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This… is the best. Period.
The Most Illegal Move in the History of Wrestling.
…this is the only way i would ever watch wrestling.
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I think riot kid is a pretty cool guy, eh throws crap at cops and doesn’t afraid of anything. [sic]
A LOT of people want to know the back story on this and so I will provide it to the best of my knowledge here:
The picture originally comes from photographer Evandro Monteiro, and was taken during a police action in Sao Paulo, Brazil. And while we look at an image like this and recognize what it inspires in us all, we still kind of assume the kid was just joking around. The boy probably didn’t know what he was doing at the time; he was just making funny faces at the cops until his panicked mother could sprint in and sweep him away. But then there’s the next image of the riot kid from Monteiro’s portfolio that implies otherwise.
So not only was he actually standing out in that street, alone, hurling rocks at the police (which is way more impetus than they need in Sao Paulo to beat some ghetto kid to death,) but he was so overcome with rage afterward that he stripped to the waist, slammed his jacket to the dirt, puffed out his chest and dared them to make a move. This was not a joke, or a childish prank. This was life or death.
Literally.
The photographer has this child tagged as a ‘street boy.’ That’s not a generic descriptor. In Sao Paulo ‘street child’ refers to a specific type of young homeless in the city. There are thousands, if not millions of them in Brazil, and they’re largely considered pests. Roughly 20% of police homicides in Sao Paulo are minors. In fact, the street children are so reviled that in some places, local shopkeepers and low-level politicians actually put out bounties on their heads to the tune of about $50 per kid. As a result, masked death squads rove the streets of Brazil at night, eliminating children.
And while that knowledge is incredibly awful, and gut-churning, and heart-dropping, and just makes you want to burn this whole miserable species to the ground and hope that nature knows enough to start from scratch this time, it also drastically magnifies the importance of this images.
This is not the same as a white, English-speaking child playing at revolutionary because he’s got the implied protection of society. This boy is not joking, and he is not safe. If he’s really a ‘street child,’ then those cops he’s challenging are the men that might make half a week’s pay for murdering him, and would face little to no reprisal for it. And if he really is a ‘street child,’ then he is utterly alone up there: It’s unlikely any of the other people in those photos have a vested interest in whether he lives or dies.
And he simply does.
Not.
Care.
Because there is nothing on this earth - not overwhelming odds, nor brutal police states, nor fear, nor violence, nor the kind of horrible, devouring apathy that makes things like death squads for children possible - that will ever, from now until the heat death of this whole screwed universe, force this kid to sit down and put his fucking shirt back on.
Please instead consider spending time visiting and possibly donating to a fund for street children, like Action for Brazil’s Children.
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After spending the entirety of yesterday working on another webpage, I finally have something that I’m willing to post. I was short on a lot of things I wanted for it so impromptu self portraits took place! I actually dig them but perhaps thats the narcissism speaking.
Anyways here is the link so give it a check out;
http://www.wix.com/esfpphoto/portfolio
Feedback is always appreciated. Is it already too awesome? Whats it missing? Im anxious to here what you have to say!
There be abs on the horizon. On a more serious note. Taking pictures at night is totally sweet. Even if it is a pain in the butt.
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Ive decided that in an effort to make myself get out and take more photos I will begin to post a photo a day. Im going to start running out of ones I like sooner than later so I’ll just have to keep on getting better and taking lots!
GLASSES GLEAM GO!
In Montreal! (Well technically in Farnham which is about 40 minutes away). Going well save a few mobility issues. Its humid basically all the time so Im hoping to be able to get some pretty nice nighttime shots!
Here are just a couple Ive snapped since getting here (Plus one of Hoiberg who is surprisingly photogenic when he’s not trying!). Talking to one of the skydive dropzone photographers today in hopes of landing a gig doing photography for them.
Blue Skies!
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