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"Before you stands a sports car of flesh and blood. Boasting a voluminous 4.0-litre six-cylinder horizontally opposed and naturally aspirated engine packing 383 kW (520 hp), mounted in the rear.
Its race track chassis will show you what it means to confront the tarmac head on. Eye for an eye. Lap after lap. The fixed rear wing is a flagrant provocation to do battle. To the opponent. And to the opposing headwind. The rear silencer as well as the tailpipes in titanium are a visible sign of what the new 911 GT3 RS is promising: unadulterated sound, pure performance, and a challenge that nobody whose heart beats for sports cars can shy away from..."
Source: Porsche
Photographed during Driven Club event in Northern Ireland.
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Gleiwitzer Radiosender, Ort der Naziprovokation am 31.August 1939;
Gliwice broadcasting station, place of nazi provocation on 31th August 1939;
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Installation by Maurizio Cattelan at Bourse du Commerce - Pinault Collection | Paris
A polymorphic artist, sculptor, performer, editor and programmer, Maurizio Cattelan has made a name for himself, thanks to a production whose spectacular forms highlight the contradictions of contemporary society. Others (2011), the disturbing squadron of stuffed pigeons, posted on the interior balconies of the third floor of the Bourse de Commerce is a perfect example: “more real than real life”, these motionless creatures arouse a mixture of surprised bemusement and “strange anxiety”. They are stationed there like an alert, a sign of something potentially sinister to come. Yet, their presence is already slightly unnerving.
If he weren’t already a major player on the contemporary art scene, Maurizio Cattelan, adept at paradox, provocation and savage irony, could pass himself off as an artist on the fringes and with a good dose of humour to boot! Born in Padua in 1960, he lives and works between Milan and New York.
Source: www.pinaultcollection.com/en/boursedecommerce/situ-works
How these little rabbits survive when their world is replete with predators (coyotes, bobcats, hawks) is a mystery and wonder to me. This one looks like he is poised to dash off at the least provocation.
Born out of a kinetic and destructive reaction to provocation and yielding the potential to give life... Birthed into the cold, dark night and creating a warm, illuminated evening in which we can dance and play...
On 22nd Sep. 2013, heavy clashes took place across Hebron (clashes started on 20th Sep. and lasted seven days), leading to the injury and arrest of numerous Palestinians as well as the death of an Israeli soldier. As part of Sukkot celebrations, the street outside checkpoint 56 leading to Yatta was closed by Israeli military and border police. The army announced by military order that all shops on the street would have be closed and cars would have to be moved between 11am and 3pm, to ensure safe passage for settlers and Jewish visitors for a pilgrimage to the cave of Otniel ben Knaz, located on said road (what was clear provocation). Crowds of Palestinians, internationals and journalists gathered to witness and protest against this breaking of the Hebron agreement, signed in 1997 between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government and dividing the city into zones H1 and H2 under PA and Israeli military control respectively. The road to Yatta falls under Palestinian Authority control and is therefore illegal for Israelis to access. The clashes in Bab Al-Zawiyeh began around 11.30 am when Palestinian youths began to throw stones at the invading Israeli army and border police. The occupation forces responded with tear gas canisters, stunt grenades and plastic-coated steel bullets. Live ammunition was eventually used against resisting protestors and there are reports of several Palestinian men being treated for gunshot wounds.
Place: Bab al Zawiye, Hebron, Palestine.
Malgré l’exposition de cette ethnie à la «civilisation», les rites traditionnels continuent de structurer la vie des Hamer. Le plus connu est l’Ukuli : il symbolise l’entrée des jeunes hommes dans l’âge adulte. Le futur initié est désigné par son chef de clan, puis il se prépare longuement. L’ étape la plus spectaculaire de ce rite de passage qui s’étend sur plusieurs jours, prend la forme d’une cérémonie d’une demi-journée à laquelle nous avons eu la chance d’assister. Au programme : chants, danses, flagellations et « saut de vache ».
Les fouetteurs sont arrivés, tenant à la main de longues baguettes souples. Les femmes se livrent alors autour d'eux à une véritable danse de provocation et de séduction, pour attirer l'attention des jeunes gens, les exciter et les inciter à les choisir pour partenaire de la séquence qui va suivre.
Ukuli : Provoke the whippersnappers
Despite the exposure of this ethnic group to “civilization”, traditional rites continue to structure the lives of the Hamer. The best known is the Ukuli: it symbolizes the entry of young men into adulthood. The future initiate is designated by his clan leader, then he prepares at length. The most spectacular stage of this rite of passage which extends over several days, takes the form of a half-day ceremony which we were lucky enough to attend. On the program: songs, dances, flagellation and “cow jumping”.
