When the radical art collective Ztohoven slyly inserted a digital image
of a mushroom cloud into an otherwise ordinary morning weather report on Czech Television's CT2 channel last summer, the response was nothing like that provoked by Orson Welles's 1938 radio play The War of the Worlds, which was based on H. G. Wells's novel about an alien invasion and caused near pandemonium.
Not exact matches
«Now shall you deal with me, O prince, and all the powers
of hell,» she proclaims, as she rises in a
mushroom cloud (the great symbol
of unleashed evil in that Cold War era) to transform herself
into an enormous horned and bat - winged dragon with Fantasia's Satan's gleaming, slitlike eyes.
And it was one
of good Christians that tricked the media and Congress and the people
into going to war with Iraq under a threat
of a
mushroom cloud.
Yes, they're in the middle
of a disappointing season that only recently turned
into a
mushroom cloud, but there's Evan Longoria, who has defined the franchise for a decade, during the ups and downs, and there he goes, representing the team in the All - Star Game.
The
mushroom cloud of superheated air, water and fallout rose almost 130,000 feet
into the sky, and spread to four continents.
Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a collision caused our planet to
mushroom outward
into a seething, spinning
cloud of vaporised rock that resembled a squished jelly doughnut.
The round started a smoldering fire punctuated by whizzing skyrockets, a rain
of incandescent fragments, and massive explosions that bloomed
into mushroom clouds.
Sure, it's all terribly derivative, and it all looks like an Armani ad, but that's just his way, the adorably fetishistic director, but hey, if you're gonna fetishize anything, if you're gonna make love to your subject matter, it might as well be Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson instead
of offshore oil rigs exploding
into mushroom clouds or 18 - wheelers flying through the air to crash almightily on the freeway or whatever.
Swim
into a
cloud of tropical fish or discover unique
mushroom - shaped coral formations.
The Steam
Cloud Balloon was destroyed when it got sucked up by a
Mushroom Kingdom Twister, and was hurled
into a tower
of the castle.
New Delhi - based Subodh Gupta has made a career out
of rendering the ordinary extraordinary, principally through the way he organises accumulations
of everyday cooking vessels and utensils
into largescale symbolic structures such as skulls and
mushroom clouds.
Clock faces, film stills, and silhouettes
of figures receding
into hazy darkness all resonate with Conner's stark self - portrait silhouettes REFLECTION and NIGHT LIGHT, as well as with the morbidly beautiful
mushroom clouds in his atomic bomb prints.
Conner obtained this government - shot film from the U.S. National Archives and with minimal interventions (editing and, most notably, the addition
of music), turned it
into a resonant meditation on the apocalyptic sublime, rendering the familiar nuclear
mushroom cloud strange again.
Their divorce has exploded
into a giant
mushroom cloud of hatred.
But the real issue was... did you get kind» a high dude from those glue vapours, as they increasingly permeated, then got hoovered as you panicked, up
into your nostrils like some magic
mushroom cloud being drawn to craneal infinity by an unwilling recipient in need
of fresh air regardless
of what was transpiring right beneath your olfactory probiscus member
of middle - aged facedom?