go to indian ocean coasts
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- Point50
I understand that tourism will help, but I'm not exactly trying to tip toe over corpses and wade in diseased water right now...
OK, maybe I'm over-exaggerating (maybe I'm not), but I just can't imagine sitting at a beach in Phuket drinking some Thai beer and having a blast in the same spot that thousands of people just died at... not gonna happen...
- Dita_kz0
exactly my point!
- Dublao70
You don't have to go on holiday. You could go and spend money as a tourist as you help out in some way. Like anzelina said you could distribute food or something.
- Dita_kz0
oh yeah I totally agree!
But thats hardly a holiday!
- warheros0
bring it, kona.
i wouldnt go over there to have fun. how many times does this happen in someone's lifetime to experience a cataclismitc event? i am saying this needs to be recorded and i am someone who would be willing to do it. all you guys are so saucey and know everything about their economy, you guys dont know SHIT.
- Dita_kz0
So you are going over there to take pictures of other peoples suffering to further your career - that really makes me sick.
It would be different if you were there at the time that it happened as this would have effected you in some way, but as some one already said you are just an ambulance chaser!
- ********0
i always thought that going for a "holiday on the cheap" to the islands of human suffering and trafficking (even before the tsunami) was always exploitative and 'colonial'..... everything happens for a reason
- k0na_an0k0
i can count a ton off the top of my head in my lifetime warheros.
9-11 of course.
this.
mt. st. helen errupted.
space shuttle challenger.
and voyager.
somalia. 1 million+ dead.
chile's earthquake.
oklahoma bombing.
chernobyl.you want me to keep going? if you're so interested in documenting somalia would be another good place to go? or get a job with the discovery channel. don't candy coat it dude.
- warheros0
i get my kicks out of seeing other people suffer, you guys got me pegged, huh?
- Eli0
1 person with a camera is worth a thousand without, there's nothing wrong with going over there, for any reason, just being there will help, wether you have fun or just go to see what happened. If you take a picture that shows the destruction and the horror, when other people see that picture they will want to help. What if you took a picture and it was shown on tv or published in a magazine, how much money could that bring to the relief effort?
- gruntt0
someone really should go over there and document the tragedy. I'm seeing very little in the media, photography or otherwise.
(sarcasm meter should be reading high)
- robotron3k0
i think the rebuilding has already begun, take a look at these new pics...
http://www.phuket-photos.com/fra…
if your not a gawker, it probably would be good to go there soon, as the average fishermans wage is 10 per day, your cash can go a long way there and they could use the tourism...
- k0na_an0k0
yeah man. on second thought go there cause i haven't seen like any pictures of that place. i'm dying to see what happened.
- k0na_an0k0
somewhat off topic. sorry. didn't think it was thread worthy.
this is why i still, and always will, think she is the hottest chick on the planet.
- Eli0
"someone really should go over there and document the tragedy. I'm seeing very little in the media, photography or otherwise.
(sarcasm meter should be reading high)"
The mainstream media will repeat the same sentences and show same pctures for months, but they won't make it any less abstract, it's a distant tragedy, and inadvertantly a cash cow. You won't here them report on the Indonesian army's refusal to allow aid to the hardest hit parts of the country(the areas previously controlled by insurgents). You won't here about the U.S. giving aid on the condition of allowing the military to build back towards vietnam era infrastructure levels in Thailand, or that significant portions of what is being called "aid" is in fact just loans.
- Dita_kz0
Some fair points raised so far, but what are you going to add that someone hasn't already done? How much of a difference is your photography going to make?
- Eli0
I wouldn't expect anyone to be dying to see pictures, that doesn't mean people should stop takeing them. It may be that you're tired of hearing about it, but out of sight is indeed out of mind, and when the media moves on to the next big thing, the aid is going to dry up.
- Point50
OK, this thread has sparked a couple of things...
1.) I like how they show the tourists kicking at the bars the day after the accident. In all reality they were probably stranded. I remember Sept. 11 here in Vegas, I was working at a bar and there were about 50 tourists who were stranded and they were having a blast and I just got pissed off because I couldn't understand how people could whoop it up during a time of such tragedy.
2.) I never really cared for Sandra Bullock, but she really has made a point by donating such a large percentage, especially in copmparison to what the good ol US of A originally proposed for aid. Billions on war, pennies for humanity...
*fwd to politics thread
- k0na_an0k0
dude, as an actress she sucks, but omg in person she is electric. met her once in austin texas. gawd was she hot.
btw. what up point5! i hear you my friend.
- Eli0
"what difference could your photography make"
It certainly wouldn't make any, if I didn't take any pictures. Though I think you're hinting at something much broader. What difference can anyone make in such an indifferent world as ours? Is that a question or a justification of apathy.