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Now from BorgCo, a range of less cheerful, tacky
snow globes.
Range includes
Captain Robert Scott
Donner Party
Stalingrad
Ernest Shackleton
Colonel Umberto Nobile
Sir John Franklin
Uruguayan Flight 57
Each snowglobe diorama is lovingly hand-painted,
including the detail of blackened frostbitten
extremities and stiffened corpses.
Disaster Snow Globes
http://weburbanist....worlds-on-the-edge/
I saw these in a particularly great exhibition of micro sculptures in New York a few years ago [xenzag, Dec 26 2013, last modified Dec 28 2013]
Artist's Website
http://www.thomasdoyle.net/
[xenzag, Dec 26 2013]
http://craziestgadg...calypse-snow-globe/
So sorry, but I keep finding lots of these already in existence, meaning that it's hardly what I would call an original idea [xenzag, Dec 27 2013]
Blackest material
http://www.wired.co...2009/03/ultrablack/
for the heat death globe [Voice, Dec 28 2013]
Ash Globes
Ash_20Globes
Shameless elf-promotion [8th of 7, Dec 30 2013]
http://www.thegreen...ypse-snow-globe.php
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 23 2014]
[link]
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I'll take the Mai Lai Massacre 4" round and the Jonestown
Deluxe Diorama with commemorative plastic cup and
certificate of authenticity, please. |
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This reminds me of one of my all-time favorite marketing
idiocies, which I spotted a couple of years ago (at Wal-
Mart, of course): a holiday lawn decoration labeled 'Life-
Size Inflatable Sno-Globe'. |
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I spot them on peoples' lawns every year. From a
marketing perspective, it's not an idiocy if it sells. |
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Quite true. It's the syntactic gaffe on the packaging that
gets. |
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I don't know if the inflatable lawn ornament craze has hit
any of the other nations represented
on the 'bakery, but here in the Northeast US the things are
spreading like tree fungus. They seem to be available for
every holiday, and it's not uncommon to see a home with
ten or twenty lined up in the front yard with no mind to
narrative or creative arrangement. Some folks seem to
regard them as a centerpiece for a holiday light display,
while for others they are simply a minimum-effort
replacement for the lights. Makes me almost miss the
plaster cast nativity scenes. |
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The inflatable lawn sets have spread to Halloween decor as well. Next
up, blinking inflatables will replace fireworks on the 4th of July and
New Years. |
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Statistically speaking, a realistic snowglobe would be one which contains no snow. |
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// I'll take the Ma Lai Massacre 4" round and
the Deluxe Diorama // |
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Sadly not available, since neither location is
notable for its regular snowfall. However, you
may be tempted by our new sideline,
exemplified by the Los Angeles and Mexico
City versions where the globe is filled with
an acid, toxic impenetrable yellow-brown
haze and marketed as "Smog Globes" |
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Your catalogue clearly states that the Mai Lai models are
filled with authentic simulated burning village cinders. Has
the line been discontinued already? |
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// blinking inflatables will replace fireworks on the 4th of
July and New Years // |
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We still have fireworks on Independence Day, but we've
also got a shitpile of red white & blue inflatables littering
lawns across the state come that time. When I said they're
available with every holiday theme, I wasn't kidding. There
are people around here who seem to have them out year-
round. |
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I like it [+] how about a Canute bath set? |
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Napoleonic troops trudging in Russian snow and Washington at Valley Forge might be good additions to the line as well. |
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If you're already planning globes featuring LA and Mexico City smog, can you also do one that depicts ancient Pompeii's volcanic ash fallout? |
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So that's one Valley Forge, one Berezina,
and a side order of Pompeii and
Herculaneum … |
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[+] You are a sick man...and I love it! I would like the
entire set of Mount Everest expedition deaths! |
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Sign me up for the T-rex nuclear winter globe please. |
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Sell future ones as well...like Battle of Titan 2203 with
space-suited figures strewn around the last packet of
fags on the planet, or possibly moon. |
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Could I have the "Power cut and raw sewage through the kitchen with
floating faecal matter mixed with Christmas dinner and unopened
gifts" please? |
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Wait ... hang on ... I can nip over to Guildford and get some. |
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Ghastly. Horrible. Macabre. Needless to say you have
my
most enthusiastic bun. |
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Duplicate posting above, by someone we will only refer
to as "DR". Best to put the cooking sherry
under lock and key...that's my advice. |
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Duplicate deleted - thanks [not_morrison_rm] |
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Not sure what caused it. It's a bit of a blur after the
Margaux '61. |
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Not really want I would call an original idea given number
and variety of these already in existence. See links. |
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Nicholsons corpse face at the end of the shining. I'd like to also proffer fridge magnets of dead freeclimbers. |
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Thanks for the links...who knew? There are lots of
sickies in the world. (besides halfbakers) haha |
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I'll take one Mallory & Irvine, and a Siula Grande rope-cut scene
please. |
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Oooh, and a whole universe "Entropic heat death" one. Might be
a bit dark. |
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None of the linked examples actually depict realistic scenes of winter suffering though. They are incidental or irrelevant to the snowscape. |
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"By Jove, Holmes, you're right ! It's all about
the weather ! " |
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"Elementary, my dear Watson." |
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I'm not taking back my Jonestown joke. Sick minds think
alike, obviously. Oh, and I've seen a Washington @ Valley
Forge snowglobe on sale in a Smithsonian gift shop. |
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