wiredinUSA September 2014

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#39 EDITOR

Guns have provided an unusual story in this issue of wiredInUSA. More than 4,600 weapons from 12 law enforcement agencies in the Los Angeles county sheriff's department have been melted down as part of the 21 st annual Gun Melt event, held throughout August, with the metal being used for the country's infrastructure projects. The event is staged at the Gerdau Steel Mill in Rancho Cucamonga after gun owners anonymously hand over weapons in return for gift cards under the Gifts for Guns program. Since the event was first staged, the department has melted down 178,167 weapons! Full details of this year's event can be found on page 9. Wire and art have gone hand in hand through the years, and now Chinese artist Zhou Jie is taking it to the extreme by spending 36 days in an art gallery, and sleeping on an iron wire bed. Visitors to Beijing's Art Now Gallery will be able to see Zhou sleeping, eating, washing, using her mobile phone and weaving plush toy' shapes from iron wire during the exhibition, which runs until 13 th September. Catch a glimpse on page 37. David Bell Editor

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