Come on in, the oil’s fine!

Brown...err Orange Beach, AL

“So exactly what is truth-action about?” our Pensacola waitress finally worked up the nerve to ask us as our meal concluded…clearly she had been buzzing us for awhile.

A few jumped in to explain the concept, still too nubile to be succinct. After a moment I threw my hat into the ring:

“There is truth — the things you know.
Then there is action — doing something about it.

It’s all well and good to sit at home in Los Angeles and watch the news about this oil spill…but we wanted to actually come here and see if we couldn’t express this tradgedy to the world in a different way — a more human way. We have all seen the birds covered in oil, we’ve all been sufficiently numbed by the 24/7 news cycle. But, do those photos of wildlife really resonate with everyone?  So, we wanted to express this devastation in a new medium — ‘artistic journalism’ as coined by mother on the fly. So, what if…what if we covered ourselves in this toxic crude and took pictures?”

Silence as she soaked it in. Something was burbling.

Then more silence.

Finally, she squeaked “Those wildlife photos resonate with *me*. Did you hear that a dolphin washed up on shore yesterday here in Pensacola. Did you hear that it cried as it was dying?”

With that, she burst into tears and ran from the table, leaving her busboy tub full of glasses. She wasn’t the only one crying by then.

More pics of this disaster at: truth-action.com

- chris lyman