08-21-2008, 01:56 AM
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| Fencing on Fark
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comm...IDLink=3806544
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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08-21-2008, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by kuroutesshin  | That Kent State one was… wrong.
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08-21-2008, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by HDG That Kent State one was… wrong. | The Kent State one is my new desktop background. | |
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08-22-2008, 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by HDG That Kent State one was… wrong. | I agree. It took me a second to recognize it. The landscape's changed a bit, but the memorial is in the parking lot of the building we practice in.
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08-22-2008, 12:33 AM
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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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08-22-2008, 12:45 PM
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08-22-2008, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs The Kent State one is my new desktop background. | That figures.
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08-22-2008, 02:28 PM
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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.
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08-22-2008, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by HDG That Kent State one was… wrong. | I thought it was the most creative of the bunch.
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08-22-2008, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Guymelef 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.
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08-22-2008, 10:34 PM
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| 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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08-22-2008, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by leftyboy I thought it was the most creative of the bunch. | Hardly mutually exclusive.
I can think of lots of creative ways to be crass.
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08-22-2008, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by HDG Hardly mutually exclusive.
I can think of lots of creative ways to be crass. | Offensive, tasteless photos on Fark? Is anyone really surprised? | |
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08-23-2008, 11:22 AM
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silly fencer brought an épée to a decapitation fight.
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