Showing posts with label perspective. Show all posts
Showing posts with label perspective. Show all posts

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Like dominoes, they fall

Houses like Dominos

First, it was just one house sagging a little. Marshland underneath, solid foundations but nothing underneath it.

Later on, one by one, the neighbouring houses slipped along — in an eternally slow, infinitely gradual domino topple.

Not that the inhabitants let it bother them. San Francisco earthquakes happen on a swifter timescale than this.