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Great photos, regardless of what the guy is doing to himself.

The photos evoked an emotion from me somewhat the same as when I have looked at work by award winning photo journalists covering wars and other emotional provoking subjects. So to me Mr. Mitchell captured the essence of the moment.

Great work!
 
rami said:
my god, I really am trying to wonder if I am in some religious cult
or in the Canon forum. what do you mean "NO EXUSE"- do you really
think anybody needs to be excused? and what about other tribal
rituals in the amazons that involve bloody matters? what about this
catholic of the extreme type (forgot where it is) that do that
stuff? comeone- it is Not nice- rather silly, not for me, not to my
taste, but that is why I am not doing it- what is this new idea
that we can impose our aesthetic values on everybody- the guy hurts
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Yes, we can. There must be an absolute lower moral limit to what all humans would consider the bottom? If not, then we are not better than baboons.
rami said:
himself a little- not good, I agree- we see blood, that's bad- that
them very much for taking all the blood from our stakes in the
supermarkets (unless we like rare Prime- but then we are excused)-
why don't you get it that some people are different? they don't
even hurt others, kill anybody, kill themselves, they don't even
kill animals like Jone Cale slaughter a chicken on the stage in the
early 80ies. common- this is getting absurd.
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No, we reached absurd a long time ago. Humanity has reached the lowest thresholds for morality and reason. What's next? Mayan style slaughter of human lives on stage? If the person who is the victim wants to die then its ok? Humanity has gone to hell....
rami said:
rami said:
Sorry, but there is NO EXCUSE, NO WORD, NO BUTS-or-IFS that justify
this vomit-inducing display of non-sense. And I hold accountable
ANYONE here that somehow even suggests the idea of this garbage
being O.K.

I have no problems with the rest of the band and the show, but this
blood-thing is ABSOLUTELY unnecesary to enjoy music and art. Not to
mention the example and legacy displayed to the younger crowds.
Period.

Again, great shots, though...

Happy shooting!
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Pure and utter sewage.
Steve Mitchell said:
I've shot a lot of events in my life that had shocking turns of
events. Irecently shot a Japanese "visual" band called Dir en grey.
They came with a lot of hype and are very popular overseas. I was
not prepared as the lead singer began to mutilate himself on stage.
I was right underneath him when it began. Got the shots, but I
underexposed the more graphic shots by about 2 1/2 stops as I was
so fixated on what was happening. I was shooing jpeg... fortunately
I was able to recover the images to a respectable level. Warning,
these are graphic images:
http://www.musicpix.net/index.php?module=PostWrap&page=Dir_en_grey
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Steve Mitchell
http://www.dphoto.us
http://www.musicpix.net
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i 100000% agree Rob.

rg
Rob Ashton said:
Good photojournalistic photos BTW.

But if anyone pays good money to see something like this or lets
their kids watch this filth then I am once again proved right in my
view of the world today. Where did we go wrong? What has led us
to this type of behavior? There is enough needless bloodshed out
there as it is. If the only way this guy can differentiate his act
from others to acchieve fame and fortune is by mutilating himself
on stage for the crowds appreciation there is something
fundamentally bad with our society.

This is not art or music, this is just desparation for adulation.

SICK

Rob
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Out of Africa too long
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GaryJP said:
Were you never taken to a circus as a kid?
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Gimme a break, this is a far cry from self mutilation!
GaryJP said:
What fun is a lion tamer, unless there's a chance he'll be eaten?
How much cop was the sword swallower who didn't actually swallow
his sword? Or the juggler who played with fire and put it in his
mouth? If trapeze artists performed six inches above the ground and
out of danger would you have been just as gripped? Is it just as
exciting to watch a magician put his hands round a woman's waist as
to run a saw through it?
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Please.
GaryJP said:
Today, Cirque du Soleil is breathtakingly beautiful, but some of
the thrill comes from the danger.
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Yeah, but not people cutting themselves.
GaryJP said:
Tod Browning's "Freaks" in the 1930s thrilled partly because it had
real freaks. Houdini's thrill always lay in the fact he MIGHT
drown or suffocate.
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Might is a mighty word. Do is an bigger word. What these people do is beyond might, its do.
GaryJP said:
Thousands were horrified when colour TV first came in to see the
boxers actually bled red blood during fights.
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So, you've never seen a fight before, never been in one?
GaryJP said:
Why would it be okay for a boxer to let someone else make him
bleed, and a performer of another kind not to make himself bleed?
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Um. If you cant see the difference, you should see somebody about that.
GaryJP said:
Do you ever hunt? Fish? Personally those exercises sicken me rather
more than seeing someone voluntarily test his body to the limits.
At least he gets the choice.
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Yeah. Ever watch wild kingdom Gary. What are those lions doing? Going to Luby's to get gazelle a la king?

doh.
GaryJP said:
Gary
Rob Ashton said:
Good photojournalistic photos BTW.

But if anyone pays good money to see something like this or lets
their kids watch this filth then I am once again proved right in my
view of the world today. Where did we go wrong? What has led us
to this type of behavior? There is enough needless bloodshed out
there as it is. If the only way this guy can differentiate his act
from others to acchieve fame and fortune is by mutilating himself
on stage for the crowds appreciation there is something
fundamentally bad with our society.
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P e n t a x - the whole gamut
 
Robert Gonzalez said:
GaryJP said:
Were you never taken to a circus as a kid?
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Gimme a break, this is a far cry from self mutilation!
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No. I'm not really incliined to give you a break. Self-mutilation can include tattoing, piercing of ears or others parts, and many other practices people choose to inflict on themselves.

You want to claim that entertainment. sport and recreation that holds the POSSIBILITY of someone getting hurt is great, but somehow when an individual makes a voluntary choice to inflict it on himself, you hate it. Tell me, do you rush up to people and take cigarettes out of their mouths and stamp on them?
Robert Gonzalez said:
Robert Gonzalez said:
If trapeze artists performed six inches above the ground and
out of danger would you have been just as gripped?
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Robert Gonzalez said:
Please.
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Please nothing. Why is the height of ANY interest apart from the danger.
Robert Gonzalez said:
Robert Gonzalez said:
Thousands were horrified when colour TV first came in to see the
boxers actually bled red blood during fights.
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So, you've never seen a fight before, never been in one?
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Do TRY to maintain a logical thought. Your comment has nothing to do with the sentence before it. Why is bloodletting in the name of sport cool, as long as one person is doing it to another? Or to an animal?

Frankly I'd rather see this kid's concert that watch two boxers giving themselves brain damage.
Robert Gonzalez said:
Robert Gonzalez said:
Do you ever hunt? Fish? Personally those exercises sicken me rather
more than seeing someone voluntarily test his body to the limits.
At least he gets the choice.
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Yeah.
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Well, never let yourself be accused of consistency.
 
Nice pictures Steve.

It's been amusing to watch the responses here, including the outraged, and the "seen it all before" cool.

Regarding whether the photos actually captured what you felt, I think we've become desensitised to images to a considerable degree. Reality is inevitably always sharper.

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