Old ammo casings are harder to get than I first realized. Much of the brass is re-used, which is good news for landfills but bad news for ammunition artists. As costs have gone up, shooting ranges are more and more apt to recycle the spent casings or sell them as scrap.
I live near a large, deserted desert where people like to shoot things. There’s probably millions of ammo casings all over the sagebrush, but fighting the rattlesnakes and 120 degree heat will have to wait until I become really desperate.
This would be a good time to mention that I don’t have much experience with guns, or shooting them, or really anything about them except that when a loaded one shows up in Act 1 it needs to get fired in Act 3.
I enjoy that a simple mechanism can be so controversial among thoughtful, considerate, and generally educated people. Cell phones, for example, have a much more complicated technological infrastructure and design, yet they don’t evoke nearly the emotional response that guns do. Forget presidential debates -- lets hear Yoko Ono and Charlton Heston verbally duke it out on gun control with Larry King moderating. What a ripe area for discussion.
There are a few artists out there who work with modern weapons as a medium, and very few who make furniture from them. I recently ran across this lamp in Copenhagen, although I think the trigger should have been wired to turn it on and off:
Also see:
http://alfarrow.com/reliquaries/
http://sashaconstable.co.uk/projects/peace-art
http://weburbanist.com/2009/01/05/20-artworks-of-war-bizarre-gun-and-bullet-art/
I live near a large, deserted desert where people like to shoot things. There’s probably millions of ammo casings all over the sagebrush, but fighting the rattlesnakes and 120 degree heat will have to wait until I become really desperate.
This would be a good time to mention that I don’t have much experience with guns, or shooting them, or really anything about them except that when a loaded one shows up in Act 1 it needs to get fired in Act 3.
I enjoy that a simple mechanism can be so controversial among thoughtful, considerate, and generally educated people. Cell phones, for example, have a much more complicated technological infrastructure and design, yet they don’t evoke nearly the emotional response that guns do. Forget presidential debates -- lets hear Yoko Ono and Charlton Heston verbally duke it out on gun control with Larry King moderating. What a ripe area for discussion.
There are a few artists out there who work with modern weapons as a medium, and very few who make furniture from them. I recently ran across this lamp in Copenhagen, although I think the trigger should have been wired to turn it on and off:
Also see:
http://alfarrow.com/reliquaries/
http://sashaconstable.co.uk/projects/peace-art
http://weburbanist.com/2009/01/05/20-artworks-of-war-bizarre-gun-and-bullet-art/
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