I'm Incredulous to this...(9-11 content)

[Augustus]

Went round Paparazzi Scum friend's house the other day and post bbq and quite drunk, he produced this.

Images of 9-11 in 3D with special collector's 3D glasses. :shock: :shock: :shock:

I mean Pap Scum friend has pretty much got no ethics or moral code, but even he was shocked by this. :shock:

I just can't believe it was 'officially' on sale. But it would appear it was.

Bought in NYC and not long after the event (which surprised me somewhat) was this a souvenir (?) booklet? It can't be surely?

It appears to be a supplement from a magazine rather than a stand alone publication, but has no magazine identification on it.

He can't remember where it came from apart form a bookstore in NYC about 2002 ish.

I am incredulous as to the serious lack of taste or awareness or sensitivity. But all the more shocked to find it's actually American and 'of the time'.

:shock:

 

[IDB1]

In poor taste, definitely.. but people (in general, with exception) suffer from quite a morbid curiosity..

Similar, imo, to rubber-neckers at accident sites..

More recently, the Cumbrian thing.. 24hours after the tragedy, the names of the people who died are being read out on the national news like some sort of roll call..
Personally, I found that in pretty poor taste..

People suck.

 

[Stick Legs]

I was working for SeaLand at the time on their Container ships and went into Newark Continer Terminal a few days after.

It was a truly shocking event, I still cannot bring my self to watch any of the documentaries or dramatisations of what happend that day. Not being a happy flyer "United 93" is right out.

HOWEVER I was in a bar near the docks, a few of the dock police and customs guys were there after their shift and they were talking about it, and taking to me about it. They were really emotional and the confusion of emotions was evident.

Anger, fear, frustration, sympathy all welling up in industrial quantities.

I think that peices of tat like this were produced at the time as a reaction to that, someone had the idea to capture the event in a way that someone who had never seen it could understand it's significance; a bit like the Hindenburg footage "oh the humanity".

We find the 3D 911 postcards shockingly tasteless, but don't forget that we experienced these events contemperaneously.

My Grandfather was a Naviagtor on Halifax bombers in WW2. When I was 11 I built a Halifax, and went to great lengths to make sure it looked like the one he had in the pictures in his study. I showed it to him but remember him not being as pleased as I hoped he would be.

Maybe the events of the past, for him, had a significance that my youthful exuberance did not understand.

 

[legrandefromage]

At work, our internet disappeared, I had a radio in the desk and we listened to the confusing stories....

Then I switched a telly on to be stunned by the pictures if the first plane. Then shouting with others as the second plane hit live on TV. We lost quite a few friends and colleagues.

Wednesday, a t-bone road accident happened right in front of me, I happened to have my DSLR with me for some premises shots of a business venture, it stayed firmly off!

 

[cyfa2809]

I think that peices of tat like this were produced at the time as a reaction to that, someone had the idea to capture the event in a way that someone who had never seen it

not condoning it but i thought maybe the magazine writers/photographers were just trying to portray the incident as real as possible to get across the tragicness of it :? how can we learn from the past if we just bury it and deny it happened :?

 

[Mr Panda]

Tricky. It was a spectacular, horrific disaster. The images are disturbing and thought provoking, but as a record of what happened they serve a purpose.
Just hope that someone isn't profiteering from it - proceeds should be into disaster fund etc.

 

[The Ken]

It's a difficult one, personally I think all these tragic events should be recorded photographically at least - it will remind future generations what we should be trying to avoid.

Seeing Pictures of Auswitch, Hiroshima, the Cambodian killing fields, 9-11, Darfur and Rwanda really hits home about how things were/are. These recordings should not glamourise, they should be factual, that seems to be harder to achieve in video but however unpleasant it needs done in some form.

On another note, we in Britain have a very comfortable and relaxed view of personal security, it is a very minor issue here, things rarely get as bad as they did in Cumbria this week.
In some countries you cannot let your children play out of arms reach, thefts are usually accompanied with weapons and they deliberately wait on homeowners being home as they can get more, and as a result gratuitous violence, rape often occur.
I'd hate to live in a country where things like Cumbria/Dunkeld/Hungerford were less of a shock and more of an expected event.

Having it in 3D does seem a bit odd though.

 

[velomaniac]

The cynic in me thinks in the land of the dollar where dog eats dog it was done just to make a fast buck.

I was in no way linked to anything regarding 9/11 yet the event shocked me so much that for anyone to try to make money from the horror of that day makes me very angry. I hope there were good and well thought out reasons for the 3D photos :?

 

[rosstheboss]

Is having it in 3d any worse than seeing the footage repeated time and time again on tv???? It seems strange to show an event on tv where thousands of people died yet, as an example, they won't show a motor racing crash where only one person died?!?!

It does seem strange printing it as it was in a 3d 'collectors edition' but personally I don't see it any lower or higher on the moral or ethical spectrum than watching it on tv.

 

[lewis1641]

i dont feel sickened by it but i am suprised.