Posted on 03/22/2007 11:08:43 AM PDT by Dan Evans
BEND OVER ATLANTA
OK .. here's the way it works:
Steve learns to weld.
Steve would rather be an artist than working in a machine shop
Steve obtains some scrap metal and starts welding it together in odd shapes which he declares to be art.
Steve can't find anyone who will voluntarily pay for the piles of scrap metal he has welded together.
Steve changes his name to Stephano and drops his last name.
Still nobody will buy Stephano's art, though there is one Buckhead matron who has taken a rather prurient interest in some of Stephan's other talents.
The Buckhead matron allows Stephano to place a pile of scrap metal in her garden and begins to refer to it as a sculpture.
Buckhead socialites, after encountering Stephano's "sculpture", and desiring to pander to the matron's artistic tastes, decide that Stephan is being greatly wronged because nobody will pay him for his artistic efforts.
The buzz among the Buckhead social set is heard in the halls of the Atlanta City Council and the arts community.
A sense of anger builds that we have yet another artist in our midst who simply cannot manage to find a willing buyer in a free market environment.
The arts community -- which, by the way, won't buy any of Stephano's art either -- tells Atlanta's political leaders that Atlanta simply cannot survive or be considered a world class international city unless Stephano's "art" is displayed citywide.
A plan is hatched to use the police power of the Atlanta city government to fund the purchase of Stephano's piles of junk.
The city seizes money from residents and writes some fat checks to Stephano for more artwork.
Stephano, no longer needing to service the needs of the Buckhead matron, tells her to find another cabana boy.
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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?
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* :)
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.
The only "art" involved with these guys is the art of selling junk for high profit.
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!
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.
They've got this junk all over my old home-town, South Bend, IN. No pics, but the stuff is still junk! ............. FRegards
There you go!
Sure, if you're actually good at it.
" 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.....
"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.
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.
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