Word: motionlessness
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...rain forests of Madagascar's Andasibe-Mantadia National Park--and being a suburban boy who now lives in Brooklyn, I don't have them. So I borrowed Marie Razafindrasolo's. She was my guide on a recent trip to Andasibe, where she pointed out a Parson's chameleon lying motionless on a branch and a panda-like indri dangling shyly from the top of a tree. Later Razafindrasolo took our group on a night walk through the fringes of the forest. She showed us golden Mantella frogs and leaf-tailed geckos and then, barely visible amid the trees, a pair...
Inhabiting the tidal estuaries around Australia's northern coast, the crocs, or salties, as they're known locally, grow to more than 17 feet and can weigh more than a ton. They lurk near river crossings, where they lie motionless, half-submerged in muddy shallows, then explode out of the water to seize an animal as large as a horse or cow, drag it underwater, and roll with it until it drowns...
...that didn’t make sense. She reached out her arm, encircled the small object with her delicate fingers, and pulled her husband’s monocle from the hay.The Stable Boy pushed Felicity aside and got up to start putting on his trousers, but Felicity sat motionless, the monocle in her palm. She stared at it for a moment, uncomprehending. Then she looked up.The Stable Boy had fastened his trousers over his prodigious loins and was smiling to himself as he sharpened a scythe. “Ah,” he said. “That must...
...Back at the Draghici's, little Stefan is outside the front gate, fishing in a ditch with three other children. "I don't miss my parents, I often talk to them on the phone", the six-year-old declares with a motionless face. "I asked them to send me a racing car, but I only got candy and a regular car. I also asked them to send me an extra paddling pool. I want to have one of my own, because my sister always jumps into the pool and makes me wet." But in spite of all the Western consumer...
...still trees with superimposed footage of two trees gently blowing in the wind, creating a striking clash between the still and the moving that is made even more powerful by its reversal of real life, in which the children would be the active element and the trees relatively motionless. By juxtaposing the fixed children and the moving trees, “Kindergarten Antonio Sant’Elia” underscores the fleetingness of human life by opposing it to the ageless-ness of nature. The message is made even stonger by the use of a historic photograph; the children, aged...