![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And not to be forgotten is that when the chips are down, the cartridge becomes currency, not worthless paper money. ![]() The raw power of that noise, whose only parallel in nature is a thunderclap, feels like all the noises of the world have been compressed into a split second. Who would have known that such ghastly termination could be born from such pure form? The clue is the ear-splitting crack-bang that accompanies each shot. Yet for all its modernist austerity, a bullet is pregnant with the capacity for a life changing, visceral, nasty, messy, causality. The nose cone of a bullet is a round ogive shape, designed to slice through wind with optimum efficiency. 2 From the outside, a cartridge is haunting in its reduced simplicity: little more than a truncated cylinder of gleaming brass filled with gunpowder, into which is wedged a lead bullet. So what happens in the brain when it hears something so reduced in size and economical in its symbolism as two numbers, juxtaposed either forwards or backwards?įor all of the Steampunk cogwheels and curly-cues of the Victorian age, cartridges and bullets are amongst the most abstract shapes to come out of the Industrial Revolution, a perfect union of straight line and curve. The number 45 can be flipped to make 54 and pleasure seeking Baby Boomers come to mind, singing along with the Village People’s iconic tune YMCA against the backdrop of Studio 54, New York’s iconic 70’s disco. 1 There’s only a hundredth of an inch separating the two calibers, and a generation of contention as to which is the finer round or revolver. John Wayne stands tall with his ‘Colt 45’ and Clint Eastwood faces off with his ‘S&W 44 Magnum’. When these two numbers are put together, people usually sit up and pay attention. ![]()
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