Links for 2007-08-16
- Possibly my favourite headline of recent times: Chernobyl 'not a wildlife haven' Pretty fascinating little article though. Superficially, the surrounding area seems to be doing okay because humanity's absence compensates a bit for the, you know, nuclear stuff. But still, the radiation is highly damaging...
- There's a service that can automatically generate sets of your most 'interesting' photos on Flickr... I used it to create this list of my top 100 photos. It just goes to show how little taste people have and how much more keen people are on jokes and conversation starters than they are on good photography.
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
re Chernobyl, artist Candida Hofer did some lovely drawings in the 90s of mutated insects with deformed, missing or superfluous antennae, legs, wings and colouring - what we don't know is whether she'd have found as many mutants had she gone to, say, Chichester.
And Martin Cruz Smith's thriller Dogs Eat Dogs nicely evokes a city hollowed out by radiation and adandonment.
→ Posted by: Rod McLaren at August 24, 2007 1:29 PM