Once They Had A Master Plan (ePub)

The sixteen-foot-tall, three-inch-thick hammer-wielding man is a black sunken statue that stands resolutely, left foot in front of the right, near the entrance to the Seattle Art Museum decorated with a marble arch, where Amazon 's annual shareholder meeting takes place. The day was May 20, 1999. Covered in jet-black auto paint, this 13-ton steel figure was sculpted by artist Jonathan Borofsky as a symbol of homage to workers. America, its name is named after the left hand extension hammer equipped with a motor. This arm passes over the head four times every minute at a 75-degree angle, pounding down on the motionless right arm holding the "smashed" object.

The life of a man with a hammer in Seattle would not have existed if it had not happened by chance. In 1991, while being hoisted vertically from a truck, one of the statue's legs slipped from its straps, creating two large footprints on the sidewalk of First Avenue and Seneca Street. "It was like the real thing," - an eyewitness told the Seattle Times. "Life doesn't always go smoothly and sometimes we encounter failures." After a year of recovery, the hammerhead returned to Seattle, this time without any trouble; but it has become the target of unprecedentedly bizarre political and employment statements. Once, a group of expressionist painters secretly tied an iron ball weighing nearly four kilograms to the right leg of the statue; One dark Christmas night, a group of mischievous goblins used a weather balloon to place Santa's red and white hat (the size of a ship's sail) on top of the statue's head.