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February 11, 2007 6:29 PM   Subscribe

Travelling Exhibition of Broken Toys. [flash] A whimsical distraction.
posted by tellurian (12 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Really charming in an Edward Scissorhands kind of way. I enjoyed that. Thank you.
posted by nickyskye at 7:21 PM on February 11, 2007


Very very nice. (I especially liked the soldiers.) And quite welcome, as I have some work that really must be done, so I needed distraction. Thanks tellurian.
posted by LeLiLo at 7:24 PM on February 11, 2007


Video #2 is definitely worth watching. Great post.
posted by Citizen Premier at 9:00 PM on February 11, 2007


I REALLY LIKE this stuff. Thanks for the post!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:30 PM on February 11, 2007


And here I thought this was a post about my last family vacation.
posted by bicyclefish at 11:26 PM on February 11, 2007


I loved the website and the weird music. Really nicely done. I liked the soldiers but some of the others made me a little sad. Not so much broken as mutilated. I wanted to find them funny and sweet but couldn't quite. But I'm sentimental about old toys.
posted by squashy wol at 12:06 AM on February 12, 2007


Okay, maybe not SWEET exactly.
posted by squashy wol at 12:09 AM on February 12, 2007


Very nice.
posted by klausness at 3:41 PM on February 12, 2007


This man (home - collections - musicals - top LH corner [stupid flash!])...

...he ~vibrates~?

(love the music, btw. reminds me of some of Nurse With Wound)
posted by UbuRoivas at 6:27 PM on February 12, 2007


some of the figures reminded me of Hans Bellmer's doll photographs.
posted by jrb223 at 11:56 PM on February 12, 2007


some of the figures reminded me of Hans Bellmer's doll photographs.
If your link is exemplar, I must say, not quite.
posted by tellurian at 5:04 AM on February 13, 2007


Tellurian: Really? It was the "Figures" collection in particular that reminded me immediately of Bellmer, and specifically of Bellmer's work with the doll fashioned from two sets of legs. The toys refashioned in the museum that double torsos or otherwise multiply specific body parts suggested to me something of surrealist doubling, designed in part to elicit an experience of the uncanny. While the museum is certainly quite whimsical, the connections I drew between the various toys and surrealist theory led me to have an ultimately quite unsettling viewing experience.
posted by jrb223 at 9:41 PM on February 13, 2007


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