Comments on This Is Going Up in the Olympic Sculpture Park

Neat!

Too bad it will have to be moved when the Streetcar Barn goes there.

Those better be stackable during transport. I don't want my tax dollars paying for four flatbeds.

Can you believe that guy standing in the street on the right hand side of this rendering? I know a rendering is fiction but wow. New York City sure is lawless and disorderly -- people seem to jaywalk with abandon. Gosh, that light is red for him. Doesn't he see it??

where are the DO NOT TOUCH!!! signs?

My Two Dads alert! It's not terrible, but Dick Butkis probably thinks its ka-razy.

Oh, I know! I'll make a 20" diameter fiberglass manhole cover and call it art! I'll make a fortune!

So, to clarify:

1. Take an everyday object
2. Make it really, really big
...
4. Art?

yet another coup for the olympic sculpture park. seattle is so world class, it makes my knees fall of.

it looks to be on scale with the typewriter eraser.

I walk by that block on the way to work every day. The building off frame on the right is Lever House, which has a lobby and courtyard that houses some wild art pieces. They just uninstalled the 50 foot statue of a pregnant woman flayed open so you could see the underlying muscle and fetus. That was up for a couple years, I think.

They just cycled a piece out of the lobby that consisted of two sides of beef in a formaldahyde tank with an umbrella and bowler hat (representing a teacher) in front of a "class" of decapitated goats, each in their own glass case of formaldahyde.

It's been replaced by 9 or so rosin nude figures of the artist. He scanned himself and digitally altered the result so that from one angle it appears normal, but from other angles the figure has been compressed or expanded. It's actually really cool, though it kind of hurts your eyes.

wow. more boring art by 60's has-beens. just what we needed.

ewwww.... what an eyesore.. that's art?

Question to the peanut gallery: let's say a "world famous" sculpture park decides to install a piece of art that would effectively block pedestrian access on certain pathways to said park for special events. Is it ironic that the piece in question is a set of giant traffic cones? Is SAM once again f'ing with those that run special events by installing giant traffic cones in the way of event attendees? Inquiring minds...

fun!

@1 I read that the streetcar barn and the waterfront streetcar itself have been kiboshed. The upcoming work on the viaduct will block the streetcar rails.

#13 - I would answer that question by stating "the only thing that blocks my access to public parks IS special events."

There will be giant drunk guys to wear them on their heads, right? And yell at hot chicks through them, like megaphones, right?
F'ing sweet! Then throw them on top of bus stops.

hmm, it seems like they won't really work well in the context of a park...