Always gives me that "Thank god I'm not that poor asshole" feeling.
But seriously the guy who got shot was an asshole, look it up.
Always gives me that "Thank god I'm not that poor asshole" feeling.
But seriously the guy who got shot was an asshole, look it up.
That's us, that's home.
Really makes you think all the greed, war, pain, and violence is really trivial if you look at the scope of things.Ataronchronon wrote:
That's us, that's home.
This isn't a picture, But this song always gets me.
I've always wanted to know the story behind that picture, but I never knew either person's name.. What are they?Macbeth wrote:
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Always gives me that "Thank god I'm not that poor asshole" feeling.
But seriously the guy who got shot was an asshole, look it up.
Actually, there is a doco out soon about it..Jebus wrote:
I've always wanted to know the story behind that picture, but I never knew either person's name.. What are they?Macbeth wrote:
http://static.bf2s.com/files/user/47545/06.jpg
Always gives me that "Thank god I'm not that poor asshole" feeling.
But seriously the guy who got shot was an asshole, look it up.
Jebus wrote:
I've always wanted to know the story behind that picture, but I never knew either person's name.. What are they?Macbeth wrote:
http://static.bf2s.com/files/user/47545/06.jpg
Always gives me that "Thank god I'm not that poor asshole" feeling.
But seriously the guy who got shot was an asshole, look it up.
Wiki wrote:
It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph – the picture of police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyễn Văn Lém, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.
Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for the photograph (captioned 'General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon'), but would later lament its notoriety.
On Nguyen Ngoc Loan and his famous photograph, Adams wrote in Time:
“ The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?'[3] ”
Adams later apologized in person to General Nguyen and his family for the irreparable damage it did to Loan's honor while he was alive. When Nguyen died, Adams praised him as a "hero" of a "just cause".[4]
He once said, "I would have rather been known more for the series of photographs I shot of 48 Vietnamese refugees who managed to sail to Thailand in a 30-foot boat, only to be towed back to the open seas by Thai marines." The photographs, and accompanying reports, helped persuade then President Jimmy Carter to grant the nearly 200,000 Vietnamese boat people asylum. He won the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club in 1977 for these series of photographs in his photo essay, "The Boat of No Smiles" (Published by AP) [5]. Adams remarked, "It did some good and nobody got hurt."[6]
The photography essay I did at the end of my course was on war photography and I had this one in. Loads of people blamed the general for being inhumane without having any idea that the guy he shot was part of a death squad. Eddie Adams apologised to his family later on because he was bothered by so many people, even being threatened.Macbeth wrote:
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Always gives me that "Thank god I'm not that poor asshole" feeling.
But seriously the guy who got shot was an asshole, look it up.
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I love that kind of emotion.ph1shman420 wrote:
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SamBo:D wrote:
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hahaha
Actually I would say it justifies all of it.TrueMusou wrote:
Really makes you think all the greed, war, pain, and violence is really trivial if you look at the scope of things.
SEREMAKER wrote:
http://static.bf2s.com/files/user/17445/DSC00022.jpgSamBo:D wrote:
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Me with my 3 day old son ( he's now 8 months old )
go hit the guy your arms aren't big enough lol nice picSEREMAKER wrote:
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Me with my 3 day old son ( he's now 8 months old )
Yeah what's up with the ub3r massive biceps?
awww that's sweet!
and...
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Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
i was looking for that one to post ^^^^
He got his hand blown off and know he's got a weird hook instead? Wouldn't he prefer a prostheses hand?