destroy the ugly animal statues!

[yoshomon]

Apparently Cincinnati and Lexington are not alone in having hideously painted statues of animals placed around the city. Props to the kids in Washington who did their civic duty by vandalizing these ugly buck statue things... this local news footage is priceless!

http://www.nwcn.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=93917&catId=89

[REMgirl]

Beavercreek had the same problem when several of their polyresin painted beaver statues defaced. I think theirs were stolen by some local teens. One or more of the kids was arrested and had to spend some outrageous amount of community service hours sitting and "guarding" the statue he had taken when it was replaced. :p


I'm not a fan of vandalism, though.

[classicgrrl]

yosh I can see your point but i can also see hers.

a writer once said and i wish I could remember his name "the same amount of time goes into writing a shitty book as goes into writing a good one."

in her cute small suburban way she did put quite a bit of time and effort into that and the proceeds from the sales are going to fund a new art center.

More preferable, the teens should have broken into a lodge stolen deer heads off of the walls and defaced those (perhaps by placing them on decaying bodies of deer) and placed THAT around the city. would have gotten their point across more clearly perhaps...

[Duemellon]

I dont see why the act should be praised. Could you (or someone) explain why?

[Shlep]

It's precisely this sort of crap that makes me hate anarchists. I think I'll go make some pipe bombs and stove-top napalm, find out where the nearest anarchist hangout is, and level the fucker since it is our civic duty to trash, destroy, and burn down things we don't like.

I think I might be able to dredge up an unexpurgated copy of The Anarchists' Cookbook to get the instructions for making the flammable and explosive stuff...oh, the irony of that would be positively piquant!

[classicgrrl]

I dont see why the act should be praised. Could you (or someone) explain why?

I think it has something to do with what the statues represent. bucks are wild animals but here they are captive and dressed to fit into suburban sensiblities. we've taken their habitat away and now made statues out of what used to the real thing walking around and taken their wild beauty and strength and turned into a cartoonish representation.

and they look ridiculous.

at least cincy piggies are a domesticated animal. :rolleyes:

I have a feeling the teens however were just messing up a stupid painted deer in their minds...and they were probably bored...

[Shlep]

I dont see why the act should be praised. Could you (or someone) explain why?

Apparently, violent and/or destructive intolerance takes on an air of high-minded activism when it's carried out by extremely hip people.

[classicgrrl]

Apparently, violent and/or destructive intolerance takes on an air of high-minded activism when it's carried out by extremely hip people.

since do bored teens have anything to do with hip people?

but then, i know next to nothing about hipness. :p

[Duemellon]

I think it has something to do with what the statues represent. bucks are wild animals but here they are captive and dressed to fit into suburban sensiblities. we've taken their habitat away and now made statues out of what used to the real thing walking around and taken their wild beauty and strength and turned into a cartoonish representation.

and they look ridiculous.But we make idols of many things,... past heroes, past villans, food, clothes, imaginary people, ...

We paint them in ridiculous things, put them in preposturous situations, & even name streets after things, people, animals, & trees. I don't see how this is a blight beyond a fun art concept done ugly. I don't see the connection between animal liberation, anarchy, or even something to hate so much as to have it destroyed.

I'd like to know why still. So i'm still asking, b/c asthetics isn't reason enough for destruction, IMO (unless u bought/made it)

[classicgrrl]

But we make idols of many things,... past heroes, past villans, food, clothes, imaginary people, ...

We paint them in ridiculous things, put them in preposturous situations, & even name streets after things, people, animals, & trees. I don't see how this is a blight beyond a fun art concept done ugly. I don't see the connection between animal liberation, anarchy, or even something to hate so much as to have it destroyed.

I'd like to know why still. So i'm still asking, b/c asthetics isn't reason enough for destruction, IMO (unless u bought/made it)

can't you ever for once see the big picture? sometimes I think you look at people and all you see is a grouping of cells...(might make for a good painting!). :p

guess what? I'M ON VACATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wanna meet Phreon and I at the Hoff tonight and eat beer cheese and pretzels and then run over to barnes and noble to make fun of the new age section?

