Traffic

No, I'm not talking about the traffic you think of when it comes to Los Angeles.  I'm talking about web traffic to my website which saw a considerable jump thanks to several blogs that posted some of my work the past couple weeks.

Just after Thanksgiving I popped into to reconfigure this blog and begin new entries here as opposed to my wordpress site.  In doing so I noticed a bit of traffic coming from some German blogs.

This one, http://www.crackajack.de, posted info first I believe.  You can read the article here, but don't forget to translate if you need to.

Although, it is possible that BldgBlog was the first to carry the work.  Most of the other traffic actually attributes BldgBlog as their source.  You can find the article here.

Of all the articles, I really appreciated the way that Chris Tackett at TreeHugger.com framed the work with his writing. 

"As an American and a fan of hiking and camping, the idea of being fearful to walk into nature because of landmines is foreign and depressing. Camping here in the Ozarks, Colorado or Northern California, I've grown used to being playfully cautious about snakes, cougars or bears, but with a wild animal, one at least has the chance to fight back. Landmines offer no such warning. It is this designed ability to kill indiscriminately that has led most of the world to agree to a ban."  --Chris Tackett

I felt the exact same way when I first began researching the idea and the project.  I came at the project, first and foremost as an avid hiker and backpacker, and this idea of nature being forbidden by way of man's intervention is what intrigued me so much.  

Chris, I'm really happy you got it and read it on the same level as I did originially.  I'm happy that the project continues to make the rounds and show up on various blogs around the world to remind ourselves of how much work we have to do to rid the world of this problem.

Here is a sampling of a few more blogs the work has since showed up on in the past couple weeks.

http://www.vice.com/read/brett-van-ort-s-landmine-scapes

http://www.disinfo.com/2011/11/the-beauty-of-minefield-landscapes/

http://majorkoenig.blogspot.com/2011/11/minescape.html

http://pijamasurf.com/2011/11/los-bosques-de-minas-terrestres-en-bosnia-la-peligrosa-estetica-feral-de-la-posguerra/

http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/29/landscapes-to-take-your-breath-away-and-your-legs

http://www.vice.com/de/read/landschaften-die-beine-zerfetzen

http://blogdoturismo.folha.blog.uol.com.br/arch2011-11-27_2011-12-03.html

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