Environmental Graffiti

The Flying Tree Snake of Southeast Asia

When pigs fly. It's an archetypal expression of disbelief. What kind of pig could possibly fly? It'd be as crazy as some other flightless creature, like a snake, taking to the air. But let's slither back just a second. A genus of snake called the flying snake does indeed exist, and while technically it's able to glide rather than fly, this resident of South and Southeast Asia can still make some serious headway as it sails through the jungle – travelling distances as far as 100 metres before landing.

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Los Angeles After the Apocalypse

The work of David Maisel is haunting in its stark simplicity, despite and because of its expansive breadth of focus. Yet while many of his projects have taken a bird's-eye view of their subject matter, few have seemed as hopelessly desolate as Oblivion. Los Angeles is stripped to its bare bones and burnt to cinder under Maisel's photographic eye – a megalopolis suddenly seen in post-apocalyptic monochrome.

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The San Andreas Fault from Above

The name of the San Andreas Fault precedes itself like, well, like an unavoidable rift in the earth's surface. Running some 1,300 kilometres through the US state of California, and reaching a depth of 15 to 20 kilometres, the San Andreas forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates. Yet because of its vast size, it's difficult to grasp this giant geological feature; except, that is, when you look at it from above.

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