A little healthy competition
I think this picture is simply amazing, not only on its technical merits, but because of the meaning behind it.
Isn't it amazing how people will create such phenomenal statements without even realizing it? All the sports pennants, underneath newspapers detailing the events of World War II. I doubt the store owners meant to do it, but to me it makes a statement about how the two are really just points on the same spectrum. All kind of a big testosterone-y game. Of course, I'll take football over Nazis anytime...
If you want to check out the entire series (this is picture #2 of 9), click here.
Isn't it amazing how people will create such phenomenal statements without even realizing it? All the sports pennants, underneath newspapers detailing the events of World War II. I doubt the store owners meant to do it, but to me it makes a statement about how the two are really just points on the same spectrum. All kind of a big testosterone-y game. Of course, I'll take football over Nazis anytime...
If you want to check out the entire series (this is picture #2 of 9), click here.
posted by photo blog girl at 12:05 PM
1 Comments:
Nothing wrong w/ testosterone, mind you. Women are influenced by it, too.
I've always thought of sports as controlled analogs to war, violence contained within tight strictures that offer us the ability to be ourselves (animals) in a safe, even brotherly manner.
No more throwing Christians to the lions, thank "god."
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