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  • kira
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2008
    • 2353

    Images for Thought



    In my endless of hours of researching on the internet I happened upon these, while searching for weapons and contemporary art...</p>

    It was from someone's blog and the link was broken to the initial news posting but I copied the photos.
    Not trying to start a political debate. The pictures just stuck with me, especially considering how search engines bring you to such varying things to say the least. So I thought this might be a place for them.</p>

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    Photo caption: Israeli girls write messages on a shell at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, next to the Lebanese border, Monday, July 17, 2006.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)</p>




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    Distraction is an obstruction of the construction.
  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    #2
    Re: Images for Thought

    I must say, if this is true, that's pretty damn disturbing...
    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

    StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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    • kira
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2008
      • 2353

      #3
      Re: Images for Thought

      right? horrible.
      Distraction is an obstruction of the construction.

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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        #4
        Re: Images for Thought

        have you seen Why We Fight? One of the stories in the film involves writing on a bomb.
        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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        • kira
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2008
          • 2353

          #5
          Re: Images for Thought

          no I haven't. will check it out.
          Distraction is an obstruction of the construction.

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          • kira
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2008
            • 2353

            #6
            Spring Equinox magic



            So no I am not balancing it on my head distracting pnod, but for those disbelievers try it, good for two days out of the year only...have tried on others. </p>

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            Distraction is an obstruction of the construction.

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            • DHC
              Senior Member
              • Jul 2007
              • 2155

              #7
              Re: Spring Equinox magic

              cool
              Originally posted by Faust
              fuck you, i don't have an attitude problem.

              Sartorialoft

              "She is very ninja, no?" ~Peter Jevnikar

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              • Avantster
                ¤¤¤
                • Sep 2006
                • 1983

                #8
                Re: Spring Equinox magic

                ^^ yes, that one was an SZ classic! I'm pretty sure i have it somewhere on my computer at home.
                let us raise a toast to ancient cotton, rotten voile, gloomy silk, slick carf, decayed goat, inflamed ram, sooty nelton, stifling silk, lazy sheep, bone-dry broad & skinny baffalo.

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                • jay
                  Member
                  • Mar 2008
                  • 52

                  #9
                  Re: Images for Thought



                  Wow, all I can say is "Wow"...</P>

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                  • Classique
                    Senior Member
                    • Apr 2008
                    • 126

                    #10
                    Re: Images for Thought

                    <p align="center"><font color="#666666" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+1">"</font><font color="#cccccc" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+1">I
                    have been a witness, and these pictures are</font></p>
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                    my testimony. The events I have recorded should</font></p>
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                    not be forgotten and must not be repeated.</font><font color="#ffffff" face="Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="+1"><font color="#666666">"</font></font></p>
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                    <font color="#999999" face="Copperplate" size="2">-James Nachtwey-</font></p>


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                    • Classique
                      Senior Member
                      • Apr 2008
                      • 126

                      #11
                      Re: Images for Thought



                      <span class="sans"><span id="btAsinTitle"></span></span><span class="sans"><span id="btAsinTitle">I recommend Krzysztof Penderecki's "Threnody." As to open wounds... W/ Nactchwey's Work.</span></span></p>

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                      • nycd
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2006
                        • 286

                        #12
                        Re: Images for Thought



                        If you ever get a chance to see a Nachtwey exhibition - do it.
                        </p>

                        He prints these very large - and a tremendous amount of work goes into the printmaking process.</p>

                        As striking as these are at magazine size - they are better in person.</p>

                        Also - see the film about Jim - http://www.war-photographer.com</p>

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                        • Classique
                          Senior Member
                          • Apr 2008
                          • 126

                          #13
                          Re: Images for Thought



                          Nachtwey's photography made me a humanitarian; Through the magazine prints.
                          A gallery show must be sentimentless heartbreak.

                          I envy you, Nycd. [51]

                          This next set is by Robert &amp; Shana Parkeharrison; In my opinion, consistently, the best monotone to color arrangement work.
                          (Recommend; My muxtape track 5... Arvo Part "Cantus In Memoriam...")</p>






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                          "Much has been written about Robert &amp; Shana ParkeHarrison, the husband and wife team whose photographic tableaus took the art world by storm more than six years ago. Creating a genre unique within the photo world, the ParkeHarrisons construct fantasies in the guise of environmental performances for their Everyman ? a man dressed in a black suit and starched white shirt ? who interacts with the earths landscape. Tapping into their surreal imagination, the artists combine elaborate sets (which can take months to construct) and an impeccable sense of wit and irony, to address issues about the earth and mankind's responsibility to heal the damage he has done to its landscape.

                          Consistently dressed in his trademark outfit, this Everyman is earth's protector, healer and communicator, using low-tech implements as his aid. This everyman then shapes himself as fabricated props for theatrical performances, which are staged to be photographed. Like a production reserved for the cinema, the ParkeHarrison invent their settings, which tend to look more like scenes from "Metropolis" or "Blade Runner" rather than the family photo album.

                          As Robert ParkeHarrison said in the foreword to his monograph, 'I want to make images that have open, narrative qualities, enough to suggest ideas about human limits. I want there to be a combination of the past juxtaposed with the modern. I use nature to symbolize the search, saving a tree, watering the earth. In this fabricated world, strange clouds of smog float by; there are holes in the sky. These mythic images mirror our world, where nature is domesticated, controlled, and destroyed.'"

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                          • kira
                            Senior Member
                            • Mar 2008
                            • 2353

                            #14
                            Re: Images for Thought



                            some nice ones to look at :)</p>

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                            Distraction is an obstruction of the construction.

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                            • Chinorlz
                              Senior Member
                              • Sep 2006
                              • 6422

                              #15
                              Re: Spring Equinox magic

                              [quote user="kira"]


                              So no I am not balancing it on my head distracting pnod, but for those disbelievers try it, good for two days out of the year only...have tried on others. </P>
                              <P mce_keep="true">[/quote]</P>
                              <P mce_keep="true">Sorry to be a bubble burster Kira [:$]</P>
                              <P mce_keep="true">But you can always stand an egg on one end.</P>
                              <P mce_keep="true">http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/egg_spin.html</P>
                              <P mce_keep="true"></P>
                              www.AlbertHuangMD.com - Digital Portfolio Of Projects & Designs

                              Merz (5/22/09):"i'm a firm believer that the ultimate prevailing logic in design is 'does shit look sick as fuck' "

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