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Post by trubble on Feb 11, 2009 15:32:49 GMT
A giant doggy doo for Milton Keynes  You're reminding me of some genuinely good artwork. From the wooster collective.com (a collection of street art)  |
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Post by trubble on Feb 11, 2009 15:38:39 GMT
Holy $^**€(! There exists such a thing already and I am sure they would lend it to Milton Keynes.  www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/12/3A giant inflatable dog turd created by the American artist Paul McCarthy was blown from its moorings at a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a window before landing in the grounds of a children's home.
The exhibit, entitled Complex Shit, is the size of a house. It has a safety system that is supposed to deflate it in bad weather, but it did not work on this occasion.
Juri Steiner, the director of the Paul Klee centre, in Berne, told AFP that a sudden gust of wind carried it 200 metres before it fell to the ground, breaking a window of the children's home. The accident happened on July 31, but the details only emerged yesterday.
Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece (pictured here) would be put back on display.
The installation is part of an exhibition called East of Eden: A Garden Show, which features sound sculptures in trees and a football ground without goalposts. The exhibition opened in May and is due to run until October.
The centre's website describes the show as containing "interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones".The centre's website describes the show as containing "interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones"Now that really is a load of.... |
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Post by trubble on Feb 11, 2009 15:43:02 GMT
If they wanted to put up a giant horse, they might as well make it look like the Kentish "Invicta"  .........and do it properly. Just imagine that sticking hooves in the air? I'm fed up with all these bloody statues and public works of Art - They've got a large concrete Ram in Derby - I looks like it fell out of the back of one. The only thing these "things" say to me is "Look - we've raised the ground of any industry - we've destroyed the factories - we've erased all the jobs but never mind - here's this multimillion pound concrete turd to cheer you up as you go and collect your Giro." ..........and Jo Public has fallen for it!  Suffice to say Ebbsfleet is a hole. It won't matter how many bloonin statues they put up - it will still be a hole. The only reason Ebbsfleet has become what it's become is because the Government desperately wanted an excuse for building those thousands of extra houses in the South East! - The Olympic Village - post Olympics will be the same thing. After all - what is the point of allowing a high speed rail line to carry domestic commuter traffic in order to "ease congestion" and then plonk a new town in the middle of it creating thousands of extra journeys by the thousands of new people stupid enough to move into the area? Because Ebbsfleet and some of the area round it was the last bit of green space in North West Kent before this happened - they just wanted an easy excuse to concrete it over with the bribery that it would be good for the economy. I would hazard a guess - that someone backhanded someone else to ditch Ashford (also a dump) as the main train station. After the millions and millions of pounds spent rebuilding the station - rebuilding the track layout and adding all the extra lines and masses of extra car parks - an now the Channel Tunnel Trains don't even stop there any more! You might be right about the agenda, I don't know. You're right about a better horse, of course. :-/ The 2nd entry in the shortlist (the wing) combined with the rearing horse, a pegasus, would be so much more interesting. So what to nickname the new piece? Any advance on 'the stud in the crud' ? |
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Post by Patrick on Feb 11, 2009 16:22:29 GMT
A giant shoop would be funnier.
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Post by Patrick on Feb 11, 2009 16:35:42 GMT
You might be right about the agenda, I don't know. You're right about a better horse, of course. :-/ The 2nd entry in the shortlist (the wing) combined with the rearing horse, a pegasus, would be so much more interesting. So what to nickname the new piece? Any advance on 'the stud in the crud' ? It's Horses for Courses I think! It's unfair of me to dismiss the place. It wiill be a hole once all the new houses are built. The trouble is - all the little villages around there Meopham, Farningham for instance had a massive expansion of clapboard housing in the 60's and 70's that just took away any rurality they once might have had. A Pegasus would be a wonderful thing yes. They really are missing out on a real artistic treat there. |
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Post by trubble on Feb 11, 2009 16:43:28 GMT
A giant shoop would be funnier. A shoop??  I thought you were against that sort of thing.  |
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Post by Patrick on Feb 11, 2009 16:48:46 GMT
Do keep up! Shoop is to Sheep as Goose is to Geese! ...........and less of the T***o swearing as well!  |
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Post by trubble on Feb 11, 2009 16:54:34 GMT
Ohhh yes, it's all coming back to me now. Here is a statue of some Beeb in Dublin City Centre.  What's a 'beeb'? Surely that's the tart with the cart aka Molly Malone? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 17:15:29 GMT
Holy $^**€(! There exists such a thing already and I am sure they would lend it to Milton Keynes. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/12/3A giant inflatable dog turd created by the American artist Paul McCarthy was blown from its moorings at a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a window before landing in the grounds of a children's home.
The exhibit, entitled Complex Shit, is the size of a house. It has a safety system that is supposed to deflate it in bad weather, but it did not work on this occasion.
Juri Steiner, the director of the Paul Klee centre, in Berne, told AFP that a sudden gust of wind carried it 200 metres before it fell to the ground, breaking a window of the children's home. The accident happened on July 31, but the details only emerged yesterday.
Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece (pictured here) would be put back on display.
The installation is part of an exhibition called East of Eden: A Garden Show, which features sound sculptures in trees and a football ground without goalposts. The exhibition opened in May and is due to run until October.
The centre's website describes the show as containing "interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones".The centre's website describes the show as containing "interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones"Now that really is a load of.... Just think ................if it had landed on a child.........they would really be in the shit ! |
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Post by trubble on Feb 11, 2009 17:20:22 GMT
Interactive art, that's called. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 11, 2009 18:59:13 GMT
P.S. i voted 'yes' to the white horse. Great big pointless random acts of art all over the countryside; I love that stuff.  When it's decent, anyway. A Beeb is the plural of Boob I think, see Patrick's shoop theory. I see he has been training you in the art of infiltrating my posts. |
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Post by motorist on Feb 11, 2009 19:02:04 GMT
I voted "Meh!". If it is built, I shall make it my life quest to shit on it |
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 11, 2009 19:12:41 GMT
I voted "Meh!". If it is built, I shall make it my life quest to shit on it That in itself could be a random act of art. One has to be careful; one is committing art all the time without even realising it. |
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Post by motorist on Feb 11, 2009 19:22:25 GMT
I voted "Meh!". If it is built, I shall make it my life quest to shit on it That in itself could be a random act of art. One has to be careful; one is committing art all the time without even realising it. My brain is forming ideas for my digital camera  |
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Post by chrislord on Feb 11, 2009 20:14:03 GMT
The white horse will be the place to go! I vote yes. There's some to be said about white horses adorning the landscape. We are the only country that does it. There is one somewhere in Yorkshire (forget Wiltshire), chalk and imbedded in a hillside. I arrived once with mum and sis, ran into its middle and mooned at the world. Or at least at half of Yorkshire. I was 11. |
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Post by chrislord on Feb 11, 2009 20:18:47 GMT
In fact this has got me all excited...I want to be the first to embed a giant white horse into a messageboard (to confuse and mentally abuse catfish)... lots of giant white horses please. I want one on every corner!!
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Post by trubble on Feb 11, 2009 21:03:27 GMT
Too late. Stub Crouch wins.
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Post by chrislord on Feb 11, 2009 21:22:34 GMT
Bugger!!
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Post by chrislord on Feb 11, 2009 21:22:55 GMT
Bugger!!
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Post by trubble on Feb 11, 2009 21:27:41 GMT
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