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Motor City freeze: Detroit home encased in ice
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| Feb 2
| DAVID RUNK
Posted on 02/02/2010 9:15:00 AM PST by JoeProBono
DETROIT (AP) -- Two artists who have encased one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes in ice are hoping their effort inspires and helps draw attention to the housing crisis that has battered the nation.
Photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune (Ray-DOON') have spent weeks spraying water on the home for the Ice House Detroit project. They plan to bring in large lights Friday to illuminate the house.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: artists; detroit; dumb; icehouse; jpb; michigan; nea; waste
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To: JoeProBono
Looks like the house next door here in Richmond.
The artist on that one was God.
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:16:17 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: JoeProBono
Two artists who have encased one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes in ice are hoping their effort inspires It just makes me think, "Man, Detroit sucks!"
To: JoeProBono
Woulda been nice if they had sent all that water out to central California where it’s needed instead of wasting it on ‘art’!!
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:18:29 AM PST
by
pillut48
("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
To: pillut48
Really. Who’s paying the water bill on this?
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:20:02 AM PST
by
political1
(Love your neighbors)
To: pillut48
Ask the artists HOW Detroit got into such a mess?
Government and unions.
Democrat solution? More government and more unions.
To: JoeProBono
yep. that ought to solve the problem!
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:31:31 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: grellis
Mitten state shivering ping.
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:32:25 AM PST
by
CSM
(The only reason a conservative should reach across the aisle is to slap a little sense into a lib!)
To: political1
It looks like there was a fire and ice was from water used to put the fire out.
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:36:27 AM PST
by
MediaMole
To: JoeProBono
Well, that does it for me! I’m moving to Detroit, gonna buy up allll those abandoned houses, then step 2, then it will be rainbows and kittens for everyone... hooorrrayyyy.
To: JoeProBono
More of Obama’s stimulus money at work. Detroit the arm pit of Michigan. The last one to leave Detroit, remember to turn off the lights when leaving. As Detroit so goes the nation. Rat Government and the Unions really have created Detroit - broke
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:39:23 AM PST
by
hondact200
(hondact200 No to Socialism - Michigan destroyed by Progressive Liberalism)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:40:48 AM PST
by
festusbanjo
(It's not that we tax too little, it's that we spend too damn much!)
To: JoeProBono
Photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune (Ray-DOON') have spent weeks spraying water on the home for the Ice House Detroit project. But make sure you never use more than 1.6 gallons of water to flush your toilet...
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:46:24 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:49:14 AM PST
by
grellis
(I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
To: whitedog57
Democrat solution? More government and more unions. Exactly. And the democrat solution for huge deficits? Spend more! Riiiight. I mean, that's what I do when deep in debt. I say to my wife, honey we are in real trouble with all of these bills, what should we do? And we always agree, lets go out and buy a new car! A new plasma 52 inch TV! That's the ticket. Then we can file for bankruptcy and poof! no more debt!
Insanity.
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:52:27 AM PST
by
mc5cents
To: JoeProBono; SunkenCiv
This is what used to be known as a cold water flat.
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posted on
02/02/2010 9:54:55 AM PST
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: wildbill
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:02:18 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: festusbanjo
Hell freezes over.
nah, hell's about 60 miles west of detroit.
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:21:15 AM PST
by
absolootezer0
(2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
To: political1
water’s cheap in mi. we have so much of it we dump it into the ground just to make our grass pretty.
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:23:54 AM PST
by
absolootezer0
(2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
To: JoeProBono
Let’s see. It’s Detroit, so the cost of the water to make this “art” was probably higher than the property value itself.
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:31:18 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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