Favourite Item of Public Art
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Roofless Toothless said:
Feel free to pass me a parrot, but that's not art, that is a train crash. The whale tails are art but the train is not there intentionally. I suspect if you were the train driver it would be your favourite piece of art having saved your life.Whale Sculpture Stops Train From Plunge in the Netherlands
Edited by h0b0 on Wednesday 28th July 18:52
h0b0 said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Feel free to pass me a parrot, but that's not art, that is a train crash. The whale tails are art but the train is not there intentionally. I suspect if you were the train driver it would be your favourite piece of art having saved your life.Whale Sculpture Stops Train From Plunge in the Netherlands
Edited by h0b0 on Wednesday 28th July 18:52
I like it because it proved to be useful, something not all pieces of public art are.
I was 16 when I was helping to laminate some fiberglass to a simple wire/steel stucture,
which was part of a life-size paper ship that was paddled and towed 400mls to the largest art exhibition,
Documenta 6 in Kassel. Laminating those panels in an old ballroom was fun, partly because of the hardener fumes.
https://the-passenger.de/2020/04/24/traumschiff-ta...
When the ship arrived, I rode my St50 Dax from Frankfurt to Kassel and helped towing this from river Werra,
across a busy two-lane road, right into the middle of the exhibition park.
Then I was given 200 Deutsche Mark by the artist to "get some beer" and off I went with 20 volunteers.
RIP Anatol, a Beuys scholar who really understood that "everybody is an artist".....if you give them a chance.
which was part of a life-size paper ship that was paddled and towed 400mls to the largest art exhibition,
Documenta 6 in Kassel. Laminating those panels in an old ballroom was fun, partly because of the hardener fumes.
https://the-passenger.de/2020/04/24/traumschiff-ta...
When the ship arrived, I rode my St50 Dax from Frankfurt to Kassel and helped towing this from river Werra,
across a busy two-lane road, right into the middle of the exhibition park.
Then I was given 200 Deutsche Mark by the artist to "get some beer" and off I went with 20 volunteers.
RIP Anatol, a Beuys scholar who really understood that "everybody is an artist".....if you give them a chance.
Roofless Toothless said:
h0b0 said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Feel free to pass me a parrot, but that's not art, that is a train crash. The whale tails are art but the train is not there intentionally. I suspect if you were the train driver it would be your favourite piece of art having saved your life.Whale Sculpture Stops Train From Plunge in the Netherlands
Edited by h0b0 on Wednesday 28th July 18:52
I like it because it proved to be useful, something not all pieces of public art are.
Actually had me stumped when I saw it.
Benni said:
I was 16 when I was helping to laminate some fiberglass to a simple wire/steel stucture,
which was part of a life-size paper ship that was paddled and towed 400mls to the largest art exhibition,
Documenta 6 in Kassel. Laminating those panels in an old ballroom was fun, partly because of the hardener fumes.
https://the-passenger.de/2020/04/24/traumschiff-ta...
When the ship arrived, I rode my St50 Dax from Frankfurt to Kassel and helped towing this from river Werra,
across a busy two-lane road, right into the middle of the exhibition park.
Then I was given 200 Deutsche Mark by the artist to "get some beer" and off I went with 20 volunteers.
RIP Anatol, a Beuys scholar who really understood that "everybody is an artist".....if you give them a chance.
Ich mag eswhich was part of a life-size paper ship that was paddled and towed 400mls to the largest art exhibition,
Documenta 6 in Kassel. Laminating those panels in an old ballroom was fun, partly because of the hardener fumes.
https://the-passenger.de/2020/04/24/traumschiff-ta...
When the ship arrived, I rode my St50 Dax from Frankfurt to Kassel and helped towing this from river Werra,
across a busy two-lane road, right into the middle of the exhibition park.
Then I was given 200 Deutsche Mark by the artist to "get some beer" and off I went with 20 volunteers.
RIP Anatol, a Beuys scholar who really understood that "everybody is an artist".....if you give them a chance.
craigjm said:
When they were first installed people rang the emergency services at high tide thinking people were drowning and then people started dressing them 
This is 2 mins walking distance from me and when first installed I was slightly apathetic about them until one morning I went for a bike ride, just as daylight was kicking in and a sea mist rolled off and over the sand and I was completely mesmerised by it. Loved them ever since. Completely open to interpretation but I find them quite poignant when I'm just sitting, having a bit of quiet time, whilst looking out over the sea. 
Notshortnottall said:
This is 2 mins walking distance from me and when first installed I was slightly apathetic about them until one morning I went for a bike ride, just as daylight was kicking in and a sea mist rolled off and over the sand and I was completely mesmerised by it. Loved them ever since. Completely open to interpretation but I find them quite poignant when I'm just sitting, having a bit of quiet time, whilst looking out over the sea.
Try pissed up on a foggy night! I had flashbacks to Carpenter's The Fog
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