The Oil Drum: Europe

The DVD is now available to buy from Aquila Productions.

The first three minutes of this new Australian film are available on the Aquila Productions website:

http://www.aquilaproductions.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi...

More news about release and distribution soon (hopefully!).

Opening Night in Brisbane this Tuesday.

Those lucky folks in Brisbane have a new Australian made Peak Oil Movie to go and see. Opening Night is Tuesday 20th May at the Ithaca Auditorium at the Brisbane City Hall.

Get your tickets at www.climateleadership.net.au

During the Sixth annual ASPO conference in Cork, Ireland in 2007, Nate Hagens and I were interviewed for the event's DVD. The 5 disc DVD box set (available here) contains all the conference material and a number of interviews including ours.

Below the fold you can watch our interviews. As ever your insightful comments on the content are welcomed but we are also interested in your thoughts on video as a communication medium and what future video could have on The Oil Drum. Also see the video Luís de Sousa made last month: Olduvai 2008 movie.

As an addendum to the Olduvai 2008 post there's a movie available that digests the main ideas presented there.

This was an original idea of Nate Hagens and Chris Vernon to somehow broaden the TOD readership spectrum to people with busy schedules and/or short attention spans. This new Olduvai assessment seemed a good place to start, although in the future the objective is to have more concise and direct movies, targeted for people who are not so savvy on fossil fuel depletion.

The budget was €0, so this piece of media is far from perfect, to which we ask for your understanding.

You can watch the movie using these links:

Google Video

YouTube (part 1)

YouTube (part 2)

A lot of talks in the media about the recent jump in oil prices.

Boone Pickens yesterday morning:

"We've never been where we are today at $87 a barrel and we're still whistling along. Everybody seems to be, 'So what? We can handle $87' " he said. "I don't know where the world chokes on the price."