Bend Over Atlanta

Nealz Nuze ^ | 3/22/2007 | Neal Boortz

[Mr. Jeeves]

Not that San Francisco doesn't have it's share of questionable entries. ;)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That "art" work is rascist!

Why is the white construction worker at the TOP of the totem?

Is this a not-so-subliminal message that white faces are superior to faces of color?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You're right. That piece should be modified so the faces rotate and every "face" can have equal time on top as decided by the wind!

*Rolleyes* :)

[JeeperFreeper]

One of my college friend's father was a pipefitter and welder in Louisiana. One fine day, over some adult beverages, he and several of his pipefitter friends decided to take a bunch of scrap iron in his shop and do some "sculpting". After a few more adult beverages, they decided to "sculpt" a human figure. So they welded together a human figure of sorts. The "sculpture" sat there in the shop for a few months. Purely on a lark and after some more adult beverages, they called a art broker in a large metropolitan city in the northeast and persuaded this art broker to at least look at the polaroids of this sculpture. The art broker did and agreed to try to sell it. Within a few weeks, a bank paid $50,000 for the "sculpture" created by drunk coonasses. I personally saw this "sculpture", talked with some of these "artistes" and some of the money helped my friend get his master's in Ag Economics.

[RJL]

Such art, I could make.

The only "art" involved with these guys is the art of selling junk for high profit.

[Mr.Unique]

This sounds like what happened in Carlsbad California in the 90's. Somehow, they paid an artist $350,000 to do a sculture on the Sea Wall. The sculpture ended up being an iron wall that obstructed the view of the ocean. Nobody liked it, but the artist had to agree to have it taken down. After a proper amount of money, she agreed. Some say the payoff was $150,000!

[M-cubed]

several years ago, at our local school, I observed a 4X8 sheet of plywood with 3-4 basketball sized blueberries on it (they appeared to be blueberries if u used your imagination)...upon inquiry of which primary grade class produced the "art"...( I was guessing 4th or 5th grade) I was informed it was made by a local artist and funded under a government "local culture" art grant to the tune of $750...
Ay-uh...We got blueberries the size of basketballs in Down-east Maine...but "local artists" with balls a hell of a lot bigger

[Domicile of Doom]

I wonder if me and maybe a couple of friends could go and tear down the sculpture with torches. If asked what we were doing we could have on official looking city uniforms and some doctored paperwork to look real official like. Maybe a Truck with a little yellow light on top, and some Do Not Cross tape. We could then make a small fortune taking it down to the scrap metal guy.

[Niteranger68]

Gotta have the velvet Elvis baby!

[M-cubed]

as a former pipefitter who has made some scrape "art" ..I can assure u...there is a direct correlation as to # of adult beverages to sale price...

I'm guessing the coon asses lost an additional 50K for the lack of another case of beer!

[gonzo]

They've got this junk all over my old home-town, South Bend, IN. No pics, but the stuff is still junk! ............. FRegards

[Ace's Dad]

Actually, skill at PhotoShop is marketable. Ya' don't need a gummint grant. Ha!

[SuziQ]

There you go!

[Corin Stormhands]

Actually, skill at PhotoShop is marketable.

Sure, if you're actually good at it.

[Uncle Ike]

" Actually, skill at PhotoShop is marketable."

" Sure, if you're actually good at it. "
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Reuters and AP don't seem to require that one be actually *good* at it, as long as the political 'message' is the 'correct' one.....

[mirkwood]

"Ay-uh...We got blueberries the size of basketballs in Down-east Maine...but "local artists" with balls a hell of a lot bigger"

It warmed up real nice in Steuben this afternoon.

[non-anonymous]

I walked by that particular sculpture many hundreds of times over a number of years, and it never struck me as particularly ugly - just pointless. It certainly doesn't compare to the Great Sail, but then again that has a function.

[Cicero]

Yes, actually, I rather like Alexander Calder, who started the whole business, and Ruth Nevelson isn't bad. But they sure made a lot of trouble down the line. There's a lot of ugly imitations. I'd rather see a good classical statue any day of the week.

[M-cubed]

It warmed up real nice in Steuben this afternoon. <<

Did David G. smile?...Didn't last long did it...*W*

[M-cubed]

Oh...almost forgot...Let me know when the smelts are running in W/P...Got some old-timers that are looking forward to a mess...