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Rooms With a Viewfinder

By LISA A. PHILLIPS

The New York Times

Published: June 6, 2008

WHEN Catherine Chalmers was preparing to

film her video “Safari,” which documents the

journey of a cockroach through a mini-tropical

landscape, she turned to animal breeders to

buy her exotic cast of creatures, which

included a poison dart frog and a pygmy

chameleon. Even the cockroach came from a

lab. But there was something missing, she felt

— she wanted more bright color.

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