16 Aug
30y3 explains the situation (toxic pollution aftermath). It does make fooling around with color through filters and technical processes seem like, as Ian McEwan would put it, “a failure of the imagination” in the sense of not being able to see that the world as it is as glorious and awful as anything we could think up from scratch.
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[...] Palindromo Meszaros über eine Umweltkatastrophe in Ungarn: “14th of October, 2010 at 12.25pm in Ajka, Veszprém county, Hungary: around a million cubic metres of toxic waste were released after the burst of the retaining wall in one of the reservoirs used for the accumulation of MAL aluminium company rubbish. The spilling reached two meters high and started a destructive race trying to release its energy, flooding Devecser and Kolontár villages. Ten human casualties were counted and the material damages were imposible to measure, including the destruction or irreparable deterioration of a big ammount of houses, the dissapearing of infrastructures and the poisoning of dozens of fields. The accident was fastly considered the biggest catastrophe of hungarian history. This photos have been taken six months after the accident when the silence takes the place of the headlines and just The Line is left.” Via [...]
Reagan for President posters from 1980 and 1984 (Part I: California Sublime, Part II: Desert Requiem) I heard the phrase “Redwood Curtain” for the first time in Arizona. Coincidentally, Maria’s daughter had just finished a half-year internship at Redwoods National Park north of the Bay and she explained that the curtain refers to the [...]
Chris Floyd (Part I: California Sublime) The Desert Border Last September I drove out to Tucson to scout out the issue and rode along with Maria and her daughter as they drove along the backroads around the Arizona-Mexico border. Maria belongs to a volunteer non-profit organization called the Samaritans, who ride out with medical supplies [...]
The Mountains Declare His Glory, Thomas Kinkade “After completing my recent plein air study of Yosemite Valley, the mountains majesty refused to leave me,” Kinkade wrote in June 2000 on his web site. “When my family wandered through the national park visitor center, I discovered a key to my fantasy – a recreation of a [...]
Charlie Mansfield The last photo is a view of Shiprock that I found while searching the net trying to confirm one of my own photos of the formation. These were apparently part of a 1966 light plane flight by Louis Maher and Charlie Mansfield. There are many other photos ranging across the Colorado Plateau. The [...]
And I think: what a terrible place the coast is. To tempt you out with such color and then leave you so cold and damp from sheer love of the thing. Is it the fog spray or the condensation on the heat of your body? And what a terrible thing to forget something like that, [...]
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