after some few years the non-product continuously known as The Umbuster has formally graduated from solid-world prototype to a bespoke-produced and purchasable boxed goods.
Each handle is individually CNC cut in a 5 hour process by the enduring Mr Liu.
The umbrella itself is provided by the good Guy de Jean
of France.
And finally packaged in the boxes designed with the good Snorri Már Snorrason
here in Reykjavik Proper.
And it is said: sr112 is The Umbuster.
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It can be bought here via paypal and shipped to your person, or wholesaled to your store.
The origin of the umbrella is slightly hazy though probably interesting, and can be read in four parts by selecting "SAGA" in the green bar-tab above.
During the second year of this millennium 3 cheap and rough plaster-moulded aluminium knuckle dusters were smuggled into Australia by post inside a hastily wrapped box. The sender [herein referred to as “illegal weapons trafficker”] advised of caution in the moving of such contraband through international waters. Though we got lucky. That time.
The dusters were retrofitted and custom bolted to the tube of a second-rate Indonesian manufactured Rain Umbrella.
Presented as part of the the second year University collection, the ‘accessory’ was prematurely dismissed as simply a weapon. The good and upright men of the Victorian Police briskly agreed.
Chapter B
In the early years of friendship with Asaf and Nimrod Weis of Eness , the handle was further developed into an ergonomic unit inside the virtual world of a Nonuniform rational B-Spline program known as 3D Studio Max. This new Umbuster was to be for use in the Rainbow Transmission Holograms of Unfurl , an installation with Martina Mrongovius . The handle was exported to a CNC machine and subsequently routed.
From that point the Umbuster has travelled oceans and flight paths in its attempt at non-product realisation.
And Thirdly
The Umbuster is introduced to the house of Guy de Jean who agrees to option an umbrella.
The .obj files are presented to Mr Liu whose talents provide the handle remade.
The handle and umbrella make acquaintance and are in good spirits.
A meeting with Snorri Már Snorrason ensues and the packaging is prepared.
And so our product currently known as Umbuster is on its last leg.
Cut to Tokyo city, dawn of November 2008.
The now tired first modelled Umbuster is on show to the Japanese at design fairs.
And there, in Aoyama these two weeks back, the runner gave out - The long held protector of rain and wind is laid to rest. This information was made known by the Dane that carried it back to the economically torn Iceland.
epi-prologue
It was Nimrod, son of Cush and Great-grandson of Noah, founder and King of the first empire after The Flood, who we remember for Babel Tower One.
Nimrod was the first King to wear a crown, one which he had made by Sasan the Weaver after a vision.
We could consider the Great Hunter almost the original life coach - He pushed his people to believe that it was by their own means that they were to achieve happiness and that this emanated from their courage within, not from the fear of G-D.
Why this first Nimrod do we discuss? For the Mesopotamian Monarch and Man of Stone is the disputed founder of Nineveh נינוה. Mentioned early as 2900 B.C It was the strongest of several fortress-cities which were built in the triangular territory between the Tigris and the upper Zab. Laying on the eastern bank of said Tigris in ancient Assyria, her remains sit across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, Iraq.
And there, in the sculptures found at the excavation site of Nineveh the earliest representation of the parasol appears frequently in depiction’s of the King in his chariot.
