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A Tale of Two Zip Codes

What determines how long we live? The surprising thing to us was that adjacent communities can have a 15 year-difference in life expectancy. Your preconditioned brains might attribute this to dramatic factors like drugs and violence (ours did). But the causes are actually more sinister: heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, all of which can be…


What determines how long we live? The surprising thing to us was that adjacent communities can have a 15 year-difference in life expectancy. Your preconditioned brains might attribute this to dramatic factors like drugs and violence (ours did). But the causes are actually more sinister: heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, all of which can be linked to Chronic Stress and stem directly from economic inequality. So we are all implicated… and we hope you learn as much from this 4-minute video as we did in the 15 years it took us to make it.

Thank you George Takei for lending us your voice!

Youtube Posting – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu7d0BMRt0o
Learn More – http://buildinghealthycommunities.org
Process Images https://www.flickr.com/photos/130741349@N03/albums
Our Website Posting www.blackmath.com/portfolio/two-zip-codes
Sound Design BTS https://vimeo.com/165296275
Cell Animation Passes https://vimeo.com/165931388