[monkey neck]

Beavercreek had the same problem when several of their polyresin painted beaver statues defaced. I think theirs were stolen by some local teens. One or more of the kids was arrested and had to spend some outrageous amount of community service hours sitting and "guarding" the statue he had taken when it was replaced. :p


I always wanted to take a picture of the sign with them that said "Please Do Not Climb On Beaver".

[Marlowe]

as i usually do, i agree 100% with due on this one.

destroying art ain't cool, even if it's aesthetically displeasing, banal, trite, hackneyed or offensive. and, the funds from the auction were going toward creating a performing arts centre, so whatever we may think of having stupid painted animals in various parts of the city, it's at least going toward a good purpose.

the ultimate purpose behind this act is to give these chucklehead anarchists the same sense of satisfaction a 2 year old gets from knocking over his lego tower. pretty pointless and infantile.

[REMgirl]

Or, "Don't be too hard on the Beaver". heh.

[juggles]

I guess I'm so profoundly unhip as to kind of like some of the horses around Lexington. I probably wouldn't call any of them great art, some of them are downright cheesy, but so what?

[rcc94]

Add me to the group that actually likes the animals, etc. The catfish around Nashville were quite fun, as are the guitars. We had wolves here in Raleigh. Public art is good, even if not challenging.

[Sushi]

While the local news anchors are delightfully inept, vandalizing public art isn't the act of an anarchist--it's the act or an immature child who misunderstands anarachy as an excuse for doing whatever he or she desires. A true anarchist wouldn't destroy someone's labor (certainly not if that labor was geared toward the common good).

[patio]

Yea they got those things in some cities in europe too. I think i've seen some here in DC as well.

[Buzzstein]

They have cow sculptures here in Kansas City. I like them.

[classicgrrl]

They have cow sculptures here in Kansas City. I like them.

I liked some of our piggies actually.

there is something quite humorous about decorated pigs with wings on their backs.

http://www.artworkscincinnati.org/img/public_art/swine_lake.gif

[Phreon]

Apparently Cincinnati and Lexington are not alone in having hideously painted statues of animals placed around the city. Props to the kids in Washington who did their civic duty by vandalizing these ugly buck statue things... this local news footage is priceless!

http://www.nwcn.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=93917&catId=89

You're a good guy, but I'm convinced you have absolutely no clue what "civic duty" is. Someone's freedom of expression (speech) was trampled an you advocated it. Way to go.

I think anarchists are ugly. Explain why I shouldn't destroy them?


Phreon

[markalot]

There's a facist in every crowd.

Seriously, that's exactly what these so called anarchists are. They want to impose their beliefs on the rest of us. They claim the life would be better under their system, but their system is nothing more than a new state that would totally control your life based on their ideals.

[mizary]

I kinda liked the pigs.

The flower pots too.

The only "public art" I ever considered defacing was when iWireless (I thikn that was the name) first started up, I lived in clifton and they PAINTED an ad right on the sidewalk right in front of my apartment. Luckily my neighbor was more of an anarchist than me and he defaced it... not very well... but I appreciated the gesture. I wonder what ever happened to that dude... he went on a trip to eurpoe met some girl and never came back. (at least that I knew of) I believe his name was Rob.

--mizary

[Duemellon]

whoa there...
Don't start assuming I "like" them. I just don't understand the outrage or sociopolitical statement done.

What is it? Maybe I could get behind it, but it's lost on me. What I see is some lame-ass civic-initiated fadsy project meant to benefit a performing arts center at the expense of people who have bad taste in art or enjoy the kitche. I see nothing in this about promoting hunting, using real animal parts for the statues, or how it's drawing resources away from the poor in some new & dramatic fashion.

I just want to know b/c I don't see it & I am confused as to why they would do this.

[back2vinyl]

Generally, the level of force used should only rise to the level of the threat. So, in this case, one is only justified in putting up alternative statues to offset the ugliness or maybe erecting visual barriers around the statue.