bartonMemo33

Memo 33: Cover Mockup

Ok, it would be way to easy to spend a whole day playing with this, so I'm just going to give a few sentences worth of thinking. Most books dealing with MTR have photographs of an MTR site on the cover. On the one hand, this hammers home the enviornmental devastation through a powerful visual lens. On the other hand, photographs can never really capture the scale and they mostly just show that the mountain has been leveled and the vegetation is gone. It doesn't show the effects on water quality and quantity, and it certainly doesn't show the effects on people or economies. And, they don't show anything remotley hopeful, eventhough I think part of what I will want to describe is positive production of the groups. So, if I could, I would excerpt part of the [|Beehive Collective's] "True Cost of Coal" or commission them to do a cover. Coal, and MTR especially, is their current project.