'Amphibious (Login-Logout)'

Above, a still from a six-minute-long video whose title is this post's headline.

It was made in 2005 by the team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla.

Mitch Epstein, in the November 5, 2006 Washington Post, wrote, It "simply follows a day in the life of six tortoises as they float on a log down China's Pearl River. They wake up to a riverside filled with children playing and small-time cottage industry, but by evening they're surrounded by the bright lights of urban factories."

The movie is part of the exhibition "Ecotopia: The Second International Center of Photography Triennial of Photography and Video," currently up at the International Center of Photography, located at 1133 Sixth Avenue (43rd) Street in New York City. (Through January 7, 2007; 212-857-0000).

Now where the heck did I put Verlyn Klinkenborg's email address....

Who's he, you ask?

You wouldn't be the first and you won't be the last.

That's why I'm here.