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- thelab101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29take a look at this photo....unforgettable
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halfpinay/329100768/ - bitt3n, on 10/12/2007, -11/+33if it weren't for war, that song would have been written in German.
- bofhcabbit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Looks like someone just snagged & resubmitted the link I posted in the blogspam version of this earlier today:
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Some_Unforgettable_moment_captured_in_a_frame
I dugg the blogspam down as 'Spam'. Let's digg this one up, since it's the real content and larger photos. Thanks pwallroth! - gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"Direct link this time. No blog spam." How do you figure that? Since each of these images is lifted directly from their original site for display on the one linked to in this post I'd say this is blog spam of the worst, most obvious sort.
Every last one of these (and then some) come from http://www.worldpressphoto.com Specifically from this page:
http://www.worldpressphoto.com/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=15&Itemid=115&bandwidth=high
So we have a prime example of:
1. Rip images wholesale from an already existing site.
2. Throw in some adsense (note that the original site these images were stolen from is ad free and credits the creators of each image).
3. Post to every known social networking site that exists (yes, this is also on reddit, netscape, etc) and hypocritically claim that THIS post is not blogjacked.
4. Profit!
Bull. *****. *****. Such great photos, such ***** scamming. Quite a disservice to the site that originally hosted these and to the photographers who made these images. - pwallroth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Google Cache:
http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.dismalworld.com%2Fmust_see%2Funforgettable_photos.php&btnG=Search - DurkaMcDurk, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17I usually hate people that yell "DUPE DUPE DUPE!! I'M A RETARD", but not only is this a dupe it was also front paged 3 hours ago....
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Some_Unforgettable_moment_captured_in_a_frame
The title is almost exactly the same.... - Fascist, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14WAR!
Yeah...
What is it good for? Absolutely NOTHING! - hypoh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7These are just World Press Photo winners... in a blog post.
http://www.worldpressphoto.com/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=15&Itemid=115&bandwidth=high - olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Very powerful, especially the opponent student murder, and the burning one.
Also the young man who looks like his face was cut in half in many places is terrible :(. - coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Now these are some incredible photos. Pure emotion can tell incredible stories through photography - Good to see something real after all of that HDR, highly edited, Lomo crap that gets to the Digg front page all the time.
- huckmank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6> really? if there wasnt war then how would german have spread?
Appeasement. Read a history book. - MyDocuments, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Unknown Rebel in Tiananmen Square. One brave mother-*****.
- cyberdork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you 'like' these kind of photos you should watch the documentary 'War Photographer' about the work of James Nachtwey.
- kansascowboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ive seen the tianamen square protester so much, yet every time i see it it really instills something in me that i can't really describe. that man was so brave it's incredible
- cptnjack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@KiloCharlie -- pulitzer prize for photography, not nobel peace prize.
- rick2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Amazing pictures.. Thanks for giving us something intresting and thought provoking to digg.
- pwallroth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I didn't even know that you submitted it first! I just resubmitted it because blogspam is evil. Mark the other story as spam so that jerk doesn't make any more money:
http://www.digg.com/offbeat_news/Some_Unforgettable_moment_captured_in_a_frame - numlok, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here are several now etched in my mind forever:
http://tinyurl.com/4mloz (newsday.com / Iraq - 2005)
http://www.slibe.com/publicimage/247d6ce7-innocent_jpg/ (Lebanon - 2006) - dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2while some of these are sad, some convey some of the most powerful human emotions and strengths.
dugg for an accurate title- all of these have made me think and appreciate life just a little bit more. - bofhcabbit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3pwallroth: I didn't resubmit it :P I only linked it in the comments on the blogspam edition.
