Google Earth and FFVII
Through the wonder and glory that is the newly released Google Earth (download here), I found this awesome/bizarre industrial plant in Baghdad, Iraq:
Now, this in and of it self is not remarkable, but imagine standing at ground level next to such a plant with that weird green glow oh-so-popular in video games, the X-files, and in Minas Morgul, and you might get:
That's a screenshot from Final Fantasy VII, which leads me to believe that part of the underlying motives of global capitalism must be to recreate in real life all of the surreal locations that you could only once occupy as a spiky-haired man-boy named Cloud. Thanks global capital... :)
Now, this in and of it self is not remarkable, but imagine standing at ground level next to such a plant with that weird green glow oh-so-popular in video games, the X-files, and in Minas Morgul, and you might get:
That's a screenshot from Final Fantasy VII, which leads me to believe that part of the underlying motives of global capitalism must be to recreate in real life all of the surreal locations that you could only once occupy as a spiky-haired man-boy named Cloud. Thanks global capital... :)
posted by gipperfish at 18:40
4 Comments:
you are weird and i do love you so.
!
;)
i was born in that plant!!
it explains a lot, n'est-ce pas?
Hmm.... Next up: AVALANCHE!
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