Saturday, February 27, 2010

A Most Uncanny Resemblance

I feel bad about upstaging my previous post, but I had to put this one up, with a big tip of the old chapeau to the redoubtable M. Bouffant, from whose blog I "yoinked" the NOAA image.

To my mind, the travel time projection for today's Pacific tsunami:



Bears an eerie resemblance to a detail from Katsushika Hokusai's masterpiece The Great Wave off Kanagawa:



So desu ne?
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3 comments:

  1. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©February 27, 2010 at 11:57 PM

    So desu ne?

    In real-estate-eze, it's "It is what it is".
    ~

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  2. Substance McGravitasFebruary 28, 2010 at 10:37 AM

    That bottom one is ORB CENTRAL.

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  3. Smut ClydeMarch 1, 2010 at 11:46 PM

    The orbs are ATTACKING THE ROW-BOATS!
    I think the picture is illustrating a scene from Sinister Barrier.

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