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Terror Box
Scare people with simple platonic solids | |
Imagine walking down a suburban street, when you stumble across a small cube. It is of perfect proportions, every face being exactly 5.6", every vertice exactly 90 degrees. What is most ominous about it is that is is very smooth, casts no reflection at all, weighs three lbs and is entirely black, except
for a single phrase you find on it's far face in imaculately stenciled yellow letters "FBI: do not touch."
This is all there is to the terror box. It's a very simple, remarkably versatile show of surrealism. It can be used in all platonic solids; dodecahedrons are creepy and tetrahedrons and down right disturbing, but don't use icosahedrons; that would be silly. They are usually made of plywood, and then given a smooth feel, then painted. FBI isn't the only thing you can paint on them; try a red box with white letters that spell "CCCP."
For the extra touch, seal a running weasel ball in one.
Making of the Nokia Hackerbox
http://vimeo.com/8337966
A mysterious, non-descript, shiny cube. [idris83, Jan 22 2011]
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Absolutely pointless. Probably why I like it. Not sure about the FBI bit though. Maybe "Warning Hazardous Materials". |
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no, no, not entirely balck! |
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Perhaps the box text should be repunctuated to read, "FBI, do not touch." |
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All boxes are terror boxes if left unattended in a public place. It doesn’t matter what is written on them. |
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I wonder if someone left a Batman lunchbox on 23rd street (Wash, DC) would it make the evening news. |
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casts no reflection! a vampire box? |
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It should be very smooth, but very dull...somehow. |
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People used to leave these all over the place where I
grew up, only difference was when someone stumbled on
them they actually did explode. Now if you stenciled FOX
tv on them folk would really panic. I'm giving you a bun for
reminding me of how creepy the Proteus character was in
the otherwise crap Donald Cammel science fiction film
Demon Seed, in which Julie Christie is terrorised by a
monstrous polyhedron. |
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Yeah?! (FOX is a bit of a giveaway, though) Here, I used to think the empty liquor bottles were scary. |
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I was only making a valid point, there wasn't any need to delete my anno was there? |
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That was an accident. Feel free to put it back up again. Sorry. |
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I grew up in the badlands,
in a place called Tigers Bay
where we spent our time drinking wine,
and singing "f--k the IRA" |
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Stephen Menary, 16, also lost his left hand in a Real IRA
blast in February 2001. He had picked up a bomb disguised
as a torch outside a Territorial Army Barracks in White
City..... but I still like your idea jellydoughnut and by the
way I'm not Stephen Menary. |
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I like it. I like it. I liiiiike it. Simple, yet (ahem) functional. |
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"Take me to your leader" It's either a UFO or a cunning terrorist plot. |
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Reminds me of the Nokia hackerbox a bit (see link). |
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P.S. "Vertex" is the singular form of "Vertices", not "Vertice". |
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