Amazing Photo's of Soldiers Forming Giant Images. (must see) , page 2
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reply posted on 13-8-2009 @ 05:17 AM by arcnaver
reply to post by bobbylove321



Wow, that cost what, maybe a couple thousand dollars in todays standard. Look at what the government is Spending now. Trillions...You want to re-think that statement just a little maybe lol. It sounds a little ridiculous considering what is currently happening.

These are very cool photos and took a bit of thought in creating. Not just a standard Stoic Soldier Stare that you see in so many unit photo's. Nice change.


reply posted on 13-8-2009 @ 06:59 AM by woodwardjnr
Originally posted by just_julie
Wowsers! This reminds me a lot of the following video. Hundreds of prisoners doing the dance from Michael Jacksons' "Thriller"!!!

www.youtube.com...


there was an amazing documentary on this prison. the inmates are forced to dance all day at the prison owners request. they dance untill they are passing out. everyday coming up with new routines. i'll see if i can post a link


reply posted on 13-8-2009 @ 07:14 AM by Teebs
In one of the pictures, the caption says it was created with "30,000 officers and enlisted men", significantly more than the 18,000 stated in the OP.

I was at first struck by the sheer scale and complexity of these photos. How do you organize something like this? How do you tell people where to stand? How long does it take to set up? What if you have to pee or something? I would be extremely claustrophobic if I were stuck in that mass of bodies for more than a few minutes.

I also noticed that they corrected the shape of the formations for the perspective of the camera in order to make the image appear correctly (as if viewed from above). That would add an additional amount of difficulty in the arrangement. You can see in some images how many additional troops are in the back part of the formation, to make it appear two dimensional. Very impressive.

Also, debris765nju, this likely negates your theory of these being messages to those 'watching from above', because these formations weren't meant to be seen from above. If you saw them from above they would look distorted and skewed because of the way they compensated for the camera perspective.

Lastly, these images are downright scary! Something about massive numbers of people (especially military), just freaks me out. I guess it reminds me of how mind-boggling it is to think of there being more than six billion people in the world - and these photos are just a grain of sand on the beach compared to that. It doesn't make me feel very special or unique!


reply posted on 13-8-2009 @ 09:38 AM by lucentenigma
Originally posted by ShiftTrio
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isn't it because the liberty bell IS cracked. Kinda like asking "weird how they did an eagle with 2 wings" =) * for sarcasm lol


My point was more along the lines of how the cracked liberty bell is a good representation of our current broken government.

I know the history, geeeshhhh - (lame attempt at sarcasm)

Edit: More of a Napoleon Dynamite attempt at sarcasm

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