While little is know of the rare and dangerous palinflower, this brief photodocument details the developmental phases of this rare and deadly flora known to wipe out whole cultures and to destroy political parties
The Palinflower starts off innocently enough, deceptive in its down to earth simplicity.
When it first blossoms, the deadly bloom may trick the ignorant admirer who fails to properly vet this flower's background
As the bloom reaches maturity, it's unique pistil reminds the wary horticulturalist, wise to the danger of the Palinflower that it is best to stay away.
Once the "wasilla house pistil shows it self, within short order, the flower shows it's thorny, prickly nature that bites those who embrace it too tightly.
As the flower withers, Palinflowers' pods appear. These look prickly and nasty,but the worst is yet to come.
Finally, the pods, as they age, dry up and burst, revealing the true seeds the deceived admirers have embraced and, too late, wedded themselves to.
When palinflowers die, another flower grows in its place, one that we know even less about. So far, it has not been found to be toxic.
the white flowers used for this little bit of satire are Datura, and they ARE known to be, if eaten, hallucinogenic in the worst way, never producing good trips, and if too much is eaten, known to be deadly. No joke.
all photos and lame photoshopping by rob kall
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
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