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Traffic Safety Film of the Week

Talking to David Cronenberg a little while back about J.G. Ballard, I somehow had 1960s era crash testing on my mind. And YouTube obliges. I also couldn’t help be drawn back to the archival images of the nuclear testing of domestic architecture (and its inhabitants) that I wrote about in my previous book, Survival City; the style, and the eerie slow-motion contortions of the test dummies, are curiously consonant.

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One Response to “Traffic Safety Film of the Week”

  1. Beige Says:
    September 29th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    I’m reminded of something Dave Barry once wrote about cars, something roughly like “People sometimes say that ‘they don’t build them like they used to.’ I’m here to tell you that this is a good thing.”

    I didn’t realize you wrote Survival City.

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