I understood the 'child' , disaster and death pictures, but what inspiration came from the other pics? |
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I understood the 'child' , disaster and death pictures, but what inspiration came from the other pics? |
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Successes, Goals, Targets. It comes down to one thing. Will. Ponder that word. It's one thing that stands between a 10-year old and a Master's degree. It's one thing that allows you to exist, and continue exist. Ask your mom. _________________________________________
5 year old mother?? How is that even possible? |
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Watching that chinese guy get assassinated was pretty tight. |
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Last edited by Omnis Dei; 10-22-2008 at 04:59 AM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I think that that article was too focused on the negative. I don't even remember some of those negative photos. To me the most inspiring photos were the ones on the moon, "earthrise", the Wright Brothers, Martin Luther King. |
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How in the hell did they manage to take a shot of the earth 4 billion miles away? What alien was holding the camera? |
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Things are not as they seem
Nevermind, arby said it. |
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Mm. Imagine the utter silence of that place (in space). You'd probably feel like god or something, looking at the earth from there, at all the meaningless shit that goes on. |
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Jesus effing Christ! That must of been a hell of a road trip. |
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Things are not as they seem
I believe that it took 20 years to get there. It's one of my favourite pics. |
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That's a horrible compilation. And by horrible, I mean poorly compiled. As others have pointed out, a large number of those photos aren't even the least bit recognizable, and they're mostly negative. Also, some of the most important and influential photos are absent, such as: |
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My thoughts exactly...on some of the starving children comments and desegregation comments...people were saying things like "That's what those african's deserve" etc. Horrible. Simply horrible. And regarding that starving child and the vulture...did anyone else think to themselves..."Hey...why the hell isn't the photographer helping that little kid and shooing away the vulture?" Perhaps his photo was worth more than physical help |
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Things are not as they seem
The photographer killed himself 3 months after taking this picture. Below is an excerpt from his story ( http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...981431,00.html ) |
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That's a shocking story Clairity. To me it's as moving as the Emmet Till picture/story. |
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Things are not as they seem
I'm shocked he killed himself even though he had a family. I will never understand that kind of thinking. |
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Guilt in life is my guess. |
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Things are not as they seem
I think those kinds of emotions should never override your responsibility to your loved ones. I dunno. I am hardcore against suicide. |
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Interesting points guys. Now that I deliberated on it for a bit...I think it's a subjective issue. Mes, if I were on a road trip with my family in a car and an 18 wheeler hits the car and my entire family dies except for me but my legs have been ripped off and my home is being foreclosed on (heaven forbid all those things come to pass) Suicide would not only arise as an option, but a seriously viable one. I am strongly against suicide but I think that if your life got so shitty like the example above...it's hard for one to say what they would or wouldn't do, though we may say no now...taking into hypothetical recent events, then...it might be different. Take Senator Joe Biden for example...a similar case happened with his family and he himself wrote in his book he was seriously considering suicide and would have if he did not have 2 of his sons left. But what if they had died as well? |
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Things are not as they seem
If you guys take a look at the comments on the picture of the American soldiers dragging a Vietcong, you'll see that many people seem to be outraged at their actions. You'd think they'd be a bit more angry at the fact they were actually killing people, or perhaps the fact that the Vietcong did far worse things to the American prisoners in POW camps. If you'll notice, a lot of the comments on the photos having to do with American wars say things like "Americans should die for what they did etc. etc. etc.". When will people learn that violence only creates more violence? |
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Surrender your flesh. We demand it.
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