Wednesday, February 2, 2011

POST 16: Fourth "Tansformation" as an Old Time Tube Radio



   This one was a lot of fun to put together. I have collected pictures of old radios for years, and got to make one up to fit the façade with parts and pieces of different sets. I know I want the hand to turn the knob and have the corresponding sound effects. Todd suggested that it looked a bit like a face, and that we could make it speak or sing. The tubes will have to glow and pulse, the speakers to shake, the needle to turn.
  I want to take the opportunity to make people listen at the famous premonitory key phrases of President Eisenhower farewell address, where he so accurately described and warned us against the "military industrial complex", and the predicament it has nonetheless put us in today...

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