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Published: 2007-04-22 21:14:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 3480; Favourites: 67; Downloads: 21
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An Earth Day deviationVisit Aral Beach, the largest beach in the world! Bask in the sun amid breathtaking archaeological treasures. Superb travel packs include air transportation for today's new russian and international economic elite!
The Aral Sea used to be our planet's 4th largest inland sea before the Soviet Union started draining it in the sixties. It's one of the world's most striking environmental tragedies.
--I give full permission to *DeviantDolls for the display of this deviation in the club's gallery--
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Hey the picture looks fantastic. However this situation is depressing and I am helping to get worldwide attention to this. If you want to know more on whats going on, contact me.
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You do svelte figures so well. Makes me think a bit of Manara.
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Thanks! I'm a fan of Manara, so I take it as a big compliment...
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Those lost Aral ships are so incredibly depressing.
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Yes, they look so out of place...
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beautiful picture. and thanks for the info aswell.thats the work go from a "pretty picture" to a piece of art.
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Thanks! I'm amazed every time I see images from the Aral Sea: it looks so surreal, seeing those ships in the middle of what is now a desert...
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its really rather horrifying
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Really nice 
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Thanks! Yeah, I don't know much about ships so I had to do some research.
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I like the soft, washed style you have and how you rescue the subjects from drowning by lining them markedly.
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uhhhhh
good figure o.O
your album is great man.... congratz
xD
prettytytyyt :>
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Hi
I featured this piece in my journal as a thank you for taking an interest in my work (commenting/ watch or fave) The support is appreciated.
*Lazulyte
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Thank you so much, miss, that was very nice of you!
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A wonderful message in an amazing drawing. Love this. I checked out the comments and visited the links...it's just depressing... isn't it.
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Thank you!
It is quite a sad story...
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Thank you so much for saying so!
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I really appreciate your support, thank you!
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I really like your work
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CRAP! sorry about the insane number of posts! my computer was acting really weird!!
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Don't worry about it, I've had DA act weird on me too!
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awesome picture!
Yeah, I remember hearing about that back in high school a little bit and then a yr or two ago, I saw something on like PBS or Discovery Channel or something that talked a little about it and how it was just a drop compared to it's former self and how in a few more yrs, if this keeps up, it'll be all gone and just a desert....sad...made me cry...on days I'm really emotional, almost any tragedy makes me cry....and what i think is funny is that all the new globes I've seen lately still have it as it's orignal size?!?!?!?! I wonder if they are even updating maps and text books for the schools? Doubt it though....
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Thank you so much!
I didn't know they were still publishing maps and globes with the sea's original outline! It sounds like a wonderful application of 'truthiness', Colbert would be proud!
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hey, was looking on google earth at it and they had a link for info of it and that has then and now shots of it from space.....i knew it was bad, but go check it out ur self!!! [link]
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C'est presque de l'humour noir de mettre côte à côte les bateaux échoués de la Mer d'Aral et des vacanciers bâtis comme des stars de Hollywood.
Les couleurs sont particulièrement superbes, c'est une de tes meilleures mises en couleur, à mon avis.
J'ai une petite réserve sur les hanches de la demoiselle. De la manière dont tu l'as dessinée, son aine se confond avec sa hanche droite, alors que depuis cet angle, je pense qu'ils pourraient être plus distincts.
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Je connais le problème de la Mer Aral depuis plusieurs années et ai récemment vu un documentaire démontrant que sa situation avait continué à se déteriorer... Paradoxalement, en étant attristé par la catastrophe en voyant les images surréelles de ces bateaux perdus en pleine terre sans eau en vue, je me suis pris à imaginer que ça ferait un paysage incroyable pour faire du vélo-tout-terrain... Je me suis donc demandé s'il y avait un tourisme spécifique à la tragédie (comme 'Ground Zero' à New York) et ai imaginé ce tourisme de luxe pours richards branchés...
Ce couple pourrait avoir des problèmes plus tard car la région présente aussi des taux de matières toxiques impressionnants (l'URSS utilisait aussi la Mer Aral pour des tests d'armes et autres trucs sympas)...
Merci pour tes commentaires!
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As you said they started killing this ecosystem way back in the red communist days. Dont know if they have been more blind eyed to nature then they are now.
The earthen colours reflect very well the message of your theme. It also looks well on your bikini lady, also with the beach that far away she looks a bit lost in her outfit.
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I remember seeing a documentary on it maybe 15 years ago, not long after the USSR has crumbled, which had shocked me... I had assumed things would have gotten better since then but a more recent report I saw in the last year or so showed me it's quite the opposite... The sea is down to about 20% its original volume (and still fading away)!
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yeah! Hot babes against pollution!
Nice one.
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You draw some ridiculously hot ladies you do.
Thankyou
And yes, it's about time we realised, and did something about it. [The earth in general]
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Thanks!
Here's to hoping people get some senses of scale!
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You're welcome mate
Mmm.... those boats... yeah... big.
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Happy earth day.
Great work
I hope some day mankind becomes aware of how much damage they can do to -our- the world...
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Let's hope we do!
And thank you!
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Many thanks to you!
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HA NICE ONE
you should for tourism russia.
I wanna go.
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