Richard Miller
08-14-2002, 01:35 PM
Among the last places you'd expect to encounter coverage of model airplanes is in The New Yorker, except that these are "big model-airplane sculptures" of which clay is, by definition, the principle ingredient. Thus they qualify as art, and can be viewed at the Stone Gallery, uptown.
The New Yorker is a bit apologetic, but gets off the hook by observing that "this is a childhood preoccupation after all." Why, why, why, I ask, and have for 50 years, does one graduate, as CEO, President, King, from this kid's stuff to hitting a little white ball into a hole with a stick? Why is that okay, and all the knowledge, skill, and experience it takes to design, construct, and fly a model seen as juvenile?
Why should that be? Somebody bring me down!
-Richard
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Further to which -
If someone were given a little white ball and a club and a hole in the ground, how long do you imagine it would take him, or her, to get all the dots connected? Eh?
If we gave that same someone a pile of balsa and some glue and tissue and dope, and sandpaper and a knife and some pins and a board, and some wire and a straight edge and a tack hammer and... well, you got the picture. How long before he, or she, built a model that would fly up, above buildings? Eh?
-Richard
The New Yorker is a bit apologetic, but gets off the hook by observing that "this is a childhood preoccupation after all." Why, why, why, I ask, and have for 50 years, does one graduate, as CEO, President, King, from this kid's stuff to hitting a little white ball into a hole with a stick? Why is that okay, and all the knowledge, skill, and experience it takes to design, construct, and fly a model seen as juvenile?
Why should that be? Somebody bring me down!
-Richard
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Further to which -
If someone were given a little white ball and a club and a hole in the ground, how long do you imagine it would take him, or her, to get all the dots connected? Eh?
If we gave that same someone a pile of balsa and some glue and tissue and dope, and sandpaper and a knife and some pins and a board, and some wire and a straight edge and a tack hammer and... well, you got the picture. How long before he, or she, built a model that would fly up, above buildings? Eh?
-Richard