Polymash » cars http://www.polymash.com App development to create exceptional content experiences on tablet devices, web and emerging mobile platforms Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:24:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Unsold Cars: Art meets the economic meltdown http://www.polymash.com/2009/02/art-meets-the-economic-meltdown/ http://www.polymash.com/2009/02/art-meets-the-economic-meltdown/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:14:50 +0000 JuergenB http://jbphoto.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/art-meets-the-economic-meltdown/ In the past, whenever there have been crises, artists have raised awareness through their work, and social commentary often is most poignant when delivered through an artform.

In the time leading up to great social upheaval, for example the 1st and second world wars, in the time leading up to the great depression, and generally in times of social unrest, artists have played a fundamental role in pointing out the contradictions, tensions, juxtapositions and sheer madness of the human condition.

These images below are circulating via email just now, and to me these are harbingers of the social upheaval we are facing due to the economic downturn: Car manufacturers are running out of space to store all their unsold cars.

Nissan has  announced plans to cut its Sunderland  workforce by 1,200. Thousands of unsold cars are stored around the factory’s  test track


Honda is  halting production at its Swindon plant in  April and May, extending the two-month closure announced before Christmas to  four months. Honda and Japanese rival Toyota are  both cutting production in Japan  and elsewhere. Pictured, Hondas await export at a pier in Tokyo

Imported  cars stored at Sheerness open storage area awaiting delivery to dealers


Newly  imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota  distribution centre in Long Beach  , California


The  build-up of imported cars at the port of Newark  , New Jersey

New cars  jam the dockside in the port of Valencia in Spain


Peugeot  cars await shipment to Italian dealers at the port of Civitavecchia


Unsold cars  at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol


With many  manufacturers on extended Christmas shutdown, the number of cars rolling off  production lines in December fell 47.5% to just 53,823


Thousands  of new cars are stored on the runway at the disused Upper  Heyford airbase near Bicester, Oxfordshire, on December 18, 2008.

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