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I posted in it quite recently, did the deletion have anything to do with my post? Was it offensive or indecipherable, both?Evo said:Yes, I think that thread got off to a bad start and went downhill.
Not at all. After several attempts to get it back on track, it kept going downhill.fi said:I posted in it quite recently, did the deletion have anything to do with my post? Was it offensive or indecipherable, both?
Evo said:I drove past this the other day, turns out the taxpayers paid $100,000.00 for this hideous monstrosity to be erected on a street corner. The picture is poor quality and you can't tell how poorly constructed this mess is, rivets and weld marks showing. It's huge, hideous, an abomination, but that's just my opinion. I'm embarrassed of it. Up close, it looks like someone banged out a bunch of old car hoods, spray painted them bright blue then welded them together.
Cyrus said:You guys better stay away from the hirshhorn in dc then!
http://www.trolleytours.com/Washington-DC/images/hirshhorn-washington-dc.jpg
I like that blue cactus. I don't know the context of it next to the surrounding space though.
Now, that's not bad, it kind of looks like a mace used to bludgeon someone's head in. That blue mess is a bunch of car hoods welded together, for the low, low price of $100,000.00 of taxpayer's money.turbo-1 said:Here's one for you, Evo. It's so...so... Well it just is.
http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4321689.html?total=16&next=10
turbo-1 said:Well, the sculptor who built the stainless-steel "whirligig" for Waterville put over 1600 hours into the project, and assuming he's not working for peanuts, that is one expensive monstrosity. I don't know how much they paid for it, but it was too much. U.G.L.Y.
Evo said:As part owner of the blue dancing cactus, I will allow you to take it away. It's the size of a small building, weighs 12,000 lbs and is an eyesore at what would otherwise be a very pleasant intersection. People here HATE it.
I don't think anything like that has happened. I could only find an obscure reference to it online, it appears none of the local papers even chose to mention it. I think everyone just wants to ignore it and hope it goes away soon.rewebster said:yeah--but, if it was gone--people wouldn't stop and take photos of it, or of them standing in front of it, or know where to meet ("let's meet at the big cactus!")-----I wouldn't doubt that people have gotten married in front of it--
fi said:I kind of like the cactus dance, too.
This is one of the funnier roadside sculptures I've seen, although the chicken produced here is certainly worthy of celebrating. I wonder if people meet or marry by this.
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9484/dsc00401il6.th.jpg
Moonbear said:What does that road sign with the arrows going in a circle mean?
I love the chicken! I'll trade you the chicken for the blue abomination.fi said:I kind of like the cactus dance, too.
This is one of the funnier roadside sculptures I've seen, although the chicken produced here is certainly worthy of celebrating. I wonder if people meet or marry by this.
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9484/dsc00401il6.th.jpg
Evo said:I love the chicken! I'll trade you the chicken for the blue abomination.
Evo said:I love the chicken! I'll trade you the chicken for the blue abomination.
Yeah Moonbear, the blue mess would be appropriate in a children's play park, not on a street corner.
Alas, I have no equally witty reply to that, but my inspiration may be stiffled by my inability to see how the title 'dance' relates to the blue cactus.Moonbear said:Maybe you could combine the two and have a Chicken Dance. <ba dum bum...groan>
rewebster said:The more someone gets 'into' art, the more 'popular' forms (realism, for example) may become more common and less interesting. 'New' or different becomes more interesting--the one problem there, I see, is that sometimes, 'new'/'different' can be sometimes over hyped and given more attention/over-praised for its peculiarity rather than its importance/beauty.
Realism is generally accepted by many due to the basic idea that it is 'recognizable'--a painting of a cow doesn't require much thought. Pollack's work was a step in the progression that had been going on for a while, and was (and is) accepted as that 'next' step in that specific area of the 'the artistic expression'.