Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Indian Met Dept's pride


Behold this amazing graphic. Study it carefully for a few seconds. It is so detailed that I decided to add a border around it, like a picture-frame at Musée du Louvre.
Purple color clouds! More clouds of teal color, ash color, and yellow/red lighting rods. Raindrops the size of 50 calibre bullets.

This was dug up on the Indian Meteorological Dept's website. Apparently it's an icon to represent 'thunderstorm with clouds' situation. It managed to exceed its meaning and seems rather an icon for "holy fuck, run away from this city!" - something that I would plant on websites before doomsday.

I would suspect the IMD needs a color chart. Perhaps we could all contribute for sending them a picture book as well.

However I won't be surprised with this. Being a government facility, I could imagine people in the wrong places. Color-blind war veterans being assigned the post of creative arts at the met dept. Or war widows of our शहीद जांबाज़ रक्षक सैनिक who have to switch from the artful Chef's Knife to the inconvenient computer mouse everyday...

Met. Dept. Scientist: "Yeah, so we need a graphic for thunderstorm with rain: cumulonimbus clouds in a squall line formation, accompanied with streaks of cloud-to-ground lightning"
Creative officer: "वो क्या होता है जी????"
Met. Dept. Scientist: "eh, आप... आप बस कुछ रंग बिरंगे बादल बना दो वो mspaint software में"

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