Anybody know what this refers to? The A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki of course! Anyway, Italian diecast company Brumm are releasing models of the bombs ....
Anybody know what this refers to? The A-bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki of course! Anyway, Italian diecast company Brumm are releasing models of the bombs ....
And here they are on the way to the show - I'm sure a 1:1 scale A-bomb strapped to the roof didn't raise any eyebrows ......
Interesting. Goes right along with the "Buildings of Disaster" series by Russian designer Constantine Boym.
Buildings of Disaster
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Jared
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Buildings of disaster???!!! What's next? Limited edition versions signed by the bombers?
While the above Murrah building is probably the most audacious - there is actually an interesting idea behind this series. A social commentary on media coverage of our time. Boym is a brilliant designer who likes to stir the pot and ask tough questions.
"Historical irony takes a more serious form, however, through the Boym Design Studio series Buildings of Disaster. The Boyms have turned the tourist souvenirs we may have seen of the Eiffel Tower or Empire State Building into serious commentary on how locations become “monumental.” As they demonstrate, a place is monumentalized not only through its extraordinary form or the conditions and contexts of its construction, but by a historical event that etches it into public awareness. Too often in the twentieth century these events have been disastrous, and at the century’s end the role of the media, as a means of reproducing and amplifying the disaster, has to be examined. The simultaneous kitchiness and preciousness of these souvenirs makes us consider the ways media-driven consumer culture inflects the connections we make between history and place, and about the potential for danger that inflection carries with it. While the publicity following the disasters at the Triangle Shirt Waist Company in 1911 or Three Mile Island in 1979 served progressive goals, contributing to workplace safety rules in the former and to the retreat of the nuclear power industry in the latter, other buildings of disaster in their series, such as Oklahoma City Federal Building or the World Trade Center towers (whose inclusion in the series was “earned” by its 1993 bombing) highlight how, in the millenium, disaster is staged for broadcast in a horrible confluence of commercial and political goals."
Jared
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Pretty abstract, but I understand the point .... I guess. I just don't see myself with a display case full of 'Disasters' in my study! I suppose a parallel could be drawn to the racing world - perhaps a series of 'disaster cars'. Villeneuve's Ferrari wadded up in a ball, Bellof's 956 stuffed into the Armco, Krosnoff's Indycar cut in 2 by a light pole, etc. All serving to highlight the folly of automobile racing. Pretty tasteless no matter how it's explained.
Doesn't anyone remember the "serial killer cards"?
Kenik
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Over the years, I've been to or near the Texas Book Depository, The Alma Tunnel (Lady Di), The Dakota, and The Watergate Bldg. All have become bona-fide tourist attractions for the notorious events that took place there. Right or wrong, this is one designer's way of holding up a mirror to society. Morbid? Yes, but we've "done it", not him. He's just pointing it out to us... as Curt mentioned, in an abstract way. A disturbingly abstract way... as art should sometimes do.
C'mon... tell me you would not pay admission to poke through the Unabombers cabin!!
On another note, sobering to think how those 2 metal containers (bombs) at the top of the thread changed the world forever. Think I'll order the pair!!
Jared
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