On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 7:44 PM, gldnbearz <[email protected]> wrote: > Saw this at Fort Point yesterday: > > http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Nn-R2KLB88M/Sskx2kYemcI/AAAAAAAAAqg/96A01KyKuhM/s800/IMGP4814.JPG > > Runners came up to it and touched their hands to it. I wanted to find > out what the hands meant - google is my friend. > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/10/MN160983.DTL
Cool photo, well seen, well captured. That's an amazing story about the high-steel workers. I'd have liked to see a photo of Hopper (in the article) after hearing so much about him. I've known for a while that the Golden Gate Bridge is a suicide magnet. There are such places that for some reason attract a disproportionate amount of jumpers; other bridges would be just as "deadly" if jumped from, but for some reason the GGB gets way more than others in the area. Here in Toronto The Viaduct (more properly known as the Prince Edward Viaduct, but nobody ever calls it that) is such a magnet. There are higher bridges, more desolate bridges, but for some reason it's a magnet, and for that reason they erected huge (and ugly) suicide barriers about 10 years ago. Apparently they've been very effective so I'm happy to live with the aesthetic problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bridge Anyway, thanks for a very thought-provoking image and accompanying article! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
