Slog - Comments on Formerly Hanging http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging A production still from Kathy Slade's 16mm color film Tugboat (2007) (Formerly at Or Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. Artist web site here.) I saw this looped projection a few months ago in a show called Hold On. In the silent film, a tugboat slowly chugs into view (the film was shot in Burrard Inlet in Vancouver) and begins to turn. Before long you realize: It's doing donuts. This burly, practical thing has sort of, somehow, lost its shit. The boat continues spinning, sending water radiating out from it in concentric circles. The mind is swallowed into turning along with... Copyright 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:00:00 -0800 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:10:37 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by All summer! A very similar twisting display happens several times a week at the Seattle pier where the Norwegian cruise ship is docked. When they remove the long floaty barrier surrounding the cruise ship, this is how they curl it up, by spinning around until the whole thing is collected.

]]> All summer! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109121 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109121 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:20:46 -0800 Comment by shitty art ftl you seriously think this was commissioned?! do a search for tugboat donuts on youtube.

this is garbage.

]]> shitty art ftl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109131 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109131 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:32:57 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I've known a few tugboat captains, and most of them would do a few donuts for a beer, or most likely just the suggestion.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109144 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109144 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:45:26 -0800 Comment by Sue Talksaboutart wow, this is staggeringly boring. I don't know if I am in admiring awe or disgusted dismay that you can pull such elegant prose out of NOTHING.

]]> Sue Talksaboutart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109221 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109221 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:42:22 -0800 Comment by Hen To me, this is a reminder of how simple and easy being an art critic can be.

And if the critic were to leave, I would not miss it. Nor would I want it to come back.

]]> Hen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109337 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109337 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:57:48 -0800 Comment by y'all be dumbasses, assclowns Hilarious how a bunch of jackasses who haven't actually seen the piece (correct me if I'm wrong) think they're in a position to judge whether it's boring or not.

You know, I haven't seen "Apocalypse Now," but I heard it's just about some guys on a boat in a jungle -- booooooring.

]]> y'all be dumbasses, assclowns http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109427 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:38:11 -0800 Comment by Eric F Every time I read someone slagging a piece of art for not being difficult to make, I hear the sounds of an Yngwie Malmsteen guitar solo.

]]> Eric F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109438 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109438 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:42:51 -0800 Comment by Stephen I saw this piece at Or Gallery as well. I was mesmerized. I wanted the tug to stop and not to stop. When it did, the slowly churning circle of water gradually became flat calm. A really memorable experience.

]]> Stephen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109530 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109530 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:32:16 -0800 Comment by I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @6 - Hilarious how you interpret slagging Jen off as the navel-gazing, pretentious bore that she is as some sort of dig on the work of art in question.

Although, in this case, it IS a piece of shit.

And @7 - WEEDLYWEEDLYWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

]]> I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109821 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/formerly_hanging#c1109821 Visual Art Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:10:37 -0800