Net Surrealism:Original Oil Paintings by Jeremiah Palecek

Oil on masonite. 125 Dollars

WarGames was promoted as a cautionary tale about technology and the dangers of leaving machines in control of unleashing destruction, in an echo of the Doomsday Device of Dr. Strangelove. It also prominently featured the common idea of the Cold War period (particularly the 1970s and 1980s) that somewhere there was a “button” that, when pressed, would nuke the whole world away. This button, marked “LAUNCH” and installed after the WOPR was to simplify release of nuclear weapons, had several prominent close-ups in the film.