The Boston Globe is hosting a
one,
two,
three page, 120-photo selection of the year's best news images. Most of them show wars, natural disasters, corpses (human and other) and generally depressing (but realistic) imagery, but they are all very high quality images and well worth a browse. I thought page one was the most interesting (and varied) and I liked the very first shot best. Here's a detail of it; the full images are a cinematic 990x624; too wide to post here without breaking my page layout for anyone running lower than 1280 resolution (and viewing their browser window full width).
Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanoes are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. Picture taken May 2, 2008. (REUTERS/Carlos Gutierrez)
This one is also quite awesome; I want to Photoshop out those rectangular windows in the back and pretend it's 1200BCE and my ancestors are about to sail down to Scotland, split and spit some monks, and pillage a cathedral or two of their ill-gotten gain.
The Guizer Jarl is silhouetted as members of his Viking Squad walk around a long boat with burning torches during the annual Up Helly Aa Festival, in Lerwick, Shetland Islands on January 29th, 2008. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian vikings in the Shetland Islands. (Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images)
Perhaps better than the photos are the comments. Maybe 50% of them are by dueling anti-Palestinian or anti-Israeli fanatics, who spend their time shrieking about 1) the unprovoked massacres by the fascistic Israeli army, or 2) the world media's culpability in creating sympathy for the evil Palestinian terrorists by reporting (and photographing) the damage when Israel blows up a hospital or an apartment complex and kills Palestinian children. Leave those people have their endless and pointless Crips vs. Bloods online feud; the real fun comes from reading the (almost) ALL CAPS
mental patient rants.
#539. THESE PICTURES SHOWS US THAT WE ARE NOT FROM THIS PLANET, WE ARE NOT CONSTRUCTED TO LIVE HERE WITHOUT DAMADGE THE PLANET.OUR LIVE IS 100 YEAR PROJECT EXPERIMENT OF "THE THING"( i don't know how to name it but its no God) WE ARE HERE TO GAIN EXPIRIENCE FOR THE MACHINES WHO CONTROL THE WHOLE SYSTEM, OUR MINDS ARE THAT WHAT WE ARE, OUR BODIES ARE THE MACHINES WICH WE CONTROL WITH THE MIND, WHY ANIMALS NOT DO THIS FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS LIVING HERE IN THE EARTH WE THEY LIVE IN THE NATURE WHY?!?! WHY WE NOT UNDERSTAND ANIMALS, BECOUSE WE ARE NOT FROM HERE
Posted by Alexander December 21, 08 12:57 PM
Well okay then. It would be easy to say this guy is just a crazy troll, but he seems fairly sincere in his lunacy. I like his honesty; he only says what he knows and admits when there are facts yet to be compiled. Notice how he doesn't claim to know everything about this grand conspiracy theory? He knows we were put here by something, but he can't name them/it. And he knows about the Matrix-esque machines that are controlling our minds, but he doesn't yet have all the details. Just some suspicious tidbits, like how we we've only been here for a few hundred years. Or did he mean just one hundred? That might be a bit limited in scope; after all, there are plenty of living humans who are more than 100 years old, and they certainly remember living on earth in their earliest days. Or perhaps all the old people are in on the conspiracy, colluding with our robot overlords? I never trusted you, Grandma!
There's no hint given of why or how this scheme has been perpetrated, but those are minor details when you're working single-handedly to uncover a
time cube style conspiracy and a deception as large as this. And then along came these images, and reinforced the illusion. Or do they dispute it? I'm not quite sure. We can only hope Alex has time to clarify things in a follow up comment before the Lithium kicks in.
Labels: conspiracy theories, photos, the media
