Eating Molten Lead
Entry:
Martial arts footage from Mount Dobong, South Korea - where a man eats molten lead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q40v8qeUJZQ
Russell Schermer's Ford Sunliner Replica
Entry:
Russell Schermer has been totally blind since birth. He has been working with clay since he was a child. He creates his work with the same tools he uses to view the model—his fingers.
"Ascension"
Your name:
Chris Okerberg - Iowa, U.S.A
Entry:
"Ascension" by Chris Okerberg
What do objects do? A material and visual culture perspective.
Entry:
I remember once writing an essay whilst doing an MA at UCL in Material and Visual Culture. Much of it can be applied to thinking about our object here, the toy car...
Tootsie toes, twinkle toes.
Entry:
Other words for, or sayings incorporating toes are:
1/50 scaled up- now we need a stand in
Entry:
Now that the real car has been scaled up to be 2.1 metres wide and 5.25 metres long we need to have a scaled up consumer of the car that stands in for the boy. I propose King Kong!
boys and their toys
Entry:
It was back in the beginning of the 1900’s with mass production that toys became even more sex stereotyped as boys' toys increasingly idealized technology, constant innovation, and the values of co
The documentation of the documentation of the Liddle Car
Your name:
Mark Carnall and An Van Camp
Entry:
Documentation of the Documentation of the Liddle Car.
The U.S./U.K. Special Relationship
Entry:
The toy car is an American model, made in the U.K. British culture has imported from American culture in a number of instances, but not all.
Things we HAVE imported from the U.S.
Price and prejudice
Your name:
Olesya
Entry:
eBay offers us to buy the exact copy of the object for £2.99. Still, I personally expect that the object we're researching about may cost more than that.
