photoshop contest thread on Fark.com with an olympic foilist.
Cookies to which posters can pick out the 'shops that detail Rene Roche's plans for the future of foil. :P
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Is it pervasive cynicism, a sneer at all things sacred that leads to such tasteless displays? Is there no part in these persons, within their reptilian brain that says 'wait, this is wrong.' Or, is it a question of degree? Is there a barometer of tragedy that delineates what can and can not be lampooned? I doubt censure will even make an impression on the 'artist' who did the Kent State image. He (as I assume) has no shame.
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You know I'd managed to avoid looking at those masks with the LED lights up till now. And you go and shove them in my face. That is just SO wrong in SO many ways. I will never be able to wear one without self ridicule.
Is it pervasive cynicism, a sneer at all things sacred that leads to such tasteless displays? Is there no part in these persons, within their reptilian brain that says 'wait, this is wrong.' Or, is it a question of degree? Is there a barometer of tragedy that delineates what can and can not be lampooned? I doubt censure will even make an impression on the 'artist' who did the Kent State image. He (as I assume) has no shame.
Please, tell us how you really feel.
__________________ The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
-Proust
What can I say but that I'm passionate about such things. That is after all a picture of a real dead young American. His internal organs punctured and destroyed by real 7.62mm FMJs, fired from real M1s by American National Guardsmen. The reactions of the young lady in the real, Pulitzer-Prize-winning photo is genuine, primal shock and grief. It documents a very dark chapter of our history, the day "America killed its children."
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