gbedrosian / unkown artist
I saw a sales clerk from Ace Hardware on MSNBC (wasting no time in capitalizing on state sponsored panic) advising that a 25yd roll is a good amount to make most rooms "safe rooms" in the event of a chemical, biological or nuclear fallout emergency. Though I guess that there is less to laugh at in NY, the idea of protecting one's self with duct tape from attacks by Al Quaeda, while ratcheting-up enthusiasm for a first strike at Iraq, seems laughable just like the hideously Orwellian name of the Homeland Security Office.
They could have called the office Domestic Security instead of something that sounds like a farce from a 1960s British tellee spy show.
When I hear Homeland Security I alternately imagine brown-shirt clad scouts meeting in high school auditoriums--looking like Gone Fishing acting like faith-filled thugs--or rotund Brits in black felt suits with mod white edging calling everyone by code names.
I think Tom Ridge needs a special outfit to run his cobbled-together department. The lapel pin could have a little metal head rapped in duct tape showing the secure procedure to avoid inhaling toxic substances. I think we should all refuse to breathe in the case of a nuclear strike. That's my plan.
Christo Announces New Project
(Reuters) World famous artist Christo has today announced a new project that is slated to begin immediately.
Responding to U.S. Homeland Defense Secretary Ridge's call for artists to rally to the cause through anti-terrorist art, Christo has received permission to wrap the White House in Washington D.C., using duct tape and plastic sheeting.
Much like the artist's 1995 project "Wrapped Reichstag" in Berlin, "Wrapped White House" will, according to the artist's plan, seal the building and those inside.
Of
the project the artist said, "I am very excited to use my art-making methods
in the international fight against terrorists. By wrapping the White House
I hope to help keep terrorism under wraps, so to speak."
Unlike "Wrapped Reichstag" which was a temporary project, "Wrapped White House" will be the artist's first permanent work of public art.
100,000 square meters (1,076,000 square feet) of clear high-strength polypropylene plastic, and 15,600 meters (51,181 feet) of silver duct tape, 13.2 cm (4 inch) wide, will be used for the wrapping of the White House. The work will be completed in as little as one week.
The artist has contacted other artists across the U.S. who are now en route to Washington D.C. in order to help finish this work in record time.
Materials have been provided without charge by the French and German governments.
Recalling the "Wrapped Reichstag," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stated, "Wrapping the symbol of German democracy was a defining moment for the new Germany. Wrapping the White House will likewise be a defining moment as democracy is restored to America."
Unlike "Wrapped Reichstag" which was a temporary project, "Wrapped White House" will be the artist's first permanent work of public art.
100,000 square meters (1,076,000 square feet) of clear high-strength polypropylene plastic, and 15,600 meters (51,181 feet) of silver duct tape, 13.2 cm (4 inch) wide, will be used for the wrapping of the White House. The work will be completed in as little as one week.
The artist has contacted other artists across the U.S. who are now en route to Washington D.C. in order to help finish this work in record time.
Materials have been provided without charge by the French and German governments.
Recalling the "Wrapped Reichstag," German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder stated, "Wrapping the symbol of German democracy was a defining moment for the new Germany. Wrapping the White House will likewise be a defining moment as democracy is restored to America."
Suggested use of duct tape
as a means for increasing
the level of Homeland Security.
