s Lollapalooza, Chi-town’s biggest annual music festival, has clearly evolved into a massive, well-oiled machine, welcoming near 100,000 music fans a day from across the country. Lolla’s creator, ex Janes Addiction lead-man Perry Ferrel, has expanded the grounds to encompass nearly all of Grant Park with two new stages. With a party this size you’d expect the trash-cans to be overflowing, the lines too long, and the masses almost unbearable, but Lollapalooza has managed to keep up with it’s ambitious aim to provide a larger and better experience. Throughout the day volunteers and employees pick cans off the grass, deliver ice to vendors, and keep the restrooms sanitary. When it got too hot, a shady and unoccupied space was never hard to find. Finding a good place to eat was our last worry with two cuisine-filled streets on the North and South sides of the park. The one thing we did have to worry about was how we would see our favorite acts between seven stages, with up to five of them blasting at once.

As always, the festival hosted some of the biggest acts around. Most events have a handful of head-liners, but Lollapalooza’s list can be best described as a collection of who’s been who in the past three decades of music, with Lady Gaga, Green Day, Phoenix, The Strokes, Soundgarden, ¬Arcade Fire, Cypress Hill, Blues Traveller, Jimmy Cliff, Social Distortion, and MGMT to name a few.

Greenday

The rock trio that brought us the stoner-garage-punk-laden Dookie (1994) is still at it in the wake of their well received and heavily promoted 2004 American Idiot release. Their scheduled two hour and fifteen minute set, which singer Billie Joe Armstrong promised to break, stretched fifteen minutes past the festivals nightly 10:00 conclusion. Green Day’s set was filled with the same poignant and youthful energy that made them famous. They played a mix of old and new with songs like Longview and Boulevard of Broken Dreams , appeasing what we estimated was the largest crowd for any performer during Lollapalooza – filled with both tweens and older adults. A set filled with synchronized fireworks, tight riffs, and dexterous fills from drummer Tre Cool kept it rocking. While the theatrics of Armstrong often took precedence over the music they managed to hit all of the bases (even playing a cover of Hey Jude). The band ended their two and a half hour performance with Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) to tuck Saturday’s Lollapalooza into bed. Their stage presence has not diminished with time and Green Day was truly a memorable performance that codified their position among the biggest rock acts on tour.

Soundgarden

After a thirteen year hiatus the ultra-heavy grungers of Soundgarden are back in the studio again and, even better, back on stage together. For frontman Chris Cornell, who has directed Audioslave and recorded three solo records in the meantime, there was no better place for this reunion to occur. “I’ve played more shows in Chicago [than anywhere else],” said Chris, alluding to his affection for The Windy City. In their younger years, Soundgarden treated the city as a base-of-sorts because of Kim Thayil – guitarist and life-long Park Forest, Chicago resident. That Sunday, it was a sweet feeling tinged with sour. The old-guard was definitely there, as forty-somethings pushing ear-muffed toddlers in strollers was a common sight, and a few of the younger fans managed to pull themselves away from The Arcade Fire for this performance. But to put it simply there was a simultaneous vibe of awe and nonacceptance. During their famous Black Hole Sun, the crowd managed to chant out the refrain, but many of the lesser-known tunes left people gently swaying or bobbing their heads trying to keep up with Kim’s arpeggios and bassist Ben Shepherd’s rumbling notes. Cornell’s vocals were powerful but off at times while drummer Matt Cameron (who drums for Pearl Jam, as well) delivered in timely fashion as he always does, banging along with the wildly orchestrated, off-beat, and jazz-influenced slamming rhythms he’s known for. A few folks in the crowd insisted that they sounded like it was still 1997. Others were delighted to hear one of the heaviest bands in rock and roll back together. It was an experience any true Soundgarden fan could easily enjoy, but a show somebody unfamiliar with the group would have had trouble digesting.

Soundgarden

After a thirteen year hiatus the ultra-heavy grungers of Soundgarden are back in the studio again and, even better, back on stage together. For frontman Chris Cornell, who has directed Audioslave and recorded three solo records in the meantime, there was no better place for this reunion to occur. “I’ve played more shows in Chicago [than anywhere else],” said Chris, alluding to his affection for The Windy City. In their younger years, Soundgarden treated the city as a base-of-sorts because of Kim Thayil – guitarist and life-long Park Forest, Chicago resident. That Sunday, it was a sweet feeling tinged with sour. The old-guard was definitely there, as forty-somethings pushing ear-muffed toddlers in strollers was a common sight, and a few of the younger fans managed to pull themselves away from The Arcade Fire for this performance. But to put it simply there was a simultaneous vibe of awe and nonacceptance. During their famous Black Hole Sun, the crowd managed to chant out the refrain, but many of the lesser-known tunes left people gently swaying or bobbing their heads trying to keep up with Kim’s arpeggios and bassist Ben Shepherd’s rumbling notes.  Cornell’s vocals were powerful but off at times while drummer Matt Cameron (who drums for Pearl Jam, as well) delivered in timely fashion as he always does, banging along with the wildly orchestrated, off-beat, and jazz-influenced slamming rhythms he’s known for. A few folks in the crowd insisted that they sounded like it was still 1997. Others were delighted to hear one of the heaviest bands in rock and roll back together.  It was an experience any true Soundgarden fan could easily enjoy, but a show somebody unfamiliar with the group would have had trouble digesting.