Do you find this beautiful?

[Almighty Colin]

http://zthumbs.com/temp/nuclear.jpg

I do.

[Timon]

Cool, if only that was the sky of Iran ;-)

[Winetalk.com]

Originally posted by Timon@Jun 20 2003, 04:43 AM
Cool, if only that was the sky of Iran ;-)
:okthumb:

Timon,
if you run for the elected office, I would like to volunteer as your campagne manager
;_)))

[Timon]

Originally posted by Serge_Oprano+Jun 20 2003, 06:14 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Serge_Oprano @ Jun 20 2003, 06:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Timon@Jun 20 2003, 04:43 AM
Cool, if only that was the sky of Iran ;-)
:okthumb:

Timon,
if you run for the elected office, I would like to volunteer as your campagne manager
;_)))[/b][/quote]
I'd introduce a new kind of line...
Hardline is for softies, I'll be a Diamond line politician ;-)

[gigi]

Not at all.....

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by gigi@Jun 20 2003, 10:44 AM
Not at all.....
Not even a little bit or in some way? How about the cloud formation or the beauty of the reddish hues in the foreground and center fading to blue and then black at the top of the photo?

[sarettah]

Almost as beautiful as I find these:

http://www.awrats.com/images/nagasaki_1.jpg

http://www.awrats.com/images/nagasaki_2.jpg

http://www.awrats.com/images/nagasaki_3.jpg

from http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/mainn.html

and these:

http://www.awrats.com/images/hiroshima_1.jpg

http://www.awrats.com/images/hiroshima_2.gif

from http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/indexE.html

:cryin:



Last edited by sarettah at Jun 20 2003, 11:03 AM

[Almighty Colin]

Originally posted by sarettah@Jun 20 2003, 11:02 AM
Almost as beautiful as I find these:
So the symbolism overwhelms all other aesthetics for you.

I also view the A-bomb as a crowning technological achievement and one of the pinnacles of human creativity. It is a momentous scientific achievement despite it's ghastly consequences. There is symbolism there also.

When I look at this picture I see the most horrible weapon ever and yet it seems small in comparison to the world around it.

[sarettah]

Originally posted by Colin@Jun 20 2003, 11:36 AM
So the symbolism overwhelms all other aesthetics for you.


Yes, I have an extremely hard time seperating my knowledge from the image.

If I were seeing it for the very first time with no knowledge of what it represented then I might feel differently...

Much the same with a swasticka.. If I were seeing it without knowledge of the holocaust.. I might say, hey, thats a cool little cross...

But, because I have the knowledge of all the swasticka came to represent I cannot view it without seeing the imagery of the savagery that was imposed upon a group of people in it's name....