<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fdea2c82-6482-453b-a322-1da5f7a13115/842ED895-0218-4370-B944-8D2D18E94D70/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2009/07/remembering-apollo-11-techno-porn-and-modernitys-gamble.html" href="http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2009/07/remembering-apollo-11-techno-porn-and-modernitys-gamble.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bagnewsnotes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2009/07/remembering-apollo-11-techno-porn-and-modernitys-gamble.html"><P>the Saturn V rocket that hurled the Apollo 11 astronauts into space.</p> <P>The photograph is a sublime display of raw and unfettered power. I am typically reluctant to concede the all-too-easy identification of a phallic symbol, but it is pretty hard to avoid here.</p> <P>The long, thin projectile is literally “blasting” off from the launch pad, powered by nearly 7 million lbs. of fuel (according to the caption). And it is not hard to imagine it as a nationalist (notice the red, white and blue color scheme) and technological orgasm, a physical expression of force further accentuated by the sheer size of the photograph itself -- a 10 X 20 inch reproduction where <A target="_blank" href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html">I found it</A>, exceeding the dimensions of my 22-inch monitor and requiring I scroll up and down to see the entire thing. In its own way the photograph functions like the Playboy foldout that requires the viewer’s active participation in order to take in the “larger than life” object of desire.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2009/07/remembering-apollo-11-techno-porn-and-modernitys-gamble.html"><DIV><A href="http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341cc90353ef011572365bcf970b-pi" target="_blank"><IMG height="836" width="400" alt="NASA.jpg" src="http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341cc90353ef01157141c847970c-pi" /></A> </DIV> <P><EM></EM></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/842ED895-0218-4370-B944-8D2D18E94D70/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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