The whippers arrived, holding long, flexible sticks in their hands. The women then engage in a veritable dance of provocation and seduction around them, to attract the attention of the young people, excite them and encourage them to choose them as partners in the sequence that follows.
Extremadura, Spain
The main focus of this trip was the migration of the Common Cranes who fly into Spain at this time of year in their tens of thousands. I had images in my mind that I hoped to get but I hadn't reckoned on the weather and the fact that these birds are extremely flighty and take off at the slightest provocation. The best hope of photographing them is to find a small family group, pair or individual - as was the case here. Photographing them at all was extremely challenging - mostly because the light was either too harsh or it was pouring with rain, so I have struggled to find even a few images to post. At best they are record shots, but here they are for better or worse!
rosenquist, unlike many other Pop artists, often directly addressed politics in his work. Here, he has assembled everyday images to trigger questions about race and identity, provocations that today may appear blunt. The knob that reads "[DJARKEN," "NORMAL" and "LIGHTEN," for instance, overly simplifies the painful struggle for civil rights. This work alludes to complex social and political ques- tions without offering a possible, or possibly reductive, solution.
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I've made this today with real Euro cents, it was lots of fun!
I might be doing more stuff around this concept in the near future...
Thanks for your constructive feedbacks.
The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10
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Coins in my Shoes
A poem by Katie Gabrielle
Today is my lucky day!
Fate hands me a chance
Music like change
Makes me dance
Rich I am in luck
I make my own way
In this world
With a song in my heart
coins in my shoes
How can I lose?
When today is my lucky day?
Going my way?
Follow my happy feet
Down lucky street!
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Dance to Me Till the Night Is Gone
A poem by Peter S. Quinn
Dance to me till the night is gone
Carry my heart to the long way
Love is like a song to go on and on
Till the morning meets a new day
Hope is dancing with its flowing
Always more in its future to come
Don’t let hopes to the night be going
Feel its softness and fragrance blossom
Dance till the hours are all here in
Feeling its softness in the shadows
Let every smile though emotions spin
Anything of love sometimes again goes
Yesterdays were breaking through waves
Catching the minutes on their leaving
Thoughts to reality longings craves
In their departure and dance conceiving
Dance me to love in tender beguile
Slowly in motions to give and wake
Every its content in beauty and style
That love together can always make
Threads of its kisses feelings in deep
All that has no limits to any end
Bringing together that love can only keep
All of its instants in gathering blend
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2026-06-22 11:50:37
Trawling Melbourne's lanes off the "Little Streets"
Small graphic elements combined attempt to delight.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore; and why.
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🇬🇧 This photograph is the natural continuation of the previous one. This time, Michela is no longer just observing the artwork: she is pointing at it, almost playfully, with an expression that seems to say, “Can you believe this once caused a scandal?”
That was the thought behind my shot. Forty years ago, Robert Mapplethorpe’s work challenged conventions, provoked fierce debates, and forced society to confront themes that many preferred to keep hidden. His photographs were not merely images; they were cultural statements capable of dividing public opinion.
Today, standing in front of the same work, the atmosphere is entirely different. The surprise remains, but it is accompanied by curiosity, awareness, and even a touch of humor. The gesture, the glance, and the silent joke shared between photographer and subject become evidence of how profoundly customs and sensibilities have evolved.
What I find fascinating is that the artistic value of the image has not diminished with time. If anything, it has gained a new layer of meaning. The provocation is still there, but it now coexists with historical perspective. We are no longer shocked by the image itself; we are intrigued by remembering that it once had the power to shock.
And perhaps that is one of art’s greatest victories: surviving the controversy that surrounded it and continuing to inspire reflection long after the scandal has faded away.
📍 Ara Pacis Museum, Rome
📷 Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibition
🇮🇹 Questa fotografia è la naturale prosecuzione della precedente. Questa volta Michela non si limita a osservare l’opera: la indica con un gesto quasi scherzoso, accompagnato da un’espressione che sembra dire: “Davvero questa fotografia faceva scandalo?”
Era proprio questo il pensiero che volevo raccontare con lo scatto. Quarant’anni fa le opere di Robert Mapplethorpe mettevano in discussione convenzioni sociali e culturali, suscitavano polemiche accese e costringevano il pubblico a confrontarsi con temi che molti preferivano ignorare. Non erano semplici fotografie: erano dichiarazioni artistiche capaci di dividere l’opinione pubblica.
