A giant reflective inflatable hammer turns out to be a great tool of protest. At the 2010 United Nations climate conference, German artist collective Eclectic Electric Collective!, brought just such a hammer, called El Martillo, to protest for climate change policies. While riot police know exactly how to stop a large group of protesters on the ground, throwing a car-sized hammer above them is foreign. That is exactly what the protesters did when they couldn’t move any further. While it was ripped to shreds, the hammer got the message across to the world: we exist and are a force for change. Such large peaceful objects are protest masked by the entertaining form of a parade float. They force the viewer to pay attention; something like a giant hammer can never be reduced to normality.