Sam Roberts, end of the world & cover art coincidences?

I really dig Sam Roberts – he’s a great artist, his band is great and you should really check out his music.  I just wanted to share something I found kinda cool.

I listen to his music on my ipod Touch which displays all the album cover art each time songs play (duh, like everyone else’s iPod) – but everytime I saw the Sam Roberts cover art, I thought it was one of those rapatronic/high speed photos of nuclear explosions.  it only became obvious that it was an illustration of people and animals when I looked closer.  So you go, huh?  What the hell is a rapatronic photo?  And why did I even know what they are?   Haha.  I’m a nerd and I read Carl Sagan’s Cosmos when I was a teen – and saw my first rapatronic images there.

Well here are the images I am referring to side by side:

They sort of look the same right?

If you blur the Sam Roberts cover with a Gaussian Blur of 8 or so pixels you get this:

Even closer right?  Even if this was just an accident – I find it very cool and interesting.  Especially the connection between nuclear explosions and the “end of the world”.