PRODUCT LIBRARY
designboom spoke with tadder about how his striking images seek to compel viewers to reflect on social and political currents with fresh eyes.
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designboom previews the show and speaks with NYBG's director of public engagement and library exhibitions curator, joanna groarke.
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at sunset, the reflection of the glowing sky and onshore clouds merges with floating, shifting gradients of light across the surface of the work.
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designboom looks at how the public art fund has engaged new yorkers and visitors alike — from an endlessly spinning water vortex at the brooklyn bridge, to an upright swimming pool at rockefeller center.
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more commentshow sad … nice elabortation though.
Left side is 309, actually.
Fantastic! But why does the left side add up to 308 and not 304?
I just read an article that said military suicides make up 20% of the total suicide rate in the US, but the military is only about 1% of the total population. It would seem tough to judge the 19 out of 100,000 suicide rate in the US because I’m sure most of the figures include the people in the military. So yes the is a very big problem and we should be concerned.
Awesome.. As someone who knew a Marine who killed himself last year, I’d like to say its great to see someone acknowledge the psychological effects of PTSD, and how large a percentage of the deaths of soldiers are actually suicides.
I have a solution:
stop joining the goddamn army.
It’s very popular to be against military action, but without an army and people fighting for the liberty enjoyed in the USA people would have far bigger problems to think about than soldier suicides i.e.
I bet as many bankers or lawyers killed themselves, in the USA in 2009. Soldiers join the army of their own free will. The fact that some can’t handle the job or have other issues in their life which leads to suicide means what exactly? In japan, among the most comfortable environments one could wish to live (for the most part) there are 1000s of suicides each year for reasons so trivial they don’t bare thinking about – my point is that suicide isn’t always job related.
Those statistics will rise dramatically over time as they have with Vietnam veterans. War is a traumatic event and the taking of the lives of others dramatically affects the ability of some individuals to readjust and resocialize. There are still a large number of Vietnam veterans who have isolated themselves in wilderness areas or deep within the urban jungle. They have been abandoned by their country, their people and their government. This will also happen with the veterans of our present wars. These statistics are just the tip of the iceberg.
Um yeah just a wild guess, but I think maybe more than 140 odd US soldiers were killed in Iraq in 2009.