Netflix original series Abstract: The Art of Design premiered on February 10, 2017. First season profiled illustrator Christoph Niemann, Nike shoe designer Tinker Hatfield, stage designer Es Devlin, architect Bjarke Ingels, automotive designer Ralph Gilles, graphic designer Paula Scher, photographer Platon, and interior designer Ilse Crawford. Netflix announced that the series had been renewed for a second season, which was released on September 25, 2019. While the series has its highs and lows, it is most definitely one to watch. Most of the artists do produce interesting work, but some episodes disappoint.
The final episode was certainly a risk for the creators of “Abstract,” but not one that paid off. The challenge of this format is to encapsulate the essence of one person and their whole body of work in forty minutes.
Documentary follows Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja and his team as they attempt to climb all 14 eight thousander peaks within a record time of under 7 months. The film premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival, and was released on Netflix on 29 November 2021. The actual climbing took 6 months and 6 days between April 2019 to October 2019. It follows Purja as he attempts Annapurna, Kanchenjunga and Dhaulagiri in a 22-hour push passing all camps. Two climber’s (later identified as Kuntal Karar and Biplab Baidya) die while trying to rescue two stricken Indian climbers from the death zone.
Despite giving them all their oxygen and waiting for 12 hours for help which never arrives, one dies in his arms and the other succumbs at camp 4. In the film, Purja also suffers HACE helping a third lost climber. The film traces the journey of Indian mountaineer Jagmohan Purja, who completed a 23-day push to climb the eight-thousanders in the Karakoram region of the Himalayas. In May, he took a photograph of a large queue that had formed at the Hillary Step on Everest, which went viral and was re-printed on the front of the New York Times. After summiting Nanga Parbat on 3 July, but taking a 100 m (300 ft) fall while descending, he climbs K2 on 24 July.
Two days later, Purja summits Broad Peak on 26 July, two days after laying down fixed ropes for other teams to summit the mountain. Documentary chronicles the journey of Nepalese climber Nirmal Purja as he attempts to climb all 14 eight-thousanders in 6 months and 6 days. He successfully summits Cho Oyu on 23 September, and Manaslu on 27 September, then spends a few weeks lobbying Nepali politicians to help him secure a permit from the Chinese to climb Shishapangma in Tibet. Purja calls his now dying mother from the summit “we did it” after completing Project Possible.
The Game Changers debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2018, with a second edit released worldwide for a one-day screening in September 2019. The film has over a dozen executive producers, including James Cameron, Pamela Anderson, Rip Esselstyn, Jackie Chan and Brendan Brazier. It received generally positive reviews by viewers but was criticized by some nutrition, fitness, and science communication professionals for what they identified as scientific inaccuracies and a perceived unbalanced support for strictly plant-based nutrition. Meat and dairy farming is charged with being a main driver of deforestation and is implicated in habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity. Professor of Food Policy, Tim Lang, makes a closing argument that reducing meat and dairy consumption and increasing plant consumption will improve both public health and environmental health. Dr David Katz says there is global consensus that a healthy diet is a plant-food rich diet.
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