The graininess of the screenshotted images is striking and gives the image a sense of movement.
The moodiness of the sky is most immediately striking in this image. The eye is immediately drawn to the slant of the plane, wondering whether this is the orientation of the frame or the ground itself.
This is a particularly timely visualization, giving the ongoing and increasingly dangerous scale of California wildfires. As a native Californian, I grew up knowing that fires are a part of our natural ecology, however the scale and destruction of wildfires has notably increased in the past decade.
As a historian, I grew rather excited seeing a historical image included in your visualizations. As with your overall abstract, I agree that there need to be more attempts to at interdisciplinarity - and the ability to historicize contemporary issues or debates can offer a complex contextualization necessary for such scholarly research.
This artifact closely remembles imaging of galaxies/cosmos (as I would suspect the creator of the image might have intended, or at least identified.) The beauty of these molecular constellations reframes concepts of toxicity - something that is visually appealing might obfuscate an underlying toxicity.
Elements of this image, from the rigged brain to the red color scheme, incited a visceral response. Even though I was not familiar with the the concept of the 'blood-brain-barrier,' I was intuitively able to grasp how this image was related to neuroscience and related risks.
These images definitely evoked more of an emotional response for me. The emotions on the characters and the ruination in the background in the image conveys feelings of sadness and despair.
I find the image aesthetically pleasing. It's composition is simple and clear. It presents mercury as a transformative, and powerful substance.
My first reaction to this image was curiosity. The image itself doesn't give much away; however, the use of text helps the reader understand what they are looking at. Perhaps the text could be more powerful with a particular situation of police oppression - although that might just as easily take away from all the other oppressions that were experienced. The best part about this image/text is the awareness that it spreads to readers about a topic they might not know about or might have chosen to forget about. Great job!
My first reaction to this image was curiosity. The image itself doesn't give much away; however, the use of text helps the reader understand what they are looking at. Perhaps the text could be more powerful with a particular situation of police oppression - although that might just as easily take away from all the other oppressions that were experienced. The best part about this image/text is the awareness that it spreads to readers about a topic they might not know about or might have chosen to forget about. Great job!