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Design the World: Rocking Hot Dog
This post is sponsored by Autodesk.
Design the World is a series of posts on the things we actually own and use here at MOCO LOCO, as well as what MOCO readers actually own and use.
Today we're featuring a favorite design object submitted by artist Pascale Girardin.
Pascale uploaded Nienke Klunder & Jaime Hayon's Rocking Hot Dog (with little in the way of description). Here's what we were able to gather, and were inspired by...
Dutch-American artist Nienke Klunder and her Spanish collaborator Jaime Hayon have amused and bemused many with their sculpture entitled "Rocking Hot Dog". The piece is about 5 feet in length, 2 feet high and about 14 inches wide. It's made of fiberglass, aluminum, leather and chromed metal. A maple wood "crutch" props up the teetering tube steak when it it's not "in use" (apparently, it's fun to ride). A company that produces Formula 1 race car bodies manufactured the wunder wiener to the artists' specifications.
Practically any representation of the quintessentially American foodstuff known as a "hot dog" elicits a smile. My infant great-niece was paraded about to great acclaim at Halloween, dressed in hot dog jammies (complete with a yellow flannel squirt of mustard) and Oscar Meyer "wiener mobiles" are still plying the roads of the United States. Carnivores will laugh along with references to anything that has been "mechanically deboned", but few can resist a precociously pink pup served up from a street corner cart or their favorite greasy-spoon.
Sometimes a wiener is just a wiener.The phallus, once considered a symbol of fertility and power in many cultures, has become an amusement park ride. Klunder's hot dog is an ideal. It is sleek and contemporary with its purple hue. It is endearing and comforting with its tightly cinched saddle and cartoon-like puckered ends. Its dimensions, its creases and its tumescence are perfect.
The crutch is a key component in this piece. It also appears in a photo series by Klunder entitled "Big Rock Candy Mountains" where a female figure is shown resting her bulbous breasts on a crutch. Propped up against the gleaming and dynamically balanced shape that is the Rocking Hot Dog, the wooden support appears extraneous, almost laughable. A second look brings it home. Something may be about to collapse under its own weight.
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Do you have a favorite object or product? Share it with us by uploading a picture and description at mocoloco.com/upload. We may feature your submission in an upcoming Favorite Designs post.
The illustrative sketches you see here were all created by Chris Sweet using Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro because favorite designs, yours and mine, begin with an idea and quite often with the kind of sketches you see here.
Today we're featuring a favorite design object submitted by artist Pascale Girardin.
Pascale uploaded Nienke Klunder & Jaime Hayon's Rocking Hot Dog (with little in the way of description). Here's what we were able to gather, and were inspired by...
Dutch-American artist Nienke Klunder and her Spanish collaborator Jaime Hayon have amused and bemused many with their sculpture entitled "Rocking Hot Dog". The piece is about 5 feet in length, 2 feet high and about 14 inches wide. It's made of fiberglass, aluminum, leather and chromed metal. A maple wood "crutch" props up the teetering tube steak when it it's not "in use" (apparently, it's fun to ride). A company that produces Formula 1 race car bodies manufactured the wunder wiener to the artists' specifications.
Practically any representation of the quintessentially American foodstuff known as a "hot dog" elicits a smile. My infant great-niece was paraded about to great acclaim at Halloween, dressed in hot dog jammies (complete with a yellow flannel squirt of mustard) and Oscar Meyer "wiener mobiles" are still plying the roads of the United States. Carnivores will laugh along with references to anything that has been "mechanically deboned", but few can resist a precociously pink pup served up from a street corner cart or their favorite greasy-spoon.
Sometimes a wiener is just a wiener.The phallus, once considered a symbol of fertility and power in many cultures, has become an amusement park ride. Klunder's hot dog is an ideal. It is sleek and contemporary with its purple hue. It is endearing and comforting with its tightly cinched saddle and cartoon-like puckered ends. Its dimensions, its creases and its tumescence are perfect.
The crutch is a key component in this piece. It also appears in a photo series by Klunder entitled "Big Rock Candy Mountains" where a female figure is shown resting her bulbous breasts on a crutch. Propped up against the gleaming and dynamically balanced shape that is the Rocking Hot Dog, the wooden support appears extraneous, almost laughable. A second look brings it home. Something may be about to collapse under its own weight.
***
Do you have a favorite object or product? Share it with us by uploading a picture and description at mocoloco.com/upload. We may feature your submission in an upcoming Favorite Designs post.
The illustrative sketches you see here were all created by Chris Sweet using Autodesk's Sketchbook Pro because favorite designs, yours and mine, begin with an idea and quite often with the kind of sketches you see here.
