Us, people of the year 2008.
 

January 29, Brazil, hostages in a bank


November 28, Bombay, terrorist attacks on hotels.



March 11, Brazil, surpressing of native tribe's protests



July 5th, China, catching of homeless dogs before the Olympics

shit, this is terrible.

March 25, Tanzania



January 26, Kenya, presidential elections



August 12, Gory, Georgia



March 31, Nova Scotia, Canada, seal hunters

December 13, Athens, Greece



May 18, Afghanistan, Taliban vs. US army clashes

fuck this shit, I'm jumping ship.

nonsense. that soldier should be in uniform.

homeless dogs are annoying and smell.

violence has always existed.

Thank you. If you simply read a book, you will find that craziness has happened like this for, well, as long as humans could write books. While it does appear to have gotten worse (and I'm not saying that it hasn't either), the fact that we are now connected to the entire world at once, through the internet and the news, plays a big part in our perception of these events.

If Russia had invaded Georgia 200 years ago, most people in the US would not have even heard of it, and if they had managed to hear of it, it would have been months after it happened.

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?

Imagine if we had the pictures and technology to get pictures of the holocaust, or...vietnam...or....oh wait....


I mean really. What is the point of this thread?

People were getting stoned in the streets and hung on crosses from their limbs by way of nails....

plagues almost wiped out our species....and barbarians were putting people's heads on spikes and oh yeah, there was also a point in time in certain countries including now, that if they traced a person like you posting pictures like this on the web, or in a newspaper, or spreading them around town.....you would dissapear.

We should be more worried about the sun than ourselves. Because we're doing the same shit we've always done....however.

Yes, violence has always existed; so have proactive attempts to better it. Without activism, the balance is lost.

Things may not be getting better overall, but we, the people of 2008, still have our mountains to climb. That's the point of this thread.

when I see things like this, which is all the time, I am reminded of two things.

One is the Talking Heads "same as it ever was. same as it ever was."

and then I realize that it is NOT the same as it ever was. the fact that our modern world is so connected (except in north korea and other such places) news travels very fast, and incidents of genocide, and terror, and brutality do not last decades any more. horros used to last centuries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is truly a more enlightened age (to use a hackneyed term) that we live in, but all our human failings are still with us.

we must also remember, women are still beautiful, ice cream is still delicious, and sticky weeed still gets ya high.

I am going to sue you.

i think it would have been prussia 200 years ago?

great photos slavo

for a long time I used to read an internet blog of a photojournalist living in iraq. The pictures were hideous.. with content starting at about the level of the bombay and gorgia phtoos you posted, and as far as you can imagine.. It was on my old desktop though and for the life of me I don't remember the address and tbh it would probably have been taken down by now..

As much as photos like that fucking kill me, I believe the censoring of such imagery only lets it carry on even longer. People living away from happenings, often do not realise the extent of such things that happen, really understand, until they see.

There is a wonderful book containing writings and photos from a journal kept by another photographer... I cannot remember his name.. will google.(edit I cant seem to find the one Im thinking of..)

I thought the point was, to enforce the idea that there is still far too much sensorship and we rarely see what goes on, what our own money pays for.. even in a highly technologically advanced age. Same as the thread with the confiscated phones/cameras?
but I might have missed it and be completely wrong,.

I guess I didn't think it through well enough; next time I will do my research :)

we are smart...."smart animals"

power electronics thread.

it's about displaying violence and not commenting on it.

all it needs is nazis, fetish porn and cuntish, elitist attitude.