Swampy! Where are you? The gauntlet has been thrown down...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_re_us/us_gulf_oil_spill_artists
Breen flew across the continent on his own dime to spend the Fourth of July weekend collecting tar balls on Florida's Santa Rosa Island. He took the globs home to California, thinned them with gasoline and created four cartoons.
One panel shows a BP logo made up of oiled birds and sea creatures, another the Statue of Liberty holding a dripping oil drum aloft instead of a torch. The brownish-orange oil — darker or lighter, depending on the amount of gasoline Breen used — seems almost to bleed from the page....
As an ornithologist's son, watercolor artist Paul Jackson grew up spending Christmases in the park ranger's cabin on Horn Island, Miss. Over several weeks, he turned his outrage into "Fowl Language," in which a least tern, stilt, egret, cormorant and other Gulf birds sit atop a dropping-streaked BP sign as an oil rig smokes in the background....
A stark row of black-painted steel drums stretches across the mansion's meticulously manicured back lawn, ending beneath the outstretched branches of an ancient oak. Fifty-three 55-gallon barrels — the amount of crude that would have leaked into the Gulf every minute under BP's worst-case scenario.:yourock:
Prediction: It's gonna be a slick, oily, slippery Mardi Gras...
As yet, though, no one has quite reached the heights of the guy who did the holiday display at Lakeside Shopping Center outside NOLA in '05, complete with miniature blue tarps and (until they made him take them away) tiny little search-and-rescue markings!
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