Nino, the Brutalist garden gnome

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/19/nino-the-brutalist-garden-gno.html

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Now you made me want an abstract expressionist gnome.

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Not Brutalist enough.

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And what weapons do they possess for subduing or destroying intruders? (Asking for a friend.)

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Indeed, not Brutalist at all.

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Dadaist?


Marcel Duchamp, Garden Gnome, 1917

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Do you think he rides to work in one of these?:

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MSRP: $3.8M (That’s allot of garden gnomes!)

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Came for Brutalist, found Cubist. Disappointed. :disappointed:

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Came to see if someone said this. I would argue it only needs a reflective pool to both soften and duplicate the harshness.

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Le Corbusier would not agree, I suppose.

BTW, has Minecraft garden gnomes?

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Sold!  

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The reflecting pool would also serve the valuable purpose of filling the space left by questions over what ‘brutalist garden’ is supposed to involve.

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I’m sure that the brutalism-that-is-true-brutalism wouldn’t do this; and it’s all just an unfortunate misunderstanding caused by appropriation of a cost-reduced version of the concept for certain socially unwise postwar housing projects; but I suspect that a brutalist lawn gnome doesn’t need weapons to subdue intruders: it just packs them into an oppressively sterile warren like the negative value postindustrial detritus they are and lets them destroy themselves or one another on their own initiative.

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Does anyone else prefer their gnomes on the 5-6 inch scale, as depicted in the Wil Huygen / Rien Poortvliet books?

$108? Brutal, indeed…

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It’s a gnome from the bizzaro world.

This 3 metre tall chrome gnome is public art in my city (Christchurch, NZ).3metretallgnome

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The low poly thing is big in 3d printing https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:906951

You know what they say there is no new thing under the sun.

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Chrome Gnome Leaves Loam, Finds Home Near Dome.

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Excellent! That sounds even more diabolical than … A Room with a Moose!

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