Oggi, davanti alla stessa immagine, il clima è completamente diverso. Lo stupore rimane, ma è accompagnato dalla curiosità, dalla consapevolezza e persino da un sorriso. Il gesto di Michela, il suo sguardo e la complicità ironica tra fotografo e soggetto raccontano meglio di tante parole quanto siano cambiati i costumi e la sensibilità collettiva.
Ciò che trovo interessante è che il valore artistico dell’opera non si è affatto attenuato. Anzi, il passare del tempo le ha aggiunto un nuovo significato. La provocazione è ancora presente, ma oggi convive con la prospettiva storica. Non siamo più colpiti soltanto dall’immagine; siamo colpiti dal ricordare quanto fosse rivoluzionaria nel momento in cui venne realizzata.
E forse questa è una delle più grandi vittorie dell’arte: sopravvivere alle polemiche che l’hanno accompagnata e continuare a far riflettere quando lo scandalo è ormai diventato storia.
📍 Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Roma
📷 Mostra di Robert Mapplethorpe, Le forme della bellezza
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They say that true elegance doesn’t have to beg for attention. It simply enters the room and suddenly everything else seems to quiet down a little.
The flowing fabric plays along with every movement, revealing just enough to let the imagination run wild, yet still keeping its little secret. A glance over the rim of her glasses, a confident smile, and the silent question that hangs unspoken in the air:
“Do you really dare to look any longer?”
Provocation doesn’t have to be loud. Sometimes it’s a whisper of fabric against warm skin, a confident posture, and the knowledge that true attraction begins where the imagination takes over.
Because some glances merely skim the outfit. Others lose themselves in the story behind it. And that’s exactly what makes the difference.
I’m wearing the “Lina” outfit by GIZ SEORN.
Here’s the link to the shop:
Without a doubt one of my favorite things to eat are tacos, especially on Día de los Muertos. I swear I probably eat tacos once a week and not just on Tuesdays. I ate these tacos for dinner last night. These have soft shredded roast beef in them, lettuce, tomatoes, jack/cheddar cheese, some sour cream, fresh lime and a little Tapatio hot sauce.
So you can only imagine, given my proclivity for tacos how much I was looking forward to Jordana Rothman's new taco book, "Tacos, Recipes and Provocations." It showed up from Amazon Friday. goo.gl/nBshTz It's a fantastic book full of everything you ever wanted to know about tacos, great recipes and beautiful photographs. The perfect gift for that taco lover in your life. Congrats Jordana on the book, it's wonderful.
Model: Kathi
Setup:
Striplight from left front, Softbox (reduced) from the right, yellow spot on the background.
Here are some shots of Hrefna finding her way to the city of Markarth after having hunted among the jagged peaks of the reach, fierce forsworn, ancient nords awakened and a Thalmor patrol foolish enough to attack her without provocation having fallen to her crimson feathered arrows. The hunger for battle of the shadow within her mind sated for the moment, chased away by her strong will.
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Mistaken identity is a defense in criminal law which claims the actual innocence of the criminal defendant, and attempts to undermine evidence of guilt by asserting that any eyewitness to the crime incorrectly thought that they saw the defendant, when in fact the person seen by the witness was someone else. The defendant may question both the memory of the witness (suggesting, for example, that the identification is the result of a false memory), and the perception of the witness (suggesting, for example, that the witness had poor eyesight, or that the crime occurred in a poorly lit place).
Because the prosecution in a criminal case must prove the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt, the defendant must convince the jury that there is reasonable doubt about whether the witness actually saw what the witness claims to have seen, or recalls having seen. Although scientific studies have shown that mistaken identity is a common phenomenon, jurors give very strong credence to eyewitness testimony, particularly where the eyewitness is resolute in believing that their identification of the defendant was correct.
"Before you stands a sports car of flesh and blood. Boasting a voluminous 4.0-litre six-cylinder horizontally opposed and naturally aspirated engine packing 383 kW (520 hp), mounted in the rear.
Its race track chassis will show you what it means to confront the tarmac head on. Eye for an eye. Lap after lap. The fixed rear wing is a flagrant provocation to do battle. To the opponent. And to the opposing headwind. The rear silencer as well as the tailpipes in titanium are a visible sign of what the new 911 GT3 RS is promising: unadulterated sound, pure performance, and a challenge that nobody whose heart beats for sports cars can shy away from..."
Source: Porsche
Photographed at TT Circuit Assen during 402automotive Supercar Sunday.
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Pride and Prejudice... Turn the other cheek?
I haven't seen Myles around much in the last weeks, but I’ll use one of his catchphrases 'brain fart' to describe the following, I’m sure he’d approve, and it's perfect to describe this bit of warm air that I would rather not have smelt in the first place.
