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February 10, 2009

atomised

Firstly you think of the unfortunate consequences of a chance meeting with Hostile Space People, particularly ones making suspicious use of practice golf balls and old Hoover pipes,

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and generally being at the wrong end of a Ray Gun, with your molecular integrity in imminent danger.

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Then you might think about the 1999 novel of the same name by Michel Houellebecq,

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where one of the main characters is a troubled molecular biologist and no-one meets any Space People, by chance or otherwise, or uses practice golf balls for anything other than practicing golf.

Or you might think of the subsequent film, by Oskar Roehler,

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But this isn’t about gun-toting aliens or the bizarre sex-life of a molecular biologist, this is about the mechanical sculpture by Jim Bond.

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Now you can see it moving, which, being a kinetic sculpture, is not unreasonable.


atomised from John Coombes on Vimeo.

Posted by john at February 10, 2009 09:20 AM

Comments

Of all the depictions of Atomised, this Bond film is the most interesting.

Posted by: Daphne at February 12, 2009 07:05 PM