Courtesy of Adam Tomski, one of our Yale students currently researching the Truce Village of Panmunjom, some pictures of North Korean instant roadblock defences. They are like a series of anti-monuments, not so much celebrations of a past victory as anticipations of future conflict.
The giant concrete boulder above, poised ready to be released, has a certain Loony Tunes quality about it, almost comical in its crude violence.
A collapsible concrete (Un)Triumphal Arch. The side blocks get blown out apparently so that the top falls down to block the road.
2 comments:
Hooray! After randomly looking in on about 100 blogs today I have found an interesting one!
So many people seem to want to blog about their 'madcap, crazy family'. It gets tedious after a while.
I really enjoyed your comments about the fascinating civil defences in North Korea being anti-monuments.
At the moment I am reading Anton de Botton's 'The Architecture of Happiness'.
I will be back.
Thanks, glad you found it interesting....posts have been a bit thin on the ground lately but should be some new stuff up here soon...
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