So..... Someone farted in my general direction, and I feel the need to respond, and sticking with the windy / arse metaphors I know that by taking the bait, you run the risk of ending up sounding worse than the provocation that got to you in the first place. And I've had a laugh with and at any of my flickr contacts caught throwing hissy-fits in the past, so i'm also aware i'm setting myself up here by rambling on about it.
But I don't rant much, and for reasons that will become clear, I’m going to say my piece anyway. I’ve ignored most of the annoying provocations that come from sharing yourself via you art to a global audience (Including actual photo-theft where I found someone blatantly downloading and re-posting my pictures, and being told that i shouldn't use a lensbaby or photoshop to have fun with my work) usually preferring to let my pictures do the talking, and realising that they are only pictures, meant to be enjoyed and any negative energy created is missing the point.
So rather than wasting an hour of my life here just expressing annoyance, I thought I’d try and turn it into a positive discussion and maybe learn something from it, I always enjoy hearing the thoughts that these sort of 'brain farts' provoke, and I’ve come to respect the opinions of many of you who provide them.
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So what p*ssed me off?
Finding a comment on a photo i posted last week, that led me to a discussion thread, where someone was implying my shot was artistic theft because he had posted a shot with the same subject and composition days before, and that after seeing his photo I had deliberately rushed out to copy him.
You can probably tell by now that it did annoy me, but many things in life annoy me and I let them go, life’s too short and I’ve had painful reminders of that fact this year.
But I read on (of course you would too, it's only natural to be curious) and got even more irked when I read that 'I see it all the time from people with 'their digi-cams' , OK, so now I’m a thief and it's only to be expected because I use a digital camera (for the record, I use both, and sometimes a pencil if we want to get really Luddite about it)
And the final straw was reading that he said "I’m trying to capture the island I live on in a unique way. I'm looking for shots that help me stand out from the crowd and let people see the island in a different way away from all of the touristy type pictures.". So now I’m a thief, not a proper photographer because it wasn't using film, and I’m taking tourist snapshots in an un-unique way :)
All this about a *subject and composition I’ve already shot many times before, in a photo that i had publicly expressed admiration for.
That's a lot of cheeks to turn, and my inner kick-boxer pushed my inner Gandhi aside and decided to respond. I'll probably link to this from the thread (if I’m allowed in the group) and mail the person in question inviting him to read this, I’ll let you know if the response gets all Medieval and we end up duelling with pistols at dawn, some of you can come and take photos, now that would be artistic!
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Pride or Prejudice?
The bible says it’s a sin, a popular expression has it 'coming before a fall', but I think there can be also be a positive side to it, and as an artist I believe it’s good to have pride in your work.
So, the suggestion of 'artistic theft' is enough to get my back up (and its probably slanderous too, I make my living as a creative and I’m thinking that might qualify as professional defamation of character or something similar, I’ll have my lawyers look into it :)
But the main reason for writing all this is to recognise the annoyance and anger that made me have dark thoughts of retribution when i thought he was talking about me (there's a small primeval part of me that is still favouring this route as I know and enjoy the honesty and satisfaction that you get from a good fight from studying Kick-boxing, but that’s only cool when equally matched, consenting people do it in a dojo/boxing ring) so having a brain-fart to stop it taking up space in my head seems like a good choice, life is too short to hang onto negative vibes like this. And of course I know that 'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent' and I should adopt the hippy / Gandhi / Kenny Rogers approach of turning the other cheek, because I’m also a father, and I need to lead by example, and what kind of example is it to react with anger to the words of a stranger, especially in the climate we have here in the UK right now where people are stabbed every day because they 'disrespected' someone.
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Some background
For about the last 15 years I’ve been 'documenting' life on the cliffs in the west wight, in pencil, oil, acrylic, water-colour, gouache, mosaic, and with both film and digital photography. I'd guess more than a third of the 1,099 shots I’ve posted to flickr in the last few years have in some way been part of that process and exploring that theme, but as flickr only amounts to less than 1% of the shots I keep it would be a conservative guess to say I have hundreds of shots on the theme already.
Subjects include the geography and geology of the cliffs, the relationship with the waves that pound against them, everything that happens up there, the people, the things they do there (from para-gliding to sitting, thinking, watching sailing, checking the surf) the signs and monuments, lighthouses and buildings they erect, the plants that grow wild there and the animals that also call it home (cows being a favourite and very popular subject)
Last week I posted a picture of cows on the edge of the cliff at Compton Farm,
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2633778922/
to my mind a not particularly good or noteworthy shot ( I quite liked the dramatic sky in the background but wasn’t really happy with the position of the cows themselves, but they don't really co-operate and stand where you might like.) But it was ok in the context of previous shots, particularly 'take care cliff edges are dangerous' and in the midst of life we are in death'
www.flickr.com/search/?w=24424426@N00&q=take+care.+cl...
