Tag: art

  • 20×8 Foot Tall Pencil Sketched AR-15 To Be Erased In The Name Of Art

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    Oh and of course this is to “help” the victims of the Newtown, CT massacre: The artwork’s finished form is in the hands of the people who this is empowering. Will it be fully erased? How long will it take? The entire process, of both the drawing and the erasing will be filmed in time-lapsed…

  • Photo Series Covering The Business End Of Firearms

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    Shot by Canadian photographer Peter Andrew: Cue the deep “purpose” statement: Guns have a massive amount of power associated with them. They are designed to kill. We decided to photograph portraits of them in a similar way you might photograph a powerful person. Like powerful people, pistols have this ‘perfect’ quality that we wanted to…

  • Breathtaking Ammunition Cross-sections

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    Beautiful *single tear rolls down cheek* * tongue licks it at corner of mouth*: This series of ammunition cross-sections was photographed inside a WWII bunker in Switzerland in October of 2012.  The entire series consists of 900 specimen.  I was originally intrigued by the ambiguous nature of the subject matter.  The cross-sections reveal a hidden complexity and beauty of form,…

  • Ping Pong Ball Assault Rifle Art

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    Optical Illusion art at its finest.  This is incredible: Artist Michael Murphy of Milledgeville, GA want’s to get the conversation about gun control going.  On display at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) in Chattanooga TN until the end of June. “Guns are fetishized in the U.S.,” says Murphy, an artist and assistant professor of art…

  • Shotgun Shells Made From Hand Cast Animal Pieces

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    53″ x 38″ in size… 12500 pieces .  Heh.. why not right? Detail: Source – Kevin Champeny Cool I guess? *shrug*.  The thing that’s funny about art, is that the possibilities are limitless.  You just know next week someone is going to make a 60 foot .223 Remington cartridge out of chicken bones and snotty kleenx, and I’ll post…

  • Gun Art In Our Culture

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    Art surrounding firearms: Some pictures are neat, some are useless.  That’s pretty much how it goes with art though… not everyone is going to be impressed by everything in an exhibit.  The picture, and the story behind 3:27 “Mike And Rat (1983)” by Mary Ellen Mark I found to be the most interesting.  Well that…