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!@#$%! · 01.29.2009, 01:23 PM

i would have liked this displayed in monthly order, kinda like a penthouse playmate calendar sort of thing. regardless, they are awesome photos.

i feel a bit shit for mainly noticing their aesthetic aspect before their troublesome content, but that's how my eye works-- the georgia photo is especially brilliant; on the other hand, the one with the naked baby so near the police batons is truly disturbing in spite of the good color. the tanzania one is also a brilliant composition.

in any case, yes, we're a fucked and violent species and we should learn to quell some of this imbecility we practice.

however, i find that one picture does not belong w/ the others (i grew up watching sesame street), and it's the seal one. the inuit have eaten seal for thousands of years, bears eat seal, artcic sharks eat seal, seals fuck each other up too, what's so wrong with getting dinner? just because the sanitized environment of macshit hides the fact that you're eating a dead cow, it doesn't mean blood didn't run-- though not so gorgeously over the ice.

on that note, when i think of it, most of those pictures of 3rd-world violence have to do with mineral rights, oil rights, diamonds, cell phone components (tantalum et. al.), the olympics, and shit we all still merrily consume and watch on tv without a moment's thought. do we see the blood dripping when we pick up the phone?

01.29.2009, 01:23 PM	#10
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,731	i would have liked this displayed in monthly order, kinda like a penthouse playmate calendar sort of thing. regardless, they are awesome photos. i feel a bit shit for mainly noticing their aesthetic aspect before their troublesome content, but that's how my eye works-- the georgia photo is especially brilliant; on the other hand, the one with the naked baby so near the police batons is truly disturbing in spite of the good color. the tanzania one is also a brilliant composition. in any case, yes, we're a fucked and violent species and we should learn to quell some of this imbecility we practice. however, i find that one picture does not belong w/ the others (i grew up watching sesame street), and it's the seal one. the inuit have eaten seal for thousands of years, bears eat seal, artcic sharks eat seal, seals fuck each other up too, what's so wrong with getting dinner? just because the sanitized environment of macshit hides the fact that you're eating a dead cow, it doesn't mean blood didn't run-- though not so gorgeously over the ice. on that note, when i think of it, most of those pictures of 3rd-world violence have to do with mineral rights, oil rights, diamonds, cell phone components (tantalum et. al.), the olympics, and shit we all still merrily consume and watch on tv without a moment's thought. do we see the blood dripping when we pick up the phone?
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