Scissor mobile

Lisa Congdon turned her scissor collection into a gorgeous mobile -- think of the incredible mental scars you could leave on your child by hanging this over her crib! Link (via Craft)

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reptiles_and_samurai

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joannaelizabeth123

I agree with whoever said this is bad feng shui… I’d say horrible, actually.

If you want to create a feeling of insecurity, tension, and looming peril- make a mobile like this.
Antinous

Hanging it over a crib (or a sofa) would be bad feng shui. Hanging it in a intersection of two hallways, over a planter or something, would be great feng shui. All those round bits would break up the chi and send it down into the earth via the points. Obviously, this is assuming that you believe in chi.
Takuan

how about an installation piece sculpture? Embed them in concrete, point up, in the entrance hallway
Antinous

They capture the chi better if they can move. The mobile is a negative energy collector/redirector. Like Hillary.
Takuan

OK, instead of concrete, a kinetic sculpture that cycles them up and down rapidly?
Anonymous

What idiot thought this would be a good idea?
Antinous

My eye!!! Lisa is a he?
hokano

Hey, Boo.
Carl Rigney

Especially if you told the tale of the great long-legged scissormen who run in to cut off the thumbs of children who suck their thumbs.

Why does someone have that many scissors anyway? Do they work for the TSA?
1265days

Scissors o’ Damocles
yankeeknowhow

True art is always a little bit dangerous and this wild, air-based scupture certainly sets the future standard for artistic danger!

Alexander Calder would be proud!
Writiki

That thing can’t be safe…
Lone

Why bother with the all the work of running with scissors, just hang where they can be conveniently wandered into…
License Farm

Mental scars? Shit, I’m more concerned about physical scars.
raybot

someone is an idiot. nuff said
Takuan

weaklings! how else can you grow strong, quick healing and ALERT children?
sammy baby

Does anyone else remember the movie ‘Dead Again’? I saw it when I was -way- too young and it made an impression.

Takhys, I saw it. That’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the photo.

(And everyone – go Netflix Dead Again. Charming little thriller, worth watching.)
jipijapa

Bad feng shui!
Lazlo Panaflex

yeah, don’t go running around with that thing… or running around that thing at all.
scissor mobile appeals to me in so many ways… i used to wear a pair around my neck like a pendant. i think i’ll have to make myself one.
Murderface

Mental scars!? What about neuroanatomical scars?
Takhys

Does anyone else remember the movie ‘Dead Again’? I saw it when I was -way- too young and it made an impression.
Takuan

I think it should have a variable speed motor to rotate the whole thing. Anyone know how to cook curare?
OM

…Heh, this is what you’d hang over a special display for a new Scissor Sisters album!
Antinous

Anyone know how to cook curare?

No, but the Las Vegas Police Department is having a sale on ricin.
Takuan

yeah, I TOLD that idiot not to lick his fingers
meanlittlemonkey

all I need, for the scissor thief fairy to parade it’s bounty on mine eye.
Wirelizard

…think of the incredible mental scars you could leave on your child by hanging this over her crib!

BoingBoing’s newest dad is starting to worry me slightly… ;)
Carl Rigney

Maybe he heard Gever Tulley’s talk at TED 2007 on 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do.

I’m absurdly pleased at figuring a way to link TED into this thread, but it really was a fun talk.
cinemajay

Don’t know that I’d call it “gorgeous,” per se. They look like everyday cruddy scissors. Put some pinking shears up there…..then we’re talking.
Takuan

pinking shears…pah!
http://www.agri-pro.com/b&bshear.jpg
macegr

I’m waiting for the hypodermic needle version.
Jake0748

Edward Scissor-mobile
pupdog

Takhys, that was my first thought. All you need is Derek Jacobi wandering around and the nightmare would be complete…
themagus

holy crap thats ugly!
Anonymous

Ok, the chandelier of Damacles has me a little freaked out.

Justin
laneburner

So there is line, you see…you continue to acknowledge it and then playfully hop over it. To which I say thanks.
Jeff

Let us all hope that New-Daddy-Doctorow is not thinking about hanging this over the baby. Now that would be Adam’s Family nursery decorating! Could anyone be comfortable sitting under this thing?!
dr_spork

This is strikingly similar to “The Haircut,” part of the permanent collection over at the Museum of Bad Art

http://www.museumofbadart.org/collection/unseen-6.html
historyman68

@#4 Greek/Roman mythology FTW!
Moon

This is very convenient. If you NEED a scissors, you just use one of the scissors to cut the string of the one you need! Sweet!
Ryan

Hoooly crap, bad idea. :P
Takuan

how about a variation of that knife block shaped like a human head?
Anonymous

Not bad, but the big wooden hoops sort of ruin the effect.
I wish she had found a more elegant solution. Perhaps something with plexiglass?
realisateur

This reminds me of a beautiful glass sculpture piece that I saw a little over a year ago at the Corning Museum of Glass when I was living in Upstate New York. It’s called “It’s Raining Knives” by Silvia Levenson, from Argentina, and is a beautiful piece about the hidden anxieties and instability of living in Suburbia, especially in this day and age.

Photo:
http://positron.truman.edu/~edis/pictures/LakeOntario07/LakeOntario07-Pages/Image133.html

Official release article with photo:
http://www.cmog.org/index.asp?pageId=1467