Sorry, poor choice of words - KiloCharley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@thelab101
I understand the photographer also committed suicide two weeks after recieveing the nobel peace prize for that shot. very disturbing image. - garrettnb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if these pictures mean anything to you, go watch The killing fields.
one of the greatest movies of all time and its a true story - ModernTenshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It never ceases to amaze me that given all our collective intelligence and ability, humanity seems to be the only species on Earth capable of contempt and hatred for their own kind, and for trivial reasons. I often think of Carl Sagan's words regarding the Pale Blue Dot image, and how relevant they are when viewing images like these.
An excerpt (large one, but good):
"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. It is up to us. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
How true, how true. - Roykirk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Indeed, this is as much blogspam as the other was.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3how the ***** did my DBZ comment end up on THIS digg post... damnit
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Nachtwey recently spoke at the School of Journalism at IU. I was sick the day of - still kicking myself for not forcing myself to go.
- gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have actually met and spoken with her. She was living in Canada at the time. Told me that she remembers nothing right after the bombing (like what is in that photo) but that much of her family was killed in the blast.
The guy that took it, Nick Ut, works for the AP in California. - Finster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1people wouldnt use it anyway. people still post videos in the news section just because they have more chance of it been frontpaged
- KiloCharley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ctnjack
"pulitzer prize for photography, not nobel peace prize."
my mistake, thanks for correction. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Would have been much better without the liberal sentiment.
- deanau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Amazing photos!
- noreturn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, the picture you speak of was taken right after the sword was pulled out of the Asanuma. It looks like he's about to strike, but the damage had actually been done, and Inejiro Asanuma never saw it coming.
- randf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i agree...this is BS. someone sucking up $$ using tear-jerker photos. i clicked one of the other links to find more heart wrenching "world tour" photos; the topic was india and pakistan vs coke disputes and the sidebars were peppered with "how to buy coke and pepsi paraphernalia". jeez, the topic "world tour" offers such useful clicks as "India Vacations Presenting India In Style & Luxury. Come, explore the Divine with us."
the site owners are making money off of this "product" - jmikola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town."
Does anyone recall a news cast a few years ago where the same girl that was in that photo (running nude alongside other children and soldiers), now much older, was speaking at a memorial ceremony for the bombings - at the construction of a memorial wall of some sort? - Nikon87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Link isn't working...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can't put God in a test tube, that is the whole problem with trying to scientifically prove anything about him one way or another.
It is like taking your tire pressure with a thermometer
lame book. - mikedmoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh...I thought this was another story about Lindsey Lohan not wearing panties...
- mackdaddyzeker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0These two pics really got to me...
http://www.worldpressphoto.com/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=202&Itemid=115
http://www.worldpressphoto.com/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=194&Itemid=115 - bofhcabbit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@maize: I haven't heard anything yet, but I'm expecting to see one show up by March 10th at the latest.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At least the pictures are bigger in this website. The other one had really small images that was hard to make out.
- WillHutch5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Many of these picture is "right before..."
How bout a picture of the actual event? I don't give a ***** what it looked like the second before.
Hell, I'd even prefer one of the aftermath. - pwallroth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2well i don't own any of the websites that are hosting the pictures and so i'm not making any money nor would I ever do something like that, so basically go ***** yourself pal. I may have been wrong, but your just throwing out crap assumptions.
- mikeon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I see now. So this is how I can get more posts to a blog. Wait for a story to hit mainpage, call it blogspam, copy the contents over and resubmit it 5 hours later and say mine is not blogspam.
Or just do what other people do and wait a few days/weeks/ or a month.
There will always be the people who say they never saw this before and digg it up and that is what I think the spammer relies on. Just wait until people forget, and repost. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Ahh Dragon ball Z... What childhoods are made of...
Thanks for this find, brings back memories of sitting on the couch waiting for DBZ to come on with the smell of dinner cooking, and my silly dog licking my face. - maize, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Sorry to go off topic, as much as I love seeing these pics, is there any word on merging the Video category and a new Picture category?
- lowkeynz, on 10/12/2007, -14/+4really? if there wasnt war then how would german have spread?
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