> On 4/13/11 1:53 AM, Swash Boon wrote:
>> I felt like this was important and relevant, both.
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>> Discuss.
>1)
> My thoughts on the symbolic use of shading employed in the neo-formalist piece "Honey Badger Doesn't Give a Shit."
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> The front half of Honey Badger appears shrouded in shadow. While this may be the artist's attempt to accurately depict a subject lit from above and viewed from below, the contrast is striking enough to suggest meaningful intent. The binary shading scheme may speak to the divided nature of Honey Badger's identity, the darkness that faces his enemy--the viewer--representing Honey Badger's presentation of an impenetrable, unmovable, and, ultimately, unknowable force to the hostile world that rushes towards him, and the brief glimpses of lighted fur attesting to a depth of character that lies behind this projected persona. In short, Honey Badger moves through the darkness, but the darkness does not move through him. He makes his home in the abyss, but he does not become it.
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>2)
>I think it's important to note that there is only one second left on his clock. The artist is clearly making a statement: we must seize this moment, because one can never know when the bomb might go off.
Also, I think he may have pulled out most of his own teeth in order to display his tongue while parachuting, without risking biting it off. A suggestion, perhaps, to rethink our own vanities, especially when it comes to aesthetics versus function.
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>3)
>Looking at the underside of the jet, I would say it looks like a MiG-27 (see here), this indicates possible Russian involvement with the Honey Badger. Since the MiG-27 is an Air-Ground attack platform, it would make sense to be used to launch any secret Honey Badger Legionnaire Ground Assault Bombs (HBLGAB). I believe this to mostly be a 2 part weapon, firstly the 9 sticks of TNT would detonate close to impact resulting in destruction of anything within the landing zone while secondly, possibly launching the HBL package it an alternate location while providing explosive cover. Seeing as HBL's don't really give a fuck about dynamite, combining them with a bomb provides a 100% gaurentee that whatever is on teh ground is gunna get fucked up. Use of this type of weapon could constitute a war crime because of the savage nature of unleashing HBL's on anything. I would seem that the Russians have developed this weapon to counteract our Snake-Face Ground Assault Defense Platform (see img.) because of the Honey Badgers ruthless ability to slaughter Face Snakes.
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would suggest weaponizing our own Honey Badgers.
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