Travelling Light (AKA a blue circle)

[Bunk]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

This piece specifically is a perfectly unremarkable piece of art in an unremarkable place. But it's far from the worse piece of public art that we own, I personally can't stand the "skywalk" piece above Macleod Trail at the Canyon Meadows station.



It's just an ugly photo that's been stretched/distorted... yet it's part of our public art collection.

However we also have some stuff which I think is great:

Jumping Trout along Glenmore:


Transit Story at the 7th Ave platform:


If we're spending 1% of our infrastructure budget on stuff like this, and one out of 40+ pieces is unremarkable then I think we're doing pretty good. Sure it's easy to nitpick a single piece and say "that's not worth nearly 1/2 million dollars!" but the collection overall seems to be money well spent. I have no problem with my taxes going towards this.

I agree - the majority of stuff that's been commissioned through this program is quite good.

I particularly like how the new art they installed at the gateway stations on 7th Ave look - they really fit in with the aesthetic of the whole transit mall corridor (which has turned out very nicely in my opinion). The space beside the new BVC and City Hall used to be horrific - now it's quite a nice, interesting urban space.

I don't have an actual photo yet, but this is the rendering for it:



This object will also be part of the new Barb Scott Park in Beltline, which has some potential



Also, these two locations are clearly ones where the art can be fully appreciated and has a lot of value.

[rayne008]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

Almost as bad as when Saskatoon decorated Victoria Bridge with lights:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic...28Saskatoon%29

Oh yea, and that bridge is also condemned now and will be torn down.

Great move Atchison!

Reminds me of the freaking clock tower at Shaw Millennium Park. For the life of me I can't understand why they would design a clock tower that a) has such a tiny clock, and b) can't keep the damn thing working. Only once in a while does the actual red led's on the side of the tower work.

And how come they scraped the big green lasers that were in the circular complex in the middle. I've only seen them once, and that was in a drunken stupor in Canada Day about 10 years ago?!

[Cuz]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I'm proud that this city is completely on the bleeding edge of sexual awareness.

First we have a giant dildo plunging into the back side of the downtown core

Then we added a enormous c$$k ring in the North.

I can't wait to see the massive butt plug rising majestically out of the downtown core.

Maybe we can put a massive lubricant bottle in the NE

You sure you don't mean spark plugs?
Potentially,

NSFW!

[ranchlandsselling]

Originally Posted by Dion

Holy crap would I be pissed if I lived in one of those houses.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Bunk

I particularly like how the new art they installed at the gateway stations on 7th Ave look - they really fit in with the aesthetic of the whole transit mall corridor (which has turned out very nicely in my opinion). The space beside the new BVC and City Hall used to be horrific - now it's quite a nice, interesting urban space.

I don't have an actual photo yet, but this is the rendering for it:

I drove past the old Science Centre the other night and noticed how awesome those new light art installations are. Very, very cool.

[Regulator75]

Here's the guys responsible for this design disaster.



http://ingesidee.de/page.php?pgid=132&lang=en

Some of their projects are quite cool, but this one is a dud.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

Holy crap would I be pissed if I lived in one of those houses.

why, because it would impede your view of a road?

[Robbob]

You mean it isn't a stargate prototype? That is disappointing.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling

Holy crap would I be pissed if I lived in one of those houses.

So where do you live?

Well, drive 3 blocks to Oak Street, then turn left. Go 2 blocks and it is on your right. You can't miss it... it's right next to the giant blue monstrousity.

[habernac]

They need a machine to move soap through the top, wait for that north wind to pick up, and you get GIANT bubbles floating toward the downtown core.

[WhiteTiger]

Not really my thing. =/

[calumniate]

Anyone seen the hudsucker proxy? Reminds me of that, only way less useful.



'I designed it myself'.. haha!

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Here's the guys responsible for this design disaster.



http://ingesidee.de/page.php?pgid=132&lang=en

Some of their projects are quite cool, but this one is a dud.

Yet they still laughed all the way to the bank with their $475K or whatever it was that it cost. It must have been like selling the Emperor 'new' clothes.

[KTrain]

80% of the $470K stayed in Calgary because it was fabricated in Calgary by Heavy Industries.

So really, we paid $94000 for the Germans to draw a circle and then asked a Canadian company to make it big.

[calumniate]

Originally Posted by Regulator75

Here's the guys responsible for this design disaster.

http://ingesidee.de/page.php?pgid=132&lang=en

Some of their projects are quite cool, but this one is a dud.

I can't wait for their artsy explanation to be included in the project listing on this one. Can't freaking wait! Something like:

"The circles' escape into freedom interrupts the flow of electricity, and yet - the circle itself appears electrified."

[Muta]

Originally Posted by calumniate

"The circles' escape into freedom interrupts the flow of electricity, and yet - the circle itself appears electrified."

"This aura of new energy came to us in a dream; the circular shape represents the constant euphoric state that develops inside our team when we visit art galleries, wear very tight black clothing and attend other people's galas and consume their liquor."

[Minnie]

It is through an act of focused attention that we transform myriad inputs into a moment of being, a fully realized view of a given point in time. The spare and fluid outlines of the background point to the finite nature of human conscious experience. We are aware of but unable to fully comprehend the entire context of history and experience.

[Regulator75]

They should have equipped some fancy LED's and put this on the ring road.
It is a ring? Is it not?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Minnie

It is through an act of focused attention that we transform myriad inputs into a moment of being, a fully realized view of a given point in time. The spare and fluid outlines of the background point to the finite nature of human conscious experience. We are aware of but unable to fully comprehend the entire context of history and experience.

There I was plowing a low priced German prostitute and the idea just popped into my head.

[First Lady]

Christmas lights! That's what it needs.