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Decarabia69 — Chernobyl Child
Published: 2007-06-15 13:42:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 1008; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 30
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Acrylic on Bristol Board Approx 14 X 18 inchesThis is a painting I did when first learning how to airbrush and shortly after reading about the Chernobyl incident in Russia. I believe there is too much room for human error when it comes to nuclear power, and I don't believe it's safe enough to use.
My apologies to all the Russian people who have suffered various ills because of this horrible incident - I don't envision you as malformed monsters, but I also don't think your government warned you sufficiently of the dangers.
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Really nice picture, with distinctive style. The head sort of reminds me of the cover of the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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I've never seen the cover to that movie, but if you like Hunter Thompson and Ralph Steadman, check out my friend EddieTheYeti ([link] )
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You should see the cover in its wikipedia article or IMDB.
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I just had a really morbid thought.
You could draw a normal woman giving birth to this creature, shove an American flag in the background somewhere and maybe some well known politicians dressed as doctors and midwives.
A graphic way to make the government question their ideas on nuclear power.
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It might be a way to make them question their ideas, if they had a conscience or worried about anything other than making a dollar.
Still-it's an excellent idea that I might consider.
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It would be cool to see it put to paper!
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Thanks. I hoping most people wouldn't want to see this slithering toward them as they crossed the radioactive forbidden zone.
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If somebody walks in then they are asking for it. And why try when you can play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. instead?
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I'm not familiar with STALKER, but I do know for a fact that many older Russians haven't left the forbidden zone because that's where they grew up. They are obviously dying slowly because of the radiation concentrations, but . . .
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Yeah, it is sad. Sadder still that their children are born with deformities because of the radiation.
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Yes, I saw the HBO documentary "Chernobyl Heart" and it left me sad an depressed for days. I can't believe that politicians in the U.S. (John McCaine in particular) are pushing for nuclear power plants as a method of getting away from the dependance on foreign oil.
How quickly they forget!
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Indeed!
Solar, water and wind is the way forward says i. Or given recent research, hydrogen-pills.
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I agree wholeheartedly! I'm not familiar with the research on Hydrogen-pills. I'll have to run a search. Thanks for the mention.
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I must confess they are my personal favorite at the moment. Clean, concentrated, plentiful beyond what we could ever use up. It could be used to power anything from cars to cellphones! If any major scientific advancement is to happen in my time i hope for this to be it.
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I meant to get back to you regarding Hydrogen pills. I ran a search and found plenty on Hydrogen Cells, but are these the same thing? Could you point me to a link that is closer to what you've read? Thanks in advance.
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Hmm, i can find loads of danish articles, but the english seems more sparse. The pill was unveiled and patentet two years ago by a danish research team and has therefore received quite a bit of attention here. I found a little though:
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I know it's not much but it should give you a general idea
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Thanks for going through the trouble - I review the links shortly.
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I check out your links and I really hope that the technology I read about spread all over the world from Denmark. It's amazing, but it's not surprising that we haven't heard about it here in the States - our money-grabbing government would probably even stifle something like this - it would make the whole war in Iraq worthless!
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I hope so too. I also have a feeling that the reason this is not getting any more attention than it is, involves people with a lot of money keeping a lid on it. I suspect the oil companies and governments as you say. Were you aware that Shell has had the patent for an effective electrical car for ten years? They are just making a handful a year to keep the rights. If the scientists don't sell out (fortunatly they have yet to do anything that suggests they will) and the technology hits mainstream this could mean an all new era! Imagine the shift of power if oil is replaced by this - the most common chemical element in the world. Water, pure enough for drinking, would be the only exhaust from ones car engine.
I think this pill has the power to rock the world. And in a positive direction at that
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Heheh, Shell Oil Company may now own the patent, but electric cars were actually produced in the U.S. by General Motors until politics got into the picture. Here's a Wiki article that I'm sure you'll find interesting. I know the documentary mentioned is available too.
Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary film that explores the birth, limited commercialization, and subsequent death of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.
It was released on DVD to the home video market on November 14, 2006 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
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I'm sure you won't be surprised as you read the article at WHO was behind the death of the EV1.
