Comments on: Annals of Bad Taste

Annals of Bad Taste

Slagman — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:08:46 -0800

Rejected 9/11 Memorial Designs are now online. All 5,201 of them. My favorite is the apple on a spike. Some question the taste of designs that use ghostly jet planes, pez dispenser-like structures or giant red question marks as motifs. Luminaries such as the inventor of the artificial heart and Marky Mark participated. Maybe there's an overlooked work of genius in here. Or maybe not.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:31:18 -0800

Annals of Bad Taste? Not all of them, I like this one (semi-self link - friends'). But some of those are just sad.

By: blindcarboncopy

blindcarboncopy — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:33:45 -0800

Metafilter: WHY did that?

By: fletchmuy

fletchmuy — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:35:13 -0800

Man, that ghostly jet planes one freaked me the hell out. On Preview: LOL carbon.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:47:01 -0800

I like Tom Otterness's design a lot...there really are some good ones here.

By: callmejay

callmejay — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:58:23 -0800

Man, that would be horribly depressing for anybody to look at every day, amberglow.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:32:03 -0800

actually I don't think it would be...he has little figures like that in the subways (14th and 8th has a ton of them,) and they're very endearing. I didn't get the size, but it seemed like it would only be about 10 or 20 stories tall too, so it would be a relatively small figure dwarfed by the skyscrapers anyway.

By: callmejay

callmejay — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:43:48 -0800

Ok, I was picturing it looming over lower Manhattan.

By: hughbot

hughbot — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:57:36 -0800

The Pez one looks like something from FLCL.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:22:45 -0800

I wonder why there are missing numbers? Are there other boards that they didn't post for some reason?

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:30:59 -0800

maybe some were copies of others?

By: Slagman

Slagman — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:48:09 -0800

What's cool is you can click in for close-ups. For example, if look closely, the big red heart has an inscription, "God shed his tears on thee."

By: Slagman

Slagman — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:54:30 -0800

By the way, here's a fact: At least twice as many women, children and other civilians have died in Iraq and Afghanistan from U.S. fire than died on Sept. 11.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:45:57 -0800

Here's another fact: my cat's breath smells like cat food.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:49:19 -0800

and yet another fact: obsessed people introduce their obsession into every unrelated field they can.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 17:41:23 -0800

Not unrelated, but not necessary either.

By: azazello

azazello — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:16:58 -0800

I think The Weeping Willow is a good idea.

By: Slagman

Slagman — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:31:25 -0800

There are no monuments those folks, that's all. My thinking about what happened that day (I live in NY) and how it has evolved from a time of true, raw emotion to one of sentimentality, is bound up in all of that and in some of what is in these memorials. I actually think the memorial we'll have is plain enough to encompass not only what happened in NY but the violent karmic cycle it was part of and will foster. We oppress them, they bomb us again, we retaliate, etc.