http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2009/06/10/local_news/doc4a2efe1e19582457070693.txt
http://news.racinepost.com/2009/06/uptown-sculpture-cost-40000-alderman-im.html
$55,000 to put a metal sculpture in Uptown. $40,000 to the "artist" (whose credo is the title of this blog) and $15,000 for the base. The artist does not reside in Racine, but he did "drive around and smoke cigs" with the Beckerphile.
His name is Nic Noblique. Really.
I am laughing and laughing and crying and crying at the same time.
You could not write better material than this.
"Art is whatever you can get away with:" http://www.galveston.com/noblique/.
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Lets call it Becker's Big Red Stain! Way to spend 40k!
I have an idea for some art for Monument Square: a big painting of a hot dog with a red circle and diagonal slash over it.
The question is, orbs... can you get away with it?
It's like Bizarro world. No, we don't have enough money for basic city services, but we have hundreds of thousands of dollars to give to fraudulent day care centers and tens of thousands to squander on "art" that has absolutely nothing to do with Racine.
Pigs, pigs, and more pigs.
Im going to take some scrap metal, run it over with my vehicle a few times, spray paint it, write Party On! n it and offer it to the city for placement by Ivanhoe's. And I'll give them a deal - only 10k!
Hey guys...check out my comment on the Working Class Hero blog. he he he
Oh oh..gotta go..the cops are knocking on my door. For this they respond quickly.
Ha! Tell them it's not a crime if you can get away with it.
OK, where to start? First, we paid how much for a pile of twisted metal garbage left behind by Hurricane Ike? And Hurricane Ike and the wake of trash it left behind are relevant to Racine how exactly? Oh sure this guy had to go thru the trouble of picking up the pieces and parts and stuck them together so...artistically(?).
The JT article said this sculpture is to help revitalize uptown. So the very presence of this magical heap can revitalize neighborhoods? I don't think this guy was just smoking cigs w/ Becker...
I told my kids if you want to make tons of money get into welding.....
If your a shitty industrial welder, you can always sell your mistakes as fine art masterpieces.
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