Slog: News & Arts

RSS icon Comments on The Next Big Thing

1

Those shuttlecocks leave a funny taste in my mouth. I used to suck on them when I was a kid, and just the sight of one--even a digital pic of a giant one elicits that rubbery/plasticy/chemical taste in my mouth. Thanks.

Posted by Catman | June 19, 2008 2:32 PM
2

Yeah, what is with all the oversized crap passing as art. No original ideas? Next up: really small versions of things.

Posted by him | June 19, 2008 2:36 PM
3

That's the Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City MO, just down the street from where I live. I pass it every day on my way to work, and it makes me grin every time. Cheesy maybe, but sweet and harmless.

Posted by kanns | June 19, 2008 2:46 PM
4

A giant lawn dart is what belongs in a lawn. A giant lawn dart with a pointy tip that can poke a persons eye out.

Posted by kraskland | June 19, 2008 2:51 PM
5

#2, I saw something on the teevee about a guy that makes painted sculptures out of grains of sand. He works with a microscrope and paints strokes or forms the grain "between breaths". One day he was working on a piece that was a few months in the making, looked up from the microscope for just a second, and when he looked back down it was gone. He said he thinks he inhaled it.

Posted by w7ngman | June 19, 2008 2:56 PM
6

@2 -- Ask and ye shall receive! Voila, my good man -- the toast of London: http://www.willard-wigan.com/

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | June 19, 2008 2:58 PM
7

Yeah, that guy.

Posted by w7ngman | June 19, 2008 3:06 PM
8

Damn, when I was nine years-old, this short of stuff would have been DA BOMB when me and all the kids in the neighborhood played "Land Of The Giants".

Posted by COMTE | June 19, 2008 3:24 PM
9

christopher "OMG anderson cooper 360 is the best TV show EVAR" frizzelle is criticizing someone else's blog post?

Posted by brett | June 19, 2008 3:44 PM
10

Words cannot express my disappointment that Jubilation's link @6 was not a link to the giant Jart as I had hoped.

Posted by Fnarf | June 19, 2008 3:46 PM
11

Check out the work of Robert Theirren--more regular stuff big--in images they look ok but to experience them is pretty incredible...

Posted by MadDog | June 19, 2008 8:26 PM
12

I agree that there’s nothing to think about them but, Wow, those things are gigantic. So boring, and yet it cost some rich folks a lot of money to get them here. meh.

Posted by Jamey | June 20, 2008 12:02 AM
13

At least they aren't exposed penises.

Posted by six shooter | June 20, 2008 9:46 AM

Comments Closed

Comments are closed on this post.