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

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

Shrine to Futurama?

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

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.

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.

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

I know a few who did...

Are we sure it's real?

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

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.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:Shrine to Futurama?

Hehe yeah, that's what I thought.

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.

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

The blank backgroud lowers the credibility.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Well this is the first time I ever saw it. ~Jason

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.

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

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.

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?

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

I find it somewhat amusing.