The sky cleared as quickly as the storm came up. Some pink Anderson birds (Glowus andersonus) are seen flying to meet Harrington's birds. The depth of the scene has been both expanded and contracted in this volley...our frightened teepee's rollin' with a posse, front and rear, but the spider web flattened the mountains in the background.
Two additional thoughts on this one. One: Flatland. There's some serious messing with the sense of depth going on here. The teepees are 2-D but cast shadows. They appear to be aligned on a 3-D grid, one in front of the other and so on with the mountains behind them, and then -- bang! -- a freaking spider web ties the background mountains to the foreground. There's something clever going on here, an explicit nod to the layering in the Photoshop files themselves.
Two: Harrington's teepee style reminds me of folk artist Adolf Wolfli. That was my first-glance reaction when I saw the serve, but forget to mention it until now.
Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by Jason Kottke.
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