The imagery is gorgeous, the music modernist and unforgettable, the ending is mythic.
Satellite imagery of the Amazon basin, the world's largest tropical forest and a critical bulwark against climate change, shows a stark divergence in the continent's preservation efforts.
"We can expect to see a surge in Chinese investment in the Amazon in this manner in years to come". Louis Reymondin is the main developer of a satellite imagery programme called Terra-i, which is used by governments and environmental groups to monitor deforestation, and he said the technology offers a dose of optimism.
A Family Behind Glass by Matthew Hedley Stoppard (Valley Press), uses inventive language and striking imagery, and is one of the most arresting poetry collections of the year.
This third collection by the Irish poet is full of luminous imagery and sometimes a gentle, almost wistful, touch, as in "Brigie": "When you smile in your sleep / I think of the seal's tail / whispering above the waves, / slipping back again into the deep".
"Combining text with vivid imagery and high-quality video, they have woven their narrative into a compelling and immersive multimedia reconstruction," read the judgment.
Audioboo also keeps your messages stored, unlike your mobile operator, along with your geo-location data and any associated imagery, file names and so on.
If we add in the soaraway success of Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus, moviegoers in Britain are getting a rush of imagery of the world as it was before we were connected.
Thanks to new photographic techniques derived from medical imagery and the ocean schooner Tara, which has spent years plying the oceans collecting plankton, we can now see the astonishing richness of what is known as the "drifting world".
Beyoncé's major triumph was not to release an album with no marketing, nor even to tap the "no marketing angle as a marketing angle" angle, but – to employ the favoured imagery of many Beyoncé fans – to snatch the wig of victory from the scalp of defeat.
Keeping aside the macabre imagery, this system of exposure known as dokhmenashini is swift and ecologically sound.
