Tag: guns
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As Gun Related Violence Rears It’s Ugly Head Again, People Try To Put Pro-Gun Activists In Their Place Using Humor and Sarcasm
It’s becoming an all too familiar pattern in the U.S. at the moment. A shooting occurs, this is followed by lots of debate about gun control, then a few day pass, then everyone goes back to ‘normal’. Except of course for the people affected by the shooting. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have…
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‘This Is America’: The Childish Gambino Video Explained
Donald Glover – aka Childish Gambino – had quite a weekend last weekend. The actor, who has been riding high these days with both his series “Atlanta” and his role as young Lando Calrissian in the forthcoming “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” both hosted “Saturday Night Live” and was the musical guest as his rap/R&B…
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When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Tightening America’s Gun Laws
This photo is from 1997 in Australia. Mick Roelandts, a firearms-reform manager, looks over prohibited weapons that were handed in under the Australian government’s buy-back scheme. 700,000 guns were bought back. Percentage-wise, that’s the equivalent of 40 million guns in the US. 20 years on, and the breaking news is that dozens of people have…
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An Amazing Sculptural Gun Installation by Michael Murphy
Installation artist Michael Murphy’s are a little different from most artists – to see his works ‘properly’ you must be standing at just the right angle. One of his latest works, called Damage, consists of 1,200 ping pong balls, painted black, and then suspended from a ceiling. Damage is meant as a way for us to…
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Pistol-Shaped Sculpture Made from 168 Rotary Telephones!
Artist Joana Vasconcelos gathered and arranged 168 rotary telephones for her larger-than-life sculpture titled Call Center. The Lisbon-based creative transformed the iconic-yet-dated phones into a shiny, cohesive-looking unit that’s as stunning as it is monumental. Its shape is reminiscent of a Beretta pistol, but the only things coming from this handgun are the fantastic receivers that dangle by…
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Decommissioned GUNS Turned into a Musical Orchestra by Pedro Reyes!
Artist Pedro Reyes has recently produced an amazing display where he transforms decommissioned weapons into musical instruments to form a fully mechanized orchestra. Titled Disarm, the collection of eight new instruments was built through a collaboration with several musicians and Cocolab, a media studio in Mexico City. The team acquired a variety of rifles, pistols, and shotguns seized from drug cartels…