Comments on: Disaster Dioramas http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/disaster-dioramas/ the best tutorials and paper creations online Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:40:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: My cat's servant http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/disaster-dioramas/comment-page-1/#comment-1723 My cat's servant Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:41:10 +0000 http://foldingtrees.com/?p=1578#comment-1723 These are funny and gave me a smile in the midst of my browsing. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but personally I'd hate to be the coworker of someone so lacking in irony. There *is* a place for this sort of thing. Please don't remove it. (Besides, I'm planning on sending the link to some friends who do have a sick-ish sense of humor.) And there's nothing wrong with a sick-ish sense of humor. It's actually healthy. All comedy borders on the tragic. It's the context. These are distant historical events taken out of context and put in the (normally perceived as dainty and innocent artsy-craftsy) context of making paper dioramas. That's what makes it humor. These are funny and gave me a smile in the midst of my browsing. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but personally I’d hate to be the coworker of someone so lacking in irony. There *is* a place for this sort of thing. Please don’t remove it. (Besides, I’m planning on sending the link to some friends who do have a sick-ish sense of humor.) And there’s nothing wrong with a sick-ish sense of humor. It’s actually healthy. All comedy borders on the tragic. It’s the context. These are distant historical events taken out of context and put in the (normally perceived as dainty and innocent artsy-craftsy) context of making paper dioramas. That’s what makes it humor.

]]> By: richard http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/disaster-dioramas/comment-page-1/#comment-1595 richard Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:15:15 +0000 http://foldingtrees.com/?p=1578#comment-1595 Oh, the humanity! Andrea needs a hobby; maybe a nice Hindenberg diorama will take your mind off things. Consider these learning tools; put them together with the kids, talk about the history, and about what happened. The difference between the three dioramas here and the missing 9-11 one is intent. The volcano didn't have an agenda, the flammable glue on the zeppelin didn't write a manifesto in a shack in the woods, and the Titanic wasn't suicidal after a bad breakup with the Lusitania. These were accidents or disasters in history that happened; they shouldn't be ignored, and they are not being belittled in the slightest by these models. Anyone who suggests that the eruption of a volcano is the same thing as a bunch of suicidal nutjobs on a mission for their god needs to learn about history. Oh, the humanity!

Andrea needs a hobby; maybe a nice Hindenberg diorama will take your mind off things. Consider these learning tools; put them together with the kids, talk about the history, and about what happened.

The difference between the three dioramas here and the missing 9-11 one is intent. The volcano didn’t have an agenda, the flammable glue on the zeppelin didn’t write a manifesto in a shack in the woods, and the Titanic wasn’t suicidal after a bad breakup with the Lusitania. These were accidents or disasters in history that happened; they shouldn’t be ignored, and they are not being belittled in the slightest by these models. Anyone who suggests that the eruption of a volcano is the same thing as a bunch of suicidal nutjobs on a mission for their god needs to learn about history.

]]> By: Sam's Mistress http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/disaster-dioramas/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 Sam's Mistress Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:28:06 +0000 http://foldingtrees.com/?p=1578#comment-1480 LOL! Thanks for that link; I love the Pompeii one! LOL! Thanks for that link; I love the Pompeii one!

]]> By: June (Folding Trees Admin) http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/disaster-dioramas/comment-page-1/#comment-1475 June (Folding Trees Admin) Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:02:10 +0000 http://foldingtrees.com/?p=1578#comment-1475 Anyone else with Andrea on this, or is it just a light-hearted project and we should take it in that spirit? It's not to my personal taste either, but I'm not really offended by it because of the cartoon style. I'll pull the post if others object too! Folding Trees is not a controversial site and the last thing we want to do is upset our readers... Anyone else with Andrea on this, or is it just a light-hearted project and we should take it in that spirit? It’s not to my personal taste either, but I’m not really offended by it because of the cartoon style.

I’ll pull the post if others object too! Folding Trees is not a controversial site and the last thing we want to do is upset our readers…

]]> By: andrea http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/disaster-dioramas/comment-page-1/#comment-1474 andrea Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:42:49 +0000 http://foldingtrees.com/?p=1578#comment-1474 omg, where do I pick up my 9-11 disaster diorama? is it just me, or does anyone else find jokey paperfolding about lots of people dying tasteless? maybe I am just having a bad friday? omg, where do I pick up my 9-11 disaster diorama? is it just me, or does anyone else find jokey paperfolding about lots of people dying tasteless? maybe I am just having a bad friday?

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