They were taking over territories in East Asia, creating an empire.Īn animation shows a map of East Asia. TIM: For years, Japan had been waging an imperialist campaign. TIM: There was no time to mount a defense, and the United States suffered a huge defeat.īut it's not like the attack came as a complete surprise. More than 1,000 men went down with the sinking ship.Īnimations depict the events Tim describes. All eight were hit, with the worst blast shredding the U.S.S. Our most powerful vessels, the battleships, were the main target. TIM: They unleashed a fury of bombs, gunfire, and torpedoes. TIM: The whole sky darkened with planes bearing the Japanese rising sun.Īn animation shows a Japanese plane, marked as Tim describes. Members of the band and other ship personnel run for cover. TIM: On the band's final notes, the deck was sprayed with gunfire.Īn animation shows a plane peppering the ship's deck with gunfire. Navy personnel look up at all of the activity. Most everyone at the base assumed the same thing.Īnimations show swarms of planes flying above the ship and naval base. TIM: Target practice, they figured, or maybe a drill. TIM: Some of the musicians got distracted by explosions in the distance.Įxplosions can be heard. Nevada's band was starting its daily rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner."Īn animation shows the band playing on the deck of the ship as an American flag is raised. naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Īn animation shows the Pearl Harbor naval base on a quiet morning, with ships floating peacefully just off-shore.
December 7th, 1941 was a quiet morning at the U.S. Did America really not see it coming? From, Melanie. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, I heard that Pearl Harbor was the biggest surprise attack ever. Every one of these crewmen is buried here with the ship. They examine a list of casualties from the attack. Its simple yet complex spatial configuration presents a visual puzzle that parallels Hawkinson’s transformation of the mundane materials into something unexpected.Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and MobyĪ boy, Tim, and a robot, Moby, are visiting the Pearl Harbor Memorial. Named after a nineteenth-century astronomer and mathematician, the Möbius Strip is a surface that has only one side, and exists as a continuous curve.
Möbius Ship also humorously refers to the mathematical concept of the Möbius Strip. The ambitious and imaginative structure of Hawkinson’s sculpture offers an uncanny visual metaphor for Melville’s epic tale, which is often considered the ultimate American novel. The title is a witty play on Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, which famously relates the tale of a ship captain’s all-consuming obsession with an elusive white whale. Here, he employed a mix of found objects and common household materials-including twist ties, craft wood, staples, and packing material-which he transformed almost alchemically into a complex and awe-inspiring sculpture.Įchoing the working methods of ship-in-a-bottle hobbyists, Hawkinson created a painstakingly detailed model ship that twists in upon itself, presenting the viewer with a thought-provoking visual conundrum. California-based artist Tim Hawkinson is known for taking everyday materials and altering them in imaginative ways, creating works that address broad issues about the intersection of human consciousness, nature and technology.
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