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hernesheir commented on the word flaming piano
One of several items enterprising humans have slung with a medieval catapult, the trebuchet.
September 29, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word flaming piano
That's so sad.
September 29, 2009
bilby commented on the word flaming piano
Some of the BM stuff doesn't really grab me much at all. Hard to be definitively critical without ever having been there; context is relevant to most genuine art forms.
But if your psychotype is indeed fraught of sonic inflammatory, try a bit of DS. Skip intro, go to Watch and then Burning Piano. Other fascinating aural experiments also there.
September 29, 2009
yarb commented on the word flaming piano
I'm with Milos; this is entertainment by the talentless for the tasteless.
September 29, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word flaming piano
I admire the chutzpah, the audacity and the huevos of those folks who would do the research to conceive, construct full-scale, and then experiment with such a contraption. They've managed to sling automobiles, hand-shaped stone spheres ("cannonballs") and even a dead bovine several hundred feet or yards, at times with great, if not scientific accuracy. Hedonist Burning Man attendees aside, those who have done such give me pause - could I be having more fun in my life in addition to that that I am afforded by collecting and studying and recording words and phrases as I do on Wordie? I say yes.
September 29, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word flaming piano
The trebuchet is cool. I respect the trebuchet. If they want to shoot burning things out of their trebuchet that's cool too. But don't set the piano on fire. Even an old broken piano that doesn't have any hope of being fixed deserves the respect of being properly taken apart and junked. You wouldn't set the body of your dead sister on fire and shoot it out of a trebuchet. That sort of thing just shouldn't be done. There's a sort of basic decency with which you treat beautiful things, even in old age. If it's a perfectly good piano it's more like rape. It's been created for a beautiful purpose and all these recreants can think of is to destroy it and violate it for their own miserable pleasure. For God's sake, don't set the piano on fire.
September 29, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word flaming piano
Milosrdenstvi: Being somewhat of a pianist, I too cringe at the thought of hurling a piano to its death in a playa in the Black Rock desert of Nevada, USA, or anywhere, for that matter. Pianos have histories, and perhaps feelings, too?
September 29, 2009
bilby commented on the word flaming piano
Okay, I have now solved the problem here.
September 29, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word flaming piano
I just wanted to comment that in the Middle Ages, flinging burning livestock corpses with trebuchets et al. was par for siege warfare. I could describe why they did this, but someone will undoubtedly chunder (perhaps myself).
September 29, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word flaming piano
bilby: brilliant!
c_b: Understood, but even laying aside that we are in many ways past the Middle Ages, having replaced the barbarity of the trebuchet with the machine gun, the atomic bomb, and international terrorism -- livestock corpses are livestock corpses. If it hadn't been set on fire and launched from trebuchet it would have been eaten, if not by one creature then by another. Even if it is somewhat hork-inducing I can abide a flaming livestock corpse. But for God's sake, don't set the piano on fire.
September 29, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word flaming piano
Oh, I wasn't trying to poke anyone with a stick. I'm appalled by the destruction of musical instruments and, for the record, the desecration of corpses. Just pointing out that it's been, you know... done before.
I worked at a Renaissance fair for a couple of seasons many moons ago, and the directors had invented something they called a pigapult, which flung Nerf-based "pigs" at a stage during a stunt show (the "pigs" "exploded" by landing near pre-loaded black-powder flashpots). They were shocked when I told them that this was actually done in medieval warfare—well, the pigs weren't Nerf-based then, of course—because they thought they'd invented this silly whimsical thing. *shrugs* Nothing new under the sun.
(Though if there ever is, I'm pretty sure bilby could find it on the Web and put it on my WTF list.)
September 30, 2009