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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: freedumb2003
Were the “artists” subsidized by the government?
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:47:02 AM PST
by
lucky american
(Glenn Beck Rocks!!! Sarah Palin Too!!!)
To: whitedog57
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:53:39 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: absolootezer0
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posted on
02/02/2010 10:55:34 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: JoeProBono; martin_fierro
Mr. Snow Miser heartily approves of this effort!
To: Dixie Yooper
The best part is these morons probably did this on our dime with a gubermint NEA grant.
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posted on
02/02/2010 11:01:30 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
To: Constitution Day
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posted on
02/02/2010 11:08:40 AM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: grellis
There is a real cool Ice Tree on Belle Isle in the Detroit River.
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:02:16 PM PST
by
Mark was here
(The earth is bipolar. ---- "OBAMA: THE GREAT MISTAKE OF 2008")
To: JoeProBono
draw attention to the housing crisis that has battered the nation.
Maybe they should stay local and draw attention to the growing numbers of abandoned and burned down houses in Detroit.........
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:39:03 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
To: Constitution Day
Last winter, abandoned Detroit warehouse.
Life imitates art...
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posted on
02/02/2010 12:44:31 PM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: hondact200
The last one to leave Detroit, remember to turn off the lights when leaving.Sorry, while you weren't looking, they stole the lightbulbs and the copper wiring.
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02/02/2010 3:32:13 PM PST
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gigster
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