Posted on 08/22/2005 9:29:30 PM PDT by mylife
It’s Art So Long As You Don’t Detonate It
Continuing with our insistence that FEAR IS BACK, today’s Transom has a downright disturbing item about Brooklyn artist Chris Hackett (at right), who is constructing a fully-functional suitcase bomb. The piece is courtesy of the Madagascar Institute, a radical art organization which is organizing an exhibition to be shown at either Cooper Union or South Street Seaport the week of September 11. Here’s to the power of perfect timing:
[Hackett] said the strength of the bomb would be equivalent to “about four pounds of TNT. It doesn’t sound like much,” he allowed, “but it’s enough to kill everyone in the gallery.”
Mr. Hackett’s bomb is designed to be triggered from “anywhere else in the world—you call a cell phone.” He said that he had already purchased the cell-phone trigger. Only he knows the number—but, of course, he has no plans to explode it.
Read the rest of this BS Here
Feel free to pull this if its just to over the top
IN A.D. 2005...
...EXHIBITION WAS BEGINNING.
MANAGER: WHAT HAPPEN?
ASSISTANT: HE SET UP US THE BOMB.
Imagine! An entire gallery destroyed by a random tele-marketing call.
Bwaaaahaaahaaa
He's right - that doesn't sound like much. :-)
There was a first season episode of one of my fave tv comedies , Get Smart, where a KAOS agent was using special paints that caused a chemical reaction with each other after a certaibn time.
He was delivering them to embassies and government buildings, and then KABOOM! Max & 99 figured out that the paintings were the common denominators and tracked him to his gallery and captured him.
TV used to be good!
And of course he looks like a fine upstanding citizen, not an insane person right? :-) That is if you live in the Twilight Zone, which I sometimes feel we do.
That is funny
"And loving it!"
PS - Max had the whole 'catchphrase' thing down a good 2 or 3 decades before everyone on tv started doing them. HE had so many, too! Don Adams is awesome!
Come to think of it there have been several artistic villians in TV over the years.
The mad whacko crowd
My Dad really like his "catchphrase" stuff
"the picinic is over"
Hardly a day goes by that I don't use an Agent 86 line somewhere. "Sorry about that, chief." "And loving it!" "If only he used his skill for niceness, instead of evil..." "That's the second biggest ________ I've ever seen!" etc etc etc.
The challenge is to work one into the day somehow!
Dont Cell Phone companies recycle numbers? Everytime i get a new cell phone i always get flooded with calls for someone else.
4 lbs of TNT is a lot of explosive. Each of the London bombings used 10 lbs of a stabilized form of acetone peroxide which has about the same explosive power as TNT. 4 lbs of TNT could certainly hurt many people.
He should be under arrest in a few........
I've seen some art that I felt should be detonated.
I guess its a matter of life imitates art
What a maroon
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