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Wow... all we saw of electric cars was a rather bizarre looking tri-wheeled thing called an "Ellert". Not surprising though. Ever notice how the big corporations always complain when they get negative attention? Supersize Me, anyone?
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That's totally funny, I was thinking of "Supersize me" when I wrote the last post to you.
Some companies simply DESERVE being dragged through the mud!
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Agreed completely. I don't know if i am anti authoritarian or whatever, but i always enjoy it when they catch flak from the media or are ridiculed. Like the guy who wanted to have "Sweat Shop" written on his Nike shoes. And they wouldnt let him have it because it was considered "obscene"
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Heheh, I could paint that on his sneakers for him!
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Oh no, that would be a copyright violation. Remember; if you say something they don't like they will sue your ass of
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Once you own the shoes, you can paint whatever you like on them. I can understand an artist trying to market their shoes with a libelous statement on them, but they relinquish all rights once the shoes are yours. They wouldn't sue you for painting, "Darth Vader is Evil" on your shoes, they wouldn't have a chance in court. Once you proved that the owner has the right to "modify" the shoes however he/she sees fit . . .
The cool thing would be to have a hundred thousand people paint, "Nike Abuses Third World Children!" on their shoes after buying them! Of course, you'd STILL be supporting the company.
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They could refuse it because he was ordering them special made through a "design your own shoe" service they offer.
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Oh, well that makes all the sense in the world. Why would anyone design a product that was against their product? I could still paint the shoes for him. 
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Yeah, but i think the point was to make Nike indicate themselves either way
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Ugh, such a large-scale, ongoing tragedy.
The monster seems more like a metaphor for the incident in it's entirety rather than just one person affected, huge and wrong.
I remember a black and white picture in my science book of the city, completely abandoned. It was so sad.
Anyway, great work.
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Thank you for the nice comment, and also for getting my visual analogy. The catastrophe was indeed a monster unleashed by human error with a reach far beyond the expected consequences.
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From the thumbnail I thought this was another skateboard image. I too agree about nuclear power. It is pretty scary at the thought of it. We have a nuclear plant 3 miles from my house. It has been there for quite some time and was fairly safe. We did have all scare last year with a fire in it. All of the schools were evacuated and such. Did you know no new nuclear plants have been built since 3 mile island incident?
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And yet the idea of re-introducing nuclear power as "clean" is happening more and more. I think John McCain has endorsed them - and (to my surprise) even Bill Maher. I can only imagine what attacking a nuclear power plant in a 9/11 type attack would do.
There was a very sobering documentary on HBO entitled "Chernobyl Heart" and it left me depressed for days. The malformed children, the older people who have refused to leave the "forbidden zone" and the ongoing problems with the malformed hearts, it's too much to believe it's being touted as safe again.
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I agree. While I am far from a tree hugger, I think we need to develop an alternative fuel. My reasoning isn't as environmental as it is just practical. Fossil fuels will run out, and if we develop something else I think we will not have to deal with the middle east as much. All they have is their fuel as far as resources and if there is not a market for that then they might realise that they need to deal a little better with the world around them.
I haven't seen that particular documentary but I have read about the people refusing to leave. I think they have no where else to go either. They are old and have no skills. Tough luck in a place like that.
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I'm no tree-hugger either, and I certainly agree that some sort of alternative fuel needs to be found. We're prisoners of the auto industry and the middle east. I would hate for nuclear power to become commonplace, especially after seeing that documentary - it would render LARGE tracts of land unuseable for decades.
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Its a very interesting painting. I don't really remember that accident, what year was it?
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In April of 86 - here's a Wiki on it: [link]
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thanks, its getting a bit late now, so I'll read it later. I now know why I don't know that much bout it... I was born in 1990...
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Yes, I know you're pretty young - it's a very sad catastrophe that is still hurting many children born in 1990 - the radiation causes a peculiar birth defect that weakens the walls of the heart. Don't ever let anyone tell you that nuclear power is "safe."
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Thanks, my usual palette doesn't range far, does it? You can see a mistake in a tentacle on the left side- I blew a blob of paint (fortunately is was dilute) out of my airbrush.
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Thanks, Matt and thanks for choosing it as a fav.
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