Rick Silva Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears is an experimental video installation that reflects the political and ecological threats that face four U.S. National Monuments.  Explore this exhibit at:  At Liberty Arts Collaborative.

This 18-min video work combines aerial drone footage and photogrammetry with 3D animation to create a nature documentary that collapses into itself. The wilderness is scanned by large shapes that momentarily reduce the landscape into grayscale polygons —in these redactions we glimpse a near-future dystopia of computer-vision aided resource extraction.

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Alex Drude has been "The Sports Dude" in Bend and Eugene for more than a decade. He also really enjoys exploring Central Oregon, so adding "The Travel Dude" to his resume also seemed like a good idea. He still does sports Thursday afternoons on 88.9 KPOV's "Central Oregon Sports Talk" from 5 to 6 pm, and writes at www.SporadicSentinel.com