“Send me some good funny curious pictures, Marco, not the usual ones!”
That was the call for my Sunday assignment and the results were just amazing.
I went to another place close to Rome and I founded a very “snobbish” beach where very young, very rich and very tacky guys and girls use to play a sort of childish battle with “water guns”.
The point is that… they use very expensive champagne instead of sea water !!!
Even if I was angry and disgusted, I had to use my best “Winnie the pooh” smile and I took the shots.
The worst? They were happy to show off their own arrogance as an evidence of power.
Back home I was thinking of the tragedy in Burma, in Darfur, in Middle East and I started mumbling till I found a quote: “When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.
When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.“ John F. Kennedy, 35th president of USA, (1917 - 1963), Amherst College, Honoring Robert Frost
Let’s hope poetry will overcome… someday!
PS > Today, all around the world, merchants celebrate “The Mother’s Day”; to all who may interest, I already posted my tribute and this is the link http://www.photoblog.com/ronin53/2007/11/07/
