tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post7419141943074132477..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Earth Day: Our EverythingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-59097844325835900062010-04-23T13:10:42.592-04:002010-04-23T13:10:42.592-04:00One of the things I think we routinely exaggerate ...One of the things I think we routinely exaggerate is the occurence of a "changed consciousness," "Copernican revolutions" in the way we think.<br /><br />But. I think there has been one, in our environmental consciousness, and it has been driven more by the image than by the word. I don't know how old you are, but I remember well the awe of seeing the first photographs of earth as "earthrise" over the surface of the moon from the Apollo 8 mission. Despite the long existence of world maps and globes and an intellectual sense of the unity of the planet earth, I really think that images such as those you post here have changed us.<br /><br />It's very interesting that you pair Bruegel's paintings with the earth images. Last Christmas my son gave me a DVD of "Solaris" (the Russian original, not the remake with George Cluny). It contains a wonderful sequence, on board the station orbiting an unearthly planet, in which the camera spends time simply panning over details of "Hunters in the Snow."rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.com