Viral, But Why? That Photoshop Swarm over LAX

I’m entranced, too, but I’m wondering why architectural photographer, Mike Kelley’s beautiful and meticulous LAX photoshop image, “Wake Turbulence,” went viral.  Taking a few flies at it:

• Marvels how life/transit, as complicated as it is, mostly works.

• Taps into air travel as goat herding.  Poetically speaks to traveler’s frustration.

• Captures life as unrelenting chaos. The rat race. Too many balls in the air.

• It’s the curiosity of right-to-left.  Flying backwards.

• It’s technological but also primal. Like we’re just as much a swarm of bees.

• Constantly bombarded as we are with the mundane and redundant, it’s a novelty home run.

• If you click it larger, you’ll notice the carriers are all international.  And, what might that say?

Thoughts?

… By the way, you can read Mike Kelley’s backstory here.

(photo: Mike Kelley)