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CITIZEN:Citizen has added another object from their growing design-art collection to the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Ballistic Rose, created and designed by Tobias Wong, is a bullet proof corsage, "a handmade ribbon rose constructed from a single strip of ballistic nylon. This floral hybrid protects your heart in an uncertain world. Wong's bloom is both a high-tech talisman for the tender-hearted and wry fashion statement.". Good timing, we could all use a little protection right now.
In fact Philip Wood, the owner of CITIZEN:Citizen, would like to add the Ballistic Rose to your permanent collection. CITIZEN:Citizen's website just underwent a major overhaul, and to mark the event one creative MoCo Loco reader will add a Ballistic Rose to his or her collection by writing a clever, uncertain-times appropriate "quote" for the Rose's CITIZEN:Citizen page. Leave your quote in the comments section here and next Wednesday Philip Wood will choose the winning quote. Enter as often as you want.
The winner will get the now classic Ballistic Rose with certificate of provenance and archival collectors box shipped to their door and their winning quote up on the CITIZEN:Citizen website.
UPDATE: comments are now closed, later today (November 27) we will announce the winner of the Ballistic Rose.
the gunpowder can change its aspect but this rose will always bloom
You can wear this on your sleeve.
This rose is as black as my heart; bleak like the future.
While we wait for our thorns.
A savvy floral for the apocalypse!
A rose is a rose is a rose.
If you pick it, you will not bleed.
Scentless violence.
Never perish for love again.
when the metal kiss arrives.. protect me from fainting
"a rose will always protect your heart, this one is just a little more serious about it."
Nature + mankind = survival of the fittest.
protection for the earlier stages of the night
Prick me and I bleed black.
potpourri: smells like napalm in the morning
i wear ballistic on the outside 'cause ballistic's how i feel on the inside
perennial amulet
Bloody Magnolia.
Requiem for a Rose.
accessorize for the frail of heart
Take a shot at love
Bulletproof Heart
the black rose. and i wish it were still alive.
Tough Love
Oh my God ...They killed Kenny!
Beauty and the Beast
take a shot at love
And now even the rose bleeds black
love safely and often
every thorn has it's rose
Abduct, adopt, adapt.
We are all dead, a world without photosynthesis is synthetic
"So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds." - Countee Cullen
love is the safest investment
The Thorn is the Real Beauty.
The Blossom Protects the Thorn
Post Office Formal Wear
rosette aegis
Look at me i'm Emo!
In the clutch of your touch, my armor just collapses.
Gloomy Bloom
Hardy in all zones
War and the Roses
A rose, in name, it does not smell as sweet.
a rose by any other material...
Modern love?
a rose for the kill
Bulletproof Valentine
boutique boutonniere
grieving the birth of mainstream violence
la vie en noir
gather while ye may...
Uncrushable.
Gravitas.
Numb.
Love Lost.
Beauty knows no color.
Beauty Endures.
"Rose, harsh rose..."
Ezra Pound
Doom and Bloom
Bloom and Gloom
Every thorn has a rose.
After the light, rose darkness!
Design was the seed and hence rose up
The rose was the rose is the rose will be the rose.
"Oh sweet rose, the Denier of death!"
flower power
a gift to the frail of heart
the lucky charm of the frail of heart
a rose for the frail of heart
Relationships: the passive aggressive approach
Relationships: the passive aggressive approach
armored goatse
take another shot at love.
Shotgunique.
Not for bleeding hearts.
Authentic Weapon Of Love.
Be still my bleeding heart
A rose by any other name would stop a bullet
offer your love, friendship and some protection.
"When it comes to love, make sure you're protected"
"He was smarter than anyone else, but also poignantly aware that being smart didn’t necessarily get you very far, and that the most visible manifestations of smartness — wide erudition, mastery of trivia, rhetorical facility, love of argument for its own sake — could leave you feeling empty, baffled and dumb." - A.O. Scott
Wear protection.
Beauty is Bulletproof
O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
William Blake
"The Sick Rose"
Shoot me if you dare!
Bulletproof Love
Assassin's sweetheart
Heart Stopper
Bloom of Doom
Petals of Mass Protection
Love in a violent world
To Love and Protect
Love in an age of violence and fear
The Iraqi Rose
For when you're in Love's crosshairs...
High Caliber Love
wake up and smell the gunpowder
protection for your heart.
the rose defends the thorn
To serve and protect
spare me the pain of your scarred love
protect me from what i so want
Hard is the Rose that guards your heart
too many heartaches.
This blocks bullets.
petal to the metal
floristocrats only
Aggro Culture
phytological barrier
gardening evidence
Immortalis Eros
"...Les fleurs sont faibles. Elles sont naives. Elles se rassurent comme elles peuvent. Elles se croient terribles avec leurs epines..."
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If anything breaks your heart now, you'll know that it was an inside job.
a thornless heart
"Everything looks better back to black"
bulletproof rose but my farts still go fast thru kevlar
rosa negra parabalas
She went "that" way... and so did her rose. Body armor never looked so good.
hate is all you need
heart at ack
*the heart is a loney hunter / the heart is the lonely hunted
*not for the faint of heart
*be still my heart
*"man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose." turkish proverb (?)
*non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being. mahatma gandhi
*love is a battlefield
*nec mortem effugere quisquam nec amorem potest (no one is able to flee from death or love)
Ornament against crime
For a bullet by any other name
Produced for eternal love
Hope for an accurate assassin.
Pollinated by steel jackets
Dystopia Rose
roses are red, your soul is black
you shot me in the heart,
now take the bullet back
Has love ever stopped a bullet?
Protect your most valuable asset.
Amorous Armor
Contented malevolence is eternally superior to unkind indifference.
violet times
Rose above Violence
Tis better to have shot and missed than never to have shot at all.
“Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me” - Mae West from the 1940 film ‘My Little Chickadee’
no metal to these petals please
"Fear is the heart of love" lyric in the Death Cab for Cutie song " I will follow you into the dark"
Melancholic Might
Immortality waits at the edge of every petal
What rose?
Skin Deep. Guaranteed.
Black Beauty
Prosy
Wilt-Proof
A blossoming bastion for the bosom
It is my heart that bleeds..........not the rose!
doubleplusgood blackwise
"Ab Absurdo"
rose buddy
The Smell of Fear
Kent State Corsage
wedding in baghdad
Tender shield
"Amor y odio = Rosa negra"
hurt me if you can
Love makes you bulletproof.
The Rose. A classical standard of excellence within the ever changing world.
Black is Beautiful
Just add Colour
armure du cœur
"My Ballistic Petals"
rosa de noche
theres more than one way to die of a broken heart.
Black is the new Rose.
Black Pflower
rose from the heart
simply...........bloom!!!
though love
i shot the sheriff
Nip violence in the bud.
black armor
back 2 black .....
"A bullet through your heart A rose to cure"
"protect me from what I want"
-Jenny Holzer
For the faint hearted.
amor armure