The 'tourist guy'

Whilst browsing the internet for pictures for Uni and Jamming posters I came across this image which I hadn't seen for quite a while. Look familiar? Ok, i'll tell the story once again...

Soon after 9/11 an image showing a tourist while an airliner was about to hit the building beneath him circulated on the Internet. It was claimed that the picture came from a camera found in the debris at Ground Zero. The 'tourist guy' as it was called became an Internet phenomenon and was world famous through the circulation of multiple e-mails.

Here comes the punchline...The picture won a best photoshopped picture contest. Can we still trust the camera? With Photoshop, you can now actually make pigs fly and it will take a skilled eye to tell whether any of them is true.

While that might be a creative opportunity for artistic photographers and designers, for news editors, it can all be a bit of a nightmare and for readers too when the photos skip the newspapers and land straight in your mailbox.

Doesn't it feel like 9/11 was just yesterday? It is still heavily talked about in the media, in schools, in politics (look even I'm still talking about it).

Like the image of the 'tourist guy' above Maya fools us to believe things are real when they're actually not. Maya makes things seem so believable and true (like the image above) and can only be spotted doing this by a trained eye (as mentioned above).

We have to train our minds through Krishna Conscious activities so that we can differentiate very clearly between Krishna and Maya. Especially in this age of Kali, Maya will continue to think of new ways to entagle us but we have to stay fixed and not fall for her trick.