Comments on: Giant constructivist iPhone sculpture http://boingboing.net/2010/05/19/giant-constructivist.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 00:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: javitrino http://boingboing.net/2010/05/19/giant-constructivist.html#comment-792638 javitrino Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-792638 the monument tatlin proposed was truly revolutionary. consider that constructivist movement was blown away with the coming of stalin and true totalitarism. all of them: lissitzky, rodtchenko, popova... they were either expelled, fleed from the ussr or slowly retired into lesser works in socialist realism, stalin's choice. again, fun fact: it was comented that tatlin's monument was the first one that didn't have a beard! the monument tatlin proposed was truly revolutionary. consider that constructivist movement was blown away with the coming of stalin and true totalitarism. all of them: lissitzky, rodtchenko, popova… they were either expelled, fleed from the ussr or slowly retired into lesser works in socialist realism, stalin’s choice.

again, fun fact: it was comented that tatlin’s monument was the first one that didn’t have a beard!

]]> By: jetfx http://boingboing.net/2010/05/19/giant-constructivist.html#comment-792190 jetfx Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-792190 Nothing like never built triumphalist totalitarian architecture to get us to reconsider Apple. Nothing like never built triumphalist totalitarian architecture to get us to reconsider Apple.

]]> By: man2busy http://boingboing.net/2010/05/19/giant-constructivist.html#comment-792745 man2busy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-792745 Nothing new under the sun - looks like Al-Malwiya (Spiral) tower in Samarra (Iraq) Nothing new under the sun – looks like
Al-Malwiya (Spiral) tower in Samarra (Iraq)

]]> By: sparkdale http://boingboing.net/2010/05/19/giant-constructivist.html#comment-792263 sparkdale Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-792263 You can also purchase a version of Tatlin's Tower made out of various pork products: http://thebluehouse.org/details.php?id=951 You can also purchase a version of Tatlin’s Tower made out of various pork products: http://thebluehouse.org/details.php?id=951

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/05/19/giant-constructivist.html#comment-792806 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-792806 There actually is a mini Tatlin-tower in Moscow on the roof of one elite residential building ("Patriarch house"). http://wikimapia.org/5980274/ru/%D0%96%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85 There actually is a mini Tatlin-tower in Moscow on the roof of one elite residential building (“Patriarch house”).

http://wikimapia.org/5980274/ru/%D0%96%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81-%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85

]]> By: Stucipher http://boingboing.net/2010/05/19/giant-constructivist.html#comment-793844 Stucipher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-793844 kinda looks like a depiction of the tower of Babel kinda looks like a depiction of the tower of Babel

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