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Posts for Friday, 11 April 2008
Forman was already an accomplished photographer. The previous year, he had followed a firetruck to the scene of a fire in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. He instinctively ran to the back of the building, where he saw a fireman climbing down from the roof onto a fifth-floor fire escape to rescue a 19-year-old girl and her 2-year-old goddaughter. As a firetruck extended its ladder toward the girls and their would-be rescuer, the fire escape collapsed. The firefighter pulled himself to safety, but the woman and child plunged to the ground. Forman kept shooting, then looked away. Still shaking, he developed his pictures and found this chilling shot of woman and child in free fall. (Forman would learn later that the woman had died but the child had survived.) The photograph would lead to stricter fire escape regulations, and it would win Forman the first of his two consecutive Pulitzers. (via The Soiling of Old Glory)
Sad but fascinating picture. I stared at it for far too long today.
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
You know you want it…
125 Plays
rach:
Weeping Tile - Room with the Sir John A View
THIS GIRL IS MY HERO. Ask for this song, and one day later it she sends it to my mailbox. I am so crazy in with love you some days, internet.
Enjoy; Weeping Tile is one of those great 90s Canadian bands that died before its time. This song happens to be about how girls tend to fall for traveling ghosts, aka rock stars. Seems plausible.
Ooh, I like this.
(via imunderpms)
Sweet shot sister!
