Art
Houses of Weaponry
“One can kill a man as easily with a dwelling as with an axe!†Artist Baptiste DeBombourg takes literal this famous damnation of Heinrich Zille, only updating the killing device from a singular ax to an arsenal of automated guns. Entitled ‘Tradition of Excellence’, Debombourg’s hand-rendered drawings treat each of the guns as a solid…
Read MoreThe Big Bang
From Dirty Harry to Andy Warhol, guns continue to fascinate. From Guns N’ Roses to guns and butter, they’re potent metaphors in today’s pop culture. And what’s a gun without a bullet? Taking a cue from the cultural zeitgeist, I began thinking about “The Big Bang” after seeing a sales display of bullet-proof plexiglas that…
Read MoreLight Warfare
While I applaud their enthusiasm, enjoy their special effects, and appreciate the video — I’m not turning in any of my guns for one of these newfangled light guns…
Read MoreRIP Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta, an illustrator of comic books, movie posters and paperback book covers whose visions of musclebound men fighting with swords and axes to defend scantily dressed women helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, died on Monday in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 82. The cause was complications from…
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