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Friday, December 25, 2015

IS THIS WHAT THE APOCALYPSE WOULD LOOK LIKE? Artist Steve McGhee offers some suggestions of Western cities being destroyed

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What we are really afraid of:  Notice how conditioned we are to not offending Islam.  None of these images shows Muslim cities being destroyed by the Apocalypse. 
 
Most disaster movies or illustrators take extra care not to show any Muslim cities or monuments crumbling down from fictional war or apocalypse.  You would not want to make Muslims angry.  So it's always the West, particularly the Statue of Liberty and NYC, that take the worst beating.  Of course, the almost apocalyptic Muslim-on-Muslim destruction goes on in the Middle East, but that's real war, (see what's left of the neighborhood of Jobar, in Damascus, Syria). 
 
How the world might end, according to digital artist Steve McGhee:

Mr McGhee has created a series of apocalyptic images that seem to cover every possible way that the world could come to an end 

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In this piece of digital artwork by Mr McGhee, water appears to be flooding the streets of London around Bank tube station 
In this piece of digital artwork by Mr McGhee, water appears to be flooding the streets of London around Bank tube station 

 The artist's images seem to depict every way possible that the world will end including the likes of biblical flooding, pictured 

A tidal wave appears to be taking out the cars and buildings as it makes its way down the narrow streets of New York City 
A tidal wave appears to be taking out the cars and buildings as it makes its way down the narrow streets of New York City.  Reminds us of a scene in the film The Day After Tomorrow.


Mr McGhee, from London, Ontario, believes his work could be influenced by the fact he watches far too many disaster movies.  He said: 'I guess it's too many disaster movies. That and the fact that I'm fascinated by things we, as human beings, have little or no control over.
 A boat appears to fall off the edge of the earth in another one of Mr McGhee's apocalyptic artworks showing how the world will end 



The head of the Statue of Liberty appears submerged under water in a dramatic artist's image of how the world might end 
The head of the Statue of Liberty appears submerged under water in a dramatic artist's image of how the world might end 

One of Steve McGhee's digital artwork which shows boats being sucked in a black hole opening up in the middle of Sydney Harbour 
One of Steve McGhee's digital artwork which shows boats being sucked in a black hole opening up in the middle of Sydney Harbour 


Mr McGhee uses various photography manipulation techniques to create his dramatic scenes, including this one of a natural disaster in Brazil 
Disaster art
Disaster art
 
Mr McGhee, from London, Ontario, believes his work could be influenced by the fact he watches far too many disaster movies
 
Mr McGhee, from London, Ontario, believes his work could be influenced by the fact he watches far too many disaster movies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3372059/Who-says-work-s-disaster-Artist-creates-incredible-images-world-end.html



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THE REAL WORLD

What remains of the neighborhood of Jobar in Damascus, Syria, demolished during fighting between pro-Assad and rebel forces.
Destruction, destruction, destruction: Bombed-out houses stretch to the horizon in a district of Damascus destroyed by the civil war

Source
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3371675/Bombed-houses-rubble-far-eye-apocalyptic-landscape-remains-one-region-Syrian-capital-Damascus.html

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