"We Await Your Triumphant Return"
Your name:
Cara Brostrom - Iowa, U.S.A
Entry:
For the Sunliner, three new homes in middle America.
"Six Film Stills Featuring the Ford Sunliner"
Your name:
Cara Brostrom - Iowa, U.S.A
Entry:
Top left: "It Came From Outer Space," 1953
Top right: "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane," 1962
Mid left: "Frankenstein's Daughter," 1958
"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...
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!
Installation as inspiration
Your name:
Andrea Fredericksen
Entry:
Installation as inspiration
Scale in Alice in Wonderland
Entry:
In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a children's book by Lewis Carroll, Alice finds a key sitting on a glass table.
1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition
Entry:
The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, was the last and the greatest of the nineteenth century's World's Fairs.
The End of Time
Entry:
The End of Time is a book by Julian Barbour, a British physicist.
'Take Time to Play With Your Kids'
Your name:
Shannon Roszell - Toronto, Canada
Entry:
'Take time to play with your kids,’ the ad campaign encourages. A recently acquired 1963 Ford Sunliner Convertible model would be the object of their shared fascination today.
