Smiling at Death, a photo from New York, Northeast

Photographer's Note

Explain why people behave the way they do,
and you will have explained everything,
and you will still understand nothing.
Decipher the meaning of random acts of violence,
and you will open your hand to find only a palmful of ashes and despair.
Smile at the misfortune of others and the cruelty of fate, why don't you. Keep smiling. That's it. Just keep laughing with that cruel laughter. Die laughing if you can.

(For those of you who use a different system of writing the date or simply don't recognize these numbers -- the graffiti refers to the attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. Somebody seems to think it was funny that all those people were killed.)

Kielia, broglia, polter, bantonbuju, Dubsie has marked this note useful

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Kielia (24077) 2008-07-08 9:03

Hi Hugh,
I like the way you are looking at our world and how you are capturing the most interesting absurdities. And I also like your notes ver much. You must have a very strange kind of humour!
TfS
Best regards
Harriet

Polonaise (5802) 2008-07-08 10:07

Being bothered by this stuff, is to be bothered by the hundreds of other idiocies all over the place…

Believing for one, shortest moment possible - in any of these theories - is to be with 'them' on the same level of intelligence…

Absurdity on a cosmic scale…?
You bet, bro…

Yet - those people exists…
Beyond any logical explanation, beyond any reason - they do…
And they talk… Loud and clear… They talk … And talk… And talk…
The more our modern world has to offer in form of a communication - they use it and they talk… And talk…

And write… EVERYWHERE…

Peace be with you, pal…

g.

………………….

And, you know what…?
Laugh…
Laugh as loudly as possible…
With your mouth wide open to the whole world…
Laugh…!!!

P-S-I-G (25536) 2008-07-08 22:44

Hello Hugh,
Une atmosphère très belle avec toute cette partie floutée à gauche. Il y a plusieurs façons d'interpréter ce graffiti, "keep smiling", pourquoi pas ? Cela peut aussi signifier que celui qui a écrit cela déteste ses prochains et se réjouit des malheurs qui ont frappé New-York, et là, ce n'est pas drôle du tout.
Tu as bien saisi cet écrit et très bien composé autour.
Amicalement,
Fabrice

bantonbuju (51815) 2008-07-09 2:47

whatever i will write about this photo i wouldn't be able to express my feelings about idiocy of the "author" of this dreadful "painting"...
show these things, hugh, show them and let us cry our protests!
bw, j.

amazon (12112) 2008-07-09 8:01

merhaba hugh,
ha ha ha, :))
interesting a shot,
thanks for this sharing,
best regards from Turkey,
iffet

ps:i'm very sorry about this awful mistake,in our date writting system september 11th is written as:11.09.so as amisunderstanding,the date you've given made no sense for me at first..but after reading your comments,i realized my mistake,i'm very very sorry given made no sense for me at first...but after reading you comments,i realized my mistake,i'm very very sorry about that again...

Brian (3) 2008-10-10 13:00