February 13, 2006

• Best post this week. Those atomic bomb photos are unsettling and somehow artificial-looking.
• The middle one looks cute. Can we keep it, Ma?
• Gee, thanks #1! And yes, the first one, especially, looks like it's been rendered in a style similar to Bryan Talbot's earlier work on Luther Arkwright.
• *realizes that the week's barely begun*
• "And with a thundering crash the Kohler 3.5 gallon exploded across the New Mexico landscape. Some attribute it to Phil's packing technique, but who are we kidding? Sometimes you just don't know what the Chinese factories put in those things."
                              -- Black Cats in the Desert, Robert Oppenheimer
• some of the pix in that last link in the FPP are way cool.
• Yeah, I like the one where he's being attacked by missiles.
• Who would have thought that a poisonous cloud of horrible death whose awesome destructive power would cruelly rip each particle of flesh from our bones and annihilate our fragile and weak bodies instantly while condemning those miles away to the lingering horror of slowly rotting from the inside out and which could destroy utterly the thin fabric of all life on this planet in a shocking holocaust of bilious cancer-forming fog and burn away all memory of humanity from the rock itself could look so goshdarn pretty.
• What I find intriguing, is what would people expect to see in the first miliseconds of an atomic explosion if they hadn't already seen these photographs? Without the existance of these photographs, would anyone actually wonder what it looked like in the first few miliseconds of the explosion? If asked that question without seeing these pix, what would one imagine the event to look like? That could be a new psychological test, draw what you think an atomic explosion looks like in the first millionth of a second. The guy that draws a picture of his mum beating him with a giant dildo is the nutter.
• *crumples up drawing paper, shoves it into dildo drawer*
• Holy Croley! These are amazing. I remember reading that Alleid soldiers going into concentration camps were encouraged to take pictures, because without them the public would never believe such an atrocity could occur. Those pictures have the same quality as these - both hyper-real and surreal at once.
• Not to mention subreal, metareal and parareal. Truly, these pictures surround reality on all sides, pressing their noses up against it from every compass-point. How warm their breath is on reality's icy shoulder! How pleasantly they nestle in reality's armpit, or navel! How sexily naked they are - now their hands wander over reality's goosebumping flesh - now they press their budding breasts against reality! Dear god, you perverts will look at any old smut, won't you? How I hate you all.
• So who says the "I hate you" part? Reality or the pictures? This is getting hawt...
• That guys own pictures are pretty darn silly.
• Great find _booga!
• Strikingly beautiful.
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• Rule #1: Don't hold onto the guy wire of a tower where a nuclear bomb is exploding.
• But how else are we supposed to trolley-zip to safety?
• That there quid feller is a right bit tetched! But thems some purty pick-a-tures. Bubble tea anyone?
• *hand up*
• *brings in plate of crackers*
• I always figured these pictures would tell something about what the burn in the core of the bomb was doing, how uniform the shockwaves were, and how the whole system was tamped. I don't understand the guy wire's thing... do x-rays travel faster in steel cable than in air?