Slog - Comments on Inspired by Inspiration http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up The best thing about these new sculptures standing next to the east wall of the Paramount Theater is... ...they are fenced in. When the chain-link fence is removed, and there's nothing between us and them, everything that makes them bad (bad idea, bad imagination, bad motives) will oppress us like the heated talk of a man, a poet, who is excited by the sun of his own inspiration.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:25:43 -0800 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:53:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by wsp Those things are god awful, aren't they?

]]> wsp http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790310 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790310 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:27:58 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I give them four months before skateboarders pull them down.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790315 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790315 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:28:38 -0800 Comment by Katelyn I have to pass these things every day on my way to work and frankly I'm enjoying them. It's a little bit of art amidst the soulless concrete, you know? And at least my eyes get a break before the TRULY annoying Paramount banners for Frankenstein.

"will oppresses" and "the sun of his own inspiration"

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790316 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790316 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:31:18 -0800 Comment by Katelyn "will oppress" sorry

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790318 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790318 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:31:48 -0800 Comment by Dylan To quote a friend of mine, the grammar of this post makes my eyes want to commit suicide.

]]> Dylan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790327 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790327 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:39:57 -0800 Comment by inferquent i think they are great! they remind me of supermall art!

]]> inferquent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790328 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790328 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:43:13 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave I hate how everything chaz ever says is leading. It "WILL OPPRESS US".

If you're so weak willed to have bad art oppress you, then I feel bad for you.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790331 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:47:57 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley A bunch of vines would spruce them up a bit, and maybe make them look kind of interesting...

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790332 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790332 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:48:05 -0800 Comment by davej Let's revolt by putting laundry detergent on them! Then we can go Local Bar and decry New Development! Then we can overturn all Flexcars! Then we can finally save NPR and PBS for other white children!

]]> davej http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790334 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790334 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:49:27 -0800 Comment by Dylan! Look at that! He got an editor!

]]> Dylan! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790339 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790339 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:50:46 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Horn Hi Dylan! I'm his editor.

]]> Amy Kate Horn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790341 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790341 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:51:34 -0800 Comment by Dylan! You are the hottest editor in Seattle! ;)

]]> Dylan! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790344 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790344 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:53:31 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon why are they fenced?

i'd check it out but i don't care that much. public art in seattle is always about salmon.

]]> maxsolomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790348 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790348 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:57:46 -0800 Comment by dks WHAT is so annoying about the Young Frankenstein banner as compared to these pieces of CRAP?

]]> dks http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790357 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790357 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:03:58 -0800 Comment by dks They look like oversized kitchen utensils

]]> dks http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790360 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:05:15 -0800 Comment by grateful Thank you for hating these. I passed them on foot the other day for the dozenth time and really got a good look at them. Horrible. And the 1973 building they just built behind them? Horribler. How can some city projects be so good (city hall, librarie galore) and others be so detestable?

]]> grateful http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790370 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790370 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:17:51 -0800 Comment by Youth Pastor Watch Next you're going to tell us that the Watts Towers are ugly and that crazy old italian men have no business building junk monuments you racist!

I can't wait to get to those sculptures you posted and cover them in papaer mache!

]]> Youth Pastor Watch http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790395 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790395 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:45:36 -0800 Comment by Jon You fucking whiners need to get over yourselves. Seattle has a shocking lack of public art as it is (stupid-ass pigs not included), and anything built on that piece of former trashed-out wasteland is better than what came before.

]]> Jon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790415 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790415 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:14:06 -0800 Comment by Justin I fucking HATE those sculptures. The only good thing about them is that they take up space where the city would otherwise put up more pigs. A parking lot would be a better use of this space.

]]> Justin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790432 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790432 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:34:28 -0800 Comment by Katelyn The YF banners are glaring and ugly and ever since they came up, I've had to avert my eyes. They seriously give me a headache. (/whine)

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790449 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790449 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:55:56 -0800 Comment by cook Those things remind me of kitchen utensils, like a spatula and an egg whip. Yikes what a bad idea.

]]> cook http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790462 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790462 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:06:20 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I agree with @21. That was my first reaction.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790550 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790550 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:29:12 -0800 Comment by K X One

They're not scupltures, it is a small frisbee-golf park.

]]> K X One http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790598 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790598 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:21:36 -0800 Comment by Kiru Banzai Are they supposed to be wire mothers?

]]> Kiru Banzai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790674 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790674 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:10:45 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I prefer the Terry-cloth Mommy.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790700 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:45:36 -0800 Comment by frequency ass bandit i liked the idea of letting vines grow over them. now THAT would be some bad-ass sculpting.

as they are now, they definitely look akin to a frisbee golf course.

]]> frequency ass bandit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790711 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790711 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:30:35 -0800 Comment by Donovan I think these sculptures are excellent and beautiful, and I think Mr Mudede is genuinely insane. Perhaps driven that way by the sun of his own pretentiousness. He has a lovely way with words, which is useful for a writer, but clearly his brain is upside down.

]]> Donovan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790758 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790758 Arts Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:00:23 -0800 Comment by Donovan I'm sorry. That was trollish. Mudede /is/ veering towards the ridiculous in this blurb, however.

]]> Donovan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790759 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790759 Arts Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:05:56 -0800 Comment by Matthew Stadler This subject interested me enough to read the comments, looking for some information about the sculptures, the artist, the point, etc.

Does anyone know anything, I mean factual background-wise, about these things? I'm interested!

]]> Matthew Stadler http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790809 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790809 Arts Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:40:50 -0800 Comment by Marlow They are made by well-known artist Reis Neimi, a Lakeside grad and son of King County Superior Court Judge Janice Neimi (retired). Mr. Neimi is an acomplished artist with public art commissions located across the U.S.. He is a Seattle native, currently residing in Skagit County.



Dilettantes.

]]> Marlow http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790891 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/lock_then_up#c790891 Arts Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:53:36 -0800