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| 2004-03-26 | ||
| Edited for Humor - hopefully A controversial Danish artist has sprayed an iceberg off the coast of western Greenland in blood red. "We all have a need to decorate Mother Nature because it belongs to us," Chilean-born Marco Evaristti told the Associated Press news agency. "This is my "The Hose" would have recommended a 2 1/2 inch cotton jacked marine firehose with a brass all-purpose nozzle for this application (had I been consulted.) The crew was working on Wednesday in temperatures as cold as -23C, to spray the tip of the iceberg, which was about 900 square metres in size. Hosing an iceberg red in -23C weather, a new cliche on the way every day. The sea water was coloured with the same dye used to highlight meat, the artist said. I thought that was juice. Here I’ve been sniffing my high lighter all night trying to get a buzz and I could have just gone down the fridge and found a T-bone. Mr Evaristti said he and his crew sailed from the small town of Illullissat and only managed to find the perfect iceberg after zigzagging among slow-moving ice floes for about 30 minutes. There was no immediate reaction from the local Greenland authorities.
Must have been a middle-schooler from the US. He would have had to bring a school of six-hundred fish to show that particular work for two hours at my son’s Junior High. The janitor would have been mad if he backed up one of the commodes with all the tiny fish skeletons, fins and scales. The gallery director was fined was fined for cruelty to animals after complaints from campaign group Friends of Animals. But a Danish court ruled that the fish had not been treated cruelly, as they died instantly.
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| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #12 he won't fit, only his willy ;P |
| Posted by: sakattack 2004-03-27 2:21:21 AM |
| #11 He should've just pissed on it and stuck a crucifix in it. Saves time, money, and the art lovers would still swoon over him. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-03-26 3:25:25 PM |
| #10 Muck I'm beginning to like you. You have the same respect for animal rights that I do. Agreed, put him in a blender! |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-03-26 12:20:51 PM |
| #9 But what about the environment? The ecology? Just think of all those poor organisms on the berg covered in paint. Then again one must ask if it was lead based paints? All that paint being dispersed into, and polluting, the sea when the ice melts. Will it get into the fish? I suppose if Zeuros do it, it must be OK. Ho hum! |
| Posted by: Barry 2004-03-26 10:57:54 AM |
| #8 someone shuld put that jackass in blender! |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-03-26 10:51:34 AM |
| #7 Don't be dissing paint by number, the canvas can be used as a one time pad. I shouldn't say that but I did. You didn't see me. Major Steveson (not Flagg, there is no Flagg) |
| Posted by: Col Flagg 2004-03-26 10:12:20 AM |
| #6 This is the same sort of silliness that fella Christof used to pawn off as art- he was the one who covered the Reichstag with a very large sheet about 20 years ago. He also put large pink "skirts" around a couple of smaller islands somewhere a while back. I'd love to know where guys like this get thier money. I'll have an anuerism if anyone says they are Gov. grants. Paint by numbers is better art than that sort of nonsense. |
| Posted by: JerseyMike 2004-03-26 9:51:58 AM |
| #5 the stock justification for crap like this is "It's supposed to make you think". It makes me think this fool needs to find a real job: "you want fries with that?". As Ship sez - where do they get the money for this kind of production? If it's from the U.S. there oughtta be heads rolling. Can you imagine if Bush (and the EVIL Ashcroft!) decided to paint an iceberg red? The horrors, howls of protests (and giant puppets!), would be amazing - on a par with clubbing baby seals in ANWAR for the oooiiiilll! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-03-26 9:51:23 AM |
| #4 he told me it is their way of asking "what is art?" (surprisly hard to define) Why is it that works that supposedly ask that question invariably provoke the answer "not this"? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-03-26 9:14:58 AM |
| #3 Where does his dough come from? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-03-26 9:13:59 AM |
| #2 a friend of mine is an artist, I asked him about this stuff, he told me it is their way of asking "what is art?" (surprisly hard to define) |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-03-26 6:41:10 AM |
| #1 I wonder if he was exported or deported from Chile. What a nutter. |
| Posted by: odin 2004-03-26 3:58:33 AM |