Doesn't it look like blown glass? Or marbled paper? I think its all the more frightening for how beautiful it is.
Photographer: Dave Martin/AP, via Vidiot Speak.
Margaret commented that "oil spill" hardly seems adequate to describe the horror. Vidiot Speak (and others? I don't follow political blogs) refers to it as an oilcano.
And, another manatee. (You know, "oh, the humanity!" came from the original coverage of the Hindenberg disaster.)
Found at Dr. X's Free Association; but originally from Vidiot Speak? (I cant find it there, but Dr. X gives it a "h/t", which means "hat tip," according to Blogossary.)
Oilcano sounds about right.
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That is an amazingly beautiful photo.
ReplyDeleteThat photograph does look like blown glass, making it look really beautiful. How does nature do that, make itself look beautiful even during such an awful tragedy?
ReplyDeleteI guess Physics tends toward a beauty utterly irregardless of human emotion.
ReplyDeletethere is a deeply unpleasant between the image and the explanation. between the idea and the reality...falls the shadow
ReplyDeletethat manatee poster on the other hand, is wonderfully clever.
What a strange and haunting picture (the wave, not the manatee). I agree, there's an almost eerie disjunction between the image and the understanding--your brain says "pretty" at the aesthetic level and then the reality sinks in...
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