10-30-2018, 10:49 AM
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#461
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Looks like Lanny MacDonald's moustache.
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10-30-2018, 10:52 AM
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#462
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Norm!
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I'm going to do a perspective photo of it so it looks like I have wings.
Made of evil birds.
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10-30-2018, 11:30 AM
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#463
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evil of fart
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
I love the public art program. I also like all the murals that have gone up around downtown recently. If anything, this city could use more art all over the place. It helps the define the urban fabric in which we live, and make otherwise bland areas come to life.
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Yes, everyone agrees with that. It's the objectively awful art we're sick of paying for and looking at.
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10-30-2018, 11:37 AM
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#464
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Maybe somebody could photoshop Beezlebot's head in there.
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10-30-2018, 11:39 AM
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#465
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Looks like 2 d!ckbutt's.
Seriously a cool mill for these things? That's bananas.
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10-30-2018, 11:41 AM
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#466
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Yeah, I can see the bananas too.
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10-30-2018, 11:52 AM
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#467
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evil of fart
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Misterpants
Looks like 2 d!ckbutt's.
Seriously a cool mill for these things? That's bananas.
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Hahaha, now I love it. You have to post that d!ckbutt thing on Reddit and reap the karma.
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10-30-2018, 11:58 AM
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#468
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
I love the public art program. I also like all the murals that have gone up around downtown recently. If anything, this city could use more art all over the place. It helps the define the urban fabric in which we live, and make otherwise bland areas come to life.
Both pieces at Rocky Ridge are really good, IMO.
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I like the Salmon mural on the Glenmore Trail underpass near Chinook. I am also a big fan of the Peace Bridge which has turned iconic. Those are the art projects I can get behind on.
The blue ring and the rocks on top of sticks? They are fricking eye sores.  . Could you image instead of the sticks, that the underpass was decorated with images of Calgary from 1900. That would be symbolic and beautiful as the gateway to Calgary, instead of stupid sticks by a NYC caucasian artist claiming it to be native art when we have a native reserve just a few km away that could have been consulted instead.
Last edited by Firebot; 10-30-2018 at 12:06 PM.
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10-30-2018, 12:08 PM
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#469
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sliver
Hahaha, now I love it. You have to post that d!ckbutt thing on Reddit and reap the karma.
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Lol, do it! Prehistoric DB's.
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10-30-2018, 12:24 PM
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#470
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sliver
Yes, everyone agrees with that. It's the objectively awful art we're sick of paying for and looking at.
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I'm not saying I like some of the art in the city that has been on the wrong end of public furor, but which art pieces are 'objectively' bad to you, and why? Is it because you don't like they way they look? Or what they cost, based on what your eyes see?
For a city of 1.3 million people, these art pieces don't really cost much in the big scheme of things. Interchanges cost way more and cost taxpayers all the same. Art pieces, and their cost, are easy targets for people to attack when they don't like the art itself. If they like the art, the cost is usually not discussed. Don't forget that many of these art pieces employ local workers to fabricate and install, not including the artists who also may be local as well.
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10-30-2018, 12:42 PM
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#471
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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All art in this city, and others, have been the target of public furor. If decisions were made based on the public's initial reaction, then nothing would ever be built.
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10-30-2018, 12:46 PM
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#472
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
I'm not saying I like some of the art in the city that has been on the wrong end of public furor, but which art pieces are 'objectively' bad to you, and why? Is it because you don't like they way they look? Or what they cost, based on what your eyes see?
For a city of 1.3 million people, these art pieces don't really cost much in the big scheme of things. Interchanges cost way more and cost taxpayers all the same. Art pieces, and their cost, are easy targets for people to attack when they don't like the art itself. If they like the art, the cost is usually not discussed. Don't forget that many of these art pieces employ local workers to fabricate and install, not including the artists who also may be local as well.
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If you think this
is as cool as this
then I simply can't help you.
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10-30-2018, 12:48 PM
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#473
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
All art in this city, and others, have been the target of public furor. If decisions were made based on the public's initial reaction, then nothing would ever be built.
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Remember the public backlash on the Peace Bridge and how it was the worst thing in the world, ever? Now people take pictures in front of it or get married on it.
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10-30-2018, 12:49 PM
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#474
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CroFlames
If you think this
is as cool as this
then I simply can't help you. |
I don't at all. Do you know how much those pieces cost, by the way?
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10-30-2018, 12:50 PM
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#475
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
Remember the public backlash on the Peace Bridge and how it was the worst thing in the world, ever? Now people take pictures in front of it or get married on it.
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I like the Peace Bridge, I think its pretty cool looking.
I'm not a fan of the Bowfort Towers because it looks like Garbage on the side of the Highway and I still dont like the Blue Ring because it just looks stupid.
"How much can we get for minimum effort?"
The only 'Art' involved in those is the 'Art of the Grift.'
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10-30-2018, 12:55 PM
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#476
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Muta
I don't at all. Do you know how much those pieces cost, by the way?
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I don't know how much they cost.
So these days this is how city planners operate: "Gee, I know these things are ugly AF, but it's all we can afford so let's proceed"
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10-30-2018, 12:55 PM
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#477
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CroFlames
If you think this
is as cool as this
then I simply can't help you. |
Good idea to bring up David Cerny. I didn't go to Prague to see his pieces particularly, but when I was there I did make sure to hit as many as I could reasonably see. Some I loved and thought were great and some were terrible IMO. That's the glory of public art though.
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10-30-2018, 12:56 PM
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#478
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CroFlames
If you think this
is as cool as this
then I simply can't help you. |
If you think that's the point he's making, then he likely can't help you.
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10-30-2018, 01:08 PM
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#479
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CroFlames
If you think this
is as cool as this
then I simply can't help you. |
The one on the left doesn't exist in reality: https://www.instagram.com/p/BT3GAmblgKn/
I can't find anything online about the cost of the other one.
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10-30-2018, 01:27 PM
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#480
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
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It's called "Metalmorphosis" by David Cerny. According to this site it cost about 30 million Czech crowns, which is about 1.75 million CAD.
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