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2293827778/
or maybe even as an update of the many I’ve taken of the same cows in the same field.
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/289690355/
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2324964692/
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/514427794/
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/517460396/
This one with the same compositional idea
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2323807106/
or sheep in the same composition
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/493415465/
or a human silhouette in the same spot
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/510539952/
or a para-glider above the same spot
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2610230368/
or the way they're falling into the sea
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2428671420/
or the wildflowers that grow upon them
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/874461347/
I could literally do this for hours......
This might be getting boring now, bit I’m also discovering just how much of a recurring theme it has been as I write this (this is the worthwhile bit for me, I’m seeing my own motivations more clearly as a result of saying all this crap) and how no matter how hard you try, you can't avoid clichés and re-treading common ground.
To many, including myself, we delight in working our way through all the photographic clichés, and having seen this as a subject from all over the world and MANY times on the island and in my own stream already, I think it’s almost up there with the puppies and kittens in shoes and the classic spiral staircase shot, not really that unique or thought provoking, but interesting in the small details of the way you choose to present the familiar.
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Owning ideas?
If you had an idea to document the cows living near the edge, a good idea, would you think it was exclusively yours, or you were the first, and deserved to be the last to explore that theme, as I’ve said above, I’ve been doing it for 15 years, and I think there were hundreds if not thousands doing it before me, no doubt there will be many after. Do you think a person can own an idea? or that your attempts are more valid because you're shooting film* in B&W (yep, the snide comments about digi-camera users definitely haven't gone unnoticed this time :)
*btw, and its a slight digression, what I’ve seen many times is how some (and only a certain special few) people with film cameras seem to think it makes their pov and photographic work somehow more worthy and important than a shot taken with a digital camera, why is that? I find that pretty funny. It's not the cameras or type of people, it's just a mindset that can exist, and its not a reverse prejudice or envy on my part (it's great to use a cliche like this :) because some of my best friends are film photographers :) and if anything i have a great respect for those that work that way, and the skills and techniques required
Anyway, the discussion thread contains many brilliant and funny responses, puncturing the main argument far better than I could, and even some supporting it, including some telling him he's brilliant and I’m just trying to be like him (emulation) so there's no need to repeat them all again here, and opinions are like *ssholes, everyone's got one, I just thought it fair to have my say too seeing as so many strangers were passing judgement on me and the accuser hadn't felt like including me in the discussion up to now.
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So what started out as me liking a shot from someone else on flickr, taking the time to comment and say so (before the photo was deleted and then re-posted) and then having the good fortune to finally have an interesting sky as a backdrop when exploring my familiar theme during my regular walk on the cliffs, ends up in me being labelled a thief.
But, the interesting part for me is the idea of inspirations and how they evolve, and because of this I got to read many funny and Illuminating responses (my favourite was.... ideas are the spermatozoa of cultural evolution, breeding in the minds of others. )
Isn’t that one of the reasons we all take part in the social network, and put our pictures on flickr open to the preying photo-thieves and commercial bloggers who do it for the adsense revenue. To be inspired by the other work we see and to grow our own understanding of the medium, composition and techniques (I started a set a few months back especially for that exact purpose, recognising those on flickr who have genuinely been an inspiration to me, funnily enough, the first one was a film photographer)
I think it's easy to take yourself too seriously as an artist? and I’m pretty sure I’m taking myself too seriously by getting involved in replying with this brain fart....doh!
Who knows, maybe this will be read, taken in the right spirit, apologies will be made and we'll become best of friends, or maybe a load of film photographers will try and beat me up for shooting on their turf, it’s a funny old world; I wonder what the cows would make of it all, probably just keep on chewing the cud and enjoying the view.
Love peace and bananas
J.
Yesterday, took place the Tel-Aviv's Pride Parade.
I am not sure every member of the LGBT community would feel comfortable with this way of expressing the liberation of the community; but, I can, also, understand why a few members of it need these provocations and exhibitionism.
Photographer could certainly find their (spiritual) satisfaction there…
They belong to a very small and extreme stream among the Ultra-Orthodox Jews, that does not recognize the state of Israel (does not pay taxes, does not get national insurance or health insurance). They argue Jews should wait for the Messiah, and not establish a state before that. One of them was, even, 'The Minister of Jews' in Arafat's government. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neturei_Karta)
I see this act as is a kind of a childish provocation they perform from time to time. Though I admit in senses it is also thrilling: how much is the flag only a fabric? Or a symbol? And what does it mean to burn this symbol?