Wish you were here

stormmaster83 · 1 year

Congratulations on making the first 9/11 tribute that didn't come across as hokey or pandering.

rutvegas · 1 year

Let me just leave this here... http://i.imgur.com/NL1bF.jpg

Ninwa · 1 year

This reminds of me a concept I was recently introduced to: http://dearphotograph.com/ - Where people take photographs of places they have old photographs of, overlaying the old photograph into the new one and describing a piece of their life, or just pining for the good times. It's incredibly effective.

TreebeardFangorn · 1 year

We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl...

phenomenomnom · 1 year

I used to work in an architecture firm in NYC. Some reflections follow.

Living there before 9/11, you would use the Empire State Building (North if you were below 34th) and the Towers (South) to navigate around Manhattan. I met one of my best friends for the first time in the "restaurant at the top of the world." That is my fondest memory of them.

However.

While they stood, These buildings were ugly and represented some seriously vapid ideas. Think of them as giant temples to arrogance and douche-bag-hood.

Their biggest fan that i knew personally was one boss of mine (PR) who, lets just say, would have been a vehement proponent of Ayn Rand if he weren't too stupid and shallow to read. He loved the sheer hubris of them, the big double-middle-fimger up to the rest of the World that was "Trading" just fine in other places thank you, and without US oversight.

If you ever visited the big vacant paved-over public space at their feet, which included the most ironic park benches ever, you would be blasted by gale winds that these fuckers caught, up where the wind is always 1 zillion kph fast, and channeled right down onto the baby carriages, tourists, and people who didn't work inside the WTC wearing ties. If that sounds cool i am describing it poorly.

My point is: as architecture these things sat on their site like a mean-ass mastodon. They did not inspire, they served to intimidate. They were poor citizens.

I knew people who knew good people who died there and their grief was real and devastating to me. I will never forget the smell of orange smoke for weeks after, or the vivid sense of patriotism that rose up like an anthem. Or the violence done to our national spirit with its politicized perversion.

salbert · 1 year

but the new one is going to be so much cooler.

fartso · 1 year

Too soon! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

ChemicalAli · 1 year

Good Album; Shine on you crazy Skyscraper

JustinJsen · 1 year

The Twin Towers were so ugly, before it became a symbol of terrorism it was regarded as just a big eye sore on the city scape.

dooodles · 1 year

This was the cover of the Village Voice about a week after 9/11.

[deleted] · 1 year

TOO SOON!

[deleted] · 1 year

This is really awesome. Thanks for sharing.

danielr26 · 1 year

Cheers to a 9/11 post that isn't ironic or trying really hard to be funny... because many of those are soon to follow.

To the front page!

SirFinance · 1 year

Forget all the dog/girlfriend etc posts, this is one of the saddest things I've seen on reddit.

Arrant_Theif · 1 year

Whenever I see posts like this it makes me think of a post I saw a week or so ago: "what's the difference between a cow and 911? You stop milking a cow after ten years"

slayaaaaaaaaaaa · 1 year

Love this post. You're a great American.

[deleted] · 1 year

"Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." - Steven Wright

coffeefuckyeah · 1 year

Too Soon!

PoniesRBitchin · 1 year

And there's my first eye roll of the day.

crashcrashbenjamin · 1 year

Am I the only one that initially read this as kind of a death wish? Like visually what you're seeing is "wish you were here" where you're wishing the person to be is in 2 buildings that crashed to the ground and killed pretty much everyone that was inside.

Edit: I guess so

jjhare · 1 year

I've got some photos from the top of the Statue of Liberty looking back at Manhattan with the WTC in them. That's still what I remember when I think of New York. I have another photo taken at the top of the North Tower. Great view up there.

[deleted] · 1 year

I like that new tower better tbh.

fatfook · 1 year

The creativity here makes me sick.

It's so fucking good.

MorningBells · 1 year

Of all the things I've seen this week regarding 9/11, this touched me the most. Automatic tear-jerker.

peachtatoo · 1 year

maudlin crap

elvisliveson · 1 year

funny thing is before 9/11 no one gave a shit about them two towers.

GrotesDZs · 1 year

are those grave stones in the bottom left corner!?

DamnLogins · 1 year

Fuck!

[deleted] · 1 year

wish you were here??? WHY?> the stock market is destroying everything.

dizzl3 · 1 year

and so it begins

alerobinet · 1 year

I wish you were there 10 yeas ago.

Catsonfire · 1 year

The pessimist in me thought this was meant mean "I hate you, it would have been great if you had perished in the Towers."

inyouraeroplane · 1 year

You can tell the person who took the original photograph was not in the same place. The bridge is at a different angle, and I've seen a few in my time.

truthie · 1 year

They were pretty ugly.

KazamaSmokers · 1 year

Anyone remember how - until 9/10/01 - the towers were considered something of an eyesore?

gary0ak · 1 year

Why would you want those shitty buildings back? You're getting a better WTC built anyways.

Or did you mean the people?

velocity010 · 1 year

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veltrop · 1 year

Be honest, how long have you been holding on to this for today?

hambrgrtime · 1 year

Am I the only one that laughed at this?

C10sed · 1 year

USA: Small terrorist group kills 3,000 American civilians, America goes and kills 107,000 of their civilians.

In terms of tragedies this is a relatively minor one, yet 10 years later all of the USA still treats it like the holocaust. It's 10 years later and ground 0 still looks like crap. Why can't the USA just move on? Why linger on these events for so long, giving up your freedoms in the process.

jigby61 · 1 year

I can't wait for the new one. It's gonna be a giant middle finger to terrorists

RocketSauce146 · 1 year

milfordcubicle · 1 year

I would have stood where the angle of the bridge is more in tune with the photo, but that's just me

Deathsaw · 1 year

it doesn't line up

Stumpyupy · 1 year

You are a true patriot, you remember 9/11.

NFunspoiler · 1 year

Let's be honest, the twin towers were fucking ugly.

time_cat · 1 year

its not even 9/11 yet. you can wait one day before you start karma whoring.

coolestguy1234 · 1 year

wish you were in the towers so you couldnt post this

Aethelstan · 1 year

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SolDios · 1 year

Wrong Day

ICantReadGood · 1 year

Clearly that picture should have been taken further to the right, for everything to line up better.

manbof · 1 year

Title made me think it was about joy devision. Sad pic though.

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