Tasteless Sandcastle

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-02-04 11:56pm

I was surfing this site looking for funny pictures,and i found this.

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2004-02-05 12:21am

man, that looks nothing like n.y. .... its too brown and sandy looking

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-02-05 12:42am

Shrine to Futurama?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-02-05 12:54am

What is it with these people, anyway? When 20,000 Muslims died in that earthquake in Iran, did Americans celebrate it?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-02-05 01:47am

That looks alot like INDIA, actually. Which is a shock. Maybe Pakistan, but I don't think so. The turbans are Indian, and the people look Indian not Arabic or Iranian.

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2004-02-05 01:52am

And those fucktards are standing there, with proud expressions on their shitty faces?

This is the reason my dad left those fucking countries when he was young.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2004-02-05 02:15am

Joe wrote:When 20,000 Muslims died in that earthquake in Iran, did Americans celebrate it?

I know a few who did...

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-02-05 02:18am

Are we sure it's real?

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-02-05 02:43am

Well, that's a shame. Death is not a reason to celebrate. Especially death of innocents.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-02-05 02:49am

What the fuck is wrong with these people? Can you imagine someone in the US putting up a model of Hiroshima with a giant mushroom cloud in the middle? Sickening.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-02-05 04:57am

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Shrine to Futurama?

Hehe yeah, that's what I thought.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-02-05 06:29am

Of course it's not fucking real. That crowd of people has been shoved there as a joke. It's not even very well done.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-02-05 06:37am

You're right. The lighting, image quality, and scales are off.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-02-05 06:41am

The blank backgroud lowers the credibility.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-02-05 12:42pm

I do believe it is real and without knowing the context it was made in, I'm not jumping on my high-horse and condemning them.

And don't even try to tar a race of people with the same brush, I know a lot of Americans made things that actually are sick and have something to do with the WTC incident.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-02-05 01:09pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I do believe it is real and without knowing the context it was made in, I'm not jumping on my high-horse and condemning them.

And don't even try to tar a race of people with the same brush, I know a lot of Americans made things that actually are sick and have something to do with the WTC incident.

That just reminded me of that unreal mod based on it.

The Third Man · Post by **The Third Man** » 2004-02-05 01:38pm

A quick bit of Googlism hints that it is probably for real.

http://www.strangecosmos.com/view.adp?picture_id=3144

The guy responsible is a "sand artist" called Sudarshan Patnaik. The people in the pic are of course Indians - kojikun is quite right. They're not likely to be Islamic, are apparently passers-by and its anyone's guess as to what they feel about the "sculpture"; I don't see any obviously "proud" faces.

It seems Patnaik has also made a sand sculpture of Bin Ladens head, see the side-bar at:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20011204/nation.htm

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-02-05 03:49pm

Isn't it like the trillionth time that pic pops up?

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-02-05 06:25pm

Dahak wrote:Isn't it like the trillionth time that pic pops up?

Well this is the first time I ever saw it.

~Jason

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2004-02-06 02:07am

hmm. This is the first time I've seen the photo and I find it upsetting, regardless of the audience (who are clearly Indian. The Hindu style turbans and third eye(s) on the ladies give it away).

Anyway, I think the photo is real:

--The white background is most likely a washed out, hazy sky, overexposed to bring out the faces of the people. As well, if you look closely, you can see the horizon of the sea behind them. Look around the gray haired man standing next to the tail of the plane.

-- The scale looks fine to me. Taking photos on a bright hazy day means a high f-stop, which means a longer depth of field, which is why everything is in focus. The grain difference between the foreground and audience looks natural for a long DOF shot. Too, we don't know the focal length of the camera. It could be a 15mm point and shoot amatuer camera, or a real SLR with a 50mm lens.

-- Lighting? Again, it looks right to me. The sun is somewhere off to the right of the photographer, for both the sculpture and the audience. Look closely at the shadows and the slight color differences on opposite sides of the people's faces and the sand.

The only oddity is the color change in the sand, bottom center of the frame. That could be a lot of things. I don't know about that.

I won't make any guesses about the context or the intent, but I think the photo is real.

*whew* longest post in awhile.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-02-06 02:53am

If that is supposed to be the WTC, it's not even terribly good. The scale is all off.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-02-06 11:41am

The Kernel wrote:What the fuck is wrong with these people? Can you imagine someone in the US putting up a model of Hiroshima with a giant mushroom cloud in the middle? Sickening.

Actually, successful martial operations are generally celebrated by the side which pulled them off, regardless of whether civilians perished in the process. That's why the Americans built a shrine to the Enola Gay, after all.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-02-10 10:58pm

Darth Wong wrote:
The Kernel wrote:What the fuck is wrong with these people? Can you imagine someone in the US putting up a model of Hiroshima with a giant mushroom cloud in the middle? Sickening.
Actually, successful martial operations are generally celebrated by the side which pulled them off, regardless of whether civilians perished in the process. That's why the Americans built a shrine to the Enola Gay, after all.

A shrine? Where?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-02-11 12:35am

There's an exhibit in the Smithsonian featuring the Enola Gay, but I don't know about any shrine.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2004-02-11 05:23pm

I find it somewhat amusing.