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Bend Over Atlanta
Nealz Nuze ^ | 3/22/2007 | Neal Boortz

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at boortz.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: art; atlanta; nealznuze; publicart
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To: Dan Evans
Not that San Francisco doesn't have it's share of questionable entries. ;)


21 posted on 03/22/2007 11:52:16 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
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?

22 posted on 03/22/2007 11:53:09 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do I really need to include the sarcasm tag?)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

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* :)


23 posted on 03/22/2007 12:00:23 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Dan Evans

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.


24 posted on 03/22/2007 12:10:11 PM PDT by JeeperFreeper
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To: 50sDad
Such art, I could make.

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

25 posted on 03/22/2007 12:15:36 PM PDT by RJL
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To: Cicero

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!


26 posted on 03/22/2007 12:22:12 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (Global Emergency!)
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To: Dan Evans
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
27 posted on 03/22/2007 12:26:31 PM PDT by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: VeritatisSplendor

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.


28 posted on 03/22/2007 12:31:32 PM PDT by Domicile of Doom (Hey boy why is there dirt in my hole? I dunno Boss.)
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To: Dan Evans
Gotta have the velvet Elvis baby!


29 posted on 03/22/2007 12:37:28 PM PDT by Niteranger68 (Osama's mama wears combat sandals.)
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To: JeeperFreeper
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!
30 posted on 03/22/2007 12:43:48 PM PDT by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: Dan Evans; Cicero

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


31 posted on 03/22/2007 12:53:26 PM PDT by gonzo (I'm not confused anymore. Now I'm sure we have to completely destroy Islam, and FAST!!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Actually, skill at PhotoShop is marketable. Ya' don't need a gummint grant. Ha!
32 posted on 03/22/2007 12:59:49 PM PDT by Ace's Dad ("There are more important things: Friendship, Bravery...")
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To: Corin Stormhands

There you go!


33 posted on 03/22/2007 1:00:55 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Ace's Dad
Actually, skill at PhotoShop is marketable.

Sure, if you're actually good at it.

34 posted on 03/22/2007 1:00:58 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://www.virginiaisforrudy.com * http://wardsmythe.com * http://www.rudyblogs.com)
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To: Corin Stormhands

" 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.....


35 posted on 03/22/2007 1:12:32 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Aspiring Guru Seeks Disciples and Admiring Followers -- apply within)
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To: M-cubed

"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.


36 posted on 03/22/2007 1:18:04 PM PDT by mirkwood (good gun control is a sharp eye and a steady hand)
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To: Cicero

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.


37 posted on 03/22/2007 1:57:00 PM PDT by non-anonymous
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To: non-anonymous
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.


38 posted on 03/22/2007 2:13:01 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: mirkwood
It warmed up real nice in Steuben this afternoon. <<

Did David G. smile?...Didn't last long did it...*W*
39 posted on 03/22/2007 5:39:53 PM PDT by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: mirkwood
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...
40 posted on 03/22/2007 5:59:44 PM PDT by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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