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Monday, June 1, 2009

Visual Art The Toobs Go To Houston

Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM

Houston Chronicle calls Susan Robb's Toobs "amazing," and he has video.

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"What is it supposed to be?"

Posted by It's art... on June 1, 2009 at 3:53 PM

beautiful!

Posted by Sara E on June 1, 2009 at 4:02 PM

I'm not sure where the Toobs showed in Seattle last, but I saw something that looked like one flying overhead a few months ago.

Can Toobs get away, or did I see something else?

Posted by tabletop_joe on June 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Last time these were up at Volunteer Park, she spent half the day yelling at people not to get close to them, even if people were standing still and the tubes happened to blow in their direction. But for the last hour or so she gave up and a flock of children descended and proceeded to stomp the shit out of them. That made me smile.

Posted by Wicked Virgin

on June 1, 2009 at 4:06 PM

This kinda gives me a boner. Does that mean I want to have an orgy with a room full of black men?

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on June 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM

Amazing? They're fucking tubes. Cool, yes, but stop sounding like you're tripping balls at every single art project you see.

Dude dude dude look at what happens when you drizzle a little milk in a plate of water WHOA FUCK IT'S LIKE FAST MOTION CLOUDS WOWWW

Posted by The CHZA on June 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM

hey balloon lady whatcha turn em into a balloon animal or something fur me to think abot moor! can i git em at the puyallup fair?

Posted by griffy on June 1, 2009 at 5:12 PM

Sigh...this is the shit that passes for art these days. Wake me back up when having aesthetic value comes back into vogue and every jerkoff who gets stoned and thinks up a visual pun doesn't get declared a "revolutionary figure in the art world."

Posted by Halcyonic on June 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM

@8 have you seen some of the shit they are putting in museums these days? Jesus, i would take a thousand bags of air in a park over some of the crap they put up at SAM.

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on June 1, 2009 at 6:39 PM

This should have been a giant phosphorescent sea anemone.

Posted by olytomato

on June 1, 2009 at 6:46 PM

Snobs. You sound like a bunch of wankers.

Posted by nico on June 1, 2009 at 6:51 PM

Here's video I did of her installation last summer at Volunteer Park: http://blog.seattlepi.com/video/bcplayer…

Posted by cdm on June 1, 2009 at 7:02 PM

we hate everything. and that is our joy.

Posted by rutabaga pie on June 1, 2009 at 7:24 PM

@8 go fucking get raped and then die. Hooray Susan and Dk...

Posted by MadDog on June 1, 2009 at 11:06 PM

When I saw this post (and before I clicked on the comments), I honestly thought, "Awesome! Nobody will be able to hate on these!". And yet, I'm always still surprised. In case it's not clear, I think these are lovely and if I looked at them for a million years, I doubt I'd be able to find anything to hate about them.

(although @13 made me laugh. if you're going to hate, at least be funny about it.)

Posted by joey veltkamp