What's your favorite picture? (possibly NSFW)

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Don't know the circumstance, but I don't need to.
 
Any picture of Tard.

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jaxword said:
Always wondered about this one. Having never worked in construction, it always seemed so surreal, these guys just sitting on nothing. Feels like one false twitch and they'd slide to their deaths, like if someone accidentally dropped their lunchbox, instinctively went for it and voom.
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There's a platform below them, just out of view of the camera.

Sorry to spoil the magic.
 
can people please add a little context? i know a lot of these, but not all and some of them just cry out for me to know the backstory.

Übermatik;47973492 said:
Damn, it's hard to pic one, so I'll just choose one I radomly picked from my folder of cool pics... which is er, over 30GB in size...

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this is an amazing pic. i love that it basically tells a story. any context besides (what i assume) is a palestinian throwing rocks at an israeli tank?

[quote="aristotle, post: 47973575"]Definitely this one. I'll be making a poster of it soon and framing it (with a larger resolution image of course).

[IMG]http://8f.img.v4.skyrock.net/8fa/punk-ett3x/pics/2488911757_small_2.jpgIMG][/QUOTE]

[quote="NeckToChicken, post: 47974517"]Thousands of years later, we'll still pick up the rock.[/QUOTE]

some really powerful images in this thread.

[quote="hym, post: 48013801"]Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

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the thing i always notice about this image is the bag the guy is holding. it makes him so human and...mundane or something. i dont know the backstory at all, but it seems like he ended up there almost by accident and just couldnt take what he was seeing.

my father was a hippie, so heres is this:

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during vietnam war protests, on form of protest was to meet military police with a flower. this was called flower power (which is a stupid name).

it is probably not my favorite, but i really do like the idea of facing down violence with love or passivity. seems like an american analogue to the tiananmen square pics above.
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I really like pictures of desert landscapes, so there isn't really one that sticks out in particular. But I really love pictures of White Sands in New Mexico. It's such a unique place.

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BankaiZaraki said:
Man...some of these pictures......whats the deal with the pale blue dot?
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The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from Earth, as part of the solar system Family Portrait series of images. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space.[2] The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of Carl Sagan.

Subsequently, the title of the photograph was used by Sagan as the main title of his 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space.
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"From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi"



Also, this one:

The photo was taken in 1933 by LIFE magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. One of his most memorable pictures, the portrait still casts its evil spell more than 70 years later. “The fierce arrogance of power, normally covered with false grace of good humor, shone through miraculously into Eisenstaedt’s film,” later wrote LIFE magazine. A Jew, Eisenstaedt himself remembered [the meeting, and photographed the moment when Goebbels learned that fact about him]: “He looked at me with hateful eyes and waited for me to wither. But I didn’t wither. If I have a camera in my hand, I don’t know fear.”

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The hate, pure unadulterated hate. This was taken just moments before:

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hym said:
If you knew I'm surprised you can detach yourself from it and continue to appreciate the picture. What it expresses is a lie.
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It expresses the boisterous, overwhelming, uncontrollable happiness that people felt at the end of the worst war in history. That people could run up to each other in the street and kiss each other. No, she didn't ask to be kissed. She was grabbed. But in subsequent interviews she's also gone on record saying she didn't mind it and understood it as a product of the euphoria they were all feeling.

And with that, could you keep that bullshit to the other thread and stop trying to shit on my VJ parade.
 
Dai101 said:
Also, this one:



The hate, pure unadulterated hate. This was taken just moments before:

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I just finished reading "The Rise and fall of the Third Reich" and seeing pictures of these guys really puts a face to letters/diary writings and horrors they were responsible for, very scary.
 
Piggus said:
I've always loved this one

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Someone already posted the Wiki that this was Pre-Arranged pic to get some PR for the building

I forget where I read, but they were maybe only 2 Floors up on that steel beam, so it wasn't really a direct 69 floor drop

That's why most took part, if this was like out in the open, most would have bailed for the pic

*Yes I know some of the construction workers were fucking daredevils and worked in really ridiculous hazardous condition*

Not really trying to take anything away from the picture

Look at the bottom left side, it shows you 2 steel beam and trusses edging out to signify floor underneath them being built
 
arglebargle said:
is this the photo that had to be reshot or retouched or something because in the original the soldier has about a dozen stolen watches on his wrist?
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Acording to some sources it's a watch and a compass, but since thay looked like two watches they doctored the picture to erase one so it doesn't looked like he looted the other one.
 
(._.) said:
good god.

famous picture I've seen a billion times but I never knew she was 12 in the first picture. thought she was like around 16/17. look almost 40 in the second.
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A harsh life in the rough Afghani terrain will do that...

People don't realize how amazingly privileged and safe we are here in the US.
 
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