Ignur’t Amuricins.
Let’s face the facts. Americans are self absorbed and basically a bunch of assholes. We assume much of the rest of the world and it’s made us look like a bunch of pricks.
I think that goes without saying.
So what about the other side of that. What about other people and how they see us?
This Aaron Huey fellow pulled off a pretty nifty photoshoot and interview set with some Yemeni women in their niqabs. So all we can see from the photoshoot is their eyes looking back at us.
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n6/htdocs/the-eyes-have-it-909.php?page=1
What surprised me is that this was done for Vice magazine… a publication that I didn’t think was allowed to be anything but impossibly cool and supremely ironic. The interview questions are super simple and very revealing. Things that I think a lot of Americans would not have asked these women if given the chance.
His photography is pretty solid and he’s worked a lot of really great projects. You can see his work on his website: http://www.aaronhuey.com/
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HEARTBURN!!!! GET THE PREVACID!!!
Still one of the best sci-fi movies ever.
As much as I gathered from the internet, movies, music, forums, usa is a really great place with mostly good people. I definately want to leave there a couple of years if I can. Just to experience it.
As an european who never been in usa, usa > europe.
makrela
July 5, 2009 at 10:56 pm