Thursday, October 30, 2008

Mole Spotting


As in any family, there are over 27,000 photographs of the Mole Brothers in their natural habitat.  What is perhaps unique to the Brothers is that all 27,000 of the images are catalogued and filed by name, date, place and dozens of other data points.  It's a little known fact that the Mole  Brothers have been the subjects of one of the most tireless longitudinal research studies in history, conducted by that most objective of scientists:  their father.  Curiously, while their lives have been recorded in excruciating detail, he remains the most elusive of subjects.  Infrequently,  he appears as a shadow in one of his photographs.  Sometimes his battered, tan stetson can be glimpsed over the top of the car (his wife infrequently assisting him in his Herculean efforts).  Today, Luristoplier and Cozi would like to salute this titan of the documentary arts, by offering up two samples from his encyclopedic collection.

LEFT:  Luristoplier and Cozy at Cape Cod (date unknown, probably late '90's or early '00's)
RIGHT:  Luristoplier (5) and Cozy (2) gamboling in some sort of wooded environment with unknown molebearer in the background (possibly the maternal caregiver, 1968).

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